bandit's bike course harder than over the mountain?

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2009-07-06 8:34 AM


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Subject: bandit's bike course harder than over the mountain?
New to both courses. I was very undertrained for OTM and had to ride smart. It paid on the run.
Hoping to drop 10 to 15 minutes from my OTM time (overall). Not sure if that is doable. I was told that Bandit's doesn't sell out for a reason.

See you out there.

2009-07-06 8:48 PM
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Subject: RE: bandit's bike course harder than over the mountain?
e5earnst - 2009-07-06 9:34 AM

New to both courses. I was very undertrained for OTM and had to ride smart. It paid on the run.
Hoping to drop 10 to 15 minutes from my OTM time (overall). Not sure if that is doable. I was told that Bandit's doesn't sell out for a reason.

See you out there.


I did both last year. I found the Bandit's bike course a bit easier, but that may have been that I learned some things about hill strategy at OTM and that helped me at Bandits. (namely, go harder up, and easier down, which is opposite of what I was doing!). The run however at Bandits is a complete killer, way way harder than OTM. I would not expect to cut time off. I had a much better race at Bandits, yet my time was 4 minutes slower! Make it a goal to move up your rank within your age group instead.
2009-07-07 7:15 AM
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Subject: RE: bandit's bike course harder than over the mountain?
thanks keyone. I think I've read a race review from you. Good stuff if that is the case.

Ok, I won't worry about comparing race times. Different race course and all. It will be nice to race instead of survive though.
2009-07-08 3:35 PM
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I think that both bikes are pretty comparable.  The swim is usually dead calm.  The run will make you forget about the bike course.  This is the hill out of transition:

Notice the person walking the bike up the hill?  Make sure you start out in your granny gear.

You have to do this hill on the run, obviously.  Hard to tell, but this is running up the side of the earthen dam that forms the lake.  You have to run down the hill on the back side.  It's at least this steep and longer.  You have to do it twice.  If it's hot (it's August!) the second loop of the run starts to look like a death march with very few people running and a lot of people just hanging on. 

I love this race.  And once again I won't be able to do it.  Grr.  Enjoy.

2009-07-08 5:42 PM
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Subject: RE: bandit's bike course harder than over the mountain?
tzmitch - 2009-07-08 4:35 PM

...snip... Make sure you start out in your granny gear.

...snip...


Excellent point, tzmich. And don't do flying mounts because the mount line is not far from that hill, and you don't have room to clip in. I forgot about that!
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