Ironman Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 121)

asock325 - 2012-07-07 10:52 AM

Skipped the brick run today...WAY TOO HOT! My butt melted to my bike seat.

Anyone have TYR carbon tri shorts??? Bought these for my husband and I, and we tried them out today.

#1: The pad is poorly designed in that the edges are not sewed down evenly with the fabric and they don't feel that great (but kinda got used to it over 70 miles); but more importantly....

#2: These shorts are completely shear!! Riding behind my husband with the sun shining, I could see everything, butt cheeks and crack! Seriously?? $120 tri shorts and this is what we get??

Not sure if we'll be using these in the Ironman, but if we do, we apologize in advance. 

TeamAndyBU - 2012-07-07 12:39 PM Started this morning at 6 trying to get my last 6 hour ride in and got to about 10 a.m when the temp hit 98 already!!! cancelled the rest of the ride... good news is tomorrow is only suppose to get up to 87!! Am I allowed to call that cool weather? might see some people wearing sweatshirts in that kind of weather!

asock325 - 2012-07-07 11:52 AM

Skipped the brick run today...WAY TOO HOT! My butt melted to my bike seat.

Anyone have TYR carbon tri shorts??? Bought these for my husband and I, and we tried them out today.

#1: The pad is poorly designed in that the edges are not sewed down evenly with the fabric and they don't feel that great (but kinda got used to it over 70 miles); but more importantly....

#2: These shorts are completely shear!! Riding behind my husband with the sun shining, I could see everything, butt cheeks and crack! Seriously?? $120 tri shorts and this is what we get??

Not sure if we'll be using these in the Ironman, but if we do, we apologize in advance. 

keepitup - 2012-07-07 5:48 PM

Well 2 hrs into my 5.5 hr ride I crashed   It was raining and the rider in front of me went down on a corner.  I hit my left elbow, head and left hip and spent the morning in ER getting checked out.  All clear thank goodness but now I have to rest a few days Can't swim with this elbow abrasion...was supposed to do a sprint tri tomorrow.  Oh well it could have been wayyyy worse.  We had just finished the hard hilly part of the ride anyways so that was good!

Jeepers it looks like many people's training went down the tubes today as well.  I was lucky about the heat part of it...it was an inferno last night but the rain cooled it off quite a bit

 

keepitup - 2012-07-07 5:48 PM

Well 2 hrs into my 5.5 hr ride I crashed   It was raining and the rider in front of me went down on a corner.  I hit my left elbow, head and left hip and spent the morning in ER getting checked out.  All clear thank goodness but now I have to rest a few days Can't swim with this elbow abrasion...was supposed to do a sprint tri tomorrow.  Oh well it could have been wayyyy worse.  We had just finished the hard hilly part of the ride anyways so that was good!

Jeepers it looks like many people's training went down the tubes today as well.  I was lucky about the heat part of it...it was an inferno last night but the rain cooled it off quite a bit

 

Dream Chaser - 2012-07-07 8:45 PMI'd like to publicly Thank Rusty for the BT tattoo.  But it got me thinking, why is he doing this?  Out of the kindness of his own heart?  Nah.  He's doing it cause of GUILT!!  I accidentally hacked into his real training account on TrainingPeaks and he logged 55 miles running last week alone.  And this week he's already at 38 miles.  He's doing his long runs at a 7:05 Pace and hitting 5:45's on mid-week track workouts.  What's even more unnerving was I guessed his TrainingPeaks password the first attempt.  DESTROYDREAMCHASER.  

keepitup - 2012-07-07 5:48 PM

Well 2 hrs into my 5.5 hr ride I crashed   It was raining and the rider in front of me went down on a corner.  I hit my left elbow, head and left hip and spent the morning in ER getting checked out.  All clear thank goodness but now I have to rest a few days Can't swim with this elbow abrasion...was supposed to do a sprint tri tomorrow.  Oh well it could have been wayyyy worse.  We had just finished the hard hilly part of the ride anyways so that was good!

Jeepers it looks like many people's training went down the tubes today as well.  I was lucky about the heat part of it...it was an inferno last night but the rain cooled it off quite a bit

 

keepitup - 2012-07-07 8:38 PM

Thanks gang My Princess bike is just fine.  I got the bar tape changed so now it has the "embarrassingly too white" look to it, just like new running shoes.

I just found out that another rider in our group that was way ahead of me went down on the same corner   I wonder what the heck was wrong there.  We had just finished a hilly, twisty part of the ride with no issues and this was just a regular corner...huh.

chevy57 - 2012-07-08 8:09 AM

... That leaves 7 taper days to shake it out before LP. I am torn between waiting till after the race, but it seems more risky to ride on a cracked frame than to swap it out one week before the event. What do you think?

Kevin 

chevy57 - 2012-07-08 8:09 AM

I feel like I am between a rock and a hard place. My bike has not been shifting right and I could not get it dialed in so I took it to my favorite Bike Shop for service. They after multiple test rides tracked the problem to the read derailleur. They changed it and got me on my way. My wife thought this was my strategy to buy a new bike. Anyway I got it back and it shifted like a dream. I got back from my ride yesterday and had a message on the machine from the service manager of the bike shop. His message was for me to call him he had some information for me. Now my wife is convinced of the new bike conspiracy. When i called him back he said that in the process of troubleshooting my shifting problem they noticed what they thought was a crack in the frame. They called Cervelo and determined that this really was a crack and that the frame needs to be replaced. The new frame will be here Tuesday however I am out of town all week on business so I wont be able to get it back till Saturday. That leaves 7 taper days to shake it out before LP. I am torn between waiting till after the race, but it seems more risky to ride on a cracked frame than to swap it out one week before the event. What do you think?

Kevin 

chevy57 - 2012-07-08 8:09 AM

I feel like I am between a rock and a hard place. My bike has not been shifting right and I could not get it dialed in so I took it to my favorite Bike Shop for service. They after multiple test rides tracked the problem to the read derailleur. They changed it and got me on my way. My wife thought this was my strategy to buy a new bike. Anyway I got it back and it shifted like a dream. I got back from my ride yesterday and had a message on the machine from the service manager of the bike shop. His message was for me to call him he had some information for me. Now my wife is convinced of the new bike conspiracy. When i called him back he said that in the process of troubleshooting my shifting problem they noticed what they thought was a crack in the frame. They called Cervelo and determined that this really was a crack and that the frame needs to be replaced. The new frame will be here Tuesday however I am out of town all week on business so I wont be able to get it back till Saturday. That leaves 7 taper days to shake it out before LP. I am torn between waiting till after the race, but it seems more risky to ride on a cracked frame than to swap it out one week before the event. What do you think?

Kevin 

chevy57 - 2012-07-08 8:09 AM

I feel like I am between a rock and a hard place. My bike has not been shifting right and I could not get it dialed in so I took it to my favorite Bike Shop for service. They after multiple test rides tracked the problem to the read derailleur. They changed it and got me on my way. My wife thought this was my strategy to buy a new bike. Anyway I got it back and it shifted like a dream. I got back from my ride yesterday and had a message on the machine from the service manager of the bike shop. His message was for me to call him he had some information for me. Now my wife is convinced of the new bike conspiracy. When i called him back he said that in the process of troubleshooting my shifting problem they noticed what they thought was a crack in the frame. They called Cervelo and determined that this really was a crack and that the frame needs to be replaced. The new frame will be here Tuesday however I am out of town all week on business so I wont be able to get it back till Saturday. That leaves 7 taper days to shake it out before LP. I am torn between waiting till after the race, but it seems more risky to ride on a cracked frame than to swap it out one week before the event. What do you think?

Kevin