Since I hit the magical age of 65, which is "old age", my goal is to make the 112 Mile bike feel better on the ole bod while doing IM Lake Placid in 2024. Since this will be my 35th Ironman, I've already done the step of "get a professional bike fit". The Cervelo bike fits great, it's all of the pounding of miles on the body that need attention. Below are my mods for 2024:

- Bought new Rolf Carbon Fiber Wheels
- Changed from regular inner tubes to wider tubes
- Changed from 25mm tires to 28mm tires
- Added extra padding on the aero bars and bull horn bars, before wrapping with new tape.
- Shorted the cranks from 172.5 to 165mm
- Noticed that my forearm rather than my elbow sits on the aero bars and decided to buy elbow pads to put on my arms/elbows.
- Used to wear a fanny pack with extra tubes, CO2 cartridges, tire levers but bought a small bag to sit on the top tube behind the aero bars.
- Replaced the CO2 shooter and cartridges with a Cycplus AS2 Pro battery e-Pump, which saves a few grams.
- Bought new Fizik bike shoes in Wide and added shoe inserts/padding
- Changed saddles a couple of years ago and everything is good on the booty.

Does anybody else want to critique my approach or provide extra suggestions/ideas to increase comfort?

- Changed from regular inner tubes to wider tubes
- Changed from 25mm tires to 28mm tires


Does anybody else want to critique my approach or provide extra suggestions/ideas to increase comfort?

Yes, with the 28 mm tires, I also lowered the PSI from 100 PSI on the 25mm down to 70 PSI with the 28mm tires.

Many moons ago at Ironman Bike Check-in, I remember pumping up tubular tires to 150PSI, knowing that they would lose about 10PSI by the morning and then ride them at 140PSI for the race. In retrospect, OMG the vibration and pain for riding the high pressure but it was like

"Suck it up buttercup, you need to take the punishment to be an Ironman".