Subject: RE: Bottles on the Bike? My assumptions: advice to a MOP first-time IM and whose primary goal should be to finish <snip>, All well and good, but why do you have to resort to characterizing advice that does not agree with yours as "dumb"? And frankly, the OP never said he just wanted to finish, I think it's a little (actually, quite) presumptuous to tell him what his goal *should* be, i.e. just to finish. Perhaps he wants the best time he can possibly get? I really don't understand the "plan to stop" vs. "not plan to stop." The concensus advice was to load up SN with whatever they think they might need in case they need it at that time. Thus, planning to stop if necessary. If the advice was don't stop, we would have said don't put anything in SN. Personally, I have not stopped at SN because, as the race unfolded, I didn't need to. But it was there in case I did. Sort of a silly conversation anyway. Put stuff in SN. You need it, stop for it. You don't need it, don't stop for it. No further "plan" necessary in that regard. |