Oak Banana is what you need 
I went with the Velcro version because of this
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Mine broke, so I now use the little, thick elsatic band you get with a phone or similar that keeps the charger cable tidy in the packaging.
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I’m guessing not a park run?
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Wow +1 for the concern! I’ve been itching 
The Garmin new ones are garbage, I bought a pack of about 10 spares online after one snapped 
they were only a few quid from the tat shop.
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Yeah that’s what I get for buying a cheap replacement strap, it broke fairly quickly again. I’ve been meaning to replace it for about a year now!
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300g per hour fuelling, all the rage now
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Does it get fucked up by sweat?
Not at all IME, sometimes you’ll see a salt line on there but it doesn’t chafe. They dry very quickly when they get wet and don’t irritate if it stays wet.
Really useful design if you need to wear it outside of a jacket and then loosen off to remove the jacket because you don’t have to take it off your arm completely.
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I had a cheap nylon nato strap that got all crusty after a few months, not had a good experience with other amazon replacement straps (ended up losing my fenix at Waldsee) so sticking with oem for now
I wouldn’t use any other type of strap now, they are brilliant. I’m not sure they are compatible with every Garmin though?
They are really good and if is wet and sweaty then a quick soapy wash and it is good to go again. I really like that you can get the tension just right with the velcro and a lot easier to put on in T1/T2 as Hayden Wilde does if you are worried about losing it in the swim
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I’ve got the Rugged Velcro strap you can get on Amazon & it’s the best Garmin strap I’ve used so far. The watch never sat right on my wrist with regular straps & like you say you can get it just right 
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Good GTN video on nutrition/ fuelling and whether light is always better. I though Jodie Swallow came across especially well talking about the things she faced as a young athlete, and how she approaches coaching young athletes now.
Thought it was an interesting / positive perspective that Yee and Beaugrand are not olympic champs because they look skinny like 5km runners, but because they fuelled intelligently and well enough to achieve their best performances in training and competition - that’s the part that young athletes should emulate.
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Interesting that, remember reading a Canadian woman saying she was getting all kinds of injuries when she was too light, added a few KG’s and could train bet then have a bit of short-term weight loss going into a major event that wouldn’t break her.
I know it’s partly called RED-S these days, but for Stimson not to have a period for 10 years must have rang some alarm bells somewhere as it wasn’t that long ago.
I do wonder if it contributed to Brownlee’s injuries
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To me, the difficult part is that so many of the best short course athletes are super light. Wonder of it’s hard for an aspiring junior elite to see that and not think they need to restrict food to be the same.
Maybe Jodie Swallow came closest to addressing it by saying fuelling properly is more important than weighing less. But no-one said weight is unimportant.
I dunno, maybe one of the facets of elite sport that is always going to be inherently problematic, from ballet to sumo 
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You only have to go and look at the the running calculators to see how much difference weight makes. So weight does make a difference. Obviously there is a balance to be had between being sufficiently fueled, maintaining proper body functions (hormones etc) and not carrying extra timber that is going to slow you down. And erring on the side of being properly fueled is far more important at the junior end of the scale. The senior professional side is obviously going to be a much finer balance that may well drift over at points
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I was watching an elite cross country race with some non-running friends many years ago, and their comment “it’s like a convention for skinny people”. The image exaggerated by women running in crop tops and pants when the rest of us were wrapped up against the elements.
But I do think the debate has moved on in the last few years. One of the Yates twins said his training had gone from no fuel rides early in his career to taking as much carbs as possible before, during and after.
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Surprised the highest profile case wasn’t mentioned, Holly Avil was one of the brightest young stars in the sport, potential to win in London and go on to dominate like the Brownlees in the same era and ended up full on eating disorder.
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