SBR Utopia - OPEN (Page 122)

riorio - 2013-03-23 5:33 PM Another awesome Saturday group ride here. Weather was perfect and average speed was fast! I went all out at the end of the group ride to get a QOM on Strava and then realized I still had to ride another 35 mins home by myself!

Outstanding! Congrats on the QOM.

I'm watching the Melbourne IM feed and it reminded me of a cycling question that I've had for quite some time. When I sit on my saddle, I try to get my sit bones on the widest part of the saddle. But I've noticed that the pros don't seem to be doing that. It's like they have their sit bones on the nose of the saddle. Am I not seeing what they are doing correctly or is my position wrong?

Sorry if this is a lame question, but it has really been bothering me for quite some time.

And Natascha Badmann rocks. Man, I love her and I'm lusting over her Cheetah.

Thank you for doing this, Fred. I don't see a HIM in my future, ever, but you have so much to offer, and I'm glad that you are going to share that knowledge and experience with others. Thanks for sticking around.

KansasMom - 2013-03-23 7:00 PM

riorio - 2013-03-23 5:33 PM Another awesome Saturday group ride here. Weather was perfect and average speed was fast! I went all out at the end of the group ride to get a QOM on Strava and then realized I still had to ride another 35 mins home by myself!

Outstanding! Congrats on the QOM.

I'm watching the Melbourne IM feed and it reminded me of a cycling question that I've had for quite some time. When I sit on my saddle, I try to get my sit bones on the widest part of the saddle. But I've noticed that the pros don't seem to be doing that. It's like they have their sit bones on the nose of the saddle. Am I not seeing what they are doing correctly or is my position wrong?

Sorry if this is a lame question, but it has really been bothering me for quite some time.

And Natascha Badmann rocks. Man, I love her and I'm lusting over her Cheetah.

The right spot on the saddle for the sit bones may not necessarily be the widest spot. Also, with how far over some ride, the sit bones may not be taking all of (or even most of) the pressure. Some of the pros do have some odd saddle choices though. Seem to put up with more than they should need to with their selection.

It's not a lame question at all, as many just don't quite know exactly how a saddle was designed to be used best. Adamo (for example) is a big one as it's rather different from most everything else.

WTF...

That's all I got 

I agree totally!!!

I mean, why wouldn't you make it an even 1000???  C'mon....

Double post.

Might as well use it for something.  We got more snow overnight and I have a 1:45 run scheduled.  Running that long in Yaktrax is gonna suck I think.  Winter is getting seriously old.

I finished my first HITS Series 70.3 yesterday. I look pretty bad in the finish photo, but wanted to show you guys the transition area. I thought the benches were cute. And handy.

Me, gross and sweaty at the end.

Kate that is fantastic news - congratulations on your success! Details please!?!

+1, congratulations!!  

Can't wait for the RR

Congratulations !!!

Quite the accomplishment.

Congrats Kate!!! Looking forward to the details

Thanks so much for your comments everyone. I really appreciate it. I know you all understand what it is to train and undertake this kind of event. 

Sitting on the couch today. Muscles are pretty stiff. I decded to get the RR done.

Here is the link.

Great job Kate!! All that training has paid off.

Great race and race report....congrats!!

That's ridiculous! Will keep it in mind for next week. 

Amazingly enough, tonight at Masters went very well. Lots of the time in the main set I was swimming 1:20-1:22/100. Descended a few times from 1:22 down to 1:16/17. And it really wasn't hard? Even at the end, ~4,000 yds into the set. Let the coach know how surprised I was with this, and her reaction to yesterday's was "That's not too bad". Then again, she is a swimmer, recently pulling 2:30 on a 200 fly.

This is all countered with finding out earlier that while I have a great way to get a Speed Concept 9, I don't fit on the bike. The lowest pad stack possible is still 32-33mm over what I'm at right now (Last gen Ordu).