Road shoes are typically more comfortable and more aero, but harder to get into.
As mentioned, for short races (and events where "making the pack" is critical), tri-specific shoes make sense.
For longer events that are effectively time trials (ex. Oly and up for non-elites), the time savings of a road shoe almost always overcomes the extra transition time (esp. if you aren't doing flying mounts).
Personally, I use tri shoes for sprints and lace-up shoes (with elastic laces and lace covers) for 70.3 (for the superior aerodynamics). Oly is kinda a toss up and course dependent.
Compare them (eyeball wind tunnel) to tri shoes:
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As mentioned, for short races (and events where "making the pack" is critical), tri-specific shoes make sense.
For longer events that are effectively time trials (ex. Oly and up for non-elites), the time savings of a road shoe almost always overcomes the extra transition time (esp. if you aren't doing flying mounts).
Personally, I use tri shoes for sprints and lace-up shoes (with elastic laces and lace covers) for 70.3 (for the superior aerodynamics). Oly is kinda a toss up and course dependent.
Compare them (eyeball wind tunnel) to tri shoes:
ECMGN Therapy Silicon Valley:
Depression, Neurocognitive problems, Dementias (Testing and Evaluation), Trauma and PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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Titanflexr: Dec 22, 20 11:50