Given to Tri

RaceRanger used by age groupers for the first time at Challenge Wanaka. I’ve been hoping for RaceRanger to make its way down to us age groupers now that it’s proven successful at pro races, so TRI247’s account of how it was used at Challenge Wanaka this past weekend is very encouraging; sounds like it went as smoothly as it could possibly have. I’m looking forward to it, not just for draft enforcement, but also for the possibilities it opens for improved safety, like better live tracking and crash detection. Maybe even crash prevention—imagine if you could pair one of these things to your bike computer and have it work like a Garmin Varia, notifying you when someone is passing you (that’s very pie in the sky, but hey, I can dream).

There’s still a ways to go before it’s ready for widespread usage, but this is solid progress nonetheless.

CORE introduces a new heat adaptation score. I’ve had a CORE sensor for a while but my biggest complaint has been that it’s hard to understand and act on the data it shows, so for the most part it’s been sitting in a drawer. That said, I do like this new heat adaptation score the app now shows front and center. It’s nice to have all this data condensed down to an easily digestible metric, and, unlike the heat adaptation metric in Garmin Connect, I can use it to track my indoor heat training. Now let’s see if I can get it to 100% before Ironman Canada.

Today I should be in Colorado, racing Ironman 70.3 Boulder, but as luck would have it, COVID is wreaking havoc in my house this week and I had no choice but to stay home and cancel my race. However, the day I pulled the plug on the race, my sulking was cut short by an excellent piece of good news from Open Range Cycles, my local bike shop in Jackson:

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Last fall I started shopping for a treadmill so I could continue training over the winter for the races I have scheduled this year (Ironman 70.3 St. George in May, Ironman Coeur d’Alene in June, and Echo Triathlon in July), and after much consideration, I settled on the $3,750 Technogym MyRun. I don’t usually write reviews of things I buy, but while researching treadmills, I didn’t see many reviews of this particular model, so I thought it’d be worthwhile to share my experience with it, if nothing else as a cautionary tale for others who might be considering buying one.

TL;DR: It’s an awesome treadmill backed by an excellent iPad app, but unfortunately marred by Technogym’s abysmal customer support, which makes it hard to recommend.

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