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Lower back giving out before your legs do?

I fit an athlete not long ago who had done multiple 70.3s. When I asked her how the bike felt, she said it hurt everywhere, and it always had.

Every race, every long ride, the whole way through. When I asked why she'd never gotten a fit, she said it seemed too expensive.
She'd been paying for that fit for years.

Saddle after saddle, years of pain, and races where she left performance on the course because she couldn't stay comfortable long enough to push.

People assume pain on the bike is something you tough out, or something you need to get stronger for. Almost every time it's a position problem. The bike was never set up for your body, and your back is the first thing to tell you.

If your lower back is what ends your rides, send me a message. Let's look at your setup before you buy one more saddle.

You trained for the power. So why can't you produce it on race day?

Or maybe the bike goes fine, but you hit T2 and suddenly can't run anywhere close to the pace your training says you should.

There are plenty of possible reasons. Fueling. Pacing. Hydration. Muscular endurance. Training load. Execution.

But there's another one athletes often overlook: your bike fit.

Your position determines how effectively you can use the fitness you've built, and what condition your body is in when you get off the bike.

If your position closes your hip too much, makes you fight to stay aero, or forces you to compensate somewhere else, you can spend hours giving away power and accumulating fatigue.

And you may not recognize it as a fit problem. You just think you need to get stronger.
That's why I don't fit triathletes to look fast on a fit bike. I fit them to produce power, stay aero, remain comfortable enough to hold the position, and get off the bike ready to run.

Because we're not training for a bike race. We're training for a triathlon.

If your power disappears on the bike, or your run disappears after it, let's figure out why.

DM the word FIT and tell me what's happening. I'll tell you whether bike fit is one of the things I'd investigate.

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Sighting is the skill that decides your open water swim.

It is the one thing almost nobody practices in the pool.

In the pool you look down, follow the black line, and never think about where you are going. Open water has no bottom and no line. So every few strokes you lift your eyes just enough to find the buoy, then drop back in and keep swimming.

Skip that and you are not swimming the course. You are zigzagging across it, your Garmin trace looks like a noodle, and every extra yard is time lost.

That is why some athletes who hold 1:20s in the pool end up swimming 2:20s in a lake. Pool and open water might as well be different sports. They actually are.

If your race has an open water start and you have only ever trained in a lane, send me a message and we will put sighting into your swim sets now, not on race morning.

Here is a skill I think is badly underrated, and it has nothing to do with fitness.

Get the bottle out of the cage, to your mouth, and back in the cage. Without stopping, without swerving and without falling off your bike.

That is it.

And it is worth practicing on purpose, because the fueling plan you built only counts if you can actually execute it while you are moving. You can have the right bottles, the right mix, the right timing, and none of it matters if reaching down feels sketchy enough that you keep putting it off until the next flat section, and then the one after that.

Practice it somewhere with nothing to hit. Empty parking lot, your driveway, or on grass. Not a quiet road, because you are going to be wobbly the first few times and you want the ground to be the only thing you are dealing with. Both hands too, because the day you need it is the day the bottle is on the other side or your other hand is busy.

The engine needs fuel. Getting it in is a skill like any other one, and it is one of the easier ones to get good at.

Did you find it challenging to learn this when you started?

If your knees hurt when you ride, the knee is where you feel it and not where it started.

You turn the pedals somewhere around 5,000 times an hour. Anything slightly off in your setup gets repeated 5,000 times before you are even done riding.

Crank arm length changes how far your knee has to travel on every stroke. Cleat position changes where your foot sits underneath you and which way the knee tracks as it comes around.

How your foot sits inside the shoe matters just as much and almost nobody looks at it. None of that feels like anything on a single pedal stroke. Over an hour it adds up, and the knee is the joint that ends up absorbing it.

That is why riding through it almost never fixes it, and why the rest days feel great right up until you ride again.

We watch you actually pedal during a fit, from the side and from the front. Sometimes I put dots on your knees so I can see exactly how they are tracking, because it is easier to see the pattern than to feel it.

Then we change things while you are still riding instead of guessing off a chart. The adjustment that fixes it is usually small, and you feel the difference the same day.

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Open water panic is real.

As a certified triathlon coach and someone who has raced multiple IRONMAN World Championships, and I want you to hear this from someone who has been in those starts. Even pros get it.

