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 Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Spokes - 2008-07-25 4:48 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 2:26 PM Spokes - 2008-07-25 4:17 PM mr2tony - 2008-07-25 2:04 PM I like doing all three. I dont like training much. But I do enjoy the races. My experience at the 2 dus and 2 tris (one relay without the swim) - just too competitive. More people hang around at run events afterwards and socialize and its pretty low pressure. At Heatwave in 2006, Sac Tri, the du in MS and last summer's du # 1, the people hanging around afterwards were crowing about their performances... or there with their trophy SOs telling them how great they were. Most of the people who were more MOP/BOP simply left and went home. I like piling up miles on the bike and seeing my running totals grow. Sometimes, though, keeping up the totals with a race looming gets to be a bit much... Wow, my race experiences have been completely different. Everyone's been really friendly and talkative at the three races I've done. Man, I really wish I could say that. I see a TON of self-absorption and have felt very unwanted the whole time at multisport. But - I also think the AG I'm in has a lot to do with it - those of you < 30, its just a different situation, I think you have a much greater range of athletes there. Rec cycling rides are great, everyone's there to have a good time. Running is a whole different world. It attracts a much different range of folks than cycling or multisport does, but I think the simplicity of running has a great deal to do with that. By no means I am discounting the experiences or saying that you or anyone that has had a positive experience racing tris, dus, whatever is wrong. I'm just telling you how I've felt after the finish line, which is pretty empty and wondering why the hell I bothered. I didn't take it as you discounting experiences, but sharing yours. I think location may have something to do with it as well. I would guess that people treat each other a little different in the midwest to begin with, and I'd guess that probably extends to tri's as well. Sucks that you feel like that after a race. The only thing I've ever felt is exhausted and shaky. I really enjoy the competition within myself though, so I'm not really tied in to what other people do, or how they are acting. |
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| Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. |
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| Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Sharkie - 2008-07-25 5:00 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. Want some of my Ice Cream??? No thanks, I'll pass on the dairy for the time being. |
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Expert 3324   central Iowa | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 4:40 PM cami bee - 2008-07-25 4:33 PM Spokes - 2008-07-25 4:17 PM mr2tony - 2008-07-25 2:04 PM I like doing all three. I dont like training much. But I do enjoy the races. My experience at the 2 dus and 2 tris (one relay without the swim) - just too competitive. More people hang around at run events afterwards and socialize and its pretty low pressure. At Heatwave in 2006, Sac Tri, the du in MS and last summer's du # 1, the people hanging around afterwards were crowing about their performances... or there with their trophy SOs telling them how great they were. Most of the people who were more MOP/BOP simply left and went home. I like piling up miles on the bike and seeing my running totals grow. Sometimes, though, keeping up the totals with a race looming gets to be a bit much... I've had some great experiences at tri's and a lot of triathletes are awesome (or else I would not be here). I just think that my physique combined with my personality make me feel more at home with run competition which have a lot of diversity. I will say though that at my last tri there was a guy complaining that he didn't "win" because he got third. I think he must have been in the 30-34 AG which is super competitive. As I watched him walk a way with his friends and family I wondered what kind of impact that must be having on his young kids who were with him. I'm not saying that he was like that because he was a triathlete - I know plenty of people like that who are not triathletes, I'm just saying that I thought it was really sad. To quote a movie: "Ricky Bobby: Wait, Dad. Don't you remember the time you told me "If you ain't first, you're last"? Edited: removing "profanity" didn't want to cause any problems. I tremendously enjoyed many parts of that movie. |
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| Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:01 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. Dude, what are you sick with? I've done enough complaining today for a month. Well, I thought it was minor food poisoning or GI flu. My dad (a family doc) thinks that I may have been stressing my body out too much lately. |
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| Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:01 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. Dude, what are you sick with? I've done enough complaining today for a month. Complaining isn't a problem man, if you flip back to this morning I was doing more than my fair share of it. |
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| Expert 3324 central Iowa | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:01 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. Dude, what are you sick with? I've done enough complaining today for a month. Love affair gone horribly wrong resulted in sketchy pizza. Seriously though he has a sketchy tum tum. |
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| Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:05 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:03 PM Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:01 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. Dude, what are you sick with? I've done enough complaining today for a month. Well, I thought it was minor food poisoning or GI flu. My dad (a family doc) thinks that I may have been stressing my body out too much lately. Then take a break. Don't do anything for a week. Seriously. You probably even won't lose any fitness as young as you are. Well, I've got a race a week from tomorrow, and then another one the weekend after that. I'm dumb, I keep skipping my days off to work out with a girl who I agreed to help train for a tri. Now that she put off training all summer it's a big emergency that she gets to training. It's just a less than intelligent situation all the way around. Like I said, if you want to hear about it read back through the posts from this am. |
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| Davenport, IA | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Sharkie - 2008-07-25 5:05 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:04 PM Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:01 PM Sprint_DA - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 4:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Being sick, so I've had lots of time to TAN today. Dude, what are you sick with? I've done enough complaining today for a month. Complaining isn't a problem man, if you flip back to this morning I was doing more than my fair share of it. So what are you sick with??? Do you really want to know? |
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| Expert 3324 central Iowa | Subject: RE: TANgents welcome (#36) Spokes - 2008-07-25 5:04 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 3:01 PM Spokes - 2008-07-25 3:00 PM Sharkie - 2008-07-25 2:59 PM hola TAN.. what is everyone up to today??? Well, in my case, I'm holding a semi-debate whether its worth it to me to bother racing or even exercising anymore. But never you mind... I saw that... I thought this was TAN not TAS... I'm simply having my usual post-vacation crisis of wondering why I bother to get out of bed and do anything. I have crises like that all the time (quite a few this week) and I don't have that many vacations. |
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