Thursday, August 20, 2009

Reviewing the rules

Drafting. Here is a graphical representation of this rule.

I'm reviewing this so I can avoid the Penalty Tent. Or at the very least be amazed at how many people should be penalized. Actually, a 4 minute break before going back to the final set of hills at Timberman might be kind of nice.

If you are in a rule violation, the official will call out your number. Notify you that you have received either a Red Card or a Yellow Card by showing you the corresponding colored card.
Instruct you to report to the next penalty tent on the course.
They will take your picture for verification that you were penalized. :-)

You report to the penalty tent tell them if you received a red (Drafting) or yellow card
register via the sign in sheet
Your race number will be marked with a Red Slash or a P.
If you are marked with a P resume the race immediately. Otherwise you remain in the tent for 4 minutes for the drafting penalty.

Failure to report to the next penalty tent will result in Disqualification.

1 comment:

m said...

These 70.3 races sure have become complicated! Back in my day, they just added time to the offenders overall time like they do in shorter races.

The course will get a bit crowded, as long as you do your best to ride fair and you should be fine. They don't give nearly as many penalty's as they probably should, so the likelihood of you getting a penalty for accidentally being 2.5 bike lengths back for a couple seconds is low.

It's gonna be great! All your hard biking miles are ready to pay off!