Maybe you know the feeling already. You put in the training. You did the early mornings and the technique work and everything you were supposed to do. And then the gun goes off, the washing machine starts, arms everywhere, no wall to push off, no line to follow, and your breathing will not settle. The shore feels very far away. And a voice in your head starts asking what you are doing out here.

That voice is lying to you. Panic in open water does not reflect a lack of training, preparation or experience. You did not fail out there. You felt what this sport asks everyone to feel at some point.

So here is what I tell my athletes. It is okay to stop. Pause. Float. Regroup mentally. Then continue. Nobody is grading your swim on whether you needed a moment. That is not quitting, that is racing well.

And know that SIPE is real too. It can happen to anyone, chaotic conditions can make it worse, and every athlete should know to watch for symptoms.

The swim does not have to stay the intimidating leg. Send me a DM and we will talk about yours.

My hands go numb and I hate my saddle.

Those are the 2 things I hear first when someone sits down for a fit, and they are probably the number 1 reason people come in. Two different complaints, and they usually start in the same place, which is your position on the bike.

Here is what is actually going on. Your weight has to go somewhere. When your reach is too long or your bars are too low, your hands end up holding weight they were never meant to carry, and no glove or bar tape thickness changes that, because numb hands are not a padding problem.

Same story underneath you. When your position tips you into a spot your saddle was never built to support, it hurts, and it keeps hurting through the wider saddle, the softer one, the one with the cutout, the one your friend swears by. By the time someone gets to me they have usually spent a few hundred if not a thousand dollars working through that list.

None of it works because all of it treats the spot where the weight shows up instead of moving the weight.

That is what a fit does. We look at where your weight is actually going, why your body is complaining where it is, and we move the bike to you instead of asking your body to keep absorbing the gap. About 90 minutes, and you deal with the cause instead of buying another round of symptoms.

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Your race is not just 70.3 miles or 140.6 or 26.2. Your race started 12, 24, 36, even 52 weeks ago, whenever you started training.

And I know how the middle of that feels. The early mornings nobody sees, the long weekends, the sessions you did not want to do. If race day still feels far away, hear me when I say you are already racing.

Because your race preparation is not just your training. It is dialing in your fuel strategy. Dialing in your hydration. Understanding your equipment.

Learning the basics of how to take care of yourself out on whatever course you are on. Every one of those is part of the race too, and you are doing them right now.

So remember, you are training for a race. You are not just doing the workouts to strengthen your body for race day. You are preparing your nutrition. You are preparing your energy systems. You are preparing to actually execute.

How many weeks out is your next race? Tell me in the comments.

You did not forget how to run.

Your legs just spent hours doing something else. By the time you start the run, 70 percent of your race is behind you, and the leg that is hardest on your joints is all that is left. That is what you are asking of your body.

Running and running off the bike are 2 different skills. Fast standalone legs do not automatically show up after the bike. The athletes posting those unbelievable marathon splits were fast runners first, and then they trained the transfer on purpose, for months, until tired legs knew the job.

I know the other side of this one personally. At Lake Placid I held back on the run. I second-guessed what my body could handle that day, and I have regretted it ever since. The fitness was there. What I did not have was enough trust in it to find out.

That trust gets built in training or it does not get built at all. A plan you downloaded can hand you run workouts. It cannot teach your legs what to do after the bike, and it leaves you alone with the second-guessing on the day it matters.

So if you are a strong runner and the run is still where your race comes apart, nothing is wrong with you. That piece just has not been trained yet.

It's one of my favorite skills to help you develop. Come have a coffee chat with me.

Something does not feel right, so you move the saddle. Slightly up, then down, then forward, then back.

Maybe you buy a new one. And it is not that you get a good week out of it. It is 10 minutes before a new pain shows up somewhere else, sometimes a few seconds.

Here is what is actually going on. Your body is a system, and the bike has to fit that system. When it does not, we get pain.

Your saddle is 1 of dozens of things that decide where your body ends up. Bar height and width, stem length, crank length, hood and bar angle, how far the saddle sits from the stem, and more than that on a tri bike. Every one of them changes what the others need to be.

So moving the saddle on your own may not fix it. More often you are handing the problem to a different part of your body, which is why the relief does not last.

Sometimes the saddle really is wrong for you and we change it. But if your position is what is putting you there, no saddle is going to get you comfortable on its own.

You should not have to dread getting on your bike, and this is a fixable thing.

Consult link is in the comments.

There is a lot to pack for an IRONMAN, and more to think about than people expect.

Start with the questions you need an answer for.

