{"id":10494,"date":"2012-06-29T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2012-06-27T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T16:46:06","slug":"go-faster-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/go-faster-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Faster Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was only a matter of time. I’ve already blogged about my faster shoes for triathlons<\/a> and the go faster purple power potion<\/a>, so now its time to get aero!<\/p>\n

Everyone said that I looked a little out of place at the Big Cow Triathlon<\/a> as the athletes I was racing against had full-on aerodynamic triathlon bikes, deep section aero wheels and of course aero helmets. I had none of these things, just a standard road bike with clip on tri bars, standard rims and a standard helmet.<\/p>\n

An aerodynamic triathlon bikes costs far too much for me at the moment, wheels don’t come cheap either but a new pointy aerodynamic helmet is much more affordable and gives the biggest performance gains for price. According to various reports (such as this one:\u00a0Biggest Bank for Your Buck in Time Trialling<\/a>), the gains for different equipment and the cost per second saved are something like this<\/p>\n