Fred D Mentor Group - Part II (Page 60)

Good points. If it was me I would get my butt kicked at both.

I did Vegas70.3 WC  last year and the course/destination (Lake Las Vegas) is actually nice. We spent a whole 2 hours on the "strip". The rest of the time was spent at LLV, Grand Canyon, Hoover dam....

I have been to London and while it's nice, it's not my favorite European city.

I wasn't thinking of destination but rather prestige of events. Like having to choose between the Olympics and Kona....Orlympics and TDF......At a smaller scale.

London has the mystic of being where they ran the Olympics

But you are right, destination may be part of it. I didn't think of it because I have been to both and neither are on my todo list.

RR is finally up!

From a tri perspective not a destination perspective, which is cooler ?

Distance : Oly vs HIM

Who will be there : Crowie/Ralaert vs Brownlees & Co.....

Course : Desert (which is gorgeous) vs Whizzing by Buckingham palace.

Which is more prestigious ?

For me, Vegas is more prestigious.  I say that based on what I perceive the level of difficulty in qualifying to be.  I know people that have qualified for worlds that I have beaten on more than one occasion.  I don't know anyone that has qualified for Vegas that is anywhere near my speed.

New pic or it didn't happen!  

Well, you said you did 70.3 WC last year - go to the other. The pro field will be a lot of the same guys but getting to toe to the line with the olympic champions is pretty darn cool.  At least to tri geeks like us!

ET fix the quoting issue

Do you have a spot for an extra cage now, or just going with the PD bottle up front?

X2 - I put more stock in a spot for the WC's than some of the other AG championships.  Not to take away from those other races as there are a lot of fast folks, but ability to get in "seems" a little easier sometimes.  But what do I know, sometimes the WC spots roll way down as well.

it's not  for me. I don't have the problem of having to choose :-)

Buddy of mine. I am biased because I did Vegas. I would probably choose London but if I had been to neither, I don't know what I would do.

I find the concept of being on a country team pretty cool.

I really think WTC has done a job on us with it's branding.

How do you refill ? Do you grab a bottle, fill and toss before the end of the aid station ?

I grab a bottle, put it in my holder, eventually pour it in the front, put the empty back in the holder, toss it when I get to the next aid station, repeat over....

Bottle in the waistline of your Speedo?

Cool picture of the peloton from my race this past weekend.  This is still in the neutral zone before the race broke up.

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Very cool indeed! And how yummy. That could keep me busy for a while.

Truly awful weather, you can really see it in the pic.

IM Canada RR up.

(no, Yanti didn't pressure me into it...)

Great pic!  Looks like nasty conditions though!

I finally looked at the video.  That is more or less what I think about and the muscles I focus on when I do drills with the @%^%ing band around my ankles.

Right before IMMT I noticed that my rear brake was barely re-opening after use and would occasionally rub against the wheel.  It wasn't a stuck cable as I could release it and the brake calipers still didn't open well.  I took it to the bike techs  at the race site and they were able to get it working well enough to race with but still not great.  A couple of the guys there said that the Cervelo brakes weren't very good and the springs all eventually went bad.

So, long story short, can anyone make a recommendation on replacement brakes?  I know very little about them.  Other than the Omega center pull ones look cool!  

Cool pic - but like others said, doesn't look like fun conditions.