While hanging around after Rattlesnake, I overheard a guy talking about the race results. As he looked at the results, he noticed that his overall time was different than his watch time by about two minutes. His friend looked at the official's penalty sheet and noticed that he had been penalized for overtaking. The first guy then said that he didn't care and he was going to tell everyone how he did without the penalty.
It may not seem like a big deal since it was just a local race and not the USAT Sprint National Championship that was held the next day. What's interesting is what it says about him. Prior to the race, the USAT head referee addressed everyone and warned everyone about what the officials would be looking for and how many there were. I think they were using the Saturday race as a practice for Sunday's championship.
Here was a person who thought what his friends might think is important is how he finished in a race. In his age group, he was in the middle of the pack and the penalty didn't change that. It might have moved him up a space or two but he wouldn't be in the top ten.
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