Subject: RE: Ironman World Championship 70.3 : Official ThreadSorry to hear about your tire problems. It seemed to happen a lot this week. My 310xt had 2631 ft gain for the bike, both with and without elevation correction. One problem I had with the Garmin Edge 500, at the beginning, including T1, it kept posting "Multiple Power Meters Detected", "Multiple Heart Rate Monitors Detected", etc. Got to look into that. A very hot day indeed, so much for the "dry" heat thing. I picked up some arm cooling sleeves, I think they worked pretty well. This was about the worst I've felt after a hot race, but not enough for the med tent. I just spent some time in the food tent cooling down, and felt a lot better after about 30 minutes. This past week, I lost count how many times we saw someone on the side of the road fixing a flat; I had one myself, over-inflating with a new pump that doesn't have a pressure gauge, I was going by feel. This was in the hotel room, I think I had my clinchers up to about 140 or so. About .1 miles into a local ride, and BOOM!. Rear tube blows out near the valve. One where the tire bead pulled out. It was probably over 100 deg, plus the tire was probably warming up from the blacktop. So I went with 105 psi this morning, (usually 110 psi, rider weight 157, 23-622 clincher tire) Edited by tcj103 2012-09-09 10:16 PM
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