What will the sun be like during your swim? Choose your goggles based on the visibility you will actually have on race day. Bright sun in your eyes, go dark. Pre dawn start, find a pair with less tint.

Will you be wearing socks on the bike? Calf sleeves?

Then create 1 pile for each discipline and start pulling out everything you will need, from your race day kit down to the socks you will wear on the run, if you wear socks.

Check your pile twice. Take pictures of it so you can pull them up when you have the 2am panic that you forgot something.

Do not forget your race day nutrition. Pull out what you will need and make sure you have enough to get you through the race, and if you are traveling, whatever shake outs you will be doing too.

Remember your bike. Batteries, chargers, bike computer, spare batteries for your power meter, air pump, all of it. And if your bike uses a seat post wedge and you are packing it for travel, bring a spare.

Comment below something you forgot to bring?

The swim is the leg people dread. I am a certified triathlon coach and I have raced multiple IRONMAN World Championships. Here is the order I give my athletes when they tell me the swim is their weakest leg.

Learn the basics, and start on dry land if you need to. Technique work starts outside the pool, and there is more good free instruction on YouTube than you will get through.

Then get in the water, and I mean now. Dryland helps you focus on form, but swimming builds the feel for the water and there is no replacement for that other than doing it. What you are after first is the aerobic engine and the ability to swim several lengths without stopping. Nothing builds that except swimming.

If there is a masters club near you, join it, and then keep showing up. That is the whole trick with a masters club. You will get better by being around others, and do not be intimidated. Everyone is human and puts their swim suit on one leg at a time. There is room for all abilities.

Then get in front of a coach in person. Even a single private lesson can have an impact on your form, and form is where speed and confidence both come from.

Not one of those is waiting on another one to be finished first.

Consult link is in the comments.

The saddle just does not feel good. Things hurt. So you start adjusting on your own.

You move the saddle slightly up, then slightly down, then forward, then back. You buy a different saddle. Nothing works.

And it is not that the fix lasts a week and fades. It is 10 minutes before a new pain shows up somewhere else, sometimes a few seconds.

That is the part worth understanding. You are not failing to find the right setting. You are moving 1 thing inside a system that has a lot of things in it.

Saddle height, tilt, and distance from the stem. Bar height and width. Hood angle. Bar angle. Stem length. Crank length.

On a tri bike add riser height, elbow and hand reach, the tilt of the poles and the angles for comfort and aerodynamics, and where the BTA and the rest of your accessories sit, because those affect comfort too.

I have never counted how many adjustments go into a fit. It is not a metric we track. When I actually stopped and thought about it, the honest answer is dozens to over 100 micro changes depending on the rider and the bike.

I move 1 thing, reassess what it did to everything else, and go again until the position holds together as a whole.

None of that registers while it is happening. You pedal, I ask how it feels, we go again.

What you feel is the ride afterward.

Link is in my bio if you want to book a fit.

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Huge congratulations to Nicole and Jonathan, two of our fierce athletes who both landed on the podium last weekend at the Greenfields Tri! 🥇🥈🥉

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Anyone who has been in this sport long enough has had the moment where the thing you love hurts you. A crash. A race that ended in the medical tent. A swim start that went sideways and left you treading water wondering what you were doing out there.

And then you have to decide whether you are going back to it, and how you are going back to it, and that is the part nobody really talks about.

I am 2 weeks out from a crash that totaled my bike. The first few days I was a zombie. The concussion still works like the Energizer bunny, you go and go and then there is a wall, and if you do not stop, it stops you.

But that wall moves deeper into the day every day, while I ask more of my body every day. Light aerobic, then moderate, then power based. Runs getting longer. I expected the wall to come forward under that load and it has not.

Here is the part I am actually watching. What makes me fast on a bike is a general fearlessness, and the course I qualified for at Nice has technical alpine descents that you do not take fast by being careful. My real fear is not the headaches. It is that the fearlessness quietly gets replaced by caution, because caution makes people slower over time.

Inside on the trainer took about 30 seconds to feel normal. Outside is going to be different and I know it. I am going anyway.

If something in this sport has scared you and you went back to it, I would like to hear how you did it. And if you have not gone back yet, that counts too.

Your sense of where your limbs are without looking at them is called proprioception, and in water it is already bad.

You are floating, there is nothing to push against, and your body loses track of itself in a way it never does on land.

Then you put on a wetsuit and it gets worse. Anything below your waist is basically a rumor at that point.

