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Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride?
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Someone was trying to claim a 60 second aero penalty for a 70.3 event while wearing tight latex gloves?

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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [Billyk24] [ In reply to ]
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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [Thomas Gerlach] [ In reply to ]
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Great idea! I'm not buying the ears penalty thing either.
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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [HuffNPuff] [ In reply to ]
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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [Thomas Gerlach] [ In reply to ]
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Thomas Gerlach wrote:
Seems a bit extreme. Who said it was 60 seconds? Fwiw, latex gloves can really add some warmth and are easily disposable at an aid-station.


I would rather not mention the pro's name but this American pro raced this past weekend where it was cold.
Last edited by: Billyk24: Apr 10, 18 16:59
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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [Billyk24] [ In reply to ]
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If tight, I'd think they would actually be faster. Otherwise aero gloves wouldn't seem to add much and at least some data says they are faster than bare skin
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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [Thomas Gerlach] [ In reply to ]
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Thomas Gerlach wrote:
HuffNPuff wrote:
Great idea! I'm not buying the ears penalty thing either.


Was someone taping back their ears?

Ha. I wrote it on my phone and the moron software programmers who devised autocorrrect (an oxymoron if there ever was one) changed aero to ears.
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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [Billyk24] [ In reply to ]
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Billyk24 wrote:
Thomas Gerlach wrote:
Seems a bit extreme. Who said it was 60 seconds? Fwiw, latex gloves can really add some warmth and are easily disposable at an aid-station.


I would rather not mention the pro's name but this American pro raced this past weekend where it was cold.

It sounds more like they are making excuses for a performance that was sub-optimal. Whenever I hear something like this, I always first remember that all racers are on the same course on the same day dealing with the same exact things. My excuse is that I just suck more than the multitudes who beat me.

Stephen J

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Re: Cold weather, wearing/using latex gloves and having a 60 sec aero penalty for 70.3 ride? [stephenj] [ In reply to ]
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stephenj wrote:
Billyk24 wrote:
Thomas Gerlach wrote:
Seems a bit extreme. Who said it was 60 seconds? Fwiw, latex gloves can really add some warmth and are easily disposable at an aid-station.


I would rather not mention the pro's name but this American pro raced this past weekend where it was cold.


It sounds more like they are making excuses for a performance that was sub-optimal. Whenever I hear something like this, I always first remember that all racers are on the same course on the same day dealing with the same exact things. My excuse is that I just suck more than the multitudes who beat me.

Stephen J

The performance by this pro was not sub-optimal. There was numerous complaints from these pros of struggling in T2 due to cold/frozen fingers, yet a simple and cheap fix was ignored.
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