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nice report
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a supporter writes of his experience in Nice
it was fecking hot
some people had a swim, bike and run
we got lashed
we came home
oh - and the missus "won" her age group and got a cracking gong at the awards ceremony and proudly carried her bunch of flowers home to blighty....
seriously - well done those who took part on Sunday, and especially those who didn't finish - that was a brutally hot day for an IM
KK and DV great reports. Full and frank - which is bloody helpful to us virgin warriors planning for next year! Thanks and a massive well done to you both.
DV - Cut offs are arbitrary, full distance is absolute - and you absolutely did it DV. KK, sorry you didn't make full distance but it sounds like you are pretty sorted in your own mind about why which all sounds pretty positive to me.
It's is also (in my view) inappropiate to sate this fact or accusation, whichever it may be on a forum in this manner.
If there was an incident that's not great, but it's one of those things which can happen. Better luck next time Mr Mason
Can I ask how someone overtaking on your right managed to cause you to crash that badly?
I'm sure she will want to discuss this with you when she returns as, has been said, it's an accusation that nobody posting on here can comment about bar the people concerned......
it's not nice being knocked off - and IM S has a tale to tell here - but "j'accuse" is the wrong approach. she may have a completely different view of events and to drag the accusations into an open forum is somewhat disrespectful of the forum and not very honourable imho
Hello!
straight home and people have already sent me videos of Meldy!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/ironman-france-2008-run-finish-line/3305198982
(yes I know it's probably old news already)
Without having seen the incident it's difficult to say if the young lady in question was at fault. But that close to the start of an IM course there would have been lots of bikes around with everyone trying to settle into the ride, taking on water and not concentrating as hard as they probably should on what's going on around them so incidents do happen. I'm sorry it happened to you but as Pebble says, shit happens.
I was not witness to incident so do not know facts, but did see a lot of overtaking on the right. The overtaking on the right that I did see was often caused by slower riders not riding to the right as they should have been, thus forcing the faster riders to either slow down or over take on the right.
Is there a rule to keep to the right then and overtaking on the left only ?
I was well over to the right and read the rules
Also, you can be disqualified for a Yellow Line Violation in which you crossover the yellow centre line on the road while passing someone. This is particularly
dangerous due to the potential for a collision with oncoming traffic or
competitors. If people are blocking you from passing on the left, yell at them to
move to the right before risking a pass which involves a yellow line violation.
that's correct, you're supposed to ride on the right and overtake on the left, and then get back on the right as soon as you've overtaken (and the person you've passed drops back 7 metres). but as has been said, that doesn't or can't always happen, esp near the start where it's packed.
there were lots of referees out but LOADS of cheating going on. towards the front of the pack, at least a quarter of the pack must have been drafting. glad to see no pirates cheating though (probably because they were mostly too rubbish to be anywhere near anybody they could draft off!)
but sometimes - and it's happened to me - you have to overtake on the inside to avoid collision as the person on the left themselves are blocked from overtaking by events in front.........it's a judgement call and I guess things can and do go wrong.....
but let's not start assuming what happened and leave it rest until the person can answer
Just looked at the finish line photos. Great stuff
Almost makes you want to do an IM