Floating, sinking, dragging behind you, you have very little idea. And you cannot fix what you cannot feel.

It shows up higher too. A long sleeve can make the stroke feel constricted through the shoulder. Your feel for the water changes, and some suits do a better job of preserving that on your forearms than others.

So the stroke you have spent all season building suddenly has a layer of neoprene between you and the thing you are pulling on.

This is a reason to panic, and that is not a figure of speech. Losing track of your own body while you are floating in water you cannot see through is exactly the setup for open water panic.

Fight or flight does not care that you are a strong swimmer. Your body registers that something is wrong, your breathing goes, and now you are treading water 200 yards in wondering what just happened to you.

The point is not to avoid that response. It is to have already had it somewhere that is not the start line, so your body has a file on it and does not treat it as an emergency.

So get in the suit before race day. Open water if you can, and if you cannot, a pool will do in a pinch. It is not great for the wetsuit and it only gets you part of the way, but feeling constricted for the first time in a pool beats feeling it for the first time with a few hundred people around you.

If you are racing in a wetsuit this season and you have not had it on yet, send me a message and we will get it into your plan while there is time.

A new bike does not arrive set up for you. It arrives set up for a size, and a size is a range that a few hundred thousand people fall into.

Somewhere inside that range is a position that works for your body, and the odds it shipped in that exact one are not good.
Nobody asked what your hamstrings do.

Nobody asked about your back, or that shoulder, or how far you can reach before your hips roll forward to help. You got sized off a chart and handed the keys, and the whole thing felt finished because it looked finished.

This is the part almost nobody catches, because the bike is new so you assume the discomfort is you. Not strong enough yet, not used to the position yet, give it time. Then a year goes by, it still is not right, and you have quietly taught yourself to ride around it.

You do not have to. If you bought a bike this year and it has never really felt like yours, that is fixable, and faster than you think.

The link is in my bio.

Nobody hands you your hydration plan.

That trips people up because there is no one-size-fits-all plan that works for everyone. The label on the bottle was written for an average person who does not actually exist, and the athlete next to you at the start line could be losing 2 times what you are losing in the same conditions.

But the random guy on facebook, what works for him probably isn't ideal for you.

So you end up guessing. And guessing works fine on a 45-minute ride in October, then falls apart on the one day you needed it to hold, because that is how this goes. The day it matters is always the day you find out.

Training is where you figure it out. Not race week. Experiment... try different electrolytes and pay attention to what your body actually does with them, because there is a real difference between the ones that sit well in you and the ones that do not.

Watch what changes on a hot day versus a cold one. And know that too much on board can put you in the same place as too little, so more is not the fix when something feels off.

The athletes I work with either get a sweat test or use something that tracks losses over time, and it takes the whole thing out of the realm of hoping. You stop building a race plan on what worked for somebody else. You use real data to form a real plan, based on your body.

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. But hydrate on numbers that are yours.

If you want help sorting out what yours are before your next race, reach out.

There is a distance where a lot of riders turn around, and it lands somewhere around an hour. But it is not that the legs are done.

It is that sitting on that bike stopped being tolerable 20 minutes ago and you have been quietly negotiating with yourself ever since.

That is rarely ever your fitness. Your hands are carrying weight they were never meant to carry, your hips are rotated forward to reach bars that are too far away, and your body is doing the math on how much longer it is willing to put up with it.

So you turn around, and you file it away as the distance you can do.

The frustrating part is that you can be strong enough for 40 miles and still be capped at 12, and from the inside those 2 things feel identical. There is no signal that tells you which one you are.

A proper bike fit moves the bike to you instead of asking your body to keep absorbing the gap. If you have quietly decided that an hour is your number, it's time to address the real problem, and it is not the legs.

There is a reason bike fitting works as well as it does. It is the one change that does not ask anything more of you.

The link is in my bio.

Sometimes you can do everything right. Have all the experience. Riding 10,000+ miles per year. And stuff still happens.

Sometimes it's no one's fault. A tire blows, a branch kicked at you from the car in front of you, and the next thing you know you are waking up in the hospital.

It's been 7 days since I made my face into a brake. My custom Betty Designs kit destroyed. My frame, cracked. My carbon rims, trashed.

Me, a TBI from landing on my head. Road rash across the left side of my body. My face a mixture of hamburger and black and blue, swollen to twice its normal size.

