- And scene, one hour. (bike wheels spinning)
Morning, Trainiacs.
Friday morning, really easy recovery spin,
60 minutes averaging 91 watts.
Nothing to share, nothing to talk about.
We are however gonna start putting out
some race specific efforts getting ready for Coeur d'Alene,
maybe even racing this weekend,
so we are gonna walk through
setting up the bike for a race today.
Also, the Scoti two piece cycling shorts
are like the mom jean versions of cycling shorts,
come up real high, cover up the love handles
so that you don't get that little crack of day
in between the jersey and this.
Never seen that, I like.
(upbeat music)
(door opening) Come on, guys.
Let's get the bike ready, come on.
Okay, so let's get, oh wait. (door closing)
Alright, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back.
Hard to talk about setting up the bike
without the water bottle, hmm?
Okay, so Half Iron Man Coeur d'Alene about two weeks away.
This weekend, the plan is to do an Olympic distance race
that's just outside the city and I'll do that
basically as like the last key race simulation kind of prep.
That's gonna be really good for getting
the Half Iron Man cobwebs dusted off the legs.
A little bit of speed work, fair bit of bike volume,
gotta practice the nutrition,
gotta practice setting up the bike.
So what I did today was I calculated, first off,
how much nutrition I need during the race.
If you haven't ever heard about this before,
you can go to TriathlonTaren.com/TriathlonNutritionGuide
and there's a calculator that I built years ago
that I've got available for free download there
that you put in your weight, you put in your race distance,
you put in how long you think it'll take,
and it calculates the amount of calories
that you're going to burn and then the amount of calories
that you've gotta consume in the race.
So in my case, I need to replace
somewhere around 500 calories.
How I'm gonna go about that is I'm gonna have
two packages of Scratch for my electrolyte drink
in the water bottle, I'm gonna have one package
of Blocks from Goo in my back pocket during the ride,
I'm gonna have one gel that I'm gonna take
at the beginning of the run, and I'm gonna have
one gel right at the start of the race.
In a perfect world, you don't have to carry anything,
but this is triathlon, it's not a perfect world.
We've gotta carry a lot of stuff
on our bike or in our pockets.
So as far as liquids go, I'm a little bit
spoiled with the Ventum and I'm gonna be able
to put all of the liquids in this top tube here,
which actually make the bike more aerodynamic.
In your case, the most aerodynamic places
to put a water bottle are in between your aerobars
horizontally like this, ends up being shrouded by the wind,
and essentially, that's invisible,
or in behind the bike seat like that,
and ideally, you get a cradle that has the water bottle
at about a 45 degree angle like that,
and if you have two or one bottles,
essentially those are invisible to the wind.
In my case, I don't need these,
I was just using these for my long ride,
so we take that off. (upbeat music)
Alright, so that takes care of the liquid,
but what am I gonna do with the chews and the gel?
One gel, I'm just gonna take right before the race,
toss it aside.
Other gel, I'm gonna leave right beside my shoes
in the second transition, grab it,
and it's like one thing that I have to do,
shoes on, hat on, grab the gel, run.
The Blocks, before I get my wetsuit on,
I'm gonna take these, I'm gonna shove it
into my back pocket so that it's basically
just waiting for me in transition one, take my wetsuit off,
nutrition's waiting for me there and there.
Nutrition done.
What am I gonna do with that front cockpit
considering that I'm not putting a water bottle there?
Well, well, well, well, well.
Something that I've had to monkey around with
as I'm dialing in this bike is that
the distance from the saddle to the pad's really good.
I feel nice and comfortable, but the distance
from the pads to the end of the bar's fairly short.
My hands actually go a fair bit past the end of the bars.
Ideally, the shifters would be up here
and I don't have to go like that to end up shifting.
We've got a solution and a damn good one.
(upbeat music)
So while at Triathlon Business International
earlier this year, I met a guy named Matt Steinmetz
who owns 51 Speedshop, and if you take a look at
(blowing raspberry) half of the pro pictures,
on the bike they're using 51 Speedshop aerobar extensions.
Matt Steinmetz was a former, I think it was
Retool Fit Senior Fitter, and he fits a ton of the pros,
and what he was finding was that a lot of the stock aerobars
that come on bikes, they're standard, they're straight,
and they're not very comfortable.
In addition to that, what he was finding was
when he would go into the wind tunnel
that if you could get yourself into a position
more like Jesse Thomas where your hands
were higher as opposed to really low,
which was traditionally thought to be more aerodynamic,
if you could get them higher it would actually
break that wind up out front instead of creating
that big scoop for your body.
So these aerobars here have a really big rise,
and the idea is to get your hands up, break the wind,
and put 'em into a more comfortable position.
Matt just launched his store, so go
check it out at 51-Speedshop.com.
It's like the first time in ever these aerobar extensions
have been available to the public, so I've got these,
store's open, go check 'em out.
(upbeat music)
Okay, now as far as wheels go, obviously I wanna
be able to use the disc wheel.
I'm gonna make a judgment call the morning of,
if the wind is any faster than about,
I'd say 25 to 30 kilometers an hour,
I'll switch out the disc wheel
and go with the shallow wheels, because I raced
a few weeks ago in that duathlon and the gusts were
up to around 50 and at that point,
the disc wheel knocked me around enough
that I don't think it had any sort of speed benefit,
because I couldn't control the bike.
It just looks so nice to not use it.
So starting up here, we have the
51 Speedshop extension aerobar,
we got the Wahoo Element bolt there,
we've got the nutrition for the liquids to come up and...
(whistling)
I'm gonna have about 150 to 160 calories
in there that I'll sip on.
Of course, we've got the Shimano Dura-Ace
DI2 electronic shifters, the Powertap P1 power pedals,
and then we have these new Shimano tri-shoes.
So there we go, Trainiacs, that is the bike setup
of the Ventum One with Alto cycling wheels,
with Shimano Dura-Ace DI2 electronic shifting,
with Powertap P1 power pedals, with cobb salad,
with a bicycle makeover deck out.
Overall, I gotta say, this is by far
the most high-end bike that I've ever
been lucky enough to ride, but it's also
allowing me to make it elegant so that
when I go to a race, it's not like I've gotta
tape a whole bunch of things on, ruining the aerodynamics.
This is what it is, that's basically everything that I need.
So there you go, Trainiacs.
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Wish me luck.