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Sorry if this is already covered, but how do you know if you are carb resistent? Similarly someone said earlier they are carb-sensitive - how do you know that and is that opposite of carb resistent then? Is there a test or is it anecdotal?

My first tri under the belt and I really enjoyed it. The swim was chaotic - really hard to get into a rhythm but I gave as many kicks as I took so chalk it up to a learning experience. Was just a bit annoying when guys stopped right in front of you halting your momentum and then suddenly take off feet flaying around but I guess that is a function of it being shallow enough to walk. . My only negative comment is a fairly big one and that is the fact that the transition area was kept closed until after ALL the kids races. This meant we had to sit around in the sun for more than 2 hours - then when it eventually opened obviously everyone left the venue at the same time so there was huge gridlock trying to get out of the parking. Clearly this was done to keep cars off the kids course which is fair enough but they really should find another way to do this - maybe send the kids out in the other direction around the estate. I could have been home just after 11 - instead I got home after 2 and missed a family lunch. I won't do this event again next year unless they change this arrangement. I got 26k for the cycle and about 4.6km for the run - so yes I think the run was a little short of 5km

just in time too! apparently less than 200 places left...

well the suit i was going to borrow does not fit, so i have decided to suck it up and swim without one regardless on Sunday. hope the water is not too chilly...

thanks do you know if wetsuits were allowed last year?

AND some of us are also doing the BSG Triathlon which is at Harties just next to Pecanwood! Busy day in the area ...

Excellent - am looking forward to it! Alhughes do you know yet if it will be wetsuit legal? Also any chance of a profile for the cycle?

AS stands for A group Short race. So you are with the short race racing snakes

By the way this is what Frankie Andreu said back in 2006... “I mean, to be able to just keep up I had to take EPO. There’s no way I would have survived to be able to race in ‘99. After that, I got tired of needles and injections, so in 2000 I was like ‘I’m not doing this anymore’ and stopped,” Andreu said. “You had to (dope) because everybody else was, and to just say ‘No, I’m not taking it’ and just quit the sport, that would have been throwing away years and years of your love, your passion, your work.” This is the common theme - all the guys reached the same conclusion at the same time - from around 96 if you weren't doing EPO you couldn't compete. It was not Lance's brainchild. So Frankie "got tired of the needles" and stopped - others still had the same motivation that caused them to start, and yea things got prgressively less pretty - but its all still cheating at the end of the day.

So did she come forward with info she had on Frankie and other riders then? Or only on Lance and only after the fallout?

Agree with you entirely. lance hardly comes out of this smelling of roses but nore do the rest of the them. Frankie (victim number 1 for those that can't think for themselves) for eg was one of the really early adoptors and was the first guy to "sell" the benefits of EPO to Hincappi and to facilitate him getting hold of some. it was a particularly ugly era - but for many its easiest to lay it all on 1 guy. whatever makes you fellas feel good about yourselves / you favourites.

Yup I was well chuffed with my perma-tubes!

I assume that includes the tyres - which are solids made from recycle rubber and at lifespan of 9 yrs will probably outlast the bike... Imagine the ride won't be the plushest.

you're one of those problem for every solution type chaps aren't you? Or every silver lining has a cloud... No idea how good this product is but I like the way this dude thinks. His thinking includes incorporating corporate advertising in the frame to further subsidise the cost...

He says $9 to build... would retail for about $20. And its belt drive nogal!

I quite liked Danny Pate's response to Phils eminent professor sms comment... @TheDPate: Got an SMS from a secondary person about a guy who I'm not even sure of his name... BUT he said unicorns poop cupcakes, must be true Must say I tend to agree its proabably time Phil retires but I do also agree with Eugene on him being a big SA supporter - so he gets a from me for that.

ok my nob detector must be faulty. cool beans

why the deletions - info was useful and on topic....

thanks makes sense - I actually mis-read Dave's point on this - thought he said you will likely get a penalty if stting up and the field bunches up (missed the "un")

You really believe that? Sure he was invited to spill the beans - doesn't mean he was offered a free pass. From what I understand the softer deal may have been not going beyond the statute of limitations on expunging his results - thats about it. For the record, again, I am not suggesting Armstrong was right or justified in not coming forward...

Dave thanks for a very informative post... Just on the above... Interesting the comment around TT bikes using different muscle sets... I have been concentrating on my pedling technicque lately and trying to use my quads a little less and more of my hami's. Is this a good or bad idea for the run (doing this because I have noticed in the few bric sessions I've done the quads are the muscles that are very unhappy to run when I first get off the bike....) And, can you explain on the sitting up on climb things - I'm not following - I tend to sit fairly upright when climbing... Why would this be an issue?

Seriously? The deal offered to the others was effectively "nail Lance and all sins are forgiven". You really believe Lance was made any offer like this - how would that work? Fact is he was offered no such deal. Sour grapes? Explain how stating that an effective 2 race ban for dopers is sour grapes? What is he sour about other than having to compete against confessed cheaters who are given no punishment... So Roche is an apologist? For who? The mail you are complementing was in reply to my post which said nothing on Armstrong. Sorry but I just don't get how for some all can be forgiven / excused and believed as long as it supports the downfall of the evil one. And a guy who is speaking pure common sense and who should be aplauded by those claiming to be all for clean cycling somehow is dismissed. Why is this I wonder? All aboard the bandwagon...

Can hardly bare to watch Vettel take a third consecutive title but hard to see how he won't now... I thought Hamilton racing wheel to wheel with Kimi with a broken anti-roll bar was pretty impressive stuff - great value for his 1 point. Other than that Massa was actually decent for the second race running giving Ferrari the excuse they need not to put a better driver in his seat. This will make Fonsie very happy inspite of his other troubles...

And the doper's spokesman Millar has suddenly become a big Pat fan....

He didn't test positive but he had a choice of cutting a sweet deal for himself and joining the so-called good guys or being cast as a pariah with Lance and facing harsher sanctions based on team evidence and the like. George is by far the best of a bad bunch here but can hardly claim to have stepped forward after having had a rush of honesty come over him.