In an instant life changes. Work on starting our bike shop paused. Client calls unanswered. Vendors not followed up. Because it hurt to move. My personality evaporated and suddenly the person everyone counts on is the one being helped into a chair.

Rebuilding isn't even a thought until the concussion allows it. That is the part nobody tells you about a head injury. You don't get to decide when you come back. Your brain decides.

So this week has been rest, and dark rooms, and letting other people carry things I would normally carry myself.

I'll be back on the bike. Just not yet.

Every race has that spot where the swim turns into a washing machine. It feels like bad luck when you are in it. It is not. That jam starts on the beach, before anyone gets in the water.

At a self-seeded start you line up with the group matching your expected swim time. A lot of people pick a faster group than they actually swim. They go off ahead of swimmers who really are faster. A few hundred yards in, those swimmers catch them.

Everyone piles into the same water at the same moment. Line up honestly and you will spend far less energy swimming around people.

Sight more often than feels necessary out there. Sun glare makes this even more important. Your line decides how far you actually end up swimming. At some races the caps and the buoys end up being the same color.

I have sighted off another swimmer's cap because of that, which went about how you would expect. More sighting means a more accurate course.

Learn to pee while you are moving too. Everyone laughs until they hold it for an entire hour. Your urinary tract will thank you for it. It also means you have real control of your body while swimming.

The anxiety will show up at some point. Give your mind something to hold onto. Counting works well for a lot of athletes. So does a talk track. Swim, swim, breathe. Bubbles, bubbles, breathe. A busy head leaves no room for panic.

Even practiced open water swimmers get skeeved out in new water. Focus on what you are doing out there. Not on what is swimming with you.

If you want help before your next race, the link is in my bio.

The run in an Ironman is not an all out sprint. It is whatever is left of you after the bike, and how it goes gets decided hours before you ever put your shoes on.

Fueling on the bike is the biggest piece of it. Whether you just rode 56 miles or 112, what you took in out there is what you are running on, and if you came up short you feel it in your energy and in how sore your legs are the second you start moving. There is no fixing that in transition.

Running on tired legs is also a skill, and that is what brick sessions are for. Your body does not want to run after a long ride, so you teach it in training instead of finding out on race day.

Once you are running, ease into it. Do not burn all your matches in the first mile because your legs feel better than you expected. A quick cadence helps here, even if the strides are shorter, because it gets you moving and carries you through that post bike fatigue.

Keep fueling on the run even when you do not think you need to. Sprint or full distance, same rule.

And pick your shoes based on how you feel coming off the bike. Super shoes are great in a standalone marathon, but they might not give you the same support after hours of riding.

If you want help building this into your training, the link is in my bio.

The athletes who get hurt by this are almost never the ones being careless. They are the ones doing everything right.

They hit every session, they train hard, they are disciplined about the plan, and somewhere in there the eating quietly falls behind the workload. Nobody notices, because nothing dramatic happens. You just get a little more tired, and the recovery takes a little longer, and you catch whatever is going around the office, and you assume that is what a hard training block is supposed to feel like.

It is not. Feeling worse the deeper you get into a block is information, not toughness.
What I want you to look at is the boring stuff. Are you eating enough on the days you train hard, not just after. Are you eating enough on the easy days, because that is when your body is doing the actual rebuilding. Are you skipping meals because you got busy and calling it discipline.

Fueling is the least glamorous part of this sport and it is the part that decides whether all that training turns into anything.

If you are putting in the work and going backwards, that is worth a real conversation. Link is in my bio.

Day 3 since the crash. The good news is things seem to be starting to heal, the road rash on my knee is smaller than yesterday, the black eye is turning yellow and pink has replaced red on my shoulder and elbow. My concussion feels like it’s healing, I’m starting to feel more like myself though still sluggish. The bad news is with Nice only a month away and Kona right on the back of that, now is not a great time to be skipping a few weeks of training. Nice may be more of a participation event which is a hard pill to swallow. My left shoulder and everything connected to it are very sore/weak, and my left adductor hurts with every movement so healing is my priority at the moment. Many hugs and kisses to everyone who reached out, I appreciate it beyond words ❤️

You just spent thousands on a new bike, and I want you to actually enjoy riding it.

Here is what happens in the shop. They look at your height, they put you on a size medium or a size 56, they set the saddle somewhere reasonable, and out the door you go. That is not a knock on the shop, it is just how bikes are sold.

You got the right size frame for a body roughly like yours, which is a starting point and not a finished setup.

