This is a great article on OW swimming from Jodie Swallow
From the Shallows of the Pool to the Open Water ‹ Witsup.com.
.. but that’s about to change. I’ve been training and pondering, but not writing..
Have some articles in the pipe and our Mont Tremblant training camp coming up soon.
Stay tuned… The dust is being blown off the keyboard 😉
Coeur d’Alene keeping IRONMAN through 2017 – Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather KHQ.com.
Excellent news. This race is on my bucket list… maybe I’d better aim for 2016 to be safe 😉
This came across my email this morning. I love my Kickr. Its great to see Wahoo continuing to get love from the pro peloton.
Team Sky continues to train exclusively with Wahoo’s award winning KICKR Power Trainer
Atlanta, GA – December 16, 2014 – Wahoo Fitness, the leader in workout apps and smartphone connected fitness devices, is pleased to announce continuation as official supplier of cycling trainers to Team Sky, winners of the 2012 and 2013 Tour de France. Through this exclusive collaboration, Team Sky will be provided with KICKRs for use during the racing season, for pre-race warm up and post-race cool down, and each rider will be provided with an individual KICKR for “at home” training sessions. The KICKR provides the cutting edge technology and performance metrics that Team Sky relies on to monitor the condition of their athletes.
“We’re very pleased to have Wahoo on board for 2015,” said Carsten Jeppesen, Head of Technical Operations for Team Sky. “We feel the KICKR provides the best and most realistic feeling ride of any trainer on the market, and the customized power based workouts offer the perfect training sessions for our riders. The KICKR is a excellent piece of kit for us to use throughout the season, and before and after each race.”
“We are excited to continue our partnership with Team Sky,” said Chip Hawkins, CEO of Wahoo Fitness. “This collaboration further validates not only the KICKR but the entire Wahoo Fitness product line. Having athletes of this caliber on our products enables us access to valuable feedback as we continue to add additional features to our existing products and expand our entire product offering.”
Using Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ technology, the KICKR Power Trainer connects to a wide range of smartphones, tablets, and PCs, allowing full resistance control during your training session. While pedaling, users can increase or decrease resistance, structure interval workouts or even simulate real world bike courses all from their connected device. The KICKR’s built-in power meter delivers personalized power-based training. The wheel-off design and super flywheel have been engineered to produce an ultra-realistic road feel, equivalent to the inertia of an actual rider on the road. The KICKR retails for $1099.99 and is available in 10-speed and 11-speed (online only) configurations.
Coeur d’Alene considers canceling Ironman competition – Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather KHQ.com.
It’d be a real shame if this race ceased to exist. It’s definitely high on my bucket list (was actually considering it for 2015 but it didn’t fit my schedule).
A friend forwarded this article to me yesterday:
Pulmonary Edema and Triathlons | Triathlons Fitness Plans and Advice | OutsideOnline.com.
While it’s interesting, I don’t buy it.
Based on the logic that special forces cadets swimming 2.4km showed some fluid in their lungs the author is hypothesising that triathlon swim deaths are being caused by pulmonary edema.
How then, does the author explain the competitive swimmers who log 8-10km daily 6-7 times per week. Why aren’t they collapsing on the deck?
He cites tight wetsuits, chilly water, and several other potential causes; pretty much everything including “swimmers put their faces in the water”…
This has little to do with triathlon, other than that’s where we’re seeing these fatalities.
What I think is going on is this: many triathletes are poor swimmers, fear the swim, and don’t practice enough in the pool or in open-water race-like conditions. They get out into the race environment, hopped up on caffeine, adrenalin, and sugar, wearing a wetsuit they aren’t familiar with, and haven’t practiced with. The gun goes off and they sprint off the line like a bat out of hell. Maybe they get kicked or punched or dragged on in the fray. Maybe they suffer some panic. Maybe they just forget to breathe because they’re hammering so hard (I’ve done this). Now they’re in trouble, already freaked out, pulse high, CO2 high, panic sets in and it’s a tailspin from there.
I think this is, somewhat, avoidable: don’t let people enter a full-distance event until they’ve qualified by completing at least one 1/2 distance event. WTC has also been experimenting with different approaches to the swim including waves and self-seeding. All of their approaches are designed to have fewer swimmers congregated at any point in the swim so that safety personnel have a better chance of detecting and getting to a swimmer needing aide.
I don’t think this is a medical issue, it’s a training issue.
I didn’t really have a lot of opportunity to pre-ride the RudyProject Wing57 before my fall A-race, the Barrelman 70.3 distance on Sept 21st. I’m usually all about “nothing new on race day” but I knew the helmet fit, so I went for it, and I was not disappointed.
