After a long discussion with my bike mechanic, Steve Mancuso, who also happens to be a cat 1, cyclocross guru, I made the decision to remove my aerobars from my road bike for my first oly next Sunday!
I have been a little hesistant, as you might have read in other blogs I've posted (www.mavenpt.com, tri-holics.tumblr.com), but I'm just going to trust that it's the better decision. Certainly, there was an immediate and noticeable difference in the bike weight and feel upon removing the bars. Steve's argument- "Dude, you have a road bike, not a tri bike...and the distance is only 25 miles for the oly. You're not gonna get a whole lot of advantage." This remains to be seen...
"For a half IM or a full IM, however, the aerodynamic bars can be of an advantage as far as energy economy during the race."
I'm excited to participate in CGI Racing's NJ State Oly Tri next weekend because the race is so flat that you can actually get a pretty good time trial "feel", from what I understand (check out cgiracing.com).
Goal time: 2:20 minutes!
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