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2010-10-11 9:32 PM
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Subject: RE: Special Needs Bags?
I put one spare contact and a small bottle of saline in my special needs bags.


2010-10-11 9:38 PM
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Even if you don't expect to be running after dark, put a long sleeve shirt or jacket in your run SN bag.  Didn't expect to be on the course after dark at IMSG, but I also didn't plan to get dehydrated on the bike and have to walk 12 miles of the marathon.

Went into Vineman with a blown up hammie so I packed a roll of athletic tape.  Smartest move I ever made...got me to the finish line (with a VERY tightly taped right thigh).  I'll always include that now.

Be wary of depending on either of your SN bags, however.  They can get misplaced (my run SN bag at SG was not where it was supposed to be and I had to help the volunteers find it so I could get the above-mentioned long sleeve shirt) or ripped.  When I volunteered at bike SN at IMAZ, I watched riders try to grab their bags on the fly and have the bottom blow out and their stuff scatter.

Also, avoid breakables...bag will be transported in a box of up to 50 bags...yours could well be on the bottom.


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2010-10-11 10:54 PM
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austiry - 2010-10-11 8:54 AM

Doing my first IM in 5 weeks.  Any creative ideas of things to put in special needs bags?


Nothing creative, but once I really wished my run special needs bag had a long sleeve T shirt. It was raining, I was freezing, and I knew there was nothing of the sort in that bag.

Thankfully some spectators were handing out old T shirts to anyone who wanted one. They had quite a large box. I took one and blessed them.

So put something like that in your bag in case the weather is unexpectedly cold.
2010-10-12 6:25 PM
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Subject: RE: Special Needs Bags?
I know some at various races would have liked gloves when it got cold....some used socks on their hands.

Perhaps those cheap stretchy gloves just in case.
2010-10-12 6:55 PM
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Bike: extra tubes and CO2 incase I used the ones I was carrying (I look as it as insurance) something I might like to eat beside what I normally carry.  I've had a rice krispie treat and some licorace

Run: a wind vest in case I am cold, DIET COKE......gives me something to look forward to.  Yes I have a way to keep it cold, some snacks I might want, a snack size zip lock with some bandaids/blister first aide, tums, tylenol.  I've had pictures in there of something to make me smile as well. 

I could most likely live without most of this stuff but if I want it and I can use it why not have a back up.  You are free to choose to use it or not and no one decision is right or wrong.  Lets grow up and stop throwing mud at each other. 

2010-10-13 10:05 AM
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I like to think of them as "Oh Crap!" bags.

Bike:   tums, bodyglide, bandaids, ziploc with somesort of nutrition that is not on the course.

Run:  Tums, bodyglide, bandaids, Ibuprofen, socks, old shoes, and long sleeve shirt.

 

I never plan on stopping at SN or getting the bags back.  I have the clothes in my run SN in case I'm walking.  At IM Lou this year I forgot to put socks in my T2 bag and had to run sockless until I got to the SN bags.  My feet were just starting to bleed and those socks were a life saver.   Tums is a great thing to try if you stomach is going south.  It won't solve the problem, but it will help make it a bit better.

2010-10-14 4:56 PM
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I volunteered doing gear bags and SN bags this year at IM Wisconsin and the one thing I saw people put in, that I would not have thought of, was eye drops.  I've had a few miserable races with salt in my eyes--due to high humidity & sweat running into my eyes which I am not used to coming from Colorado.  I know what I'll be doing with those free samples of Rohto eye drops I have been collecting now

2010-10-15 8:08 AM
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I recall watching Chris McCormack grab his run special needs bag on Sunday. Who am I to question Macca.  Also, from the 2010 IMKY Athlete Guide "These special needs stations are for special needs purposes, such as nutritional items or an extra pair of socks, etc."

As for the OP, I had a bag of gummi bears in my run bag.  It was a nice break after eating gels for the past 9 hours.
2010-10-15 8:47 AM
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kevin_trapp - 2010-10-15 8:08 AM I recall watching Chris McCormack grab his run special needs bag on Sunday. Who am I to question Macca.  Also, from the 2010 IMKY Athlete Guide "These special needs stations are for special needs purposes, such as nutritional items or an extra pair of socks, etc."

As for the OP, I had a bag of gummi bears in my run bag.  It was a nice break after eating gels for the past 9 hours.



Yeah, most people do what most people do.  And most people, including Macca, use a special needs bag.  That is why my first post in this thread suggested “be a rebel”.  I have always done things my why and usually stand alone in a crowd.  Its suits me.

Looks like changed the rules for the IMKY SN bags from the 2 years I did it. 

~Mike

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