RowToTri wrote:
mvenneta wrote:
I bet If you look back 3ish years on ST, we’d have threads on how bad triathletes are at bike handling
An interesting thing I think I'm taking away from this is that on the whole, the actual bike handling and descending skills of the riders in this race (which admittedly represent the top 1.5-3% of triathletes) were actually very good. I think where a minority falls flat (and it doesn't take many to wreak a lot of havoc) is in their decision making - particularly decisions as they relate to descending in groups.
The bold is really what my beef with this course was. The bike course itself was beautiful, and challenging. I thought the course itself was great. I would have preferred an aero road bike for it, since I was not on my aerobars for basically the entire time we were climbing or descending, but that's just for personal comfort rather than a handling issue. The course was *just* technical enough that you needed to keep your head about you coming down, but it wasn't crazy or anything. My biggest fear was someone making a dumb decision behind me and taking me out. I saw too much stupidity going on while descending. I was uncomfortable not with my own skills, which I think are pretty decent, but with everyone around me making bad moves.