Skippy74 - 2010-05-07 3:19 PM
vibratingp00 - 2010-05-07 3:06 PM Does anyone know about the water hand offs on the bike? I was reading through the race information and I wasnt sure how that worked. Is it really a hand off, like in the run? Or do you actually stop? And do you bring your own additional water bottles?
I probably should have read through the race info earlier than this. Thanks for any help.
Last year they used Hammer bike bottles
(so fit in regular cages...
)--they had people along the road to hand off water or Heed
(if I remember it was 3 folks with Heed followed by 3 with water
)...just point to the person that you are going to grab the bottle from---some will kinda run along with you some just stand there---so slow down to a speed that YOU are comfortable with
(keep in mind they get scared too if you going pretty fast...
) OR you can just stop and get what you want/need
(just make sure nobody is right behind you and kinda pull off the road
(they were in spots with a good shoulder
). There is a drop zone at the stops too---just toss your old bottle
(so if you start with one of your own make sure it's not your favorite because you won't get it back!!
) and grab a new one---in the past I've even just started with a regular store
(7-11
) sports top bottle of Deer Park in my cage and when I tossed it I obviously didn't care...
Thanks. Starting to get excited/nervous...