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stevebradley - 2010-04-21 8:52 AM



TRACEY -

Congrats on the wetsuit! You oughta FLY on that point-to-point swim at Escape!

2XU is a fairly recent player, period, but especially with wetsuits, yet they've managed an excellent reputation. I think one of their big selling features in suppleness, which not only helps with range-of-motion, but also getting into and (especially) out of the thing.

As for fit, just make sure there are no obvious "pockets" of extra neoprene. You want it as snug as possible everywhere --- but not so snug as to feel desperately constricted. Having said that, though, constriction is desirable; it's really a matter of fine degrees.

Remember, no Vaseline -- just BodyGlide or Pam. Vaseline is petroleum-based, and those products degrade neoprene.

As for extra features in wetsuits, most people do find them useful. The advances in wetsuit technology have been colossal, and just when you you think nothing more can be thought up.......something new is thought up. I will gte on-line at some point and see what that suit offers. Vicarious wetsuit "shopping" is always fun!

stevebradley - 2010-04-21 8:42 AM



TRACEY!!! MANDY!!!


Darnell McDonald! Darnell McDonald! Darnell McDonald!!

Did you see the immediate post-game celebration, when the team mobbed him? You'd think they'd just won the W.S.or something!

And lost in McD's game-winner was BillHall's perfect bunt a few batters earlier. Not too many players have that skill anymoree, but his bunt was gorgeous.

It's all gonna be good from here on!!!!

stevebradley - 2010-04-21 8:02 AM DENISE - Nope, no racing for Lynn. Her thing is canoeing/kayaking, with two or three 4-10 day trips each summer, which she does with a local canoe club. And this summer she is learning to sail, further adding to her craft-on-water skillset. I dislike boats -- a lot. So that's an area where never the twain shall meet. Well, every once in a blue moon she can coax me into a canoe, but I'm never really happy. And if I do it with a seeming-smile, it's more the grin of a mule with a mouth full of briers. However, she does appreciate my joy in aging-up!!!

manfarr1974 - 2010-04-21 10:41 AM

My buddy Steve W sent me this, and I thought it was funny so had to share:

Tri Swim Training

Cheers,

Mandy

stevebradley - 2010-04-21 11:50 AM MANDY - I get it. You're trying to be the first kid on your block to collect an entire alphabetical set of Steves. I know of SteveA here, and me at the B-spot, and now SteveW. How many others are there in your collection? Do you have a checklist, like for baseball cards? "A - check; B - check; W - check" By the way, my computer is, at least for now, not allowing me to get to that site you referenced. *#!*@ I will keep trying, however. By the way, I really enjoyed your comments and thoughts on racing with a friend, that you wrote to Kasia! Darnell McDonald!!!!!

stevebradley - 2010-04-21 6:54 AM SHAUN - The thing with mixes to avoid is the combination of protein+water+heat. That equals putrifaction -- not immediately, but after a few hours. So what I said to Steve is to NOT mix his protein-based the night before, or even the morning of IMSG, and then put it in his special needs bag for Xhours later. It MIGHT be okay, but god knows that big gulp of purtified protein xrink is not when he needs along the course of 140.6 miles. I have made this error three times, but fortunately never when it really mattered. So, any protein source - whey, soy, amino acids, too, I suppose, will do it. This includes products such as Perpetuem and Sustained Energy (both Hammer), Accelerade and Endurox (both from Accelerade), and a few others; Steve's EFS is among them. Hammer products are great, but to do rigorously, and especially at longer distances, you need to be organized. Their core product is HammerGel, but that doesn't have any electrolytes added -- and that's where Endurolytes are useful. BUT, to tap into that source you need a way to carry them, and then get them ready to gulp just before an aid station. Hammer sells an old-fashioned rubber "coin-purse" that has a slit along the top, and hen you squeeze the sides the slit opens and you can get at the capsules. I have used that as it is not too cumbersome and fits in a pocket of the tops, but mostly I use a very small baggie with one of those lock-tops. My protocol with Hammer for races in which I use Endurolytes (that would be half-irons and the odd olympic) is: HEED leading up to the swim, and a Hammer Gel just before HEED on the bike, plus a gel or three, and maybe a couple of Endurolytes towards the end of it A last gulp of HEED in T2, then gels on the run and, if it's a half-iron OR a hot olympic, Endurolytes as i begin to feel at all peaked. One Endurolytel capsule has: 100mg sodium 50mg calcium 25mg magnesium 25mg potassium 6.6mg Vitamin B-6 1.6mh manganese That's a pretty good topper-upper, especially the magnesium for crampers. That's not a big problem for me, but at longer races and/or hotter days it ahs happened, and I sure don't like going there! So, I have some Endurolytes with me in those situations. HEED is pretty much loaded with stuff, as implied by the acronym which stands for High Energy Electrolyte Drink. So if I've been a good boy about fluid intake on the bike during most olys, the electrolytes I get there should hold me over for the 10km run segment. Or at least that's the plan!

stevebradley - 2010-04-21 10:21 AM STEVE - Actually, yes - once. It was at Bassman HIM in '08, and about ten (?) minutes before passing through the rough halfway point on the run, I took one or two Endurolytes. Just as I was approaching where the course passes through t-zone (with lots of spectators), I felt sufddenly nauseous. I was really afraid I was going to throw up in front of the assembled masses, but managed to keep it together for another minute or so until I could duck into a wooded area. There I proceeded to dry-heave for a minute or two, but nothing more than that. I can't say for certain that it was the Endurolytes that did it, but as I was feeeling my gorge rise there was the telltale taste of the capsule's coverings -- whatever the capsule itself is made of. Maybe that's why some people try to do the Endurolytes by breaking them and dumping the powder into a water bottle.....but that doesn't help me on the run where I have neither water bottle nor a fuel belt in which to lug anything. I have to admit that that episode shook me some, and makes me wonder how much I trust my gut to pleasantly process the Endorlytes. I think i have used them since, maybe at Mightyman Half last year, and over the years I have ingested many, many, and to no ill effect. But once burned......

stevebradley - 2010-04-21 12:45 PM STEVE - With one exception, you don't want to add anything to your nutritional protocol at this point. But as for that one thing..... CHOCOLATE-COVERED PRETZELS, THINSATIONS, FROM NABISCO!!!! Oo-la-al! Were I doing IMSG myself, a small baggie of them would be in my bike s.n. bag -- maybe my run s.n. bag, too. I could see those as dramatically altering my worldview for the better mid-race, to be sure!