Fred D and Jason's (Tri808) Half Ironman Mentor Group CLOSED! (Page 26)

I think at least the smoothie is a little abnormal but it works for me.  Smoothies are a staple of my morning routine during training so stick with what works.  I simplify it a little and buy a premade one from the store since I'm never at home for these things.  I like the bottlehouse farms ones.

?Regarding 2XU, Woot actually had some of their stuff towards the end of last year, I got some comp shorts and jersey for a really good price. But swimoutlet.com seems to get the best clearance deals.  I got a pair of long distance shorts for around $35 and a jersey for just north of that earlier this year.  I know everyone seems to love DeSoto, but 2XU is my favorite of the stuff I've tried (including DeSoto).

I am similar, banana, soynut butter and bagel 2-3hrs before. And electrolyte drink 1 hour prior.

Prerace nutrition for a HIM is something like 1-2 bagels, a banana, some nuts, powerade, and maybe half a powerbar or something I might have gotten during packet pickup.  I usually start eating about 3 hours before the race starts...sort of just picking at the different foods over 60-90 minutes rather than just sitting down and eating everything at once.  Part of it is because I'm usually not that hungry at 4am, and part of it is that I want to have some control over what goes in and when to stop.

Yeah, my fitter did the zip tie trick when he put the Adamo saddle on my bike. 

I did read that the new ISM Attack is narrower, but has more "usable width".  It's certainly on my short list of saddles to consider....but the potential of throwing another $250 away and getting nothing in return is a little hard to stomach.  Maybe a local shop has one in their demo program already....

You can always go with the cover for the rear now, but I wouldn't really recommend a Blackwell 100 unless you're basically getting it for free.  100mm is really deep, and under normal wind conditions, unless you're going 27-30 mph, a shallower wheel will usually be faster.  Watch the pro cyclists and you'll notice even most of them ride 60-80mm deep front wheels for flat TTs.

The Blackwell is also a deep V technology AFAIK, so it's not as aero as some of the other options currently available.  A used 404, used HED6, or FLO 60 would be a much better bet.

As far as tubulars...they are a pain in the butt.  Tires are expensive and take much more preparation to deal with replacing a tire.  The current clincher tires, paired with latex tubes are pretty much just as fast as tubulars now.

You're certainly in a situation most of us haven't been in before having ridden so much this past weekend.  But if I were you, I would train all the way up till Thursday evening as if there was no race on Sunday.  If you do choose to workout Friday, make it something with less training stress than normal...so either same duration at an easier effort, or shorter duration at normal training effort.  Saturday, just go out and get the blood flowing.  It could be a short spin, a walk in the park, etc...but I just try not to be stagnant.

First ride with the Adamo Road saddle today.  Went reasonably well.  Feels significantly better in the aero position than my stock saddle.  The pressure is very clearly on two points as opposed to all on one very uncomfortable point.  A little less comfortable that my stock saddle when I'm not aero, but not too bad.  All in all probably not the long term solution, but as I said it's much better than my stock saddle so I'm happy with it.  Maybe next season I'll look into some different saddles.

My profile design fast forward carbon seat post should get here later this week.  That will be the last piece of equipment I foresee obtaining for the bike before the 70.3 in August, so once that is in hand I'll be going for a fitting.

Sorry to hear about your Garmin. My husband is ready to toss his Cateye. 

I know it sounds ignorant but, what is a KOM? 

Who used shoes clipped in during T1 flying dismount and taking feet out of shoes prior to T2?  I am trying to cut down my transition times.  I was supposed to do the second coming into T2 at my last sprint but forgot...

A friend showed me that during that same race, if my time equaled his Trans time, I would have went up about 7 spots.

I also did put on arm warmers during T1 so I would not freeze.  And had a few seconds issue with my lock laces in T2, but that seemed to be only difference.

Thanks for the advice. I passed on it and am going to keep looking for a front.

Steve

amd723 - 2013-05-16 12:15 PM Plus I could never figure out how one would stop your clipped in shoes from smacking the ground as you ran with the bike into and in transition

Some folks use rubber bands for keeping them up on the way out.  Some just don't worry about it.  Not much you can do about the way back in.

Thanks, great video.  I will practice it a few times before sunday and see how confident I feel.