Inside Triathlon Magazine vs. Triathlete Magazine

You always pop up right where I expect you!!!

Didn't that whole controversy get started because there was a full out lipstick article in Runner's World???

BTW, ladies, (and gents, I suppose.....) I'll stand by my recommendation ANY DAY.... Covergirl "Smoothwear" lasts all day... through workouts, races, whatever... if you're so inclined. Same with Max Factor's "Lipfinity," and Covergirl "Outlast." I think they are all Proctor and Gamble products, so it's probably the same stuff under different labels.  I'm wearing it right now!!!

Didn't that whole controversy get started because there was a full out lipstick article in Runner's World???

What controversy?

I remember that I maintained that female athletes were interested in more germane topics such as training programs, proper pacing, nutrition, stretching, etc. than in what cosmetics were best to wear in a marathon.

I also remember I was decidedly in the minority.

That one little lipstick article morphed into a full fledged heated debate regarding the pros and cons of applying lipstick/lip gloss/lip color/chapstick while in the throes of T1 or T2.... I emerged as the champion of lipcolor, despite the fact I do not partake while competing, or training...

I endorse a woman's right to choose. To apply or not to apply. That is the question.

I have my way of distorting the original content of the issue, and ultimately making it all about cosmetics. Can't help it, I'm a girl.

Oh, and BTW, I think those kinds of articles DO belong in Running magazines. I'm sure there are other girly girls out there wondering how to keep their lipstick from smudging while training. (!) A germane (Jermaine? as in Jackson?) topic for the 21st century modern tri-chic.

Both IT and TM have recently stated that they are shifting their focus to the age-grouper.  It seems that they are both in transition (pardon the pun), and both headed in the same general direction.  IT recently added the editor from AmericanTRI, an age-group focused tri magazine that folded within a year of starting.

Runners World has improved recently as well. 

Deb

Sunfire, you're new here, so maybe I can offer this word of advice...  As long as there are people like welshy, garyellendana, bear, whizzer, (me), larasd, et al, there are gonna be unnecessary tangents.  Ain't it fun?!

And I would like to apologize on behalf of bear for using big words that nobody understands.

Whizzer - 2005-01-12 12:26 PM Research clearly shows that women primp not to impress the men, but to impress other women!! Guys don't appreciate the subtle details of a good outfit/great make up job. Women do! And they notice!

Excuse me?  That sounds like a bunch of feminatzi research.  The fact that anyone would believe that women don't dress to impress men is only slightly more rediculous than the statement that a man doesn't notice a well dressed woman.