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I'm really liking that suit!  Fits way better than the PI Octane and really comfortable.  I'll be doing a 20k TT in a couple of weeks on a dead flat course that should be interesting - usually a very windy area though.

And took a KOM along the way, you know, just for fun. Way to go, Dale - great race!

And here was all proud of myself for managing to hold 303w for a 7 minute interval last week.... sheesh, you boys are skrong. Nice racing Arend - look forward to reading about it. Sorry about the flat, but happy to hear you managed to keep the rubber side down when you went off the road, especially with so many of us in the group not being as fortunate this season. As prestigious as our little group is, I am very glad that you did not gain membership to the club.

Ha! That would have been great!!  

It really is a sickness, I tell you.

Ha-ha - Marc - seriously, I can't wait to hear how it tests out. Let us know how you set up your protocol and let us know how it goes. I STILL have to compare the handful of helmets I have access to, just haven't made the time yet.

Well that's still not bad at all Rusty!

No TT'ing for me, but 470 for 3 minutes up a hill on Saturday. Fair bit short of the KOM, but that was expected. Kind of a fun with with grinding at 55 rpm in spots and bumping 100 rpm after shifting up a couple gears too.

TT + Road Race report from yesterday

I read that it seems to test better without the visor - but have also read that some people find that their field of vision with the visor on is greater and therefore can keep their head a bit lower and still see down the road.  Your thoughts?  Oh, and what are we talking watts wise with/without visor?

Curious what suit you guys got.  Assuming an LG based on the comments?

Fully agree with you on understanding body position, etc. However, I'm pretty sure the cost of Alphamantis after the PanAm Games is going to be north of $800 and that just is not going to fly on the homefront.  Money on something actually tangible like a helmet or trisuit can be (partially) understood - coming home and showing a piece of paper and saying "Honey, look how much my cda dropped and it only cost $xxxx, oh and I need to spend $xxxx to get to this number...why are you packing my bag?"

I know the Chung method is out there as well, but that seems fraught with possible screw ups.  Wish there was another option, because I agree with everything you said.

Yup, LG M2 Course SS with a custom design.  A guy on ST organized a group buy for Canadians.

Did a couple of crits yesterday.  Luckily it was one part of the island that wasn't raining...otherwise I wouldn't have done them.  Goal was just to have fun and not crash.  First 30 min race I just attacked right off the bat and rode the first 4 laps off the front (which was super fun), then did another 5 laps or so with the lead group, then just said screw it, and cruised along getting ready for the next race.

Second race I stayed up with the lead group the first 16 of 30 minutes, then I just felt tired and didn't want to do anything stupid while I can't see straight so I pulled out.  It was crazy hot...around 90 degrees, but with the humidity, the real feel was over 100.  Luckily I brought a 64 ounce hydroflask with water in it and drank the whole thing in a 3 hour span...in addition to the one bottle I had on my bike.

Normally crits would be my type of race but this pointed out one big hole I have had in my training recently.  Lack of VO2 efforts and just overall intensity.  I've been really slacking on them and my fitness has taken a pretty big tumble.  I look back on my training and it's pretty obvious as to why the last few weeks have been pretty crappy on the bike.  I still have a few races coming up, but not sure if I'll enter unless I can get things turned around quickly. 

This was sort of what I was scared of when I had early season success...getting complacent.  

Wow, that's pretty huge.  Just so I understand this correctly, 10 watts is 10 real watts?  This isn't a case of savings 10 watts at 50mph - I would actually have to ride 10 watts harder with the visor to ride the same time at normal riding speeds?

How tight is your LG?  Got mine and it is very snug, to the point that I don't really need to fully tighten the head selector thingy inside.  I got the medium, but tried on a freinds large afterwards just to see if I was in the wrong size, but I was swimming in the large.

Le Tour kind of went Boom yesterday.

Racing an Olympic this weekend.  Raced this one in the past and they limit it to only 300 people since they take you out on a couple of old paddle boats, drop you in the middle of the lake and you swim back to shore.  Really tough run course so we'll se how the legs manage this weekend.

Any one else racing?

Racing an Olympic on Sunday as well.  It's a new race, looks to be very flat.

I have no real advice for you but I will mention that it didn't go so well for me when I did it.    After my first HIM, I did a sprint either 2 or 3 weeks after (I forget exactly) and had a hard time.  Leading up to the sprint, my workouts all felt normal but come race time I just felt very flat, couldn't hit anywhere near race intensity.  I may just have had a bad day but my gut says that I just wasn't ready for it.  Now that I've done a few more and am better prepared, it might not be so much of a concern.

Haven't had anything I've really wanted to nail that close after a HIM, but did do a sprint for fun a week after one. Recover extensively this week. Get rid of the race fatigue. Workouts are true recovery efforts, and not this feeling "recovered" after a smaller Z2 effort some like to say they do. Bike power like 50% or less, for example. Spinning well. Add in some lighter things to build up the effort for brief periods of time. Maybe in another day or two or over the weekend. Like strides for running. Build into doing some work at or just over race pace pace early to mid next week. You're not trying to add fitness with these, just getting used to pushing the effort some more again. I don't quite know where you can get to, but don't feel like you need to do 3 x 20 @ 90% or more to simulate the bike or bigger tempo runs or lots of mile repeats at 10k pace. Maybe see if you can get up to a couple again, but pay attention to how well you're handling it. I have often ended up doing progressions after a race just to get back into things. Starting with something not too hard and getting stronger with each successive one.

I'm always slow to recover - after a HIM I'm done for a number of days and don't have it in me to race again within a week.