Triathletes do indeed have standards..

Well sort of...

I think my feel for WTC & NAS has been spelled out .. Let's just say I find their business model and execution of their respective business models seriously lacking.

Bike Lemming recently posted this commentary:

http://bikelemming.blogspot.com/2009/02/even-triathletes-must-have-standards.html

In general I agree, the events are too expensive and uh, what's up with a 70.3 World Champs anyway?

I've blogged about it before...

http://juhaviren.blogspot.com/2008/07/world-triathlon-corp-ironman-and-their.html

That said, I've done other Half Iron events put on by local yokels which are priced similarly and frankly they are pretty awful.

Since I live in the Pacific Northwest I won't call the event directors out by name but other than maybe one or two outfits that put on a series of events we athletes are not getting our money's worth relative to the standard WTC & NAS have set.

Oh.. This was about standards.. Yes. Well, speaking of recumbents, I was riding through UW campus on the way back from nice mid-day winter ride a few weeks ago and I'm not kidding, a dude in a recumbent with Zipp Disc Powertap wheel and tiny recumbent sized carbon front was absolutely hauling a$$ just in front of me.

Normally I find these guys pretty funny, they sort of get in the way on the bike trails and I've never seen one on any actual road rides. But this guy was going so fast that it was actually quite a bit of fun to chase..

Thankfully neither one of us had issues with our bike handling skilz
(wassup Heidi ! http://everydayathleteblog.com/about/ ) and managed to avoid bike to UW Student violence traveling well in excess of the 15mph bike trail speed limit..