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In defense of the video, Brett coaches many professional/elite athletes so the people he typically gives this advice to are swimming with very strong, aggressive swimmers.  I'll never be in those circles, but a friend who started in the elite wave at GB could have used the tactic.  She said some bozo was being very aggressive and pounding the HE$$ out of her.

So here was my afternoon....go to finally pick up the bike from HE$$ with the new DI2s, leave with nothing, still shifting issues from little to big chain ring. Resign myself to riding Trek 100 and not doing a race on Sunday so make plans with my 86 yo mom only to read my email two hours later and the alarmingly high levels of e coli apparently have vanished and the full race is back on. YEAH!

Good luck to all the MG racers, have fun!
Linda

If it's a short run, I'll have a glass of water before heading out.  If it's longer than 35-40 minutes, I'll eat a piece of bread (plain, untoasted, that's how I roll), or a couple graham crackers (I know you've got those in the house) or a Hammer Gel and if I'm going beyond an hour I'll take gel and water with me. 

For my run this morning I had a gel 10 minutes before heading out and then had another w/ some water about midway.

John-Depends on how far I'm going but anything over five I'll start off with Half a banana or half a bagel with a little pb then be prepared with gels if I'm going long.

Wetsuit peeps. If you live in a warm climate (me), I love my sleeveless short john.  It can be cold to start with but I usually warm up. In TX even in March it's not usually below 60 much.  I'll second the try on part and even ask if you can leave a deposit and try it in open water if they don't have a neverending pool at the shop.  Some stores offer rentals too and will turn the rental into purchase if you like what you tried. 

Good Luck to all the racers out there!  Crush it!!!!

Steve,  Good voodoo vibes comin your way!

Love my sleeveless!  No shoulder constriction, keeps the core warm and adds lift to my dragging legs

I drove it as well, the road was in bad shape.  I plan to take easier down that stretch (which is too bad given that where we pick up the tailwind).  I see that OKC maintains their roads as well as Dallas does.   I'm going to go for it, but am planning on playing safe down that stretch - saw some really odd swim times  - I put in 2:00/100m and I am towards the back - one person had 5:00 down as their time - that's super-super fast!

kickitinok - 2010-06-11 8:54 PM

ashort33 - 2010-06-10 9:31 PM

kickitinok - 2010-06-11 8:26 PM Holly, Andy -

I drove the bike route when I went to pick up my packet. IMHO, it is dangerous. Portland Ave. is barely a two lane road, incredibly torn-up with potholes and buckles.....and the shoulder is grass and gravel. It looks like they tried to patch some of the bigger potholes, but their attempts at improvement are like putting a bandaid on a bullet wound.....it's that bad. There's also some pretty bad potholes for half a mile on 74th, but not as bad as Portland. 

I spoke with one of the race organizers. 89th street was so bad that they altered the course - instead of turning west on 89th street, we continue south to 104th street, then turn west headed toward Portland. So it's just twice around now.

I asked about bike route support and was told that there would be a sag vehicle driving around, but no people.

My husband is very alarmed at the condition of Portland and is urging me to not race. I am still undecided. I want to race because I got cheated out of my swim at Lonestar. I'm also not going to race again until it's cooler outside, so I'm thinking Sept/Oct is a long time to wait....

I need to think about this for a while.

 

I drove it as well, the road was in bad shape.  I plan to take easier down that stretch (which is too bad given that where we pick up the tailwind).  I see that OKC maintains their roads as well as Dallas does.   I'm going to go for it, but am planning on playing safe down that stretch - saw some really odd swim times  - I put in 2:00/100m and I am towards the back - one person had 5:00 down as their time - that's super-super fast!

Ha...I said the same thing to Steve. Frustrating.

With the temperature extremes in this part of the country, bad roads are to be expected I guess. I just didn't think anyone would throw a triathlon on one 

5:00 swim? It has to be a young man who is NCAA bound.... 

Given the small number of people, the course should not be crowded on the bike - if there were 500 people, no way would I do laps down that road, but with 200, everyone will be spread out - at least that's my story