Henk, my friend...just because my times might be incrementally faster, doesn't mean I beat you in other categories...such as having the most fun, being an inspiration to your daughter, giving back to the sport (you are a referree now, right?), etc. At the end of the day, I'm sure you lead me in as many categories as I lead you...speed is just one part of this thing we call triathlon.

Gary, this is what I was taught, too. It just doesn't seem to be working in actual races.

Zinc, I've often said that if Lance does it one way, I should do the polar opposite, because I'm certainly NOT a Lance! I knew I rode faster straight TT's at low rpms (this was proven to me last year when someone told me to push higher gears and quit spinning on the club TT's), but I was always "taught" that lower rpms on the bike would hurt my run. I think there are probably a lot of us that run lower rpms (arbitrarily defined as below 85 rpms) and don't go slower on the run as a result.

I say that because the only people I see that pass me on the bike and that also run faster than me are turning slower rpms.

The only way to know for certain is to do self-testing, over and over. You'd have to do it many times over a period of time in order to weed out the day-to-day variables.

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