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1. on October 15, 2009 at 1:05 pm Smokey wrote:

   In short just use common sense………..

   Unfortunately, you only briefly mentioned how your actions caused additional stress for another athlete on your team. I’ll explain that in more detail so that the record can be set straight.

   Shortly after that triathlon a member of the all3sports team that WAS racing got an anonymous letter in the mail accusing them of drafting during the bike leg of the race. This letter accused this person of sitting on a non participant’s wheel during the bike portion of the race. Furthermore, the anonymous accuser threatened to turn this person in for drafting and demanded they disqualify them self from the race.

   So it turns out that the person that was drafting wasn’t even in the race but somehow got mistaken for someone that was in the race.

2. on October 16, 2009 at 7:38 am Frosty wrote:

   A girl was holding onto your wheel? That says enough right there.

3. on October 16, 2009 at 10:35 am Mr McTan wrote:

   Seriously, when you have to call out to other competitors that you aren’t racing, or you have the USAT official having to spend time monitoring what you’re doing, you would think at some point you’d notice that what you’re doing is disruptive to a race.

4. on October 19, 2009 at 8:26 am Grouper Sandwich wrote:

   Disruptive to the race?? Oh come on only a handfull of people complained to the RD about the people in all3sports team kits on the course drafting during the race.

5. on October 20, 2009 at 9:53 am Kenny B wrote:

   Wow. This post was a great opportunity for you to score some goodwill for both yourself and your “team.” Instead, you used it as a chance to make fun of and complain about the USAT and the race director, and bring more negative publicity to all 3 sports. Specifically, calling him/her rude and accusing him/her of yelling. Then, instead of a simple mea culpa, you follow your apology with complaining about the alleged vagueness of the rule and how it’s so difficult to appeal a penalty. Get over it - every set of rules (for every sport) is written in a way to best address the most possible matters.
   I’m willing to bet you’ve never made an effort to volunteer your services to USAT to help re-write these awful, arcane, ambiguous rules. As is, they seem to work pretty well for the rest of us. But it’s clear they don’t for you, and this whole mess wasn’t your fault. As for your difficult appeal process that costs you time and money? Well, don’t screw up in the first place. How would YOUR appeal not cost YOU time? What about the time of the others involved (USAT persons) that you’re taking away from more logical pursuits with your tomfoolery? So, Latrell Sprewell chokes his coach and is permamently barred from the league. One appeal later and it’s suspension and he’s back, and NYers are cheering for him (he and his lawyer found vagueness in the rule, and took the time to appeal)

   As for your team, well, yes, the females do seem to show “power and dominance” when racing. but your implication that any of you are somehow better than others that aren’t as “powerful and dominant” . . .Well, let’s just say I was spectating at the race in Augusta, and I saw a lot of guys in your kits doing neither of those things as you limped home. Either way, you come across as a bunch of tools based on your statement.

   Bottom line: These rules and race officials are awful. They got in the way of your training day. Maybe it’s so bad you should find a new sport

6. on October 20, 2009 at 1:59 pm MarcT wrote:

   Mr McTan,
   I totally agree with you and will admit that I can sometimes not make the best decisions. But don’t we all make mistakes? Again, I admit my mistake and apologize to those who have been effected.
   Hindsight is 20/20.

7. on October 20, 2009 at 3:01 pm Ken Brown wrote:

   Just to clarify, the above poster, Kenny B was not me. I am not that articulate.

   I will add that every time we train or race, we are representing the All3Sports brand. His honesty about the situation is a good reminder to all of us what can happen when we have on our team training/racing kits.

8. on October 21, 2009 at 10:29 am Grouper Sandwich wrote:

   Yeah, the real Ken Brown would never say “mea culpa”. That’s way too “fancy” for Ken.