jhoj wrote:
Ummm....
Aren't pretty much all of these photos taken right as the athletes are coming out of transition? One of the pictures even has a guy in the background still running alongside his bike, and it looks like several of these athletes are still trying to get clipped in---pretty sure even the pros look down too when they're first getting going. Not that I disagree with your point that some athletes could do a better job of keeping a level head, but I don't think your photos really prove your point.
This really annoys me about the photos that IM (or the partner company) take of athletes on the bike course. 90% of them are in the first/last few hundred metres, and they just don't make athletes look good.
When I did an IM the other week, I know that I had a disciplined position. I have a mirror next to my stationary trainer and I'm very wary of where my head is etc, and I aim to replicate that feeling of body position when I ride my TT bike on the road.
I looked at the photos afterwards and there wasn't even one of me in my aerobars, let alone looking good in them. They were all of me on the bull horns, winding through the streets in what was essentially bike traffic.
Needless to say, I didn't buy any of them.