kaburns1214 and UHCoog's Mentor Group-Closed (Page 39)

Originally posted by mleech77

Okay, I'm sure this will spark some debate as opinions on bikes vary.  Since it's going to take convincing the wife I'm starting to look towards next season and upgrading to a true tri bike.  The shop that I do most of my stuff through is a Trek and Felt dealer.  Another of the local shops also has Kestrel.  My buddy swears by Cannondale or Cervelo.  I'm looking at a <$3000 budget.  In that range the ones I'm familiar with would be:

Trek Speed Concepts 7.0

Cannondale Slice 5 105

Cervelo P2 Ultegra

Felt B16 (maybe a B12 on sale)

What else is out there, what do y'all ride, what do you recommend?  I have to start working on her now so that the funds are freed up next year.

Originally posted by kidtri33

Find out what will fit you best and then decide. Find a fitter that will get your measurements and then put those with bikes that will fit you. I did this and it came down to Felt and Trek or a Cervelo but price took me back to trek and felt. The felt just ended up working better. You really can't go wrong with any of those choices as long as you find out which fits best.

Originally posted by mleech77

Okay, I'm sure this will spark some debate as opinions on bikes vary.  Since it's going to take convincing the wife I'm starting to look towards next season and upgrading to a true tri bike.  The shop that I do most of my stuff through is a Trek and Felt dealer.  Another of the local shops also has Kestrel.  My buddy swears by Cannondale or Cervelo.  I'm looking at a <$3000 budget.  In that range the ones I'm familiar with would be:

Trek Speed Concepts 7.0

Cannondale Slice 5 105

Cervelo P2 Ultegra

Felt B16 (maybe a B12 on sale)

What else is out there, what do y'all ride, what do you recommend?  I have to start working on her now so that the funds are freed up next year.

Yes 35% plus the race although technically the race is the next week since I do Sun-Sat.

Resting heart rate is normal. I was thinking part of it may be lack of time in the aero position this spring since the weather has sucked so bad I've been on the trainer more often than not. Just a theory with nothing scientific to back it up.

Originally posted by mleech77

Okay, I'm sure this will spark some debate as opinions on bikes vary.  Since it's going to take convincing the wife I'm starting to look towards next season and upgrading to a true tri bike.  The shop that I do most of my stuff through is a Trek and Felt dealer.  Another of the local shops also has Kestrel.  My buddy swears by Cannondale or Cervelo.  I'm looking at a <$3000 budget.  In that range the ones I'm familiar with would be:

Trek Speed Concepts 7.0

Cannondale Slice 5 105

Cervelo P2 Ultegra

Felt B16 (maybe a B12 on sale)

What else is out there, what do y'all ride, what do you recommend?  I have to start working on her now so that the funds are freed up next year.

Originally posted by enders_shadow

May totals:

Swim: 9h 55m - 18448.74 meters
MBike: 23h 41m 40s - 354.61 miles
MiRun: 10h 02m 28s - 54 miles

I pretty much followed my training plan, so I'm good with the numbers - although the run number looks so low after being a runner all spring.

I'm off to Disney for over a week ... hoping to run a bit on my days off and learn to do flip turns while I'm playing with the kids in the pool. Otherwise - no training and lots of eating & drinking. My only goal is to come back relatively close to where I left. Training re-commences on June 10.

Originally posted by kaburns1214



I think you had a partial unload while at Disney and now your re-loading training stress and your body is just a bit confused. I wouldn't worry about it. The only thing I would make sure to do is keep the intensity fairly low during the taper and just add in a few short sets of race pace or above race pace intensity but nothing huge (e.g. 2 x 10 minutes at race pace). I really also like the use of over/unders during a taper.

Originally posted by cheekymonkeys1

I am again looking for revenge on the last 2 long rides this weekend. I NEED a good long ride to keep my head in the game or I'll be a total basket case for LP. I am headed to Vermont for the weekend and hope to ride from the campground. This weekend there is no snow forecast, just 90's and thunderstorms (??!! wth)

LP seemed like such a good idea at the time. It's starting to look like it may already be a death march for me.

Originally posted by mleech77

Thanks for the input on the bikes gang.  Larkin, do you have any recommendations for local fitters that would be good for this.  I know if I use the fitters at Bike Lane, or Performance they're going to automatically push me towards one of the brands they sell instead of other potential options.

Originally posted by kidtri33 Well, that is a good question. They will definitely push you towards one of those most likely. However, I think most shops around here are going to do that. I would call around, there is Spikes, Tri360(newer shop), Bike lane of course, and bicycle outfitters. Bike Outfitters has probably the bigger selection of brands so you may have better luck with them. I know one of the guys that works there and can ask him what he thinks might be best.

Originally posted by uhcoog

 

The key is to try and get your stack and reach measurements.  Then you can play around here:

 

http://www.slowtwitch.com/stackreach/

Originally posted by carrie639

Dumb questions, but I thought you didn't wear socks on the bike? Do you wear there for certain distances? No for shorter, yes for longer?