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The 90 second brick drill that fixed my transition panic
After 3 races where I nearly hyperventilated trying to get my wetsuit off in T1, I started practicing the whole strip-to-helmet-to-run part in my driveway every Saturday morning. Turns out timing each step separately showed me I was wasting 40 seconds just fumbling with my ankle zipper cord. Anyone else found a dumb simple drill that cut huge time off their transitions?
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brianm273d ago
Honestly, is there any drill dumber than practicing transition in your front lawn while your neighbors watch you hop around on one leg? I did the exact same thing after I took a full 4 minutes in T1 because I sat down to get my shoes on, like a complete idiot. The thing that helped me was timing just the wetsuit peel while doing the tiny crab shuffle, I saved almost a minute once I stopped panicking about looking cool. Tbh I still forget to unzip my ankles sometimes and end up doing this weird penguin flop that probably looks way worse than any fumbling. But hey, at least now I only hyperventilate a little bit instead of needing a medic. Ngl, your driveway drill beats my method of just hoping the race day adrenaline overrides my motor skills.
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