Conversation about Triathlons with my wife (Page 2)

I've had convo's similar to JC's and I'm sure my sweetie often feels like the 'wife' of a triathlete.  Often waking up to an empty bed while I'm out exercising.  Always looking in to the T-area where only athletes are allowed.  Etc.  Poor guy. 

At least his GF hasn't put on 5 pounds a year for the 5 years we've been together.

When you know you're in like flynn: 

Email from her:  "Hey I'm planning dinner for this week, which afternoons are you going to be gone forever on the bike?  Oh and I checked your training plan on the fridge and noticed your racing in two weeks, you going to need to carbo load that 2nd Thursday?"

Of course, we have no kids yet, and I hear that makes a difference .

MrsUSMC - 2007-09-18 5:50 PM I have often wondered the same thing. Since I haven't found one, I just sort of took the "if you can't beat them, join them" mentality!

I joined that club too!

Nah...kids are quiet and barely impact your life.   It's the most wonderful thing you could do!  (suckah....join our inescapable club...mwahaahaaa).

Really...seriously, your carbs just change from pasta fresca to pop tart crusts, pizza crusts and the ends of fish sticks.  The rest works itself out.

Hello all,

 You can see from my number of posts I don't say much on here, but I'll take any chance I can to brag on my wife...

 I tell her last month (we're in the military, currently stationed apart) that I've started training for triathlons and she says, "I wondered what was taking you so long...you can already run and bike". 

She was doing triathlons when we started dating, and would like to start racing again.  I just need to get my @ss in shape before she gets here (to Germany) since she can swim laps around me (besides, she says she'll leave me if I get fat...ha!)

A wife that wondered WHY I wasn't training for triathlons...I gotta hang on to this one!

My husband doesn't do tris. Yet. I got in shape so he wouldn't have to wait for me all the time when we're biking and running. Now I think I've got him talked into swimming. That was a no-go before. Now it's 'that might be a good idea'. Bwahahaha!!! 

My wife is very supportive, goes to all my races and doesn't complain much about my tri purchases.  But it does bother me that she wants me to sit on the couch with her and watch tv when it is my bedtime.  (She walks a lot, like 50+ miles last month, and exercises while I'm at work.) She complains that I go to sleep at 9.  During the week I work 6am -4pm (so I leave at 5am).  Get off work at 4 and workout in the afternoon (home by 6).  Since I get up early during the week I just keep doing it on the weekends.

Me:  I'm going to bed.

Wife:  But it's only 9

Me:  But I'm getting up at 5 so I can run and be back by 7:30 OR  But I'm getting up early so I can go swim at the reseviour and be home by 9:00 OR But I'm getting up early so I can go bike and be home by 10:00. 

She likes to sleep in with my daughter.  I usually have all my work done by noon so I can lay around.  She sleeps in then works really hard to get her stuff done in the afternoon and gets mad that I am laying around.  Did she not realize that I got up 4 or 5 hours before her today.  That is why I go to sleep 2 hours before her...

I have been a morning person all my life...no matter what, I seem to wake up between 4:15 and 5:15...sleeping in to me is 6 or 7...So I have this same conversation with my SO a lot. 

Uhhh.... I think she wants YOU to sleep in with HER.  Geeeesh.  There is something cool about a weekend sleep in, even if it is only 1/2 hour, with your SO.  Do I need to spell it out for you???