I'd like a half decent tri club/ riding club in my area. There might be one, but I sure as heck cant find it.

I'd like to find a group of athletes who do pickup rides regularly in the summer, at various times of day. Someone to ride with who points out obstacles, so I don't break my elbow hitting a 2x4 in the dark like last time.

I'd like olympic distance races that start at midday, not at 6am, so don't necessitate a 3am alarm clock to allow travel time etc

Id like to be able to run without getting injured all the damned time (yes, I tried Barry P). So much so that I really only ride nowadays.

I'd like some good recipes for tasty food that is various degrees of healthy.

I'd like a resource that is targeted at the non-athletic professional who enjoys triathlon but isn't trying to beat The Colonel (even though he is clearly beatable), who wants to enjoy food while competing etc.

I'd like the moon on a stick.

same phone as you. It works fine

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

A lot
More

NO PINK - Green stuff, please

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I saw this on a white board in a window box at my daughters middle school...
List of what life owes you:
1. __________
2. __________
3. __________

I guess what I’m getting at is a way to filter all posts, not just draw peoples attention to the really good ones. I like the hot topics, and have used it on occasion, but really I want the ability to apply a filter and then all of a sudden the triathlon forum becomes a swim and run forum, or an xterra forum, or a gravel forum, depending on the options you apply. If a new thread has to be tagged with one or several categories (from some kind of a master list controlled be you) then that would enable that filtering, but still doesn’t create sub-forums, which I don’t like the idea of having.

Make sense?

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

The forum is a great public service but the format could improve greatly, and that would improve the relationships between the people on this site.

Take a look at Ravelry, a free website/community for people who knit/crochet/weave. Fabric arts are inherently visual, as is much of triathlon, and they make it so much easier to post images, thread conversations, and connect with others.

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Sharon McN
@IronCharo
#TeamZoot
Clif Bar Pace Team 2003-2018

1) How about a sub-forum/page purely for races.
Possible features:

• Pre-race QnA's about venue, travel, conditions etc
• Smack Talk
• "Joining" the race such that there is a list of slowtwitchers displayed that are at a given race.
• Impromptu slowtwitch gatherings a possibility at every race.
• a section for race-results/reports

2) Some sort of "Workout of the week"-series maybe?
For those of us planning our own workouts, some new ideas might be nice. Maybe one for each sport?
Maybe get a "guest editor" each week. Could be a reputable coach looking to get some exposure. Combine it with a short interview on training-philosophy maybe?

3) Displaying start-times for the "Slozwift" events in the user's time-zone. (and have some at appropriate European post-work ride-times)

but anyway: Thanks for all the stuff that is ALREADY HERE!

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if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!

Whow,
Since when do we have THAT?!
Never noticed it!

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if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!

Since the redesign if I recall correctly...

...however, it does not work on my iPhone XR running the latest version of iOS. (I love to hate "upgrades" that take away features.)

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I'm not saying I understand it either - or that a change is in any way necessary. I wrote several times about 650c being a perfectly good wheel size. Some people get it. You get it. But I'd always get some comments - both from industry types and consumers (some of them short enough to be perfect for 650c) saying that they want 700c. Sometimes it's a husband and wife wanting to share race wheels - so they want a single size of wheel. I don't want to get all tin-foil-hat conspiracy here, but I also think there's an element of 650c wheels not being cool because they're for tri geeks and chicks - both of whom are deemed lame by some members of the elitist cycling establishment. I obviously don't agree, but I've witnessed the logic and heard comments saying as much behind closed doors.

So - to clarify - I personally don't think 650b is any better a solution than 650c. Changing to 650b will cost manufacturers in tooling, old inventory, and updating all of the collaterals to the new spec. It doesn't do retailers any favors. It adds another confusing storyline for consumers to understand. There are lots of reasons to NOT change to 650b.

I just think that 650b is the only hope for a smaller wheel size to survive in an industry intent on having something new to sell all the time. It's somehow "cool" to own 650b. I think that it'd be best if triathletes could get together and push for 650b - because I don't think that 650c is ever going back to its level from even 5 years ago (i.e. most major brands selling 650c wheels on their smallest ~2 bike sizes). I think that if the push is for 650c to come back - we'll just get stuck with 700c ONLY. Canyon already took a step with 650b women's road bikes, nudging things in what I think is the best and/or most feasible direction. I hadn't seen anyone saying this publicly, so that's why I wrote the article.

You're very logical by nature, and I know you probably disagree with all this - I just wanted to further explain why I did what I did. We have to deal with a lot of illogical ideas and trends in the business and find a decent way forward.