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What do?
Ignore while riding, report afterwards. Your report would probably require corroboration by a marshal to have any effect, but even without getting the dick disqualified you might persuade the event secretary to offer words of advice. There are large numbers of noobs in TTs who are utterly clueless about the regs, and he may not even know he was cheating. If he was a triathlenger, he may have thought 5 metres was acceptable, as that's about the size if the exclusion box for non-drafting age-groupers.
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That effort to drop him would've got you your :49.
Crush them.
gbj_tester
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@umop3pisdn
Right then. Company riding.
Twice now in longer TTs I've caught someone (interestingly from the same club) for a few minutes a fair while into the ride - so not the biggest speed difference, but I'm the faster rider. I've overtaken them, and they've then drafted me for an extended period of time.
Today I caught my minute man 20 miles into a 50 - so theoretically I'm putting 2.5 minutes into him right? I passed him, and a few minutes later I notice he's still sitting 5 or so meters back in line with me, not staggered as if he was overtaking. This continued for the rest of the ride to varying degrees, apart from with 10 to go when he passed me. I dropped back 25m or so, but started gaining on him again so I passed him. Again, he sat on my wheel and crossed the line 3 seconds after me.
My understanding is that the responsibility to not draft falls on the rider who has been passed - I certainly don't want to fuck up my pacing putting in a big effort shaking this guy off my wheel.
What do?