What do you tell people, when they ask how you did?

Renee - 2005-08-08 3:01 PM

I say "I had fun. It was crazy. My friends were there and they were great."

- 2005-08-08 5:10 PM I change my answer to : "it was really fun, thanks for asking"

- 2005-08-08 5:50 PM

More like "It was really fun, thanks for asking. I wish scott Bailey would shut it about burritos, though"

line - 2005-08-09 2:29 PM

I did a race on Sunday and I purposely wore a skirt to work so people would notice my body markings. heh heh heh. Unfortunately I am at a cube all day so only 2 people noticed, and they knew anyway. But this morning on a conferecne call, the VP mentioned it to all the sales reps, and that was SO cool!! Everyone wanted to know my time. I was like "Uhh....beat all my goals, and did the 1/2 mile swim in about 20 minutes!" there was no need to go into the slow ass run details.

mr. eff - 2005-08-09 10:24 AM I just did my first race this last weekend, and I've gone into way too much detail for anyone who has shown the slightest interest. But, my work environment is really friendly, so that might be why they didn't ask to quickly excuse themselves. But to be nice, I've always started with: "I had three goals this weekend. One, I didn't want to drown. Two, I wanted to finish the race. And three, I wanted to finish in under two hours. And I can say that I accomplished all three things." Then if they asked any more questions, I go on....and throw in my harrowing adventure on the last mile.

3558 - 2005-08-09 2:26 PM

what happened on the last mile?

mr. eff - 2005-08-09 1:20 PM It was my first race, and everyone kept telling me, "just try to finish." Well, that's fine, but I decided I needed to give myself some sort of time boundry so that I'd really push myself. So I shot for a time of under 2 hours. Well, the swim killed me and I had very little energy for the rest of the race. I didn't remember that I had another gel with me, and so I was SERIOUSLY bonking after about mile 5 of the bike. But I pushed on. When I left transition for the run, I had 30 minutes to go. I figured that would be enough for me to beat my projected time. But the hills (especially the first one) were killing me. When I reached the last mile marker just after the second turnaround, 22 minutes had gone by. My first thought was, "ARGH! I've been doing 11 minute miles?!?!" My next thought was, "I have 8 minutes to finish this race." So I made my way slowly up that hill. When I hit the flat portion of the road, I picked up my pace to an 8 or 9 minute pace. When I hit the downhill, I was going a bit faster. By the time I took the turn towards the finish, I was doing a full sprint. If my calculations are correct, I did the last mile in just over 6 minutes, after doing the first two at 11's. I thought that was pretty cool. My gf (who beat me by about 20 minutes), saw me coming to the finish line and said I was running like a bat out of hell. I could barely hear the people yelling for me.

Yeah there is one guy in my office who always goes.. "oh did you do a full one?"  As in nothing short of an iron man is a full triathlon..