bcagle25's Endurance Ninja's - Closed (Ninja school is in session) (Page 19)

Just curious, has anyone who has already purchased spiffy wheels managed to document a tangible difference?

They look great and the psychosomatic influence might be undeniable, but what kinds of gains have people actually experienced?

Do they FEEL much different?

Do they all sound weird? I rode beside someone with carbon rims (several seasons old) and they were an audible violation.

I picked up some Zipp 404s, tried them out today, but it was in winds 15-30 mph, so it was really hard to tell anything.  Have a ride tomorrow will see if it is less windy and can feel them out better.  I'm pretty pumped about them though.

Based on my ride today, n=1, they definitely had a different feel, better I think, but it was really windy, I was being pushed all over the place.   The noise only came when I stopped pedalling and it was a clicking noise, not too annoying. they didn't have that whooshh, whooshh sound that I think come from deeper wheels and discs.

That is an interesting question, I've wondered something similar about my right stroke vs. left.  I only considered that it could be strength, but never thought of it being technique related.  Would be interested in researching this more and hearing anyone elses opinion on this.

I think I may have figured a little something out on my swim.  I have been having shoulder soreness and even an impinged shoulder over the last few months and I couldn't figure out why.  I thought it had to do with my new strength training regiment on my swim days, overworking my shoulder.  This may have been a contributing factor, but I moved my strength session to a non-swim day and still had soreness during and after my swims.  I think I started to get lazy and use my shoulder more for the pull rather than good technique by using more of my chest and upper back muscles to press down through my stroke.  I've tried that the last two swims and have considerable less to no shoulder soreness.

I thought I would share a good site on swimming.  Lots of good articles, tips, techniques and Mr. Smooth is a great visualization of good stroke technique.

http://www.swimsmooth.com/triathlon.html

Swimsmooth has been my go to site for swimming. It is really good. 

Just got back from a mini vacation and a work trip. I am 17 days away from my tri. I need to suck it up and head out to the lake one of these days. Water temp is probably around 50. I guess it is not the end of the world if I do not, but figured I could work in some practice transitions at the same time. 

This one is too good (and stupid) not to share.

Have been running indoor for months and decided to put on the heart rate monitor for the first time in a year to see if there's been any progress. Had managed to forget how it works so muddled through chaning modes, etc., and got what looked like a reading, so started running.

For the first mile HR was in 110's. Nice.

Second mile was in the 120's. Still ok.

Third mile in the 130's, although treadmill pace still the same, and I'm getting worried.

Fourth mile and it's in the 140's, and I'm genuinely concerned.

The moral of the story: either read the manual or don't start a run at 1:10 in the afternoon.

Nice.  My HR monitor has been telling me my HR is in the 235-240 range for large portions of my runs.  I look forward to downloading the data from a 10 or so mile run, and that's when I see how crazy the data is.  I think the sensor itself is to blame; already replaced the battery.  At least I got a couple good seasons out of it!

Hope everyone else is healthy and hitting their marks; I have been training and working hard, with not a lot of time for catching up.  Good luck on the season if the archive monster gets the best of us; it has been a lot of fun and I learned a lot from you all!