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talk is cheap, a top quality aero helmet is not

July 21, 2018 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Bike

Comments:
In yesterday's log, I did a lot of talk about going for my title shot in 3 weeks. And well, like I said, talk is cheap and you always gotta be asking yourself how good you want to be.

Also as I have said, the issue in my triathlons has always been not being able to go fast enough on the bike. So I did some thinking and I noticed a pattern: every person that has ever passed me/beat me in the cycling portion of a race had an aero helmet and/or aero TT wheels. So I did my research and studied pictures of the fastest cyclists from last weekend that beat me and a common helmet was the Giro Aerohead MIPS Helmet. It looks flippin gnarly and has tremendous reviews. Says it should take a whole minute off a 40k race. Though it costs a bitch and half, as long as I don't get in any serious crashes it should last forever.

Getting TT wheels would be a nice plus too but those cost about $1000 and I don't think I am ready to drop that much money on a wheel yet.

Today's ride was good. Had a lot of braking and re-accelerating which is good training, although my average speed suffers a bit. But as long as I am putting the effort in my avg. speed really doesn't matter a whole lot. Even so, my avg. speed today was still 20.2 mph.