- [Male Voice] Just with thumbs.
Nice, dirty ones.
- [Male Voice] I kick around with short swims.
- [Male Voice] Oh, oh, oh
you're falling.
- [Male Voice] Good morning, trainiacs.
Almost, should say
good afternoon.
It feels like afternoon.
Had a bit of a long morning routine today.
And by morning routine
I mean sitting on the couch
looking at my phone.
I promise you,
you are going to be shocked
at how short this swim is.
But I needs a short swim, guys.
I need it bad.
I'll explain how on rejigging things
or approaching things
in this last seven weeks
of a long swim training.
Swim now.
(water splash)
(slow music)
I told you it was going to be short.
I wasn't kidding.
I don't kid around
with short swims.
I kick around with short swims.
(crickets chirping)
Seriously.
That's it.
This bar.
That pool.
This shirt.
This routine.
It's like Groundhog Day right now.
The mental motivation to train right now
is like,
ayyy although,
the body however,
is doing a little kicking and screaming.
Oh, oh, oh
You're falling.
As those long workouts become extra extra long,
like the 10K last Friday.
I was just talking to Josh,
it's going to be 15K in just a few weeks.
Those key workouts are like,
DJ Kaled Major Key, yo.
So those are like,
the bread and butter.
The only thing that I've got to worry about
in the week,
is those workouts.
And that means that everything else
besides that workout
has to take a backseat to
making sure that I can do that workout,
as far as,
the rest of the week workouts go.
How many times did I say workout there?
Because the body is feeling a little sluggish today.
You get that candy ass workout.
I'm just trying to think here,
how this compares to the last long swim.
I remember that my body certainly
didn't hold up to the training
nearly as well.
Like,
shoulders hurt,
everything tightened up between the shoulder blades.
I think I even had a little neck thing,
back then.
None of that is happening right now.
The structure of the body is okay.
I'm just a little tired.
Am I getting old?
Could be a little bit of that,
but all the rest of my training now
is way more volume than I was doing then.
So I'm going to go out on a limb
and say that that's the issue.
(upbeat electronic music)
And then even the commuting
that I do now,
that I didn't do four years ago.
That's takes a lot out of me.
That added five hours
even though most of it is pretty easy
depending on the wind,
the weather.
Still added work.
And even all the recent changes
that are happening around here.
Moving around the whole office.
I've been editing a lot of the triterran videos
for the past nine days.
And that extra two to two and a half hours
takes up a fair bit of work.
And then launching some new Triathlon Terra
and post product project
while we're working hard to kind of,
ramp our way down on some of these existing contracts.
It's just a lot going on here.
Overnight all to the bathroom.
It's all good in the hood.
I just know that I need to have that really nice balance
of not going too hard on my easy days.
Really hard and big on the hard days.
Now, work time.
The knickers worked out pretty good today.
I'm a knicker man!
I'm sold!
(soft music)
(driller drilling)
- [Male Voice] On time.
It's so nice and
doing good.
- [Male Voice] Apparently a lot of you
must be getting flat tires
because you're asking me
how to change tires.
Let me get some supper
and then we're gonna do that.
- [Female Distant Voice] Watch your camera!
- [Male Voice] Ah, ah, ah
I'm out of my work clothes.
Let's talk about changing this tire.
Alright once you get that wheel all loosened up,
knock it off
and then place your bike down with the drivetrain facing up.
Don't let that sit on the ground.
Empty any remaining air out of your tire.
(air releasing)
What you always want to use
on a wheel
is your valve stem
as basically like a placeholder.
Start with your tire levers
at the opposite end of the wheel
from your valve stem.
And this will help you,
kind of,
keep track of where you are.
You wedge it
right into the tire.
In between the rim
and the tire.
See that?
Get it down as far you can.
And then you wanna do it by a spoke
that goes down on the same side as your tire lever.
So that you could go like this.
And hook it.
Once you have that,
you can take your other tire lever,
also wedge it underneath
and start prying it.
Look at this.
You just,
kind of,
work your way around.
Reach in there
and grab whatever flat tube you got.
Pull it around.
All the way to
the valve stem.
Like so,
lika-lika-lika so.
Take that off.
Because with that on,
you're not going to be able to get the tube out.
Tube.
What I want you to do is
not just put it in,
all like,
soggy weiner syndrome here.
Open it up
so that the presta valve is
like,
see what I'm saying?
See what I'm saying?
And inflate it just like so.
Just enough so that the tube
has a little bit of structure.
So that it's easy to work with.
It doesn't want to fold over.
Take said valve,
find you valve hole.
Your valve hole,
it sounds filthy!
And put your tube in
starting there.
Here's where we got to make sure that we don't get
any pinches.
You don't want anything folded
in the tube.
Or you're going to get a flat.
Okay, so you open up
the tire.
And then you gradually work that in
all the way around.
You obviously won't have a Panasonic GH4 blogging camera
on your lap,
so this will be slightly easier.
Finish up by putting it
all the way around.
Make sure that it's tucked in,
everywhere.
If it pinches,
in between the tire
and the rim as you're inflating it.
You're gonna get yourself a flat.
So we're gonna start getting really fancy
and I'm gonna give you potentially
the best tire changing tip of your life.
Just work it in the crease of your hips.
And rock it back and forth
with your thumbs.
And as you're doing that,
pinch the tire
and press it into the bead of the rim.
And what that's going to do is
it's going to get you slack
as you work your way around
so that's it's not so tight
once you got to snap the entire tire on.
Entire tire.
Gives you room to the point
that you should
be able to do it,
just here we go.
Moment of Truth!
Bam!
Just with thumbs.
Nice, dirty ones.
A good idea is to spin the wheel
and look at the tire from both sides
and see if that tube is popping out.
We're good there.
All good there.
We're not going to get into CO2 cartridges today.
We're just going to use the old-fashioned
tiny, tiny hand pump.
When you're pumping it up,
be careful not to knock that presta valve around.
(pumping)
When you do that too much,
you can wiggle it.
You could end up puncturing the seal in between
the valve and the tire.
That's a reason that a lot of people
prefer the CO2 cartridges.
But this is kind of,
more fool-proof.
CO2 cartridges run out of CO2.
Pumps do not run out of pump.
Alright now that's done
and the bike's away,
I'm going to show you something on the road bike
that literally might save your life.
I'm not kidding here.
I had a friend that didn't quite
happen like this
and she got banged up real bad.
She's alive but
she got messed up.
All your bikes that have that old quick release skewer
on the front wheel,
put it on the opposite side
of the drive train.
Drive train.
Quick release skewer.
And then on the back,
when you close it up,
make sure that it's pointing towards the front
of the bike on the back.
And then close it up,
tight enough that there's an indent in your hand.
Why you point it forward is
because if somebody ever comes up and
behind you
and it's pointing backwards,
it's going to catch in their spokes,
shred up their spokes,
and they are going down.
Real hard.
This way it's a lot safer.
There you go.
Life saving tips from Triathlon Terra.
You're welcome.