Boise 70.3 Roll Down for Clearwater
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jsk85 posted 31 weeks ago.
I agree it makes the 70.3 championship look pretty bad. How do you look that up, anyways? I'm curious to see who picked up my AG slots at Steelhead. I promised my wife it wouldn't roll down to me...she doesn't care about the a qualification so much, but just wanted an excuse for a trip to Florida in November.
congrats on being championship material though, hehe.
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TriSooner posted 31 weeks ago.
So the "roll down" is like when you win a raffle and you "must be present to win"? When I've raced qualifying events, I have assumed that's the case. Since my times are solid MOPer I too leave right after I finish (drinking my post-race beer). But roll-down 20-something spots? Yeah, it could send the message that not even the top 20 in the AG were concerned enough with sticking around. It might be the venue. It might also be the seemingly oxymoronic statement of "World Champion" at "half" the distance. Not to denegrate the distance, but having a "half championship" is sort of a semantic somersault.
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TryScott posted 31 weeks ago.
That is surprising. Yesterday I emailed the organizers of a qualifying event for Escape from Alcatraz, and he said the 2 slots per age group usually roll down to the 5th or so spot. Certainly not the 20+ spots at Boise.
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zagfan posted 31 weeks ago.
The results were located at http://www.ironmancenter.com/results/index.php but there are only a handful of races on there.
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jro81 posted 31 weeks ago.
Kansas rolled down to forty something in some age groups
power trumps aero and weight
So I was bored at work today and thought, "I wonder who in my age group at Boise 70.3 ended up with the Clearwater spots?" So I go to the Boise 70.3 web page and enter all of the filter criteria. Now, my age group only had 2 slots for Clearwater. The first went to the gentleman in 9th place and the second went to the guy in 26th! Well guess who was sitting in 25th, yep...ME!
Now, even if I would have been around for roll down there is no way I would have taken the spot, but its still amazing (or saddening depending on how you look at it) to think that I actually had a chance to go to the Ironman 70.3 World Championships with a time of 5:07. My guess is that with the late finish (I think roll down was at like 11:00PM) that most just went home after finishing like I did. And the fact that Clearwater, FL doesn't exactly have people dedicating their lives to qualify.
I love the 70.3 distance and its actually a little sad that the "World Championship" has almost turned into an afterthought, even worse a joke to most. I really wish they would figure it out and pick a better location with an actual championship course. I would have liked to see #26's reaction to grabbing the slot. I know I would have laughed first and then asked, "You're f#*&ing with me right?"
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." Lance Armstrong