The weather on the day was supposed to be cold, windy and rainy. The race was a point to point and so we had limited ability to stage options in T1/T2. I’d toyed with blocking the air vent in the front of the helmet to deal with the cold, but I’m glad that I didn’t. Coming out of the swim it was like running into a steambath. The sun had broken through and the day was to be sunny, hot and windy instead of the forecast cold and rain.
A few things didn’t go great on the bike, but, for certain, the Wing57 worked beautifully! The ventilation built into the helmet kept my noggin comfortable, even when a hornet flew into and immediately out of the helmet. I rode with the magnetic-attached extra fin at the back of the helmet and found that when I was on the aerobars and my head was in a comfortable position, the fin just lightly touched my back for total aero advantage.
We always see a lot of Rudy Project at Kona. This year I expect we’re going to see many of these atop the heads of the best and fastest in our sport. I know I’m planning to watch the day’s broadcast and I’ll certainly be playing “spot the wing57”!
Well done RudyProject – super comfortable, light, cool and aero brain-bucket! Love it!
No real surprise here
More Sedentary Time Linked to Greater Risk of Depression | Runner’s World & Running Times.
I’ve had the Braketron Trurunner in my review queue for quite some time. I wasn’t avoiding reviewing it, but generally I review equipment by using it in my training (and/or racing) and, to be honest, my typical runs are long enough that I almost always need to carry water either in a FuelBelt or in a hydration pack. With the temperatures cooling off, and with my training entering the taper before the inaugural Barrelman Triathlon this weekend, I finally had a chance to log a few km with the Truerunner.
The Truerunner is, what I’d call, a stretch/stealth fanny pack. The storage compartment is water resistant, pleated and stretchy to accommodate all the little bits you need to carry when heading out for a short run (keys, phone, id, some money, etc).
It’s surprisingly accommodating and can hold a lot more than I expected it to hold. The waist-strap is very adjustable and VERY elastic. It fits comfortably, but because of the stretch you’ll have to be careful about overloading the storage compartment. When I overloaded the storage compartment I found I had to cinch the waist-band up uncomfortably tight to stop the pouch bouncing around as I ran. I did this intentionally as a test and I don’t think that with a reasonable load this would be a “real world” issue. With my cellphone, keys and a $20 the bounce wasn’t noticeable with the strap comfortably fitted.
There are a few of these types of stretchy micro-fanny-packs on the market today. The ones I’ve seen seem to skimp on materials: no water-resistance in the pouch, narrow and not stretchy waist-bands, etc. The Truerunner definitely has these lesser products beaten.
If you’re looking for something to carry your bits’n’bobs for a short run, checkout the Trurunner.
Powermeters have been the tools of the sponsored and well-heeled. A few years ago, Stages shook the market with a $800 powermeter and now 4iiii Innovations has gone even further!
Checkout this press release:
4iiii INNOVATIONS ENTERS THE POWER METER RACE WITH A BREAKAWAY DESIGN
INTRODUCING PRECISION FOR UNDER $400!
LAS VEGAS (September 9, 2014) — The world of power meters is about to be rocked with the launch of 4iiii Innovations’ Precision here at Interbike 2014. The company’s crank mounted power meter was designed with every rider in mind, expanding the opportunity for all cyclists to use power to train more effectively.
“Due to a cost prohibitive price point, power meters have been a performance tool that up until now was restricted to a small segment of the cycling population,” said Kip Fyfe, CEO 4iiii Innovations. “We have designed a power meter that delivers uncompromised accuracy at an affordable price.”
With a MSRP starting at $399.99, Precision opens up the door for all cyclists looking to improve their performance. The meter is easily installed on most existing cranks and gives athletes the opportunity to choose a left only module, or a left/right option dependent on their specific needs.
The features of Precision abound with it boasting bilingual communications — both via ANT+ and BLE, a coin cell battery life of 200 hours and the benefit of active learning temperature compensation.
One of the key designers and engineers behind Precision is Keith Wakeham. Prior to joining 4iiii Innovations his educational and professional career has been devoted to using strain gauge sensors for testing under stringent requirements in the nuclear industry. His passion for cycling inspired him to develop this patent pending technology. His dual sensor design uses both primary and secondary sensors to reduce error to well below 1% for torque measures making Precision more accurate than most power meters currently available.
“I just always felt there was a smarter way to design a power meter,” said Wakeham, Mechatronics Engineer for 4iiii Innovations. “My goal was to bring this technology down to a price where it would be accessible to all avid cyclists and I feel we have definitely achieved that.”
4iiii Innovations is taking reservations now for the first run of Precision, expected to ship in Q4 2014.
DCRainMaker has already managed to take one for a test ride. His initial thoughts are on his blog here. I’m expecting my test unit to arrive soon. This will definitely shake up the powermeter market! Well done 4iiii!
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