Oh yeah, I used to play tennis and love it, and I went to a tennis camp recently, twice, where I didn’t play any tennis because I was too busy training for triathlons.
(The reason I went to the camp is that it was a family thing with sports activities for the kids pretty much all day).
In the uk on current conversion, we pay $2.48 Canadian (£1.45) a litre for petrol 
Yeah, I would have to pay $2.48 Canadian to buy 1 liter at £1.45 (It would cost you 85p to buy 1 litre Canadian @ $1.45 since the pound is worth 1.7x).
From my experiences in Europe and the UK, everything is priced as I would expect it to be here for the most part - - it’s just way more expensive when I have to think about the currency exchange rate! 
The last time I was in Vancouver, I was getting $2.4 to the £1. I can’t drive so My uncle was paying the petrol. That’s $0 a lite for me! Uncles are good like that 
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He did talk like a taxi driver on speed though.
The big difference though is that with 15-20L you can travel across just about the whole UK, lol. In Saskatchewan that’s just enough to get to the next town.
Haha, yeah a trip for me out to the Okanagan in BC is like 1300km, one way…
I’ve officially decided that my 2022 training montage song is going to be “Champion” by The Roots.
2021 I recycled my 2020 song because of lack of racing, “Throne” by Bring Me the Horizon.
2019 I had “Dance Macabre” by Ghost.
I find having a “theme song” for a season is great for those days when I need a little extra motivation or before a hard workout. Then come raceday it’s an amazing pump up track. Helps you remember all the hard work you put in.
Anybody else do something similar?
Kanye West, “Power” and “All of the Lights”
Oh yeah those are great ones! I’ll have to add them to my “Potential 2023 Training Songs” playlist!
The theme tune to the end of 2021 for me was “Daft Punk” by Pentatonix.
Back when I played rugby, I couldn’t leave the changing room for our warm-up until “I believe” by Yolanda Adams had played.
Nice idea, haven’t tried it but I am getting into YouTube motivational speeches. About ten years late I know.
Goggins “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable”
Posting that from a sofa I recognise the hypocrisy!
I usually don’t run or ride with music but since I am trying to run every day this month that run is sometimes after my trainer ride and I just go do some hill repeats behind my house for 15 minutes I don’t mind carrying phone with me for a quickie.
Logic- Wu Tang Forever came on in the middle of climb 2 and it definitely helped.
The fresh mozzarella I ate while making the pizza which was cooking on the run absolutely did not help.
Ok, so the TT bike is back together. the new saddle is on and I’m getting used to it. I’ve been putting off testing it with the tri suit as I know there’s less padding and ok, so I was also concerned if the body would fit in it… Thankfully it did 
However, as suspected, the padding made it feel different and it’ll take some getting used to. In the TT position on the extensions I’ve always sat close to the tip of the saddle. I have a Zone 3 ‘reasonably priced’ suit. Do suits get thinner chamois the more you pay? I suspect I’d be looking for more padding, not wider but more coverage at te front. Can anyone shed any light or share pearls of wisdom please?
I suspect this won’t help. It’s about finding the right fit and position, and training into it, imo. So like you can’t buy a saddle and suit and hey presto ride in TT for six hours comfortably.
If more padding is desperately needed it tells me the position isn’t right.
biggest thing is time in the saddle - once you are in full blown training for your race - do as many rides as you can on your tri-bike - for first few ride will not feel great
saddles are tough - my preference might be an ass hatchet to you and vice versa (try a few?, work with a shop that knows tri saddles and tri fits)
but as Joex says - more padding isn’t always the trick
My pearl izumi suit I race in has virtually no padding. The couple of pairs of 2xu shorts I have are like if single ply TP was made out of microfiber. The cheap stuff I use the most on the trainer, Canari off amazon, is barely thicker than either of those and almost too much padding. But for the price I like them. The boys aren’t in the area of any sort of padding that I can picture. If I try to use normal cycling shorts on my tri bike theres no space for them with the longer padding up front.
No, usually the opposite.
The role of chamois has changed significantly over the years. They were originally developed / designed to reduce friction and chafing, not provide padding.
Over the years, popular conceptions and the influx of new companies have erased that…chamois are now primarily about padding, not friction reduction.
If I could, I’d gladly pay more to get Tri chamois in all my riding shorts. Thinner and far more comfortable than the diapers that typically get sown into bike shorts these days.
/rant
Yeah, more padding can also excacerbate the problem by adding more surface area to rub up against and making it harder to get a close-to-the-skin fit, sort of like how those big cushy saddles are usually not as helpful as a properly fitted one.
I’m of the same mind when it comes to tri shorts- I prefer my race suit to most of my ‘proper’ cycling bibs. I think part of that is that I have really narrow hips compared to most women, so it’s hard to find a pair of ladies bibs where the chamois isn’t way too wide for me. My race suit is so damn tight it’s not an issue there
Thanks all. i don’t think that I was clear enough, it was 11pm trying to show interest in a chick flick with Mrs. Mgalex. I wasn’t on about the thickness or width of the padding itself. more how far forward the padding comes. There will be an element of getting used to it as I’ve only used the tri suit a few times and never on this bike. I spent years tweaking a few millimetres on the last set up.
Hey everyone - some great changes coming announced in the latest podcast and they’ve opened up to more feature requests, so if you want to pile in on asking for swim and run imports I’ve linked the original feature request into the podcast episode thread:
Also, Coach Jonathon is moving to triathlon training 