chris948 wrote:
chaparral wrote:
I addition to the helmet, her bike set up could use some work. Why for the love of god did she have a bike pump electrical taped to the her seatpost?
Her coach is the same that Chrissie had, Co2 and neutral support nearly kept her from being unbeaten at Kona. Learn to use it, sure but she's said in multiple interviews that he likes to keep things simple.
Luckily we have the internet where everyone is a monday morning quarterback and apparently should be a professional coach for multiple champions. He has tens of thousands of dollars on the line for that race alone and is so stupid that he's using a helmet that my local tri shop wouldn't sell to a noob.. for no reason. sure....
Is CO2 really that much harder to use than a pump? Could she not spend an hour or two sometime practicing with CO2? C02 is simpler in many ways than a pump. This is not exactly rocket science. Sure Chrissy had problems, but then the lesson is to practice using CO2, not every one carry a hand pump.
Notice how both the mens and the womans woman this year and the previous year, and many of the years before, wore aero helmets. I guess they were dumb for doing it? The thing is that Brett Sutton has only one reason, he thinks that an aero helmet would be too hot. He just thinks that. That is the only reason. He does not testing and has nothing to back it up. If he had his athletes do tests with aero helmets and compare it to a road helmet, I would at least give him a bit of credit. But there is no testing like this with him. He could have his athletes in the lead up do an ironman effort in Kona conditions with an internal thermometer and see if their internal pressure actually increases. I am surprised that he just does not have all his athletes change their legal names to Chrissy, because that name worked before.
How much money did he lose by not having the winner of the race?