Apr 10, 2023

SAVED BY THE SEALANT, WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE

I'M STILL THINKING ABOUT ANDY'S HEROIC EFFORT on Saturday. First blocking for me, then riding in a break until it died...

... and bridging across solo to join me.

But, wait there's more!

We kinda screwed this up,
and I don't want you to do the same thing.

Half way through lap 2, on our way to the turnaround his tire sprung a leak.

I have a flat.

Are you tubeless?

Yeah, but it's not sealing.

Front or rear?

Front.

Because the tubeless tech is so good now, we rarely flat. If we spring a leak, it usually seals so quickly we don't even know there is an issue.

Rather than slow a bit to see if it would seal we shoulda stayed on the gas, and pedaled hard.

We didn't slow much, but maybe it was just enough to give those jokers chasing us hope?

We'll never know the answer to that...

... but, we do know it's likely gonna seal and we should press on.

Because it was a championship race and we were only there to see if we could win it...

... neither one of us carried any darts or repair tools.

Unusual, but not unprecedented.

If it had been an epic quest kind of race, like Leadville or LoToJoa or Ironman...

... we definitely would have had our mini bags ready to go.

They ship free.

Work great.

166.1
7 hrs Sleep
1 RaceDay Ready Resistance Training
20 minutes recovery
60 minutes reading + Journaling