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 2008-05-12 12:36 PM in reply to: #1396825 |
Champion  6107    Out running or enjoying a fine glass of red... |  Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :)kns57 - 2008-05-12 1:31 PM I don't feel like working today. Can I go home early? It's OK with me. Have a nice afternoon.  |
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Science Nerd 28760   Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) wemoon - 2008-05-12 7:43 AM Hi Everyone! A quick post-by My half marathon went AWESOME! I was able to get in just under 2 hours, which was my initial goal before I slacked on the training. I LOVED the course and generally the whole thing was done before I even knew it. Now I'm thinking I'm going to have to do another, even though I swore off anything longer than a 10K *sigh* I am also excited because I just signed up to volunteer at the Lifetime Fitness tri. I was going to actually do the race, but it is just too expensive for me right now at $150. My GF and I both signed up to body mark people from 4:30-6:30am, which means we can then watch the whole rest of the race. I'm trembling at the thought of touching an elite athlete's body! Anyway, gotta run, I'm already having a late start to my day! Great job on the half!! Volunteering at races is actually pretty fun. 4:30 is crazy early!! |
| 2008-05-12 12:54 PM in reply to: #1396825 |
Science Nerd 28760 Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) kns57 - 2008-05-12 1:31 PM I don't feel like working today. Can I go home early? Sure, but you have to take me with you. I just got to work after the hospital appointment. Barium-based liquids are completely disgusting. I almost threw up a few times this morning. Yucky. |
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| MotoQueen 13195 | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) Spokes - 2008-05-12 1:00 PM I am toying with starting my own website for those that suck, but race, and do whatever kind of racing they want to do, rather than a triathlon specific-site. There's really no place here for non-tri folks - say those like me that prefer dus or single sport races. Hey, we don't judge on Nibbs. You can focus all you want on dus or single sport races and compete against yourself all you want. |
| 2008-05-12 1:23 PM in reply to: #1396945 |
| Pro 4507 Simpsonville, SC | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) kns57 - 2008-05-12 2:02 PM Spokes - 2008-05-12 1:00 PM I am toying with starting my own website for those that suck, but race, and do whatever kind of racing they want to do, rather than a triathlon specific-site. There's really no place here for non-tri folks - say those like me that prefer dus or single sport races. Hey, we don't judge on Nibbs. You can focus all you want on dus or single sport races and compete against yourself all you want. And "suck" is relative. Do your thing, then come to Nibbs to brag, moan, or vent. |
| 2008-05-12 1:23 PM in reply to: #1391499 |
| Pro 4507 Simpsonville, SC | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) Hi Kendra! If you come up here to Greenville for the Wing Ding on your new bike, we'll have to get together |
| 2008-05-12 1:26 PM in reply to: #1396825 |
| Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) kns57 - 2008-05-12 1:31 PM I don't feel like working today. Can I go home early? Absolutely! I give you permission to leave now. |
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| Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) sparco - 2008-05-12 1:35 PM kns57 - 2008-05-12 12:31 PM I don't feel like working today. Can I go home early? Only if you call my boss and tell her I have some rare contagious non-life threatening disease, and that I shouldn't really be at work until it's taken care of... Done! Um, btw, if she asks, yes, you will be breaking out in green spots this afternoon. |
| 2008-05-12 1:33 PM in reply to: #1397022 |
| Champion 23360 Taser-World | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) So Nibbies, have you noticed that it's during the workday, and I'm posting on Nibbs???? YAY! I'm backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Science Nerd 28760 Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) Spokes - 2008-05-12 2:00 PM I am toying with starting my own website for those that suck, but race, and do whatever kind of racing they want to do, rather than a triathlon specific-site. There's really no place here for non-tri folks - say those like me that prefer dus or single sport races. I can see that. No one really talks about duathlons or single-sport events. Personally, I think they are just as important. I kind of like the single-sport stuff. I think part of it is who you know around here. Some people don't support that, but all of the people here have been. |
