JasoninHalifax wrote:
burnthesheep wrote:
Anyone ever done the shoes on pedals style and wound up running through some crap that got on the bottom of your feet before you mounted?
THAT would suck soooooo bad. Execute it perfectly and wind up with a stone or twig or some trash eating your foot up the entire bike leg. Or having to stop to fix it!
That seems like a legit risk also.
I mean, I walk barefoot from the house to the car to get stuff out and it's concrete the whole way and I almost always pickup something on my feet in that 20 ish feet. Much less 50 yards or so of transition running.
Not that I recall
Bryan Rodhes stubbed his toe and broke it at T1 IMC in 2003, came off the bike in the lead and didn’t realize it was broken until his first steps....out of the race.
On a side note having done several thousand hours of train switching you never thread the needle and dismount with your leading leg, always plant leg is trailing (this is actually a safety reg)
Bikes are a bit safer and lighter than trains, but dismount speeds are about the same.
I never do flying mounts on LC anymore, largely because you’re not allowed, but also because everyone around you *thinks* they can do a flying mount when in reality it’s about 10% who can pull it off correctly.
If it costs me an extra 10s to put my shoes on in T1 perfectly and not stub my toe or get sand or a small rock in my shoes then no biggie for me.
Fun video!
Maurice