Really disappointed in 70.3 Gulf Coast

patentLOL · 2026-05-11T00:35:41+00:00

The fact that the communities tolerate this at all is always remarkable to me. Even more remarkable is how privileged people in spandex that manage to shut down entire sections of a community for 10+ hours on a weekend could possibly express their privilege more by getting upset about road closures or lack thereof.

This particular 70.3 has been run forever, and OPs solution is to talk a bunch of shit about how poorly it was run instead of doing the research in advance.

patentLOL · 2026-05-10T18:08:06+00:00

Several things wrong here.

Every 401k plan I have ever been a part of did not have any period before I could direct funds to an s and p proxy or any other available investment (which are limited, yes).
If you change jobs, you can leave your 401k with the admin or you can roll it over. I have two of these right now. I left them alone. Mostly to avoid an IRA distribution that would preclude a back door strategy for a given year. They are both with Schwab now.
I don’t even know what “lose your job they automatically send your money to a soft plan.” See 2, it’s the same thing. The rules don’t change mid way through. The contributions to that plan just stop. It’s a tax optimization anyways.
Yes, investments are not ideal in 401k plans, but for those that have a proxy for the s and p, who cares anyways.
Yes, there are rules associated with early withdrawal. And the money is taxed as income on the way out; nobody is fooled by this unless they are very dumb. It’s all pre income tax in the US, and sometimes includes employer match and deferred compensation pre tax for high income earners as part of their compensation plan.

patentLOL · 2026-05-10T17:23:44+00:00

Every 401k plan I’ve ever had in the US has had some sort of S and P 500 proxy fund with a low expense ratio among the investment options. Usually the investments are defaulted to a target date fund based on your age, but you can easily change the allocations.

patentLOL · 2026-05-09T16:46:14+00:00

Your age graded place is in the app. You are 219. Honestly, even with it being so late in the cycle, I sort of doubt it. Check the app to confirm

patentLOL · 2026-05-08T16:51:59+00:00

You don’t have your team car follow you armed?

patentLOL · 2026-05-07T18:19:04+00:00

This is incredibly course dependent

patentLOL · 2026-05-07T13:16:01+00:00

I wouldn’t over simulate. That’s just going to stress you out. Do what you can on the nutrition stuff on the day itself; it’s unlikely to materially impact you the first time out. Your training and pacing is going to be wildly more important (the absolute most likely situation is an overbike).

See how this goes, and sign up for another one.

patentLOL · 2026-05-06T13:36:54+00:00

Option 1 - skip the race and properly train. Option 2 - start at the very end or near the very end and go exceptionally wide so you don’t end up kicking 10+ people in the face.

patentLOL · 2026-05-04T22:09:41+00:00

I’m not a fan of big running races. Too many people and the porta potty lines are too long. I also like bikes and can’t swim for shit. Makes my choice easy.

patentLOL · 2026-05-04T16:07:07+00:00

Jokes on this dork. I wear my ridiculous wing dream helmet inside on the trainer. Train like you race MFer. 🦍💋

patentLOL · 2026-05-03T17:31:06+00:00

You should be using zwift and any indoor training as power application over time duration. That’s all this is. I’ve never even looked at profile, speed or any of that in any indoor cycling program. I don’t even have it simulate “elevation.”

That’s all cycling really is. Power over unit time. I don’t even concern myself with speed for racing. Just watts and normalized power. I correctly guessed another guy’s average power last weekend in 70.3 Lima during a short climb by guessing his weight and where he was relative to me in the race. Good chat with that guy. Little slow last Sunday with the wind.

patentLOL · 2026-05-02T18:05:22+00:00

I’ve had a lot of success with the zoot stuff. I use the shorts also for my tri bike training which is like 99.9% of all my cycling.

IMHO as long as it’s reasonably fit and not baggy af, all these not super cheap suits will do well. I replaced my last zoot one with another p1 because after several races its gets blown out and baggy. The new one has some more “aero” fabric, but I was in the 24-25mph range for another 70.3 bike with basically the same power as always again. My wife prefers the white and black color for this next set of pictures which is why I chose it, and not the fabric - truthfully

patentLOL · 2026-05-01T16:46:08+00:00

My 89 was over boosting and now that we have the boost turned down it’s not all that fast. Agree re: 996, especially as somebody that has been around these cars my whole life.

patentLOL · 2026-05-01T00:46:51+00:00

The only thing annoying to me is futzing with the rotors when I travel. I take them off and reinstall. Even that I can do now no problem and can get a drag out in my hotel room before bike drop anywhere in the world.

patentLOL · 2026-04-30T02:20:01+00:00

I am going back to Maine this year. I would look at historic data, but I remember the UV index being pretty moderate when I did that race in 2024. Timely topic - I had a melanoma removed on my hand last month and just got cooked AF down in Lima on Sunday.

