Yes there really is magic all around in Kona during race week. We got here Monday evening, and within hours plenty of Kona royalty had passed or stopped by the house. We’re on Alii about 4 miles out of town near the run turnaround. We are hosting the Gatorade Hydration Station, and a constant stream […]
Chris nabs one of the frames we’ve seen under Alberto and Lance – the Speed-Concept with the Kamm airfoil tubes. Recall that the trailing edges are square, yet the wind is “tricked” into “thinking” the tubes have tapered trailing edges. This potentially a good solution to the UCI’s 3:1 cross-section limitation rules. Note that both […]
We worked on Jarrod’s fit with his coach Tim Crowley last Winter and Spring, and today he won ITU Duathlon World Championships after having a great season on the ITU triathlon World Cup circuit. Awesome Sprint Finish – Congrats to Jarrod!!
After I flatted on Sunday at the FirmMan 70.3, I decided to start the run anyway, and maybe complete it. Motivation after losing at least 45 mins on the bike was low, but what the heh. I was running ok for the first 6 miles – not great, just ok, but with my limited training […]
After recently writing about tubulars vs clinchers, and how in 17 years of racing I’ve never flatted a tubular, I had the opportunity to experience first hand how tubulars perform flat yesterday. My rear tire (a fairly new Vittoria Corsa Evo CX) did a pop-psst-psst-psst-psst at mile 10 of the FrimMan 70.3 . I was […]
This is top secret. I can’t talk about it at all. So I’ll write about it! I was contacted this Spring, out of the blue, by the Directeur Sportif of a major European Pro Tour Team. Seems his star athlete was having some major TT fit issues, and he hoped I could help them. Of […]
This is one of those debates that never dies. I use tubulars. Not because I think they are better, but because until recently I was using a HED Cx front wheel that was probably bought in 1993. Back then there was no debate – all race wheels ran tubulars. So when I upgraded my rear […]
So I just received an email from an old college buddy – one of those fairly funny “random thoughts” emails, and one of them was: “As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation I always hate cyclists.” Not so funny, but pretty […]
All this wasted energy directed at “America’s Obesity Crisis”. Most kids are FAT – that is clear. Yet, despite what the media and any number of shady weight-loss hucksters (which is all of them IMO) might have us believe, there is no mystery as to how to solve the problem. Most adults are even FATTER. […]
Cramping is one of those problems that can be very frustrating, and possible solutions are many. I have been subject to debilitating cramping in races from International distance on up, and on long training sessions for my entire tri career. For me it was always a matter of when not if, and how bad. Add […]
