As an athlete, if I knew this about a race director, I would be extremely hesitant to participate in their event. I'm sure this attitude is more common than I am aware of, but it is scary none the less.
Word gets out. When I participated in triathlons, there was a race director who was notorious. His events were rogue and unsafe. Basically he couldn't hold an event anywhere twice, since after one, the city/town would ban him from ever running an event there again. I heard a friend wanted to participate in one of those events, so I told him what I knew. That was a few years ago. Now I can't find any trace of that race director on the internet. I haven't experienced an unsafe event, but one small tri that I did was kind of sketchy in other respects so I didn't enter any more of their events.
As an athlete, if I knew this about a race director, I would be extremely hesitant to participate in their event. I'm sure this attitude is more common than I am aware of, but it is scary none the less.
Word gets out. When I participated in triathlons, there was a race director who was notorious. His events were rogue and unsafe. Basically he couldn't hold an event anywhere twice, since after one, the city/town would ban him from ever running an event there again. I heard a friend wanted to participate in one of those events, so I told him what I knew. That was a few years ago. Now I can't find any trace of that race director on the internet. I haven't experienced an unsafe event, but one small tri that I did was kind of sketchy in other respects so I didn't enter any more of their events.
