Curious, I do finish in the money at races. But what percentage of pro do you think actually finish in the money? Then what percentage of pros make money after travel? I think the majority of the pros end in the red.
For me, as I said before.
- If I did compete and maybe win, I wanted to see what it would be like to compare and contrast pro field races versus non pro field races and the post race experience. I have finished Louisville 3, 3, and 2 so I feel I have good feeling about finishing on the podium as a pro. As a prior automation engineer, I always found it funny when customers just wanted to solve their problems without every experiencing problems. In order to truly solve problems you need to understand problems inside and out. At some point after my career, or maybe even during, I would like to continue to crusade for problems with pros or the sport and general and there is no better way to understand the problems. One at the forefront that comes up on here is the question of do we really need pros.
- I have had 30+ wins in my career and my dad and mom have never seen me once and this gave them an opportunity to do so.
- I live a block away from the race. So travel, logistics are a no issue.
- This race is very nostalgic to me. This was my first race way back in the day, and I have done it every year except for 2011 when I went for pro card at Rev3 Cedar Point which was the first day.
- There is always something to learn - experience is important in this sport.
- Every swim start is so important, every Ironman swim is so important as well in general and I am always working on my swim. Any time I have a chance to do an hour swim in field I try to take it.
- For the love of the game - unlike my peers, I started as age-grouper and worked my way up. Sometimes it is nice to go back and experience racing in a mass field with a mass swim start.
- I switched to a single speed setup and I like to test out race equipment in races where the risk reward is low.
- I have been tweaking my race nutrition incorporating some Base products into the line-up and again I like to test when risk reward is low
- I have had a knee injury since around Aug 2nd. I was not able to complete IMMT and only did 38 mins painfree on the bike. Outside of the knee injury I had been in the best shape of my life. Prior to the race the knee injury had been creeping up about 90-105 minutes into training rides so IMMT was quite a shock that I only lasted 38 mins. I took a few weeks off post IMMT. Yes I had only been biking for about 12 days. My first semi real ride (low Z2) was last Tuesday. I raced an Olympic - it was a non pro race - I race a lot of non-pro races - that was Saturday. I had no expectations on this race, I didn't think my knee would hold up for the whole ride but I wanted to at least start and I was planing to stop as soon as I had pain which never occurred.
The reason for doing the race are endless. I could write another ten reasons but it has gotten late, and it took a few emails and meetings just to get my name to show in the results and I want to make sure I answer a few more responses on here.
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For me, as I said before.
- If I did compete and maybe win, I wanted to see what it would be like to compare and contrast pro field races versus non pro field races and the post race experience. I have finished Louisville 3, 3, and 2 so I feel I have good feeling about finishing on the podium as a pro. As a prior automation engineer, I always found it funny when customers just wanted to solve their problems without every experiencing problems. In order to truly solve problems you need to understand problems inside and out. At some point after my career, or maybe even during, I would like to continue to crusade for problems with pros or the sport and general and there is no better way to understand the problems. One at the forefront that comes up on here is the question of do we really need pros.
- I have had 30+ wins in my career and my dad and mom have never seen me once and this gave them an opportunity to do so.
- I live a block away from the race. So travel, logistics are a no issue.
- This race is very nostalgic to me. This was my first race way back in the day, and I have done it every year except for 2011 when I went for pro card at Rev3 Cedar Point which was the first day.
- There is always something to learn - experience is important in this sport.
- Every swim start is so important, every Ironman swim is so important as well in general and I am always working on my swim. Any time I have a chance to do an hour swim in field I try to take it.
- For the love of the game - unlike my peers, I started as age-grouper and worked my way up. Sometimes it is nice to go back and experience racing in a mass field with a mass swim start.
- I switched to a single speed setup and I like to test out race equipment in races where the risk reward is low.
- I have been tweaking my race nutrition incorporating some Base products into the line-up and again I like to test when risk reward is low
- I have had a knee injury since around Aug 2nd. I was not able to complete IMMT and only did 38 mins painfree on the bike. Outside of the knee injury I had been in the best shape of my life. Prior to the race the knee injury had been creeping up about 90-105 minutes into training rides so IMMT was quite a shock that I only lasted 38 mins. I took a few weeks off post IMMT. Yes I had only been biking for about 12 days. My first semi real ride (low Z2) was last Tuesday. I raced an Olympic - it was a non pro race - I race a lot of non-pro races - that was Saturday. I had no expectations on this race, I didn't think my knee would hold up for the whole ride but I wanted to at least start and I was planing to stop as soon as I had pain which never occurred.
The reason for doing the race are endless. I could write another ten reasons but it has gotten late, and it took a few emails and meetings just to get my name to show in the results and I want to make sure I answer a few more responses on here.
Save: $50 on Speed Hound Recovery Boots | $20 on Air Relax| $100 on Normatec| 15% on Most Absorbable Magnesium
Blogs: Best CHEAP Zwift / Bike Trainer Desk | Theragun G3 vs $140 Bivi Percussive Massager | Normatec Pulse 2.0 vs Normatec Pulse | Speed Hound vs Normatec | Air Relax vs Normatec | Q1 2018 Blood Test Results | | Why HED JET+ Is The BEST value wheelset
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Thomas Gerlach: Sep 13, 15 21:46