I just spent an evening with the fine folks from the St Louis Triathlon Club. An hour-long talk about transitions (i.e. how to change gear from swim-to-bike and bike-to-run). Serious triathletes are serious indeed. How about these tips:
Rest your helmet upside-down on the bike so when you arrive after the swim, you don't have to turn it over to don it.
Lock your bike shoes into your bike, using a rubberband to hold the pedal in place, so that you can mount the bike and slip into the shoes on the fly.
Many people tape energy gels to the frame of the bike; some unwrap energy bars and squish them around the frame, because they are gooey enough to stick.
Buy special shoelaces (called speed-laces) that obviate the need to tie your running shoes.
And the list goes on..... wow.
4 comments:
You know, I was totally with those suggestions... all "yeah, that makes sense" until: some unwrap energy bars and squish them around the frame, because they are gooey enough to stick. That is just nasty. Think of all the bugs those sticky bars would amass while biking. Ewww.
Q: Is it okay to lick your fingers after you sacrifice the energy bar or would that waste precious microseconds?
I'm not being sarcastic... I just want to know. Then again, given how some neregy bars taste, would you wnat to do that?
:-)
B.
I'm a triathlete, and love it- nothing like an extra second- cause you couldn't make it up by just drowning the person in front of you in the swim. One person automatically down, and you're that much closer to first place :).
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