In March, I did a sprint Tri that I have done for the last 4 years in a row.
I got tired of riding an old crapped out downtube shifting non-fitting roadie, was starting to enjoy doing some road miles, so I went and purchased a Felt F80.
Our triathlon got turned into a Duathlon due to polution, I was pretty bummed and started looking at other tris to try for.
Anyway, I got the crazy idea of going after a Half IM in November. I have found in my life that if I set myself a difficult target, I am far more likely to acheive that otherwise, so I figure why the hell not.
I have the time to train for it, but am well overweight and can't run for shit, so I am really aiming at getting around the course before they kick me off it, I have no illusions of AG greatness.
Anyway, my big question is, do I have enough bike to do the race? Do people out ther do Half IM on straight roadies without aeros? If I decide to put clipons on, am I going to be able to do anything half decent on the F80?
I really don't have the coin to get another bike, the F80 was stretching the budget as it was, so it is either do it on the F80, maybe with clipons, or don't do it at all.
Thoughts people?
SB
I got tired of riding an old crapped out downtube shifting non-fitting roadie, was starting to enjoy doing some road miles, so I went and purchased a Felt F80.
Our triathlon got turned into a Duathlon due to polution, I was pretty bummed and started looking at other tris to try for.
Anyway, I got the crazy idea of going after a Half IM in November. I have found in my life that if I set myself a difficult target, I am far more likely to acheive that otherwise, so I figure why the hell not.
I have the time to train for it, but am well overweight and can't run for shit, so I am really aiming at getting around the course before they kick me off it, I have no illusions of AG greatness.
Anyway, my big question is, do I have enough bike to do the race? Do people out ther do Half IM on straight roadies without aeros? If I decide to put clipons on, am I going to be able to do anything half decent on the F80?
I really don't have the coin to get another bike, the F80 was stretching the budget as it was, so it is either do it on the F80, maybe with clipons, or don't do it at all.
Thoughts people?
SB