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I just dropped 6 minutes off my Ironman bike split – Thanks Ventum!

I just dropped 6 minutes off my Ironman bike split – Thanks Ventum!

by | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog

This post has been a fairly long time coming – I’ve actually been thinking about it for several months.  Consider it a bit of a intro to my new Ventum One and my first stab at writing something that discusses aerodynamics.    I’ll start off with a disclaimer – everything I say about how fast this bike is applies to me and my setup.  While I can say with confidence that the bike will make most people faster, aerodynamics is very individual and extremely nuanced.  Furthermore, getting a bike fit is absolutely critical.  If you aren’t going to dial in your fit, don’t bother with a new bike.  I am not an engineer, and I have not (yet) taken this to the wind tunnel so my conclusions are close to accurate, but still not perfect.    But before I get too deep in the weeds, I want to first talk about my experience with Ventum and how honored I am to be working with this company.Ventum first reached out to me after my IM Maryland win, asking if I’d be interested in riding one of their bikes in 2019.  At first, I was extremely hesitant.  Buying a new bike – especially a triathlon bike with all the gadgets and gizmos (power meter, hydration, aerobars etc..) – is a fairly involved process.   Although my Felt frame was from 2013, I had upgraded almost all of the components in the past year so I was hard pressed to go with an entirely new setup.  After doing quite a bit of research, inclduing talking to several existing Ventum owners, reading through all the critical...
Ironman Maryland Recap; No on Kona?! and What’s in store for 2019…

Ironman Maryland Recap; No on Kona?! and What’s in store for 2019…

by | Oct 19, 2018 | Blog

It’s close to three weeks post Ironman Maryland and a big smile still comes across my face when I think back to the race.   I certainly felt like I had the potential to pull together a good result, but to come away as the winner of an Ironman race, was something that I really didn’t think was in my cards.   Looking back on the race, my data, and my training leading up to it, I really did not do anything that was overly exceptional. Instead, I did exactly what I had read about and what had been suggested to me by much more experienced coaches and athletes – I put together a solid training day up until mile 20 of the run, and then started to race for the last 6 miles. My swim time was a bit slower than I had planned but it turns out that the course was probably 200 yards or so long. So, my swim was as predicted.   The bike course was lengthened 2 miles the day before the race so it was exactly 112, and like the swim, my power/pace was just as I had predicted. In fact, my average wattage of 216 was probably 5-10 watts lower than I had planned but I wanted to make sure to be a bit conservative on race day.   For the run, the first 20 miles were also as I had planned – other than 2 quick stops at the porto-potty (thankfully I had changed into a run outfit – it made it so much quicker than trying to get in and out of a...

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