Whether you are new to the triathlon/swimming/cycling/running or a seasoned veteran, no doubt you have made mistakes in your training and racing. Today Bill and I are putting our pride aside and sharing our top training and racing mistakes, what if anything we changed to not repeat that mistake, and hopefully we'll have a few laughs along the way.

 

Don’t run with scissors, don’t fry bacon naked and don’t under any circumstances pee on the bike without being sure there’s not a competitor in your draft.

 

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In Today's Show

• Feature Discussion - Our Funniest Training and Racing Mistakes and What We Learned
• Endurance News
• • Olympians Gwen Jorgensen, Laura Bennett among four triathletes to be inducted into USA Triathlon Hall of Fame
  • PTO announces Age Groupers at Collins Cup
  • PTO and USAT announce PTO US Open
• What's new in the 303
• • Wholesome Sweeteners and Why it Supports Boulder Roubaix and Cycling

 

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Feature Discussion: Funniest Training/Racing Mistakes

Rich:

1. Bike/Racing: Harvest Moon at Aurora res. Just past Bennett, CO I look around and think I'm by myself, I pee on the bike and hear a female voice "did you just pee on me?"
2. 1. Lesson Learned: Look twice, any doubt pour water over your back to mask the splash, keep cool and wash yourself at the same time
   1. Lesson Learned - Don't stop on the uphill, where the shoulder is gravel and narrow.
3. Bike/Training: Riding up Deer Creek Canyon I decided to stop on the uphill to wait for a training partner and chose a spot without a paved shoulder and slowed to a stop as I pulled onto the gravel shoulder, the gravel gave away and I rolled down the hill scraping up.
   1. Have a detailed checklist, never skip the checklist, only check things off that actually go into the tri bag, then put the bag in the car the night before the race.
4. Pre/Race: Boulder 70.3 2018 walking to the transition area the morning of the race, it