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again I am not a triathlete....I am a runner/time trial bike rider...I have done the duathalon thing and I have nothing but respect for the triathlete/iron man most of all....they are super human
I guess I’m the opposite I can’t hardly go fast on a standard road bike. It’s so un aerodynamic ..... so much air drag.... it took me 10 minutes to master the aero bars.... I ride 95 percent of the time on them..... sooo much more comfortable
. Train on a standard road bike is that because of the lack of aerodynamics of that riding position....16 mph nobody rides 16 mph in aero bars....good advice though
why go procycling thats a down grade of their skills....grand tours a boat load of guys 6 inches apart everyone of them hiding from the wind behind the guy in front of them.....the first 10 miles and the last 10 miles are actually racing the rest is just mindless pedaling .....time trials are an...
Triathletes probably don’t fare as well because the
I thought it was a scrawny bike rider that got tired of getting picked on for having 10 inch arms.... I could be wrong
Three sport athletes always trump a single sport ..... I would pay good money to see the tour defrance winner do an Ironman in the required time .... Ironman athletes are freakishly fit ... making a bike rider seem obese by comparison
they arent single sport athletes....and a bicycle rider put into an iron man would drown before getting to the bike event and if they made it to the run ...they would never finish.....they arent allowed to draft at all so tour defrance racers wouldnt fare so well without being able to hide from...
triathletes make bike riders seem like retards...especially iron man triathletes....lets see ur week ass with the scrawny ass upper body try to swim 2.5 miles ride 112 miles then just for fun run an entire marathon 26.2 miles.....i am not a triathlete.but i know they are 10 times the athlete a...