#382 - Ironman Race Director - Ken Hammond
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
There are many racing questions out there, so we brought on Race Director, Ken Hammond (Race Director of Ohio 70.3 and Musselman) for an in-depth conversation on how he, his staff, and Ironman have been approaching a race season hampered by a pandemic. He talks about the current state of racing, registration trends for upcoming races, and what changes might stick in the sport. He also gives us insight into a lot of challenges they've faced that most of us don't think about, like why Muncie 70.3 is on, but Ohio 70.3 isn't.
Topics:
- What’s a race director do without racing?
- how did he deal with the final cancellation of his races?
- Race directors relationship to Ironman
- Protocols with cities
- Ironman’s mindset from the beginning of Pandemic
- How open are cities to changing dates?
- How does he mentally handle losing TWO races?
- How they’re figuring out what actually works and makes
- Why some cities are racing, some are not
- Muncie is going, why can’t Ohio?
- Discussion points for possibly localizing races
- Medical support and volunteer hesitation
- Return to racing initiative
- Self-support racing
- What possible changes he thinks will stick?
- His thoughts about racing progression right now
- Proposed changes to limit contact in expo, transitions, etc
- Looking at the new finish line
- His biggest worry through all of this
- Will this pandemic actually grow the sport?
- Will people be more active or just work more?
- Race registration trends for 2021
- Will late season racing be open if you want them?
- Race Director’s perspective to negative Facebook groups
- What it was like losing an athlete at Ohio 70.3
- Where to find the grumpiest people on race day
- The communication channel between athletes and Ironman
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| 0:00.0 | what's happening my man we got a good one today i know dude it is uh it is going to be a good one |
| 0:07.6 | we rarely have guests on but when we do um we do them for you we want good information we want |
| 0:13.7 | you to feel informed and as ironman dot com would say we want you to feel empowered um but no |
| 0:19.3 | yeah kin hammond has been on uh on twice or maybe even three times now. |
| 0:25.2 | Forrest, he's an awesome guy. |
| 0:26.9 | We love having him on super informative. |
| 0:28.8 | He's the race director for, used to be the race director for Syracuse 70.3. |
| 0:32.6 | He is the current race director for Ohio 70.3, which this year would have been at Spith. |
| 0:39.4 | And then he was also going to be the new race director for Iron Man's new acquisition, which is Muscleman 70.3. |
| 0:46.1 | And I think that was going to happen in August or September. |
| 0:50.3 | But he's on. |
| 0:51.0 | He's awesome. |
| 0:52.6 | But hey, we appreciate you as always. |
| 0:55.3 | Tuning in, today is June 15th, 2020. |
| 0:58.9 | Crushing Iron Podcast, 382. |
| 1:03.3 | That's right. |
| 1:05.1 | Yep. |
| 1:05.9 | And he's great, man. |
| 1:06.8 | We just talked to him actually, and he goes through it all. |
| 1:10.2 | If you have any questions about how race directors or Ironman in general has been dealing with this |
| 1:18.0 | and how they've been looking at it and how they go about postponing or thinking about postponing |
| 1:22.6 | or canceling races or what they're thinking about doing going forward it's all in here take a listen and then |
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