They say you should always spend the most time training your weakest sport in triathlon. Mine is the bike. And I feel like this year I have already made great strides. But I do get stuck pretty badly in one area. Riding aero on my road bike. Matt Cole installed aero bars on my bike for me. And I CAN ride aero and I do think the fit is good and I am comfortable. But NOT all the time. It usually takes me a good 30-45 minutes of warming up on the bike before I will go aero. And most of that warmup is truly a mental one. It's very weird to me that last week on the comet, I was actually SCARED of getting into aero for the first hour, but then the second hour I was SO comfortable that I could hit bumps or pass people in tight areas, and it didn't bother me at all. I'm not sure what that is all about. I do know that when I watch tris, people who ride aero do so almost the entire ride. I'm pretty sure I'll get over it...and I do wonder if riding aero on a TT bike is more comfortable than my setup.
So perhaps this was a boring post for the week...but I hope 6 months from now I will look back on it and giggle because aero seems completely natural to me.
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