SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 120)

Good luck Jim!  And watch your shins on that swim exit ladder......

I agree, a Nov IM makes a very very long season

For the Canadians, Sportsnet is showing 70.3 WC tomorrow.  I believe at 11am EST.

Huh. Are you SURE that picture was not taken at just before the moment when you ran HIM down?

If you look closely you can actually see him glancing off to his right at you in a slight panic as he hears your footsteps coming up from behind.....

Good lord, Jim - that IS a long season - I would absolutely HATE to have missed this opportunity to gain 10 pounds since my last race....

Good luck, and thanks for taking one for the team for racing so late in the year - I look forward to snuggling up in front of a warm fire with an adult beverage and following you along on race day! 

Marc and anyone else interested - yesterday I had another chance to play around with kinomap. I had a set of intervals structured by time and effort, so I loaded up a video from their site of a local route I have ridden about a billion times and then just rode my intervals. This time instead of using my iPhone and Kickr, I used my iPad2 and KK RnR, and used my Quarq to send data to the iPad via the ANT Dongle. iPad was mirrored to the big screen via an Apple TV. It worked great, until it didn't. In my case the app crashed about 2/3rds way through the ride, but I was messing around with it a lot, basically changing all the settings during my recovery intervals to see what each of them did. I did learn that it is best to pause the recording BEFORE changing any of the settings, of just make sure they are all set up like you want them before you get going and then leave them alone. Up until the app crashed it did seem to do a daily decent job of calculating speed and slowing down/speeding up the video based on my power output. Having ridden this particular loop in real life it compared reasonably well.

Jason - I looked at the Tour de Giro software a while back when looking for a package to control the Kickr (Tour de Giro doesn't) and like the looks of it. It seems to be the most "game like" as all of the graphics are computer generated and you can actually see the folks you are racing with actually in the 3d video visualization. In Kinomap you obviously only see the real course video, and see where both you and fellow racers are via icons on a google map. Since I travel a lot and hardly ever tote a computer around with me anymore (for better or worse I can get the bulk of my digital work done via a tablet) I like that all I need for Kinomap to work is a phone - I am very much looking forward to when Trainer Road comes out with their mobile platform. I got an email from Nate about a month ago that they have actually hired developers to work on it and should have the actual app work underway in January. 

I just have to say that this is one of the tri-geekiest things I've read in quite a while.  

You mean that as a compliment, right?  

I KNEW I should have mentioned my bluetooth Jaybird earphones and the fact that I control room temperature and fan speed via my iPhone and Nest thermostat....

Freekin tennis - live tennis cut into and then cancelled the race from showing yesterday.  Just found a repeat playing later today - oh the problems I face...

Please - Rusty has nothing on me.  It took me almost 45min to figure out how to put a video on my wife's tablet so I could watch something while on the treadmill.  

Officially snowing here. Probably end up with more snow in November than December (again).

That IS old school - seems like #DaddyNeedsAColdBeer would have worked better?

And speaking of tri-geekery, look what showed up in my mailbox today:

I am actually putting them on my road bike, so it is ESPECIALLY tri-geeky....

Have a black one coming this week.  Of course, it's going on a tri bike.  As god intended

Hopefully not prohibited cross posting   But I know some people were looking at saddles. selling a perfect condition sitero black expert (ti rails), used approx 100-150 miles during the pre IM saddle tour, can't even tell it was mounted.  Includes the transition rack hook adapter.  Listed in the classifieds, not looking to make money on it, just get some back, especially if it goes to a good home.

Ha - Ha - Nice! Yeah, I got the white ones for my 2010 cervelo s2:

I saw on Slowtwitch a couple of weeks ago that the white ones were on a bit of a fire sale ($35.00 off per) so I jumped on them as I thought this might be one of the few road bikes that white aero brakes made some sense on. I am thinking about also getting a set of black ones for my p2 (currently have those crappy rebranded Tektro brakes cervelo puts on some of their TT bikes), but I am also on the fence about possibly getting a whole new TT bike, so holding off for a bit before I make that decision.... Are you installing the Omegas yourself?  We could make a bit of online project of it, or better yet you could go ahead and do it wrong first and then tell me how to do it right? 

Ummmm, no.  I can replace the cassette.  I am proud enough of that.  Going to have the LBS install it when I do the swap over from 105 to DA

Rusty, don't forget the pads ...