Bike fit bliss!

Since I trained most of my early season on my lovely Orbea Orca, I completely neglected getting properly fit on my fab-u-lous Ordu. The hubbs made me aware of how 'scrunched' up I was, and put the bug in my ear about ERO Sports' Nate Koch.

So I've actually never had a formal bike fit before. Maybe I've gotten lucky, as I've mostly just whipped out a wrench and played with my seatpost...pure luck that its worked out, and I haven't injured my knees/hips/etc with my approach. Embarrassing...ignorance is bliss...or not. I tried the same approach with the Ordu as well...however it is a technical bike, and my knees have been killing me lately. SCARY!!!! The only sport I never have pain, was causing major concern!

before my fit, ouch.

Anyway, I set up an appointment with Nate...and made the trek up to the LA Velodrome to get my fit fixed on my insanely fast new bike. To say I was friggin stoked is a complete understatement. Seriously  excited.

A little background on Nate. He's the 2013 national team sprint champion, and headed to Rio for the 2016 Olympics. 100% dedicated to the sport, he's such an asset to bounce performance ideas off of! check out his website at TeamNater.com. His blogs are pretty neat read too!

EroSports (pronounced 'arrow' or 'aero') :) uses the Retul fit system. The technology is cutting edge and constantly being improved.
The process went so smoothly. He first has you ride your bike on a trainer and get warmed up, and attaches sensors to your right side to get a baseline measurement of the angles you are riding at...then sends you over to the Retul bike with his recommended corrections for performance and aero enhancement. If these are not completely comfortable for you, he adjusts them till they are the most comfortable....all the while you are trying out the adjustments, and pushing power for the computer camera so that in the end it will show you the angles that can optimize your strengths. All in all a very very cool, and informative 3 hours!

The company also keeps your measurements on their website for your future use! You can print them off, or if on vacation pull them up for a rental bike company! Awesome!
So I am so glad I finally bit the bullet and went in for a formal fit, since I had no idea what I was missing.

 The end resulted in 4.5cm up on my seatpost, and moving my saddle over 1 cm back! Crazy!!

Feels sooooo much better!!!

Schedule with Nate, at EROSPORTS.COM  Don't forget to tell him you're a friend of mine, he's running a very limited time special for my team mates and friends. :)

2013 Planning

This should be a very fun year! I am sooo stoked about starting my season super early! After running surf city half next month, we are headed to puerto rico in march! whoop whoop!

This past october when planning the race schedule, i thought how awesome it will be to finally make it somewhere different and super warm to race! However, i forgot that training all winter for 3 sports can be challenging! (definitely not as challenging as when i lived in Seattle though)

You see, in the two years Ive lived in SoCal, i've become acclimatized! So now 40* in the morning feels like 20*! BRRRRRRR! However, wait till 11-12 in the morning (it warms up) and you still get a bit of a tan on your SBR workouts. Definitely not sad about that!

In May, we are headed back out to St. George. Yeah, I know what happened to my poor hubbs there....at least they changed the bike course for this race...however, the run is back to a nasty little death march long hill repeat day. I will be logging lots and lots of hills this winter. :( Getting pretty good at them tho.

June is still up in the air. We are hoping for Honu 70.3, but may need some kind of miracle benefactor on that one. ;) Since money doesnt exactly grow on trees around here. haha.

July, headed back to our old stomping grounds for Lake Stevens! Soooo perfect that we have friends getting married in Snohomish, and the next morning I'll be racing away! FUN! *fingers crossed* for decent weather this year, its been long enough that its been crap and wet up there.

More recently, I've been playing with TRIBE-Tri Club of Long Beach, trying to get the Chicks team off the ground. Its going to be a super fun year! Working with Erin, another local rockstar, we will kick this team up a notch!

Heres the super cool Chicks kits developed with Betty Designs, looking HOT!!!

I am lucky enough to be sponsored by ORCA another year. They are soooo good to me, and I'm working my booty off to not disappoint! I'll post pics of the new super badass gear thats currently in the mail! Exciting since they've been making everything even more amazing for 2013!

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I get to ride Orbea this year!!!! Wooo hooooo!

My new dama is in the mail....speedy fast, killer carbon, and its got some pretty pink on her!!!

My gorgeous ORDU is on a boat! fingers crossed she'll be here soon! 

Sexy HUH? :)

But I get to play on this pretty color.....

Lets have a name contest.

Cool SWAG to the idea I pick for the best names for these two H.O.T ladies.

I'll post the winner in my next blog. Comment below!!! :)

Happy Saturday!!!!