Tips and Tricks for race day gear(or sub-par training weather days)
This might be coveredin the wiki somewhere- but I have not been able to find it so far. Reading a Race Report yesterday I came across something new (to me) - using a peice of Tyvek on your chest to stay warm after the swim. Simple- but I would have never thought of it. Do you put it on before the swim, or in transition?
What other tips (saw the socks as arm warmers as well) are out there to minimize the gear you have to carry for cold weather on race day? Just wondering what else I am missing!!
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Great idea, though - any tips and tricks in general are always helpful! Just a random "for instance" - I tucked a spare tube under my saddle the other day and held it in place by wrapping some double sided velcro around the tube and through the saddle rails, and John goes, "that's a good idea." I was a little dumbfounded - I thought everyone knew that trick (especially John, who lives and breaths all things tri... )!
If only a coach had flown to CDA to deliver a pre-race talk and had discussed tricks to stay warm on the bike during an Ironman, to include socks as armwarmers, cheap gardening gloves, and the envelope down singlet tip...
If that was a dig Rich- I was not there!! Hope you guys put on a talk for IMC though.... I will be there for that one!!
Becky,
Sorry!! I got you confused with another Becky...and a few CDA folks who were too cool for skool to show up to the 4k talk where I discussed exactly topics like this and some other issues that became big problems for them on race day.
No, we won't be at IMCA. Too many races and camps on the calendar for us to be everywhere.
That's okay, there are lots of peeps on here. You can chime in here with any tips, I don't mind! What kind of envelope? I need to know this stuff!!
Any chance you have a video or a blog post containing some of your pre race talk (besides the video, which I have:-). Always up for getting advice!
just having done cda....
Take the time to put on layers in T1. My T1 bag options included the throwaway gloves which I kept on almost the whole bike. It was too cold though for just my toeless tube socks arm warmers. I took 20 seconds and put on a long sleeve bike jersey and was comfy for the bike. I do not understand why the majority of the fastish folks just do a tri top and nothing else. They lose lots of energy to keeping warm.
T1 bag for cold days: throwaway gloves. tube socks with the toes cut off for arm warmers. long sleeved shirt (we loose lots of heat from the arm pits). head band to go under helmet. longer smartwool socks if needed. using my less ventilated aero helmet. if you chill easily consider the neoprene shoe tip warmers. throwaway plastic/velcro bike jacket for very bad weather.
+1 on dry socks and chemical hand warmers.
An hourish? Although that's my skiing answer and not my triathlon answer.