Subject: RE: Aid stations on the bike...All the triathlon's I've raced in have all been water bottle hand offs on the bike with either gatorade (or whomever they're using) or water. I always have 2 cages on my bike with 1 bottle I don't mind tossing so when the aid station comes I toss my own water bottle and replace it with theirs. Except on the 1/2 IM where I had an aero drink bottle upfront. In that case, whenever I got a water bottle from the aid station I kept both of my water bottles on my frame and just dumped the contents of the aid station water bottle into my aero drink bottle between my aero bars. From Sprint on up to 1/2 IM I've had bike aid stations at every race. They also hand out gels and bananas and pretzles, etc on the bike course if the race length/sponsorship $$$ allows for this. |