Subject: RE: To Clipless or not for Short Distance DuathlonSo...I did my first or two duathlons on Saturday. I just put my bike shoes on the ground in Transition like I would my run shoes. When I got to the transition I slipped my run shoes off and slipped the bike shoes on and was on my way. It was NOT my best transition. I had done it that way before and had shoes changed in under 5 seconds. I was at least double that on Saturday. Running and jumping on the bike and clipping in with my shoes on my feet is pretty easy/fast for me. I am on the bike and on my faster with the shoes on my feet that I am with the shoes on the bike. Coming off the bike I just unclipped and run into transition in my bike shoes. That means I have to take them off in transition which cost me a few seconds. I have taken my feet out of the shoes and ran into transition with my shoes on the bike before. I prefer that in triathlons but in duathlons I wear socks and I don't like running through transition in socks. So T1 and T2 were around 1:15 and the fast people in Transition were 15-20 seconds faster than that. I lost 30-40 seconds to the leaders over the two transitions over where I could have been with quicker shoe transitions. I think I can cut that in half with a little practice in transitions. I was sloppy and slow. |