Conversation about Triathlons with my wife

The fact you posted that here…AND she told you to ask us…means you’re not overboard, you’re OFF THE DEEP END!!!

I thought it would be funny.

I am a newbie to the sport and have liked what it has done for me.  We talk about it a lot because of the Capital Expense to get it started.

I posted because I thought others would have the same experience OR maybe it is just me

Nope... here's mine

Her:  How was your ride today?

Me:  Good, I'm a bit tired, I think I overdid it by going too long and adding that run at the end.

Her:  what else is new

My wife and I don’t talk a lot about triathlons.  She just understands why I do it and is supportive.  She was okay with me training up to a Half IM and with two kids I told her I’d back it down to Sprints and Olympics for a few years.  And yes, she probably thinks I’m a bit crazy too, but as she has said, there could be lot worse things I could be doing.

Agreed-she is happy I am doing something with my time that is positive.  She is supportive all the time.  She attends the races and gets up with me at 3am.  She just thinks it is funny.  I have never been addicted to anything before.

I have a scheduled myself a week off my training plan and I getting itchy to get back out there.

X2

I had this recent conversation:

Me: Oh, hey, my friend Campbell emailed about IMMoo.

Wife : How did he do?

Me: He's very happy with his time and glad its over.

Wife : Good for him.

Me: Yeah, he even joked asking if I was going to be out there for IMMoo 2008?

Wife :

Wife :

Wife :

**crickets chirping**

Me : What?

Wife : **low growl**

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the moral of the story is that should I ever decide to train for an Ironman, I will need to hire either a nanny or a divorce lawyer...

me:  I know someone who....

him:  you don't know them, they're your weird (sorry, his word) website friends

oh yeah, and the only one he's actually met was MimiR and he loves her so he doesn't really have a leg to stand on.

wurkit_gurl - 2007-09-18 3:14 PM

thegoddess - 2007-09-18 3:10 PM That's why there's nothing better than a relationship where a run and an ows together are a pre-requisite to beer and pizza. 

Yes, and now it's finding a man who's into that stuff who doesn't think that I'm "too slow" or "can't keep up", etc because I did not usher forth from the womb clipped into some pimped out all-carbon bike. Arggg...I try my very hardest! That should count for something!

He has a choice....a gf who has similar interests and is not as fast....or a gf who would rather go shoe shopping.  Put it to him that way and see if he doesn't let up.  Maybe it's just his competitiveness coming out....or maybe he's not so nice. 

Mine?  He actually came up next to me in the pool and said "how can someone swim so slow and not drown?"  But I KNOW he was so happy just to have me in the pool with him....so I just laughed (and put ex-lax in his cliff bar later) and kept swimming.

Seriously, we run and/or swim and/or race together whenever we can.  It is great to share those things.  I am slower in everything, but he waits or runs ahead then back, he makes it work so we get to work out together. 

He has a choice....a gf who has similar interests and is not as fast....or a gf who would rather go shoe shopping.  Put it to him that way and see if he doesn't let up.  Maybe it's just his competitiveness coming out....or maybe he's not so nice. 

Mine?  He actually came up next to me in the pool and said "how can someone swim so slow and not drown?"  But I KNOW he was so happy just to have me in the pool with him....so I just laughed (and put ex-lax in his cliff bar later) and kept swimming.

Seriously, we run and/or swim and/or race together whenever we can.  It is great to share those things.  I am slower in everything, but he waits or runs ahead then back, he makes it work so we get to work out together. 

When the Capt got me through the RnR Half Mary in 2006, he did the same thing.  He ran ahead to the beer, then ran back to get me, then ran with me to the beer and a little past, then ran back to the beer and then caught up to me again...

He's good like that.