| 2008-05-12 2:08 PM in reply to: #1397046 |
| Science Nerd 28760 Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) D001 - 2008-05-12 2:33 PM So Nibbies, have you noticed that it's during the workday, and I'm posting on Nibbs???? YAY! I'm backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!! Does that mean work isn't crazy? |
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| 2008-05-12 4:36 PM in reply to: #1391499 |
| Elite 4148 Utah | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) HI NIbbs... Happy Monday!!! Hope all you Mom's out there had a nice day yesterday. Mine was really just a typical Sunday (church, watch movie rental, ref boys, grocery shop). |
| 2008-05-12 4:38 PM in reply to: #1397602 |
| Pro 4541 A farming town in MN | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) Spokes - 2008-05-12 4:30 PM Artemis - 2008-05-12 12:04 PM Spokes - 2008-05-12 2:00 PM I am toying with starting my own website for those that suck, but race, and do whatever kind of racing they want to do, rather than a triathlon specific-site. There's really no place here for non-tri folks - say those like me that prefer dus or single sport races. I can see that. No one really talks about duathlons or single-sport events. Personally, I think they are just as important. I kind of like the single-sport stuff. I think part of it is who you know around here. Some people don't support that, but all of the people here have been. Well, it seems like the site has gotten too competitive, you know? I mean, you've got slowtwitch.com if you want to be competitive, but even over there are groups of people who do this for fun and to stay in shape, not to crush other people in a race that really doesn't mean anything. O.K. Scott. I'm gonna disagree with you on this one. Life is only as competitive as you make it. If someone wants to compete with me, and I don't...I don't. I do have some good friends on this site, and occasionally, we'll post bets. I bought UTTriman a steak last summer when he beat me at the LTF tri. But it was all in good fun. It definitely motivated me to get in the pool. Competition is what you make it. We can all choose not to compete. I'm pretty competitive against myself. Sometimes I feel like I need to PR, when really the training or the conditions don't favor it... |
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| Pro 4541 A farming town in MN | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) Spokes - 2008-05-12 4:50 PM Sal, the type of competitive you're talking about isn't what I seem being somewhat epidemic on this site. The kind of competition you're taking about it healthy. Maybe I just see the ugliness a little more since I've been on here for over two years (shrug)  Well, I'm glad I haven't run into the 'ugliness' yet. I am a bit naive... Haven't had anyone here yet call me a slowpoke. There is ONE person, though...ME! I have heard that some people on this site wonder why people give tri advice 'when their training would indicate they aren't 'expert' enough to give advice.' Hogwash! We can learn something from everyone. We all learn new things together here, BOTH from 'newbies' and 'experts,' hence the name: beginnertriathlete.com If I wanted to hear advice from 'self-proclaimed' experts, I'd go to slowtwitch.com... Edited by sparco 2008-05-12 5:05 PM |
| 2008-05-12 5:43 PM in reply to: #1397675 |
| Extreme Veteran 461 Minnesota | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) sparco - 2008-05-12 5:03 PM Spokes - 2008-05-12 4:50 PM Sal, the type of competitive you're talking about isn't what I seem being somewhat epidemic on this site. The kind of competition you're taking about it healthy. Maybe I just see the ugliness a little more since I've been on here for over two years (shrug) Well, I'm glad I haven't run into the 'ugliness' yet. I am a bit naive... Haven't had anyone here yet call me a slowpoke. There is ONE person, though...ME! I have heard that some people on this site wonder why people give tri advice 'when their training would indicate they aren't 'expert' enough to give advice.' Hogwash! We can learn something from everyone. We all learn new things together here, BOTH from 'newbies' and 'experts,' hence the name: beginnertriathlete.com If I wanted to hear advice from 'self-proclaimed' experts, I'd go to slowtwitch.com... IMO, every site has people that are self-proclaimed experts on whatever the subject is. I visit a parenting forum as well and the 'holier-than-thou' attitude is sometimes too much to deal with. That is when I take a deep breathe and realize that their attitudes do not have to bring me down... I choose my own attitude in life. |
