It's summertime in Texas and that means two things - hot temps and HOT tri's! Coming up in the next couple of months is the Couple's Tri, Jack's Generic Tri and the awesome downtown Avia Austin Triathlon! Are you ready? If not, then let us help you get there.

Voted the 2008 Best of Texas in Competitor Magazine, The Avia Austin Tri is a MUST this tri season. Imagine a world class triathlon held in the front yard of one of the most active and outgoing cities in the US. Imagine a large event with the atmosphere and intimacy of a small hometown race. Imagine biking down the most historic street in Texas. Imagine the fun. That is The AVIA Austin Triathlon!

Compression material is one of the hottest products on the market right now. The 2XU Compression wear is perfect for that athlete looking for a little extra help with muscular recovery, reducing fatigue and managing muscle damage. 2XU's graduated compression garments deliver performance benefits during and post exercise. Come check out our many compression options next time you're at Jack and Adam's.

The Austin Triathlon is approaching and hopefully all will be ready for it. If you fall into the category of "not quite ready" or "need a little extra help," then there are tons of options for you to get that extra boost, get into shape and meet lots of new people along the way. From free workouts to raising money for a worthy cause, we are sure that there is something for everyone wanting to participate. And if you want to get your co-workers in on the deal, then check out the new J&A Corporate Wellness Challenge!

Jack & Adam's Bicycles offers free workouts throughout the week: Core Class M, W 5:30-6:30PM, track/hill workout Tues 5:30PM, long run Sat 7:30AM, group ride Sun 8:30AM. All meet at the shop.

Join the LAF for their first ever Tri Team! While fundraising for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, each person on Team LIVESTRONG receives a paid entry to the Austin Tri! You'll also receive LIVESTRONG gear for race day, your own personal website, support during training and fundraising, event parties on race weekend and more! Whether you train alone or with a group, everyone can join the LIVESTRONG Tri Team!

Another group raising money through the Austin Tri is Team in Training. In exchange for their fundraising efforts to find cures for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, team members receive professional training by experienced coaches, a complete training schedule, paid race entry into The Austin Triathlon, a pre-race pasta party and a post-race victory party, and the knowledge that the money raised will help toward finding cures for blood cancers!

Continue HERE to see the many training groups prepping specifically for The Austin Triathlon.

For big events, bikes are sometimes required to be left overnight in the transition area. For some reason word spreads like wild fire to let the air out of tires so that they will not blow overnight. If you have been at an event like this and heard tires blowing right before the event, it has further increased your fear of this happening to you and made you a believer in this pre- race superstition. Below we will give the real reasons why tires blow in transition and a little info on why they will not.

Because people are nervous about getting flats, they tend to replace both tubes and tires for big events. This leads to tires and tubes not being seeded correctly and then blowing in transition overnight.

Because people are using bikes that are not very well maintained, they may have dry or weak spots on the tires. Mechanics / helpers / friends helping others getting ready in transition during bike check in will normally pump tires up to the max tire pressure. This exposes already weak, dry rotted or damaged areas of the tire. This is the main culprit of tires blowing.

A severe temperature change will only cause a very slight change in tire pressure overnight. A swing of 50 degrees will be a shift of less than 10 lbs. Most wheel manufactures' rims can withstand over twice the recommended tire pressure before the tire would pop off of the rim. So if your tire is to be aired up to 120 lbs, chances are your rim can hold twice that amount of force or more.

Rubber is also a porous material. Tubes and tires will lose pressure over a short amount of time. Some tires will lose as much as 25 to 40 % of their air in a week. If you air your tires up the day before you will probably have a little less air in your tires by race start. This would be a bigger reason why to air them up race day.

In short, letting the air out of your tires before an event will not prevent flats overnight, but if you like to do it because it makes you feel better, that is fine. Sports are surrounded by all kinds of pre-event habits and superstitions. Letting your air out can be chalked up to that.