The Ghoulie Mentor Group - Full (Page 31)

1.Did you have a an athletic background before starting this sport? If so what was it?
    Not really, casual running and biking.

2. What attracted you to this sport?
    The challenge.

3. What do you like about the lifestyle?  Dislike?
    Like: Being in better shape and researching equipment, training, etc.

4. What motivates you right now?
    Completing my first tri.

5. Is there anything you would have like to learn earlier?
     How to swim.

Best=Swimming right now
Worst=Running by far

Good morning everyone!

1.Did you have a an athletic background before starting this sport? If so what was it?
    Not really. 20 years ago it was nothing to jump on my bike and go 30-40 miles, but I never raced, just rode.

2. What attracted you to this sport?
    I wanted to lose weight and I couldn't workout for the sake of working out. Someone I worked with talked me into trying a tri.

3. What do you like about the lifestyle?  Dislike?
    Like: pushing the limits and finding me.  Dislike: the people who have no idea about what it is that I do and then are unsupportive or negative

4. What motivates you right now?
    I want to lose a little more weight. I also have arthritis in my spine and spinal stenosis. There will come a day when I can't do this anymore, today isn't that day.

5. Is there anything you would have like to learn earlier?
     How to swim better, and that I love to run.

My goal is a HIM next year and  a full in 2012.  I havent decided on which races yet.....
I have an obsessive personality so I feel ya there brother.  Every couple years I find a new one to spend UnGodly amounts of money on.
Wake Boarding
Cars
Motorcycles
Guns
and now Triathlon.....
The bad thing is, I stay obsessed with the other things and just add a new thing.  So its like the exspense of triing X 5. 

What are you guys' other loves?

X2

Wakeboarding boat/wakeboarding
MX racing
Tri's were supposed to save me money

Obsessions  so don't laugh, ok do laugh. Just don't tell anyone, ok do tell someone just not me. LOL

Hypnotherapist ( certified but really just certifiable)
Airbrushing Car, helmets, Bikes,
Reiki (Don't ask)
Fiddle
Harmonica
NLP (another one dont ask)
Motorcycles (worked in a motorcyle shop but 13 of my own)
Boxing
Lifting
Neon (For 3 years I owned a Neon Shop making neon Signs)
Buddhism

This list could on for a while. At least you at admit you are obsessive. there is still hope for you. Since my wife died in 05 I have become more obsessed.

 

now THATs funny!!

IN My life l have learned to do the things that I have passion for.  Life can be over in a moment so why not be doing the things you are passionate about. Some day if I make it to retirement and sitting on the porch and reflecting . I want to say I did all of this rather than wish that I had.

If anyone's looking for a cool half-full early fall, there's a very cool new race in the DC area 1st weekend in October, with all proceeds benefitting young adults with cancer (Ulman Cancer Fund) - http://www.halffulltri.org/.For my sprint tri's, I'm racing with the UCF's Team Fight, and will be doing the swim leg in a relay for the Half-Full.

marla

That's Great. Is swimming your best part of the TRI?

THIS!!!

Wes - Is it REALLY expensive to paint a motorcycle helmet?

When I got my new bike last year I was going to get my helmet painted the same color. I got a quote of $250 to get it painted. I can buy a new helmet for that.

Depends on what you wanted done. Was it a bike helmet or a Motorcycle helmet?

Good philosophy. I am sorry about your wife.

Sorry just reread your post. Motorcycle helmet

Motorcycle helmet. I just wanted it yellow to match the BMW motorcycle I just bought.

Thank you. We all have to deal with it sometime in our lives. Whether its ours or someone we love, so lets live while we are alive.  (just a side note I lived in Springfield when she passed)

Seems high but not crazy unreasonable.  Remember that the helmet has to be taken apart and scuffed/lightly sanded, adhesion promoter  and painted then clear coated  and buffed/polished out

For that much money I can live with my helmet not matching my bike.

Well a short run, swim class tonight and a personal trainer (swimming) after wards. I hope everyone has a great day. Will catch up tomorrow.

That is what I would have done. I worked at a T-shirt short for a while and realized I never wanted to be an airbrush artist again. Still good friends with the owner. I want to get a cool design with TRIATHLETE theme and have him make 20 or so.

Sorry for my absence over the last week.  Between work and personal stuff, it was a crazy one.  I think it's all back under control now so I can resume posting my inanities along with your nuggets of wisdom (and occasional nuggets of other stuff...). 

I did want to thank everyone for responding to my motivation question a while back.  It seems like I am on the right path to dealing with those days where getting out the door is the last thing I want to do.  Now I just have to apply the techniques you shared more consistently!

I'm going through old threads I missed so prepare yourself for some catch-up posting spam. 

First of all, I need to name my new bike.  I'm leaning towards calling her Tempy because she's so tempermental compared to my mountain bike, which I always called Ole Reliable because she was always there for me.  She creaks under my weight, she tries to throw me if I don't unclip properly, and she's the equivalent of a thoroughbread living life on an old horse farm with me at the moment. 

And no, I have no idea why I have given my bikes all a female gender. 

This was a great discussion - thanks for asking the question!  I struggled with this for a long time (and even missed some workouts) because I certainly don't want to eat two breakfasts, but my body won't let me get very far without anything (hazzard of being a big guy, I guess).  I have found that just half a powerbar or something similar is enough to hold me until I am done with my workout and can eat my "real" breakfast.