- Something that people ask me a lot is,
"Hey, Taren, can you show me how to do a flying mount?"
I was actually really shocked at how easy it was.
And then I realized, hey, this is comedic gold.
Get the camera out, Taren.
Morning, Trainiacs.
You remember how yesterday I said I wasn't feeling so great?
Yeah, big time.
At the end of the day, and by the end of the day
I mean late afternoon, I was down for the count.
I slept from 3:30 until 6:15,
and then I got up, and then I told Kim
about how bad my man-cold was for about two hours.
Went back to sleep, woke up at 1:30,
got up, and I'm like, oh, this isn't morning.
An hour later, got back to sleep
and slept until about seven this morning.
So about a 12-hour haul.
You know when I'm wearing a backwards hat
inside in the house that I either haven't showered,
or I just finished a workout, or I'm just not presentable
and I need to get my 'do done.
So last week when I was prepping for Half Ironman Austin,
I was biking the run course,
and I was just doing a really easy bike,
and something that people ask me a lot is,
"Hey, Taren, can you show me how to do a flying mount?"
And frankly, I didn't know how to do a flying mount.
So I tried to teach myself while I was down there
scootin' around the run course.
And being the narcissistic dude that I am
where I have a camera on me at all times, I taped it.
And we're gonna look at the footage
and basically the process that I use
to try to learn how to do flying mounts
without skinning my knees brutally.
Alright, so for starters, I recommend starting out on grass.
If you fall on concrete, you're gonna be cut up, son.
If you go on grass,
maybe you get a little bit of grass burn on your knees.
I actually, before I turned the camera on,
I took a full-on biff the first time
that I tried to do this,
and the family jewels were not happy.
The twig and berries, mm, didn't like flying mounts.
No, sir.
And then I realized, hey, this is comedic gold.
Get the camera out, Taren.
Okay, so I'll let a couple of these play through,
and keep that in mind, running with the bike,
hands on the bike, pause,
hop, pause again, remember that.
Say it with me now.
Running with the bike, hands on the bike,
pause, hop on, pause again.
Show this one.
Running with the bike, hands on the bike,
pause, so you get situated
and you're not instantly putting your hands on the bike
and then thinking about hopping on.
Running with the bike, pause,
hop,
and then the pause again is to make sure
that you're not going to start pedaling
with a shoe, a bike shoe, flipped underneath.
Because in my case, I didn't have elastics
coming off the back of my shoe holding them upright.
So if you're like that and your shoes are just spinning
on the pedals, and if you take a pedal stroke right here,
whoop, you're gonna hit the ground.
And you can see that in a couple
of the other clips that I've got.
So that pause at the end allows you to think,
oh, 'kay, back it off here, Taren.
You don't quite need to start pedaling yet.
However, I did there.
And once I got comfortable enough,
I then went on to concrete,
and this was literally coming out of transition one.
So running with the bike, hands on the bike,
you pause with your hands on the bike.
Make sure you can take a couple of steps
and you're not gonna be clunking all around the bike.
Hop on,
pause, and make sure that you can get
your feet on top of the pedals.
Right there.
See, right there, I paused,
kinda kept my feet dangling out to the side a little bit.
I paused, and waited until I got my foot on top of the shoe.
And you can see that I'm pausing with the other side,
making sure that I'm not just
slamming my feet down immediately.
And from one other angle we'll do this.
Run with the bike, hands on.
I start getting pretty cocky there.
You can see here that
I was literally waiting, I was pausing, to place my foot
on top of the shoe.
So let's dissect this one just a little slower,
and you can see what we're doing.
Whether you're on the left side or the right side,
you're gonna be holding the seat of your bike
with the closest hand, just one hand.
And you can practice this walking around,
so that you get the feel of being able
to control the front wheel
and still steering your bike in a forward motion,
and not having it go whoop on you.
Run with one hand on your saddle with the bike next to you.
Run with it.
Put both hands on the hoods,
and then pause there for a step or two.
If you put both hands on the hoods
and then jump on your bike right away,
you might not quite have it balanced
and you could fall over like this guy did.
So run with the bike, hands on the hoods,
pause a little bit,
hop on.
And when you're hopping on,
think of the most specific spot right in the center
of the saddle that you can possibly think of.
If you're too far back and your seat is at all loose
like this guy, it might actually flip back.
If you're too far forward and your seat is loose
like this guy, could flip forward.
And in both cases, it is not pleasant, folks.
No, siree Bob.
But then once you hop on, don't be in a real hurry
to get your feet on the pedals and start pedaling
until you know that their both upright,
like you're on top of the pedals.
And then once you get confident enough on grass,
go out and start doing it on concrete.
Ideally, start doing it in transition one
coming right out of it,
so that you know how it's gonna feel.
In this case, there was a hill coming out of transition one,
so knowing exactly where I needed to start was perfect.
So alright, Trainiacs, there you go.
That's how you do a flying mount.
I was actually really shocked at how easy it was
because that little hop onto the bike
is like a six to 10 inch movement for your hips.
So once you get everything situated, it's just like, boop.
It's not as big a jump as you might think it is.
So give that a shot.
Try it on grass.
Don't hurt your twig and berries like I did, alright?
Me and this hat are gonna go back onto the couch, alright?
Later, Trainiacs.