Episode #164
(2/10) Rocky Harris (Time To Tri)
Saturday,
February 20, 2016
4:52 PM
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Welcome
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Welcome to Episode
#164 of the Mile High Endurance podcast.
Mile High Endurance is
your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach
your endurance and triathlon goals.
We're your hosts
coach Rich Soares, coach Khem Suthiwan and 303 Chief Bill Plock. Thanks for joining us for another week of
endurance interviews and discussion.
You have a lot of sources for triathlon training content, so we are
grateful that you are choosing to spend the next 90 minutes with us.
We have USA
Triathlon CEO Rocky Harris to give an update on the "Time To Tri"
initiative. The first time we had
Rocky on the show, he had been on the job a couple of months and he laid out
some of what constituents in triathlon were telling him and some of the ideas
he had for improving the sport for all.
Now a year later, we got to chat with Rocky about how it's going and
many things that changed since last year.
Before we get into
our interview, let's catch up with Khem and Bill. How's it going?
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Last week's guest
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Thanks
to last week's guest, Kirsty Jahn a
pro triathlete out of Boulder who had back to back Ironman wins last year to
hear what's behind these performances and what it's like living the pro life. If you haven't heard that yet, check out last week's
interview on episode - #163.
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Discussion Teasers
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Interview Setup
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Rocky
Harris, a multifaceted professional sports executive and collegiate athletics
administrator. He was named to SportsBusiness
Journal's
prestigious "Forty Under 40" list.
He had been the Director of Sports and Marketing
Sponsorships at Reliant Energy, an NRG Energy, Inc., Fortune 500 company,
where he oversaw the largest naming rights deal in the National Football
League.
His other work on the professional sports level
included two stops in the NFL as Director of Communication with the Houston
Texans and Media Relations Coordinator with the San Francisco 49ers. Prior to
joining the NFL, Harris worked at a digital-marketing agency in San
Francisco and a sports marketing agency in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Harris has been a member of the Houston World Cup Host
Committee, Super Bowl XXXVIII Host Committee, as well as an NFL Media
Representative for Super Bowls XXXVII, XXXVIII, and XXXIX. He was awarded the
Houston Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award, the Major League Soccer Marketing
Executive of the Year Award and the Pete Rozelle Award for the NFL's top
public relations staff.
In the Fall of 2017 he took the helm as USA Triathlon's
CEO. We spoke to him in January of
2018 to hear about the launch of this new thing called Time To Tri - a joint
initiative between USAT and Ironman to introduce 100k new athletes to the
sport of triathlon. We have him back
on the show today to tell us how things are going with that initiative and
more. Here's Rocky Harris.
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Host Discussion
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Cycling, which covers the endurance culture, news and events on triathlon and
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Training Trivia
and Tips
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4.4 Wet suits. Each age group participant shall be permitted to
wear a wet suit without penalty in any event sanctioned by USA Triathlon up
to and including a water temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water
temperature is greater than 78 degrees, but less than 84 degrees Fahrenheit,
age group participants may wear a wet suit at their own discretion, provided
however that participants who wear a wet suit within this temperature range
shall not be eligible for prizes or awards. Age group participants shall not
wear wet suits in water temperatures equal to or greater than 84 degrees
Fahrenheit. The wetsuit policy for elite athletes shall be determined by the
USAT Athletes Advisory Council. The AAC has set the
wetsuit maximum temperature for elite athletes at 68 degrees for swim
distances less than 3000 meters and 71.6 degrees for distances of 3000 meters
or greater.
Any swimmer
wearing a wetsuit with a thickness measured in any part greater than 5
millimeters shall be disqualified.
3.8 Acts Warranting
Suspension. In addition to other penalties which may be imposed at the
discretion of USA Triathlon, the following acts may be grounds for suspension
for a period of time designated by USA Triathlon:
a. A flagrant or willful violation
of the Competitive Rules;
b. Gross or continued
unsportsmanlike conduct;
c. Physical violence directed
toward a race official, participant, volunteer, spectator, or another person;
d. Any fraudulent act, such as
falsifying name or age, filing a false affidavit or protest, or providing
false information to USA Triathlon, the Board of Hearings and Appeals, or
race officials;
e. Intentionally participating in
an event despite failure to register;
f. Repetitive or recurring
violations of the Competitive Rules;
g. Failure to notify a race
official after withdrawing from a race;
h. Violation of the Medical Control
Rules as set forth in Article VIII;
i. Refusal to abide by the final
determination by USA Triathlon of any matter relating to these Rules or the
sport of triathlon; and
j. Any act which disgraces or
brings discredit to the sport of triathlon.
3.7A.
Time Penalties for Elites.
A "variable time penalty" as used in
these Rules shall mean a time penalty that varies in accordance with the
distance category of the event. The variable time penalty for each of the
distance categories shall be the following:
Distance
Category
Time Penalty in Minutes
Short/Intermediate
Cycle course less than
50K
1:00
Long
Cycle Course 50K to 100K
2:00
Ultra
Cycle course greater than
100K
4:00
2.4 Membership
Categories. Annual membership in USA Triathlon will be available in
the following categories and subject to the following requirements:
a. (1) Elite. Elite annual membership will be available to
certain qualified, highly competitive, and experienced athletes. An elite
annual member is eligible to receive prize money directly. Any person wishing
to apply for an elite annual membership should contact USA Triathlon (http://www.usatriathlon.org) for consideration.
(2) Elite Collegiate: Athlete who qualifies according to the criteria
listed above, and does not accept prize money.
Elite
athletes holding an elite license from their National Federation or having
raced as an elite athlete in international events are prohibited from
competing within age group categories as an age group athlete or for age
group awards. Elite athletes are eligible for overall, open or elite
division awards only. Prior to entering any USAT event, athletes must
disclose their elite status and that failure to disclose such is cause for
Disqualification and up to a one year suspension from USAT sanctioned events.
b.
Age Group. The following divisions shall be available within the age group
category of membership: (i) regular membership; (ii) youth membership (17
years of age and younger as defined in Section 3.2a).
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