Jitterbug!
(whoosh)
- Have her professional radio voice.
(whoosh)
Hi
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(light instrumental hip hop)
- Morning, trainiacs.
This is it.
Saturday.
It's just two more work days left
until the taper process starts for Ironman Campeche.
So today it's a 30 minute bike, and then a 25k run.
This is serious business here.
(upbeat instrumental hip hop)
When I say that this is it,
I mean that at three weeks out from the race,
if I don't have it, I ain't gonna have it by Mexico.
Even this far out, if you haven't done the work yet,
it ain't gonna come in the last three weeks.
Triathletes are made in the winter,
not in the last few weeks before a race.
Okay, let's get into this.
(light instrumental hip hop)
We are two and a half minutes from done.
In that 30 minutes with a good 10 minute session
right at race pace, and then 28 minutes from the run.
That is going to be hands-down
the longest run I've ever done.
This afternoon, I wanna show you the set up
that we're going to have on the tri-bike
for Ironman Campeche,
and about what my plan is for nutrition.
(light instrumental hip hop)
Kim is doing what's called a voiceover
because she's got just that silky smooth voice,
so companies hire her to have her professional radio voice
discuss things on TV.
Garmin 920XT.
It's my go-to recommendation for triathlon watches.
It's the only one that I've ever tried,
but as far as I can tell,
it's got basically everything you'd want.
Phoenix 3 might be a little bit fancier,
but this is way cheaper.
A lot of people in our training group have got it
and none of them been upset.
(light instrumental hip hop)
This run is too far for you guys.
You would not enjoy it.
I would not enjoy it.
Well, you smell like you ate poo this morning.
Alright, I'm going to go for a run without you, alright?
Yes, without you.
(breathless speaking while running)
(laughter)
- You had any caffeine? You had caffeine today, didn't you?
- Man, can you imagine her on caffeine?
Give her one of those jellybeans.
- I've seen it.
(laughter)
I, I get to room with that.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be a handful to--
This is a really long discussion.
Alright, let's go, let's go.
It's time to run.
(chatter)
See you later.
(chatter)
(feet on pavement)
(high-pitched garbled voice)
(laughter)
(upbeat instrumental hip hop)
Oh, these shirts and pants.
That was 24 and a half k.
That's the longest run ever, that's--
Last week was fake longest run ever.
This was actual longest run ever.
I need 29 hours of recovery time, Pat.
Don't forget it.
You want to hand me the hundred?
- You want the big one? I can get you the big one.
- Yeah, I don't know if you have big enough.
- I have the delicate little pink one here for you.
- I'll take the pink.
(upbeat instrumental hip hop)
Well, that my friends,
was a death march from the first step.
(whistles)
Okay, I want to give you the run down.
Hey, hey, hey, no.
Okay, I want to give you the run down
of how I'm going to set up this bike for Ironman Campeche.
These aren't the right wheels, hang on.
These are the right wheels.
What I'm going to end up going with
is the Zipp dimpled 808s.
Ironman Campeche has really low wind,
like their, their high gusts of wind
are apparently about eight miles an hour,
so I want the deepest wheel that I can get, if not a disc.
What I have is these 808s.
They're tubulars so if I flat,
I'm gonna put brand new rubber on this.
All of this is going to the bike shop tomorrow,
and while I'm in New York over the course of the week,
they're gonna fix it up.
Nine speed, not 10, but I only need one speed:
fastest speed.
Take you through a couple of the things,
make this look prettier.
I'll take you through a couple of the things
that I'm gonna set up for it.
Number one is hydration.
I have one bottle on the downtube
and then this is gonna end up moving,
one bottle that's mounted to a bottle cage
in between the arrow bars.
Both bottles will be about a 12 to 16 ounce bottle
that will have a light electrolyte drink in it,
like Scratch or Osmo Nutrition.
This Garmin 520 we're probably gonna move somewhere else,
and why I've got the bottle here,
it's just going to be a regular bottle mounted horizontally.
It'll be right in between the arms kinda like that,
but why I put it in there is
because essentially it's invisible to the wind.
The downtube is not necessarily a very aerodynamic place
to put a bottle, especially on this bike,
which isn't designed for it.
A lot of the newer bikes do have
a more integrated bottle on the downtube.
The geometry that I'm setting up for the handle bars,
because I've been racing longer distances,
I can't get down super low,
so as I start going longer distances,
the bike shop puts on a stem
that raises up the handle bars a little bit.
Aerodynamics at the expense of comfort
will result in cramps on the run and a disastrous run.
I do get asked a lot about the saddle,
because people have noticed on Instagram
that I use the ISM Adamo.
Do I like this saddle?
I don't hate it.
Would I recommend it for everyone?
No, absolutely not.
I've had two ISM Adamo split-nose saddles before.
In my experience,
they're good if you can get them dialed in.
Dialing this thing in is a matter of millimeters.
Literally, a millimeter off and I am in pain
and I'm getting saddle sores,
so if you're going with a really specific saddle,
expect to spend a lot of time with a very specific fit.
A good bike shop will help you.
As always, we'll have the PowerTap P1 pedals.
I won't be using these shoes,
I'll be using my triathlon racing shoes
that are a lot more vented
and have just one Velcro strap over them.
I won't be taping any of the nutrition to the top tube,
everything will just be in my jersey pocket,
and that'll be about that.
I tend to go really minimal in almost all aspects of racing,
because the more things
that I have to worry about getting right,
the more things I have to worry about getting wrong.
So that's the bike set up.
If there are any bike companies out there
that would love a blond, blue-eyed,
very cute, perky, quirky, moderately-talented
to ride their bike constantly, every day on YouTube,
I'm available.
Hi.
Alright, so that's the bike, trainiacs.
I've got to go off to the office to edit today's vlog,
which, in your case, is actually yesterday's vlog,
which you've probably already seen,
which is kinda weird because you've seen it, but I haven't.
It doesn't even exist yet,
but as you're watching this, you might have seen it.
That's kind of a weird thing about this
like, one-day-after-vlog life.
Cool. See ya.