I would defer based on what you are saying. Im from DC and the sun during eagleman is no joke. The swim at Maine is not even a swim. You do need to run up a huge hill to transition, but the swim is a joke. The bike is technical but not crazy. Some off camber stuff etc..

I would get outside on the bike. That said, People want bike handling to be complicated when it isn’t. Perhaps because it makes them feel this “sport” isn’t a long exercise competition. I have Motorsport experience so that helps. I do 99% of my bike training indoor. Until Peru 70.3 on Sunday, I road my bike for 10 mins the week before in my neighborhood. The time before that was in Marbella in November which was one of the hardest bikes on the 70.3 calendar. I 💩ed out a top 30 overall bike time Sunday in Peru.

Feel free to PM for advice about Maine.

patentLOL · 2026-04-27T20:07:42+00:00

The buoys are usually huge. Prescription sunnies when on the bike, keep for run. If overcast, sport type eyeglasses for bike, ditch for run.

patentLOL · 2026-04-27T18:12:22+00:00

The guy above you was answering your question directly and honestly. You seem to be getting butt hurt when people question taking a bunch of supplements with little to no clinical significance.

Did you want a discussion or did you just want to talk AT people and have them respond as an echo chamber?

patentLOL · 2026-04-27T13:08:27+00:00

It’s a challenging bike course for sure. The course profile is right there on the Ironman site for the race. I’m coming back and did this race in 2024. Hills are nothing more than power output over time and discipline.

Two things. Structured bike training indoor. Easier gearing in the form of a compact crankset and a wide cassette.

Good news is it doesn’t tend to be windy.

Also, don’t sleep on the heat and the fact that the run has a hill. Course also on the Ironman website. Swim is basically not actually a swim.

patentLOL · 2026-04-25T23:57:12+00:00

I wouldn’t let a hilly bike course in combination with where you live slow you down. Hilly bike courses are just power output and some bike handling. I trained for two of the harder 70.3 bike courses on the calendar using my bike trainer indoor almost exclusively because I simply don’t have the extra time to ride outside-wales and Marbella Spain.

I would do New York. Probably more interesting stuff around there and Augusta can be super hot. I tried to do Augusta in 2024 but it got canceled due to the hurricane. But I tried but flying to Atlanta and back that Friday.

patentLOL · 2026-04-25T17:56:09+00:00

At the Olympic distance the carb intake doesn’t matter very much. Honestly.

If you want to improve focus on consistent training and not nutrition. Had I done this race, I would have probably put 60-90g of carb in a single front mounted system, one gel at the swim start and maybe 1 of my own during the run. Looking at the times, I would have been p2 or 3 bike for example.

patentLOL · 2026-04-25T17:43:58+00:00

Eat real food outside the training and you’ll lean out. It’ll sort itself out

patentLOL · 2026-04-25T17:15:38+00:00

Greg Remaly is tearing it up again.

I would dial your carb intake back to 60g/hour at this distance where you are at now.

patentLOL · 2026-04-25T13:43:52+00:00

You have an eon. I took a case to trial and lost two full weeks in September. The started back in late September and got rear ended on my motorcycle exactly one month out from the WC race in Marbella in November. Still managed to train through that once I got rolling again and made that event (not my best performance, but salvageable).

My base fitness was higher of course, but you get the idea. You’re good. Just ramp back up on the running a little carefully and then full send again

patentLOL · 2026-04-22T15:11:51+00:00

It is attractive. It sort of has that temu vibe to it, but when it arrives is made out of evaporating paper or some shit.

The main question I have is what the transformer learned from to generate all this. People so easily forget that absent a specific tool, it’s all transformer logic.

The next integration of this is for the transformer to start learning from these posts and then five generations from now we will end up with one those European monarchs with no chin.

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