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Year of the Contact Point

 There should be a practicality to things that trumps even what the designer or seller intended for his product. Filling the gap between products-as-intended and products-as-needed is the tinkerer's raison d'être.
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Adjust your Exit bike

 It's a bit of inside baseball, only for hard core bike fitters and those who follow the process as a hobby. The Exit fit bike - the standard for tri bike fitting pros - undergoes a protocol change.
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On Beauty

 The finish is the focal point of any triathlon. Typically blow-up arches are employed, accompanied by the ever-present drone of gas generators. For an event intent on embracing environmental sustainability, that wouldn't do.
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In between bike sizes?

 Looking for a new bike, and find you're in between sizes? Your LBS owner will tell you to choose the smaller size, and he's been saying that since, well, forever. But it's the wrong answer, at least nowadays, at least in tri.
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On Design

 Jeff Henderson, RD of the Musselman Tri, authored an insightful newbie race director's diary in 2003. He begins a new set of installments: A chronicle of what he's learned in the intervening 7 years.
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The Seven Days of Mussel

 Saturday the race site needs to rise from the earth, and each athlete has approximately thirty questions they would like to ask, preferably now. But as my wife often tells me, I signed up for the job.
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Musselman by the numbers

 Attention budding race directors: Here's yet another attempt at quantifying how much it costs to put on a triathlon, and what it breaks down to by line item.
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Aid stations

 Aid stations can be cost centers, profit centers, or neutral centers. No matter of the size of your race, they can be done well, and cheaply. I like to think of them as stationary parade floats.
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Traffic plan

 Want to be a race director? Here's the skill of it: mapping out your traffic plan. Regrettably, even the casual racer discerns when an RD gave his traffic plan short shrift.
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Blame China if your rack wobbles

 Have you ever considered where bike racks come from? I hadn't, until I decided to run a triathlon. Now I suddenly need a million of them, and sadly they don't show up in the Sears catalog.
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The Seven Nags

 The sponsorship tactics for the Musselman Tri could have been lifted straight from Kids as Customers, in which James McNeal classifies juvenile nagging tactics into seven major categories.