Anybody ever used a plastic container with shallow sides or something similar for the transition area? Seems like it might work better than having things laying on a towel (less likely to get kicked around, etc.). I’ve seen the pros use some kind of plastic container/bin at ITU races, not sure if that is allowed for us wimpy AG’ers?
I have seen people with buckets, some use it to wash their feet some use it to carry stuff and as a stool. Both T1 and T2 should be simple, I see people bringing kitchen sink to Sprint races. I was like that, a full backpack with spare for everything! Now I have the bare essentials and I am faster in transition, less item you bring faster you move.
Maybe something like this:
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At the Timberman 70.3 this year after the strippers were 3 large flat plastic buckets filled with water to run through before you got to your bike. Tim
Maybe something like this:
Unfortunately, I’ve seen that too…Not a makeup box but it was a huge toolbox. Not that anything is wrong with it as long as it doesn’t interfere with myspace.
Why do you need a towel??
what do you have sitting on the ground besides shoes and a helmet.
Grant
“Why do you need a towel??”
HELLO …how else am i supposed to dry my hair!?
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A towel is about the most massively useful thing you can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta…wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat…wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes…any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it … win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
Why do you need a towel??
what do you have sitting on the ground besides shoes and a helmet.
Grant
To mark my territory in the transition area. Once I peed but they DQ’ed me, so I am using towel now.
HELLO …how else am i supposed to dry my hair!?
Never heard of a blow dryer? You’ll look like hell if you just towel it off.
Boy, am I dense or what? I just use the towel to get the sand out from in between my toes before I ride 56 miles and run 13.1 miles. Otherwise all that outer galactic stuff sounds OK. Tim
I keep a towel on the ground and a small 16oz plastic bottle of water to squeeze the sand off toes.
I use baby powder, in liberal amounts, in the shoes and if I choose to use them, socks that I powder up prior to the race.