It’s amazing how bad my position was in this first race of the year…it was a last minute kind of thing, and I hadn’t adjusted my bike position since a half-iron distance race last year. This was a sprint distance, and I’m set up like a sail. Pictures don’t lie. I deserve a thorough thrashing for embarrassing the FIST rules, or any other time trial rules for that matter.
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Hard to tell from that photo but you are sitting quite upright. The cool thing is that you aren’t wearing a shirt. That’s OK with the race officials?
Good thing you put that little bend in the straw, very aero.
No shirt and it looks like you saw the camera and flexed those biceps. Isn’t there another thread for exhibitionists? 
I wish I could say the bend in the straw was from extreme speed…but, I don’t like to lie.
Sure, shirtless is fine in all the races I’ve ever been in. It was in the mid-50’s, which makes the downhills sort of nippy, but, it takes too much time to try and put on a shirt over a wet body, and I don’t own one of those one-piece contraptions…can’t seem to find one that fits right. And the two-piece things look like something Brittany Spears would wear…not cute on a middle-aged man.
I just didn’t realize how upright I was sitting for a sprint. Like I said, it was the first of the season, and I wasn’t really prepared on my bike position. I’ll call it the contra-Bjorn position.
Yaqui dude, if you can shave off 10 lbs of that cosmetic upper body bulk that you are hauling around the bike and run course, you’ll take 5 min off each split (just look at Lance pre and post cancer). Now if you don’t care about extra speed, I am sure that your significant other will prefer the additional cosmetic bulk 
Dev
I did that race (fun race-but did not win a single thing in the raffle after waiting around to win the bike-good odds in such a small race). I was headed home from a ski trip a couple of hours away. I rode a standard road bike because that is what I had with me. I live on the coast so it is all relative, but that bike (although short) was hilly as nuts. Anyway I was glad I was not on my tri-bike.
Well, I quit lifting weights years ago…it’s slow to come off, but I am gradually shrinking. It does help hill climbing to be lighter…I’m 20 lbs lighter than when I used to really lift, about 15 years ago. In my 20’s I used to be a sprinter, this endurance thing is actually harder for me to do, it ain’t natural for me.
RVW: his forearms are essentially dead-level, which means that he has to (can) yank on the aerobars, rather than simply leaning on them.
I’m thinking I might be able to lower them more for straight TT’s and sprint triathlons. I’ll have to get out the stopwatch and do a few bricks to tell for sure. But, if I simply set up lower in front, that may give me a little more leverage, and dropping my hands further may be too much. Stopwatch time.
The mose obvious thing about that photo is that your shades are upside down.
Mantis wrote: that bike (although short) was hilly as nuts. Anyway I was glad I was not on my tri-bike.
I used to feel the same way, but, I’m only at 76 degrees on this tri-bike, so, it’s pretty easy to slide back to a slacker angle on the steep stuff. I did need a few bigger cogs on the rear than I came with. Oh, well. Speaking of bigger cogs, I passed a Virginia Tech Team rider on the flats, and shortly thereafter, he passed me at the beginning of a big hill…I was already in the small chainring and this guy was cranking along in about a 53-15…standing. Needless to say, I passed him again very shortly on the same uphill as he ran out of gas. When I got to the top, the road turns right, and I looked back…the dude was walking. I guess he learned something about hills…or his deraillers were broken.
freestyle wrote: The most obvious thing about that photo is that your shades are upside down.
No, they are right-side up, everything else is upside down!
Briko Low-Pro, I think they are called…no rim edge on top to look around, easier on old men’s necks.
yaquicarbo,
Where’s the bike? Half the fun of these position pick is checking out someone elses ride. Bike porn with no bike is just, well… porn. And I ain’t in to middle aged male triathlete porn.
JA
JohnA wrote: Where’s the bike?
Go to Ves’ website and look at the red Yaqui Carbo. Imagine a Renn disc on the rear, and an old man on the saddle…actually, I’d suggest imagining something other than an old man on the saddle!