| 2008-05-12 5:49 PM in reply to: #1397602 |
| Champion 6107 Out running or enjoying a fine glass of red... | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) Spokes - 2008-05-12 5:30 PM Well, it seems like the site has gotten too competitive, you know? I mean, you've got slowtwitch.com if you want to be competitive, but even over there are groups of people who do this for fun and to stay in shape, not to crush other people in a race that really doesn't mean anything. Just stay out of the Challenge Forum...  OK, I know that's not what you're talking about - I'm bummed you don't feel the love, but I can see some of what you're saying. |
| 2008-05-12 5:51 PM in reply to: #1397613 |
| Champion 6107 Out running or enjoying a fine glass of red... | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) geauxtri - 2008-05-12 5:36 PM Also... the question of debate in our office... spin room... mirror or mural? (I'm voting for mural, OffMgr says mirror) Of course I'm really pushing for a big screen with DVD theatre. We have murals in one corner (behind the instructor's bike) and then continuing along the top part of the wall around the whole room, mirrors along the bottom part. Best of both worlds? (The mural is an interesting city scape...nice soothing browns and blues, punctuated occasionally with red.) |
| 2008-05-12 5:54 PM in reply to: #1391499 |
| Champion 6107 Out running or enjoying a fine glass of red... | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) So...a quasi-dilemma...actually, a "should I be miffed"? I'm signed up to do a tri on 6/1 - just a mini-sprint at the Y across the street from my house. It was the 2nd tri I ever did last spring, and I kinda wanted to do it to see how much I've improved. Sugar Daddy wants to get tickets to the Stanley Cup finals - seeing as how (knock on wood) our team is going to make it in and the teams they have the option of playing are 4-6 hours away. Unfortunately, it looks like (at this point) the games will interfere with that weekend. Should I feel bad that I'm a little irritated? I know the SC finals opportunity (with all things confluencing at once - time/team/location/Monkey schedule) is a must-take, but I'm still miffed. |
| 2008-05-12 5:58 PM in reply to: #1397767 |
| Elite 4148 Utah | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) enders_shadow - 2008-05-12 4:54 PM So...a quasi-dilemma...actually, a "should I be miffed"? I'm signed up to do a tri on 6/1 - just a mini-sprint at the Y across the street from my house. It was the 2nd tri I ever did last spring, and I kinda wanted to do it to see how much I've improved. Sugar Daddy wants to get tickets to the Stanley Cup finals - seeing as how (knock on wood) our team is going to make it in and the teams they have the option of playing are 4-6 hours away. Unfortunately, it looks like (at this point) the games will interfere with that weekend. Should I feel bad that I'm a little irritated? I know the SC finals opportunity (with all things confluencing at once - time/team/location/Monkey schedule) is a must-take, but I'm still miffed. Ooohhhh!!!! I think.. play it by ear, but have a sitter lined up regardless... scenario #1.. you're team makes it to SC finals and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity (you gotta geaux) #2.. you're team doesn't go, sell the tickets, and you still get to do the mini-sprint Edited by geauxtri 2008-05-12 5:59 PM |
| 2008-05-12 6:03 PM in reply to: #1397758 |
| Elite 4148 Utah | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) enders_shadow - 2008-05-12 4:51 PM geauxtri - 2008-05-12 5:36 PM Also... the question of debate in our office... spin room... mirror or mural? (I'm voting for mural, OffMgr says mirror) Of course I'm really pushing for a big screen with DVD theatre. We have murals in one corner (behind the instructor's bike) and then continuing along the top part of the wall around the whole room, mirrors along the bottom part. Best of both worlds? (The mural is an interesting city scape...nice soothing browns and blues, punctuated occasionally with red.)
To remind you of that glass of wine waiting at home Why mirrors on the bottom... Am I not aware of something? |
| 2008-05-12 6:06 PM in reply to: #1391499 |
| Elite 4148 Utah | Subject: RE: Challenge Chat (aka Nibbs XVII) - come join us :) OKay... 5pm... I'm heading home... lots on the homefront agenda tonight... Choir practice... organize load of baby furniture I'm delivering tomorrow (giveaway)... want to ride bike to practice??? (worried about tire going flat AGAIN!!!!!!).... need to find time to do something physical??? maybe I could take dog on run tonight (her obvious diaper attack this morning shows need for attn. LATER NIBBS!!!!! |
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