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2017-06-05 10:04 PM

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On the registration form for the Cranberry Cove oly, they have a line asking what can the announcer say as I cross the finish line. Their example is "way to go Jimbo".
This is pressure though they won't get to everybodys. What would you want to hear?


2017-06-05 10:07 PM
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Here comes joe schmo
2017-06-05 10:14 PM
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I like "that was delicious"
2017-06-06 1:27 AM
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Move over Rover, let Jimi take over!
2017-06-06 1:36 AM
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I'm so used to the announcer squinting to read my strange name (I live overseas) on my bib, and then realizing that it's actually an English name that has been written out in Chinese characters. That would be cool to be able to choose what the announcer says!
2017-06-06 3:33 AM
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Tell 'em to announce that you've tried opossum.....and you liked it.


2017-06-06 8:17 AM
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Man. What a fun idea.
You have some good suggestions here. I'm gonna noodle on this. It could be fun.

Is this common at races y'all have done? I've not seen it done around here. It's a clever idea. Adds a little for the participant.
Probably makes it a little less boring for the announcer.

Of course, it could get wayyyy out of hand. And you'd have to have a triathlon version of the proverbial little old ladies at the license bureau who know every trick in the book about trying to get dirty words on a license plate.
2017-06-06 9:53 AM
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"Beer is located in tent to your left"
2017-06-06 10:56 AM
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What if you could submit 30 second MP3 clips. Could be your kids cheering you on. Or thunderous applause. Or the John Belushi "Over? It's not over. Was it over when the Germans bomber Pearl Harbor" clip from Animal house. Or your "theme song"....
Yah, people get bunched up. Someone could easily write some software that would play a few seconds and then fade it out and fire off the next one.
Have someone a couple hundred yards from the finish with an app/laptop punching in race numbers. You could be coming into the shoot and hear your theme song!
Yah, and there's IP rights to consider. But....

I should write this app. I'm calling dibs.



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2017-06-06 1:38 PM
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Free beer
2017-06-06 1:51 PM
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Originally posted by MuscleMomma On the registration form for the Cranberry Cove oly, they have a line asking what can the announcer say as I cross the finish line. Their example is "way to go Jimbo". This is pressure though they won't get to everybodys. What would you want to hear?

"Muscle Momma just flew in this morning from Tangier where she has been working to re-establish the baboon population as she works on an ancient archeological dig in the hopes of finding a cure for Malaria"."



2017-06-06 3:10 PM
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I think I would legally change my name to Hoof Hearted.
"Hoof Hearted has just crossed the line. Hoof Hearted."

2017-06-06 5:06 PM
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Ha!

Thought of "boom , she did it", the conservative "family's proud" and will probably go with "she dug deep" as I'll want it to be true.

Closed registration without registering. Did this oly two years ago, coming in near last as finishing the swim was a
miracle as no matter how often I looked the shore never got closer. Got distracted by arthritis this winter, now I just did my longest run at 2.25miles. Have taken some individual TI swim lessons, must be better, but not feeling it. Afraid to take my new road bike of the trainer as the one time I took it out last spring I stopped and immediately feel over to the side with the clipped in foot.

Hate feeling like this. Registered for a sprint July 22.

Should I think that I'll be ready for an oly in 10 weeks?
2017-06-07 9:13 AM
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How about "MuscleMomma in the house! Kicking butt, making Triathletes my little biotches ! Who's next?"
2017-06-07 9:41 PM
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2017-06-08 6:49 AM
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We did a team triathlon one time. They listed your team as being from where the swimmer was from. Just before we registered, the swimmer had gotten transferred to Muleshoe, TX. As our runner crossed the finish line the announcer wouldn't announce where we were from because he thought it was a joke.


2017-06-12 10:21 AM
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I'd expect to hear "Finally"
2017-06-12 2:31 PM
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"Finally" - that has been my finishes!
2017-06-13 10:41 AM
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I would select "bout time Ford" for me!

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