Racing Manatees - Better Together in 2022 (Page 38)

x2! Are you going to spend any time post-race in Banff? I love it there.

I've got Continental 4000's on my Easton wheels, which I have on my P2. On the Zipp 303s wheels I use when I turn the gravel bike into a road bike, I run Pirelli Cinturato velos.  I've had the 4000s for years without issue. The velos are relatively new (2 years), also no issues.

Congratulations Karen!!!

Assuming I have her last name right, AG win! Woo hoo!

Wow, that sounds like not so much fun! Still, you crushed it despite thinking you had a horrible time. Well done! I'm glad you listened to your mother and took the Worlds slot. Racing in Finland will be amazing.

Regarding Calgary, my only time spent there was driving from the airport to Banff and back again, so I don't have any must sees for you and your mother. I'd go to Banff-Canmore if you are ok with driving today.

My Florida brain doesn't understand this profile

When I was new to triathlon I was getting flat tier about every4-6 weeks.  In my first race I got a flat tire at mile 35 then stopped at the mile 40 aid station thinking that there would be bike support their to check out eh tire and make sure everything was in good condition, but there wasn't bike support and the nice lady who was giving out water who tried to help with it probably did more harm than good and at mile 41 I got my 2nd flat of the day.  I had to wait 40 minutes for SAG to catch up with me to get a new tube because I only had carried on with me. When SAG got there he checked things out replaced the rim tape.  I guess that was the actually problem.  After that it was about two years before a saw a flat tier again.  So a lot of flat ties may have less to do with the tier than it does with other considerations.  I also ride on the Continental 4000 tires in training and use the Continental Fore/Attack for racing.                                                                                          

Ya, two guys on the guys I know from the Kiwami Racing team were at that race and I saw both of their bike legs come across Strava.  One of them was saying last week that he is fast than 99% of people on the swim and 95% pf the people on the bike but that because people miss seed themselves for the swim start you has to zig zag through the first portion of the bike course to pass tons of people.  So....I had to see how fast he really was.  Well, his bike split was three minutes slower than the other guy on out race team.  Comparing their bike data I saw how difficult that bike course was.  They had 10% down hill grades where they were going over 50 mph and then they had to do the some thing going up hills where they were going 8 mph.  That makes for a tough 53.1 miles.  Congratulation on the AG win.  Good to see you racing.

I have never done any trail races, but I have volunteers to be a pacer at for a 100 mile runners.  Usually when you are pacing someone they are going sooooo much further than you that you have to focus all your effort on not going too fast.  Your cousin must be a beast if you had to bust it to keep ahead of her for the first 11 miles and she was continuing on for another 25 miles after that.  I hope she had a great race.  She is lucky to have such a great cousin.  Hiking would have been a nicer way to enjoy the trail though I am sure. 

That is about the same pace my brother does for his Ultra Marathons.  He always sets a goal for 14-15 minutes a mile but always drops off that after about 1/3 of the course.  I run with him in the last half of the race so I am doing the 17-18 min/mi paces.  He has never finished last.