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Racing IM with an aero-bottle and BSN?

matthewbwardmatthewbward
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My initial plan for IM MT nutrition is to do what I do in the HIM, twice.  Meaning, ~500 cals of EFS in an aero-bottle and water in a Torhans.  At the BSN, I want to refill my aero-bottle with another EFS dose.

My question is about the BSN station.  Is it reasonable to stop, unclip, and fill my aero-bottle from a cheap bottle in my bag?  I just don't want to lose an expensive aero bottle but still want to get its benefits.  What do you guys think?  The time to make the switch is probably less than 1 minute so I'm not that concerned about the time.  It's more about if it's ok to actually stop like that.

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  • John WithrowJohn Withrow
    Last yr at IMLou, I stopped and unclipped at BSN to get my 2nd Infinit bottle, and my Honey stinger waffle for my half-way reward... A volunteer held my bike while I got the stuff out of my bag. About a half mile before BSN, you yell your number out to a volunteer on the road and they radio your number up ahead to BSN and the have your bag ready for you (most of the time) when you pull up. All in, it was less than 1 minute of stopped time and was a well needed quick stretch for my back/neck.
  • Bob IrwinBob Irwin
    I use a standard bottle horizonatally mounted on my aerobars for water, and concentrated infinite on the downtube in a standard bottle. This set-up has worked great for me in the last four or five races. I thought about an aerobottle on the downtube for the infinit, but decided that I'd be in trouble if my BSN bags was lost - I wouldn't be able to use nutrition off the course if I didn't get my inifinit at BSN. Just a thought.
  • Coach RichCoach Rich

    Regarding bottle setup for Ironman: if your plan is to rack the water bottles handed out at the aid stations, you may want to rethink that. Last year WTC was handing out the supercheap Costco bottles of water, with thin, thin plastic. Take one sip or squeeze it and it would deform and was almost impossible to get it stay on a bottle cage, downtube, aerobar mounted or otherwise.

    I really had to figure stuff out on the fly at IMWI. If I were to race an IM again, I would go back to having aerobottle on the aerobars that I can dump water in and put the nutrition -- either concentrated Infinit or Powerbar from the course -- on the downtube.

  • matthewbwardmatthewbward
    Thanks Rich. No, I won't be racking them. I'll take the cheap water bottles and fill my Torhans on the go. My question is about refilling my aero bottle with EFS at BSN. If it's not clear what I mean by aero bottle, this is it: http://trisports.com/pdaerobottle.html It's still frame mounted just down near the bottom bracket and shaped like a razor.
  • Coach RichCoach Rich

    At IMCDA'08 I used concentrated Infinit in an Arundel bottle mounted to the downtube. I had my second bottle in the BSN bag and just tossed the first one. ~$12 for the spare bottle, just cost of business by the time the race starts

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