thumped self portrait festival of strangeness - aka The Selfies Thread (5 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

fair play! how are you getting on witht he bike these days?

 

[Deadmanposting]

fair play! how are you getting on witht he bike these days?

The bike is great
I need the work

And I rode blind with no computer yesterday - which messed me up a little. Like I could have used a push at times.
Happy enough with 3:15 on 90k in very hot conditions and over 1,000m of elevation gain
But I have a 3:00 in me, for sure. Just gotta get it out.
You're also trying to save something for the run, so it's messy.

The bike does everything I ask of it. A wonderful machine.

Kinda odd on these races, dudes with SUPER equipment. Tri-bike and arrow helmets and all this and they are just not strong cyclists or they haven't done the work.
I think people focus on the wrong things sometimes.

 

[magicbastarder]

plenty of cyclists who think they can buy their way into greater speed. though there are some gains to be made.
my boss was humming and hawing over spending a shit ton on a new bike a couple of years ago; his aim was to finish the ironman in under a certain time.
i pointed out to him that if he finished it a minute slower than his goal, that minute might be the difference between the old bike and a new one; was that minute worth all the time and effort he'd put into training?
he bought the bike. €7k.

 

[Deadmanposting]

plenty of cyclists who think they can buy their way into greater speed. though there are some gains to be made.
my boss was humming and hawing over spending a shit ton on a new bike a couple of years ago; his aim was to finish the ironman in under a certain time.
i pointed out to him that if he finished it a minute slower than his goal, that minute might be the difference between the old bike and a new one; was that minute worth all the time and effort he'd put into training?
he bought the bike. €7k.

Do you know what the time was?

Did he race in a Full or Half?