#131 - Inside the Mind of a Race Director Part 3 - Steve Delmonte - Delmo Sports

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up for another hour of triathlon training talk with the one and only Steve Delmonte of Delmo Sports.

He puts on multiple races a season around New Jersey and receives high praise from athletes for a great experience. He doesn't hold back and gives a great perspective that can help many of us find our true "WHY."

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Some of today's topics:

Why He Thinks Pool Triathlons Can Grow The Sport
Triathlon For Women Only
Special Announcement from C26 Triathlon and Delmo Sports about Ironman 70.3 Atlantic City
What Motivates Triathletes
Technology in the Triathlon
Pro Triathletes and Why It Doesn't Move The Needle
What it's Like Picking Up New Events
How Lance Armstrong Would Have Changed Triathlon
The Pitfalls of Attaching Triathlon to Your Identity
Why Crushing Iron is His Favorite Triathlon Podcast
Penalty Talk - What's on the official's mind— when officials should look the other way
Logistics of Launching a New Race… road closures… certain dates
Shutting down Intersections
What do athletes miss before, during and after races that Race Director's wish they would pay attention too?
Why are all the great open water swimming events on the East Coast on the same weekend??? Escape the Cape, Eagleman and the Great Chesapeake Bay 4.4 miler.
As he adds events, does he worry about becoming stretched too thin and losing some of what makes his races/brand special
Ironman AC 140.6 June 2019?
Do you ever analyze areas of bigger opportunity outside of NJ?
Why he doesn't offer discount codes for races

Part one with Steve Delmonte
Part two with Steve Delmonte

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody, to the Crushing Iron Podcast.
0:07.0	How you doing, Robbie?
0:08.3	Doing great, man.
0:09.4	Today is January 22nd, 2018.
0:14.3	Boy, do we have one of our favorite, if not our most favorite and consistent guests lined up for your easy listening on this
0:22.0	very pleasant Monday.
0:23.9	Yes, Steve Del Monte from Delmo Sports is here today, and this is third time on the podcast,
0:30.4	and he did not let us down, bro.
0:33.5	No, he never does.
0:34.5	He is, you know, I went into it as we talked kind of off there.
0:39.1	I went into this podcast. I was feeling a little bit tired and down. And you know what it's like talking to Steve?
0:44.6	I had to like brew a quick cup of coffee before we talk to him because if you don't, he's just going to like run you over and pass you by because he is lit up and charged 24-7 and like you said as as usual he did not
0:57.3	disappoint yeah and we may start a campaign to make him the ambassador of triathlon maybe an
1:03.1	unofficial title or something like that you know that's one of our uh i think one of our missions
1:10.0	this year.
1:15.9	It's a kind of, I mean, just to have him, I mean, he does approach everything the right way.
1:17.2	He's got some great input. We talk about a lot of stuff today from how he's planning a new triathlon event, what he thinks should motivate triathletes, how, you know, his thoughts on pro triathletes and
1:32.1	doping. Anything else should we talk about? They caught your eye? Yeah, I mean, we had a couple
1:39.8	big announcements on there, one of them being a little trip that you and I are going to make
1:44.6	up to AC in September. But yeah, a lot of good stuff. And, you know, if you've ever
1:51.7	questioned or thought that you weren't getting enough or you were getting a lot more than
1:56.3	you paid for when it comes to racing and expectations, you know, it is always a great idea to see and hear
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