Samurai wrist shields

They looked like those Omius sleeves that Patrik Nilsson wore at IM Texas a while back. I think they are supposed to be similar to a CPU heat sink.

I might try those once I am done with my Halo Neuroprogramming.

Looked like those fancy foam headbands everyone has been wearing. Pretty sure Haug had one on and Lucy had one on but was Red Bull branded.

Anne haug wore the headband yesterday to a 2,51 marathon

TO wore the headband to 2nd place

Weiss was one of the first

I always wondered why the didnt have heat sink fins on helmets. You could put a flat plate where its too tight for internal airflow,... Connected by conductive metal pins through the shell to outer heatsink

I was working inside the women's T2 change tent and many of the pros had them. They were little grey almost pumice stone bricks (color and texture). You dipped them in cold water and they put them on. I'd never seen them before and was wondering what they heck they were for.

https://www.omius.io/

I’m always skeptical about these sort of things.

I can’t wait to overpay for those things then look like a doofus when I overheat and DNF in my next IM. /pink

It is a special material with little carbon-like blocks that keeps you cool when you wet them.

There is also a headband version that a few used. Global Triathlon Network covered it on one of their tech-Kona- series YouTube videos.

Yea so your head stays cool but your core blows up and you DNF.

Field tested at IM Chatty 2019 LOL

Laura Philipp was also wearing them on the run. There's a great picture at this link...

https://tri-mag.de/...beim-ironman-hawaii/

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Seems like a great concept, but at $150 for the beta version, a bit rich for me.

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O Donnell had one too - it was the rear of his visor wrapped round the back of his neck.

De Soto has been selling cooling products for years that are cooler when wet, although not as effective in the humidity. I wonder if this product’s effectiveness is similarly impacted by humid conditions

That’s my question as well. I used a cooling towel during Ironman Augusta 70.3 this year and it helped some. It was hot, like 97 degrees and around 50% humidity.

If this product works on the same evaporative cooling process, I don’t see it being worth the premium price. A mission cooling headband is around $9.

No evaporation. .. conduction to 3x more surface area cooling surface

Maybe thats the catch... 3x the surface area but no evaporation because the cells are dry?

I don’t want any extra weight added on me during the run. I wonder if their arms don’t hurt carrying the weight that long.

It would be a combo of conduction and evaporative cooling.

The temperature delta between the skin and ambient air is so small that operating as a “dry” heatsink (increasing convective transfer) is pretty useless. It’s value is probably in increasing the evaporative cooling and then having enough thermal conductivity to efficiently do the heat exchange between the outer surfaces and the contact skin.

To be really effective though, they should add holograms [/pink].

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No doubt. And as slow as I run on an IM run I feel like an aid station every mile with ice and cold sponges is enough. I’m certainly skeptical a product like this is doing much. But I finger one for free I might wear one

how do you keep the elements wet - or arent they metal?

definately holograms though! carbon holograms

Not sure. Guessing you have to keep dousing them at aid stations.

Probably made of a porous ceramic or sintered metal. Think lava rock.

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That Halo shit drives me nuts...What a load of snake oil.

Thanks. That was a good chuckle "Our mission is to accelerate the evolution of the human body"

So let me get this staight... I get to pay $150 to strap a bunch of rocks to myself? And that's supposed to make me faster? Uh, OK.

It relies on evaporative cooling, so will be less effective in humid conditions (just like armcoolers).

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