Tri-shorts and Male Modesty

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Don't worry, you will look like everyone else at your race. "Ridiculously immodest" is par for the course at triathlons.

Edited by MUL98 2005-07-27 3:46 PM

I actually went with dark grey shorts, in an attempt to be different and camouflage myself in the lake. "Ridiculously immodest" is just me paraphrasing what my girlfriend was trying to commmunicate to me through her laughter...I don't remember what the actual words were. As any self-respecting man would do, I've suppressed the mockery as much as possible...

Same here. I put on my first tri suit and my wife laughed and said "Well... you look fast."

Hmmm...let me work on the picture. Are there children on this website???

My first is the Schiff-Scout Off-Road (Mountain Bike) Tri out on Long Island on 8/28.
Just a sprint, but I'm sure the emotional scars will last a lifetime!

Seriously though - I'm feeling a little better about this...thanks!

my wife calls my tri shorts "the pork chop shorts"!!!!!!

Everybody's right; don't even sweat it.

I used to bike to work every day and would do my best to make sure that I got to work before everyone else, so they wouldn't see me in all my lycra/spandex glory. Well, one day a co-worker beat me to work and laughed at my in my said lycra/spandex glory. After wiping the tears from her eyes, she cackled "You look like a gay superhero!!!!" and continued laughing just as hysterically as I walked away.

Moral of the story: If you look like a gay superhero, you're looking good

You'll get used to it and fast. Everyone else wears them and pretty soon if you keep at it the chicks will being doing something else besides Laughing at you. Beside, real men wear spandex.

I just finished a bike ride where I came upon a guy who took a tough digger. He needed stitches, so I was helping him out and walked him to a local business. Due to the heat wave we are in the middle of, I was not waring a shirt, only cycling shorts and my helmet. Needless to say I got a few strange looks when I walked into an Elks club, dripping of sweat in skin tight shorts. Luckly, they were more concerned over his cut and I didnt get too many looks (although a Grandma was hitting the O2 pretty hard), but it occured to me how little I should care.

Moral of the story, you are out there doing something positive for your body (or for someone else), who cares how you look. (But I do second the ban on white shorts!)

Also, we got to the ER fine and he is good to go!

LOL!  That's the best description I've ever heard - the funniest and most accurate!

Gay superhero - whoohoo that's definitely me peeling off the wetsuit only to reveal my day-glo orange Team Javelin sausage suit...gotta tell my wife that one; she'll definietely agree - she hates the spandex, or at least how it looks on me, but totally understands the functionality of the gory garb.

Went to the pool today for a nice swim workout. As I am walking to the far lane my wife (who is training for her first tri and is a former swimmer ) is already in the lane preparing for our workout when she looks over at me and busts out laughing. I ask her what the hell she is laughing at and she proceeds to tell me that my suit is pretty much see through in back and in the vital areas in front!!!!! I told her "No wonder I have had so many women asking me for swim tips at the pool!!!"

spencer,

just wait till you convince yourself to race in a one piece suit and you start shaving. It only gets better.

Lol...pork chop shorts. That's great...

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WEAR BLACK!!!!

(borrowed from previous BT post)

You wanted pictures!

My granny called my lycra running tights Westminster Abbey Pants (cause there's no ballroom in the Abbey). compared to the good old days, these outfits are downright victorian. When I did these things in the 80's a Speedo was the uniform of choice. we used to train on the bike doing team TTs out on the road. You'd see a whole line of guys all wearing a sliver of cloth. I had a matching top that looked like a tankini. Running in a Speedo gives new meaning to immodest (ever watch sprinters at the Olympics? tons of fabric makes no difference if it is incredibly tight and unlined). I would be proud of the problem, since it means you're obviously gifted enough in that area to be "out there".

Story:
I was out for a training ride, trying to do a race simulation ride. I had to stop at the end and drop off a key for a friend at his work place (phone company). The front door was glss with a horizontal metal bar as handle. i gather that at the distance I was, the bar blocked exactly my mid-section to the view of the receptionist. So approaching there was flesh above and below the line giving the impression of a nude man with an aero helmet and goofy shoes shuffling up. As I walked in there was a crowd, who then let out a collective, Ohhhh, when I opened the door. My buddy was grilled later about the exhibisionist naked guy who visited and had his apartment key.... Not that there's anything wrong with that.

FWIW shorts with just a bit more of a crotch pad will soften the outline of your boys and make things less pronounced. Think cycling shorts but not with major pad. The fabric is usually thicker as well. Once in a while I like to show up at the pool in a speedo just to make people uncomfortable. It's good to push people's boundaries a bit.

This past spring I was just west of Columbia,SC doing some bike riding around Lake Murray. On a particularly fast downhill section I hit some raised concrete on the end of a small bridge and all hell broke loose with the bike. The front tire blew, the chain came off, I'm all over the road, finally slide to a stop on the other side of the bridge. Standing there in spandex riding shorts, my "Y" jersey, red helmet, Smith glasses and Sidi shoes, I painfully surveyed the damage. Gathering my thoughts I look around to see where I am and I'm directly across the street from"Buck's Bait Shop", complete with a "Cold Beer" sign and a dozen pickup trucks. I look down at my broken bike and think "and I'm also gonna get my ass kicked".
Quick repair and the hell outta Dodge.
Do they sell camoflagued riding/tri gear?

Gullahcracker that is the most hilarious story I've ever heard. It sux that a bike needs to get broken for such a hilarious story though.

I say the smallest speedo is the best speedo. If you gotta push your goods to the side to make it fit, let it flow and you will go. Speed is best and if you gotta show some of the boys to do it than it is a good idea. I also think women secretly like it,, but thats my opinion. In fact I think i am gonna start a new thread.....