Your body is not roughly like anyone. Your legs, your hips, your arms, your back, your feet, all of it is yours, and saddle height, saddle position, reach, stem length, bar width, and cleat position all move around based on that.

When those are off, the bike still rolls fine, so you assume the discomfort is you. You think you need to toughen up, or get more flexible, or ride more. Then the hands go numb, or the neck gets tight, or the saddle starts hurting on every ride, and the beautiful new bike sits in the garage more than it should.

The part that gets me is what people do next. They buy a different saddle, then another saddle, then padded shorts, then a shorter stem they guessed at, and they spend the money anyway.

It just gets spent slowly, in pieces, without solving the actual problem, which is that the bike was never set up around them.

A fit is the last thing you do to a new bike and the first thing that makes it feel like your bike. Everything gets measured and adjusted for how your body actually moves, and you leave riding a bike that fits.

If you have a new bike, or one that has never quite felt right, the booking link is in the comments.

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The hardest thing for an athlete to do is nothing.

I say this to athletes all the time and I watch it land like I asked them to do something impossible.

If you are serious about your sport, you are probably already doing the training. What usually is not getting the same investment is the recovery, and this decides whether all that work actually turns into anything.

And I get why.

Taking the rest day feels like falling behind. Sitting still feels like the day you lose the fitness you have been building since spring. Nobody ever felt guilty about an extra hour on the bike, but a whole lot of people feel guilty about an extra hour of sleep, and that is backwards.

Recovery is not just sleep and it is not the readiness score on your watch. It is hydrating, spending the time to stretch, doing the strength work to stay strong, eating in a way that supports the training, and then actually taking the downtime instead of filling it with something.

So if you are tired and stuck and quietly wondering what is wrong with you, the answer is very often not more work. Every once in a while, nothing is exactly the right thing to do, and you are allowed to do it.

If you want someone who will hold that line with you, the consult link is in the comments.

If you bought 3 saddles and none of them are comfortable – nothing makes the pain or discomfort better. Often it is not the saddle.

When I sit with a client, it is not unusual for the first thing out of their mouth to be that they hate their saddle. By the time they get to me they have usually already spent a few hundred if not a thousand dollars trying to buy their way out of it. They got a wider one, softer one, the one with the cutout, the one their friend swears by, the one recommended by the Facebook group. None are working.

Here is what is actually going on: Your saddle is carrying weight it was never built to carry on parts of your body that were never meant to support all your upper body weight. This might be because your reach or your bar height or your hip angle is putting you into a spot it cannot support. Or it could be that your anatomy “down there” just isn’t working with the shape of the saddle (especially for triathletes!).

You swap it and you get about 2 weeks of relief while your body adapts to the new shape, angle or position. Then the same pain shows up in the same place, and you decide you must have picked the wrong one again. The last thing you want to do is buy another saddle or spend more money on your bike.

I can usually tell inside of the first 10 minutes whether it is the saddle or the position. Sometimes the saddle is genuinely wrong for you and we change it, but if the position is what is putting you there, a new saddle on its own is not going to get you comfortable. Less obvious is when the shape of the saddle is incompatible with the shape of your anatomy.

A professional bike fitter has the tools to identify the difference and break the unending cycle of saddle purchases.

You should not have to dread getting on your bike, and this is a fixable thing. If you want a comfortable ride and to get properly fitted, the link is in the comments to book a bike or saddle fitting with me.

A DNF is not the end of your season. It is a moment in time, it is one event, and things did not go right on that particular day. That is all it is

Take the time to process the DNF – it can be a very emotional experience – you worked hard, paid the fees, and on that day were not able to cross the finish line.

What matters now is figuring out what actually happened and why and then what you can do differently in the future so the odds of it happening again go down. It could be nutrition, it could be pacing or hydration, it could be undertraining, or it could be that you trained for a race you were not actually about to do, because a hot race and a cold race are different animals, and so are a hilly one and a flat one.

Sit down with someone you trust, whether that is a coach or a friend or a nutritionist or a medical professional, and pull apart race day and the weeks leading into it. Document everything you can... what did you eat and drink in the week before the race, what did you eat the morning of the race and on the course?

What was your power and heart rate like for the parts that you did complete? Was there an illness that was going on that you ignored? Anything that could help paint the picture.

Then build the full picture and identify what went wrong. What could have been done differently (if anything).

Then build the plan for how you avoid that specific problem next time.

If you want someone in it with you for that, I am happy to help consult and the link is in my bio.

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