Beer Drinker Appreciation Society (BDAS)--OPEN (Page 51)

For me, anything over like 65 puts me in sleeveless territory.

For the bike, the weight impact of having them on there is minimal, so I'd leave them on and use them when you can (especially on the straight downhills).  I'm in and out of them all the time.

I contacted Flo and they told me it should not do that.  None of my others have ever done that, so I figured that was the case...

Either way, I'll be taking it apart and rebuilding it in hopes of fixing it....if that doesn't work, I'll get back in touch with Flo and see what we need to do.  They have great customer service, so I know we'll get it taken care of!

Agreed that you should keep the aero bars on there and use them if/when you can.

As for the wetsuit, how long is the swim? You will be faster in the full sleeved suit, so you can weigh how much faster you are versus how much time you think you'll lose in transition getting the top off.  Is it possible that some body glide or tri slide or some other lubricant could help with removal?  Is it getting stuck on your watch or anything?  You may want to practice taking it off so you can take advantage of it in your race....at those temperatures, I'd be in a full sleeve for sure!

Thanks both!

Just went for a 20k ride with the bars on.  I've got them adjusted now to where I'm quite comfortable in them as long as road conditions and traffic allow.  I'll definitely keep them on for the tri thanks!

For the swim - it's 1/3 mile.  I'm also slllooooowwww in the water, so not sure how much faster sleeves will make me.  The issue with taking it off wasn't so much that it was stuck (though I had zero body glide on at the time), it was getting my shoulders to let my arms go behind me and over my head enough to get it to move...  Because it's a 2 piece you don't zip from the top down then strip; it zips from the bottom then has to go off over your head.  

I'll probably bring both the vest and the full sleeve top and make a game time decision.  In the meanwhile I'll practice getting it on and off.

Happy Friday everyone.  Got my spin bike and PT/strength session in this morning, looking to hang outside on the water this afternoon and have some of our favorite beverages.    First outdoor ride since like October planned for tomorrow, looking at like 30 miles or so.

@Nicole (Balt) - good luck with your parties, that can be more exhausting than training!

Woot!  First outdoor ride -- that's exciting!  Enjoy!

+1 more - way to get back at it, out of the gate with a 30 miler!  

Thanks all for your responses.  Aero bars are staying right where they are!

I'll try putting on and taking off the sleeved wetsuit top throughout the week and see if I can't figure it out.

Separately - I just learned a ton about brake adjustment, after changing from my trainer wheel to my road wheel and finding that the brake pad was rubbing on the tire.  That's right, not the rim, the tire. Whole separate level of adjustment.  And let me share my experience - you do not need to disassemble the caliper to do it

I just got back on Tuesday from my ride over the Alps & it was amazing! 380km in the end

A high / low point was that my pedal fell off 6km from the top of the Brenner pass but as it is the middle of nowhere (i.e. in the alps) I had to pedal one-footed over the top and coast another 20 downhill to get to a mechanic! Big drama at the time but felt like a massive achievement the next day. The upside was that it stopped my ride-partner from complaining about the hills after that :D

Surprise surprise, the dolomites are very bloody hilly! We also managed to get in a couple of long swims in the mountain lakes

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPoLF1dObKBlRQy91Vn6--sodoxplZZSU7VkIsrqiGXoTIhtfG7zy2DQRW_uhVsmw/photo/AF1QipPAy1rf7uMVVX2e4gJki4ufGcWds13nzvPkEGMM?key=U0lrM09pNjhVMDdTbVVacFEzT0I0UGdPUUV6MG5R 

Yesterday though I went running and my legs have forgotten to do anything but pedal. They are complete wood :D

Triathlon is in a week so I need to get my legs back in gear. I have a 10k tomorrow morning and hopefully that will loosen things up

OMG, that is my kind of adventure!!!  So cool!  Do you have pictures?  Would love to see them!

Hope the 10k goes well tomorrow....and the triathlon next weekend

Wow long course races shaping up in a hurry!  You guys are going to kick a$$!

Ben - agreed that's the adventure of a lifetime!

You've all asked for it. I will be bombarding this thread with pics at some point this week :D

Juan- Those are serious numbers!

3 hours no water?  Wow!  I won't go 6 miles (10k) without water, and longer than that I need some kind of electrolyte/glucose replacement

Ok it's one day until packet pickup 2 days until race day for me.  First tri of 2017.  Totally ready for the distances, but still nervous as I always am pre-race.  Yes even days before the race.  Like a week usually...

Confession time - I shaved my legs for this race.  It's a sprint.  Best I can hope for is a 30 second improvement on the bike split based on the old '1 min per 40k' metric from Specialized's wind tunnel testing.  I had a 10 mile ride yesterday and actually went slower, but also got hung up in a line of traffic at a stop sign at a terrible intersection at rush hour time.  I'll let you know how the race goes.

However - the gains in the pool were undeniable.  Instant 20sec/100yds for free on a 1000yd workout (taper week).  Too bad this race is a wetsuit swim but I''ll keep that one in mind for my summer triathlons!

Anyone else racing this weekend?

Hope you have a great race!

A friend of mine had signed up for a sprint tri this weekend, but injured himself and wasn't able do to anything but swim.  I offered to bike and run for him if he was able to transfer to the relay division, so I'll be biking and running in a sprint tri this weekend!

Didn't alter any of my other training throughout the week and will be doing a long ride tomorrow, but it should still be fun.  My body doesn't like to taper for short races anyways....a little bit of tightness and fatigue in the muscles is good for the short, hard stuff. 

Hope everyone has a great weekend of training or racing