#68 - Ironman Wisconsin Drops Mass Start AND Syracuse Tire Deflation
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We have both done Ironman Wisconsin and are wondering why they would drop the Mass Start? We debate all the possibilities and can't really rationalize why. If anyone knows the Race Director at Wisconsin, we would love to have him on the podcast. Also, we address the age grouper who deflated her competitor's tire before Ironman 70.3 Syracuse.
- Is a wave start safer really than a mass start?
- Is this more about congestion in transition or on the bike course?
- Why a mass start is BETTER for weak swimmers
- Where do these kinds of changes end, if ever?
- Will Wisconsin continue to sell out after this change?
- What other ways can Wisconsin make the race safer? (Satire)
- Can we forgive the woman who let air out of her competitor's tire at Syracuse?
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday, brother. |
| 0:09.1 | Fighters, touch blows. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, man, are you ready to talk me off the ledge here? |
| 0:15.8 | I don't know, man. |
| 0:17.0 | I either might shove you or... |
| 0:19.4 | Yeah, man. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm gonna... We'll see how it goes. But, yeah, I either might shove you or... Yeah, man. I'm gonna... |
| 0:21.6 | We'll see how it goes. |
| 0:23.1 | But, yeah, I'm pretty... |
| 0:24.6 | I'm pretty fired up today. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, and it should be noted that I am calling from Wisconsin soil. |
| 0:32.2 | This is true. |
| 0:33.6 | Home turf. |
| 0:35.0 | Where it all started. |
| 0:36.8 | Mike Torale's first Iron Man on home soil, three years ago. |
| 0:43.3 | Four years ago. |
| 0:44.0 | And now, also a participant in the last year, that they will have a mass start. |
| 0:55.3 | Mike Tarale, you have the floor. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes, I'm on the soil of my first Iron Man and potentially my last. |
| 1:07.2 | Wow. |
| 1:08.9 | No, I'm not going to go there, man. |
| 1:12.5 | I was going to say, talk about prisoner of the moment. |
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