I really like sports, particularly cycling and swimming, so it was only a matter of time before I ended up trying the triathlon. Some friends had warned me that such a sport hooks, but I did not know how far. I did not intend to compete at a professional level, or anything like that, but I am a person who always wants to improve, even if I am competing with friends. In fact, sometimes competitions with friends end like the rosary of dawn, almost worse than a stage of the Tour …
Even before I started doing triathlon tests, I was a fan of the material. In cycling we are called globeros, because we are more intense than professionals, because we are «freaked out.» I admit it, I am also one of those who is always attentive to the latest technologies and everything that involves scratching the clock for a few seconds. But when I started triathlon, my ‘concerns’ increased threefold.
I will give a very eloquent example: the triathlon elastic laces. Talking to some colleagues about the material used, we ended up discussing even the laces. And is that any help is little if it is to improve brands. But, although it may seem a minor matter, it is not.
At the moment of leaving the bicycle and moving on to the last discipline, it is time to put on your running shoes: this apparently simple act can give some problems, precisely due to the issue of laces. Reliable laces that tie fast minimize the stress of that delicate moment that is the transition between disciplines.
How many times have we seen triathletes being unable to fit the shoes on the bicycle or properly tie their running shoes! They are the nerves of the moment. And that in my field nobody gambles more than personal honor: imagine yourself in an Olympic test. This is why small details including triathlon elastic laces are so important. I have no doubts, if a material is going to make me calmer before a test and it has an affordable cost, I will acquire it. Although later the relative calls me crazy …