My first Ironman was CdA in 2005. I purchased my event bike jersey the morning after the race, and have worn in on the regular for training rides. It's not quite a piece of armor, but you sure feel like you can ride a little harder and longer when you know that you would be embarrassing yourself wearing earned race kit.
Race kit is always fun to have. What's the rule on replacing it? The zipper on this particular jersey gave up on me during a training ride the other day. Is it "cool" to buy a new CdA jersey, despite not racing the event last year? Or do I treat this as "a nice memory" whose time has come, and it's time to retire the jersey and there is no replacing it?
This is a semi-serious question (though I appreciate it is likely to incite snark and humor alike), and I want to avoid offending the racing-gods. I have too many races this year...don't want to anger the karma kittens. Did I just step on the "your not allowed to get an m dot logo unless you race Kona" land mine?
What say you Slowtwitch hoi polloi?
Race kit is always fun to have. What's the rule on replacing it? The zipper on this particular jersey gave up on me during a training ride the other day. Is it "cool" to buy a new CdA jersey, despite not racing the event last year? Or do I treat this as "a nice memory" whose time has come, and it's time to retire the jersey and there is no replacing it?
This is a semi-serious question (though I appreciate it is likely to incite snark and humor alike), and I want to avoid offending the racing-gods. I have too many races this year...don't want to anger the karma kittens. Did I just step on the "your not allowed to get an m dot logo unless you race Kona" land mine?
What say you Slowtwitch hoi polloi?