- I don't know anyone who enjoys packing.
As triathletes though, we get plenty of practise at it.
Although choosing what to take on race day
still doesn't get any easier.
I went to find out from the pros how they prioritise
at their packing list.
- Um. - Pfft.
- Uh. - Um.
- Um.
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- What do you carry with you when you go to races,
other that purely your bike?
Do you bring any extras?
What spares do you take, do you take ?
Do you take a turbo?
- Often I ask others if I'd forgotten something,
so I don't really double check my bag
because I know that others will have it anyway.
- I used to not travel with anything
and just rely on someone will have a track pump.
Got stuck a few times, so I travel with a track pump now.
It depends on where I'm racing,
I'll bring a trainer with me just to,
kinda get on occasionally if you need to,
and especially now that I'm not allowed riding on the road
by myself, so I'll like get on the trainer, like yesterday,
couldn't find anyone to ride with.
And just a few spares, a few spare cables.
- You don't have spare wheels with you?
Or I guess if you're riding for a long time.
- No, no, I'd like to get into travelling with two bikes,
just in case something goes wrong.
Just need to logistically work that out.
- An airline sponsor.
- An airline sponsor, that'd be great.
- If anyone's listening (laughs)
- Yeah, just trying to work out a bike bag
that could carry two bikes mostly and safely.
- It depends on what the luggage weight limit is,
depending on where I'm flying.
If I can fit it in, I'll take a small,
some small rollers with,
but the flight now, I think I only had 30kg,
so I didn't bring that.
Just a small little hand pump,
that's good enough to pump up the tyres.
I just bring my race wheels
if I'm not here for long and beforehand.
And just all the usual's that you need for the race.
- I travel with my feedback sports, Omnian trainer.
The portable one.
So I take that with me everywhere.
I love that thing.
(laughs)
And then I bring my travel pump,
so very portable, light, but I can easily,
I'm self sufficient in transition.
I'll bring that down tomorrow morning.
I don't like relying on the pumps,
the communal pumps.
Yeah, and then apart from that, I don't really travel
with spare tyres or anything.
I figured that every race has an expo,
so if I were to need something,
I could just get that quickly.
I travel with spare tubes obviously.
I ran clinches, so I need those.
- I usually just have my tools and bike
and trusting that someone have the pump with them. (laughs)
- That's a typical athlete there.
- Yeah, I think we need to,
we need to take our own pump right now.
- It's a little feedback, portable trainer.
It's pretty handy to ride in a hotel room and stuff
and it fits in my luggage.
Then just usual bike tools and stuff.
- [Interviewer] How many pairs of...
I'm gonna ask you how many pairs of shoes,
First of all, how many pairs of trainers.
We'll talk about shoes later.
- Generally three pairs.
- Okay.
- One pair race shoes, two pairs of training shoes.
- I know you're always in backing stocks as well.
- Yeah, backing stocks and maybe some heels--
- That's what's I was gonna say,
100 pairs of shoes Holly.
And they do get slipped in then?
- Yeah, yeah.
- For race?
- Yeah.
- Sometimes I've only been travelling with two pairs.
Like one racing and one I'm walking in but,
the downside with that is that the...
If it's a wet race, then my shoes will be wet,
like the warming up shoes and also the racing shoes
and then I have no shoes for the evening.
So, I'll start always bringing three pairs.
- Okay, you're economic with.
- Normally three: One for travel, casual.
One for training and the racing pair.
- And how many pairs of trainers do you travel with?
- A race set and a training set.
- Very minimal.
- Just two, yeah and then a casual pair
that I use to travel with.
- Do you pack any other footwear in your bag?
Are you a girl that takes heels or not?
- No, no, no, none of that.
- Far too casual.
(laughs)
- As you can see.
- You and Holly are like adverts for Birkenstocks.
- Yeah, I love Birkenstocks.
Sometimes I'll take multiple pairs
and in each colour, but never heels.
Gosh, no way.
I can't last ten minutes in those things.
- Five, six pairs and then,
a pair with cycle shoes
and then a pair with working--
- Five or six running shoes?
- Yes.
- You have lots of casual pairs or lots of running pairs?
- Maybe two pairs of intervals/competition shoes.
Three pairs of just normal running shoes
and then the bike shoes out of that.
- That's a big bag.
- Yeah, but I put them in my bike bag, so it's okay.
- If like me, you struggle with your packing.
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