I just watched Sam Long’s latest video; you could tell he felt hurt not being invited to the press conference. But that underdog, under-counted feeling might be exactly what drives him to dig deeper and deliver something extra on race day. I’m betting on a great performance from him come race day…
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Yea, of sorts, but it’s not in explicit terms.
If you stop your bike or step off the run course and just pee on the side of the road yes, you will get busted amd even arrested in certain countries but if you just pee your pants nobody will really know so it’s all good,just make sure you have a waterbottle to spray your shorts with
Yeah and I know that’s been standard operating procedure but I recall Ironman is very not happy about that and have explicitly stated if they catch you doing it, it’s a DQ. And just because it’s in your shorts is irrelevant. It’s also difficult to hide as pee will be streaming off your legs while riding. I would advise Sam to stop at a porta potty.
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I tried it once on a training ride over a decade ago. Never again. But I’m weird, I have only had to stop and pee once in 8 Ironmans, and that was my post recent with a larger prostate. 
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That is tyranny
I see you like to stand close to dehydration as well, a man of taste.
In an Ironman length, he’ll a 70.3 as well, I stay well hydrated and find it impossible to need to urinate. More I drink I just sweat more and on one occasion vomit. Peeing so far down the agenda list.
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Yeah I just think I retain a lot fluid narurally.
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I’m not too dissimilar. I’ll pee 3-4 times before the start of the race, it’s kinda amazing how much peeing I’m doing and I don’t even hydrate extra the day of/before. Am pretty sure the cold water contracts your bladder and makes you want to pee even more.
Once I’m on the move though, I usually don’t need to go for the whole 70.3 and even for hours afterwards, even though I feel like I’m drinking near as much as I can the whole race.
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I’ve met many a German that has shared their idea to me of a trip to New York followed by a short trip over to see the Grand Canyon, which if you know anything about that, there’s no such thing as a short trip to the Grand Canyon, especially not from NYC.
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can someone explain to me why Sam (from his latest tube), is doing such long hill repeats a few days from race day? Can’t see any benefits, only down sides of cooking himself.
yes, Im curious as well. He seemed to be rather deliberate in making clear how easy it all was.
He’s obviously training through this one for his A-race at Ironman Arizona…
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His comment on how the entire season has been building to Nice was interesting.
People taper differently. People react different to tapers.
Some need to keep some intensity, some need none Sam has been at this long enough maybe this is what works for his taper.
Also he’s been quite clear the hills and descents were testing him mentally, maybe the detriment of a few efforts is worth the mental gain of being able to send it into corners.
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Based on how well he seems to race in the beginning of the year, I’m guessing he needs to be fresher and more tapered than he thinks, at least as the year goes on.
Or how bad others come out of winter?
Could you offer an example of a race where he has tapered for a competitive race from misummer onwards and his taper seems to have ‘worked’?
No.
But I, you or anyone else in here knows what he’s doing fully. We see bits here and bits there on video but we don’t have a full picture.
I’m also not comfortable saying he’s not tapering or training correctly. He wins a lot early season as does the other YouTuber, then the big races come along and they don’t win… is it training or the other athletes being faster when they are trying fully for the big races.
Again I’d point to say Sam knows what he knows more because he’s the one feeling it.