#29 - Inside the Mind of a Race Director

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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If you're looking for passion about triathlon, look no further than Stephen Del Monte, Race Director for Ironman 70.3 Atlantic City and several others events on the south Jersey Shore. He's all about customer service and goes out of his way to make sure every athlete succeeds. He has tons of videos where he personally guides you how to sight the swims and what to watch for as potential problems on the bike and run. He's a great storyteller and explains how he went from a teacher to a race announcer to a race director, along with:

- The secrets to producing a great race
- The one thing that pisses off triathletes most
- He addresses the Ironman critics and explains why WTC is the best event company in the world
- He explains how the Ironman relationship works with local race directors
- Why many triathletes are intimidated by Ironman Branded Races and why they shouldn't be
- What he thinks is the best Half
- The ONE THING Race Directors cannot get away with
- Your number one concern as an athlete entering any race.
- Why Ironman gets so many volunteers
- How he deals with weather cancellations and shortened courses
- How Ironman is putting pressure on grass roots races and why that's a good thing

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Mike. Robbie's going to join me in the second.
0:03.8	Pretty stoked about today's guest. It's Steve Delmani from Delmo Sports.
0:09.6	And he's a race director for Iron Man 70.3 Atlantic City, among other events,
0:17.3	which are Escape the Cape Triathlon, Atlantic City Triathlon, Try the Wildwoods, and Escape to Lose
0:26.5	Open Water Swim Classic, which looks amazing.
0:30.2	You can find all these events at Delmosports.com.
0:34.5	Check it out, kick back, and get inside the mind of a super energetic and passionate race director
0:41.3	right now on the crushing iron podcast what's up buddy hey man how are'm good, man. I guess you're busy today, well, huh?
0:55.9	Man, yeah, I am slam today.
0:58.2	I was off work yesterday at home with Hayden because he was sick, so I'm playing catch-up
1:02.7	today, but had this awesome podcast penciled in for today.
1:07.9	I'm pretty excited about our guest, and don't want to miss it, so I'm going to make it work. Yeah, I'm pretty stoked, too. We've been wanting to get a race director
1:14.2	on here, and I think we got one of the best. That's the room. Yeah, that's what everybody keeps talking
1:19.4	about. Stevie, you there? I'm here, man. All right. Thanks for coming on, man. Where are you at right now i'm located in wildwood new jersey wildwood yeah and that's one
1:30.4	of your uh triathlons right is in wildwood is that what i was that's correct uh try the wildwood's
1:37.3	triathlon uh 5k and kids race it's the first race i ever produced 14 years ago uh and and that where I'm born and raised, man. So.
1:48.5	Excellent. I think I read it was voted the best short triathlon in the country. Is that right?
1:54.1	Yeah. So Triathlon Business International put out a survey to all the producers out there and they were able to you had the chance
2:03.9	of sending out to your athletes saying hey vote vote for what you think is is great and uh we were
2:09.3	lucky enough to be named uh best small triathlon which is under a thousand triathletes
2:14.2	uh and and best beginner triathlon in the u US so we're very proud of that yeah yeah
2:20.3	and uh psyched yeah i don't blame it i looked at i was looking at some of the videos and man you
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