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2008-07-27 7:02 PM

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Subject: you know you're a triathlete when........

When asked, how old you are you answer 20-24.

When asked how long your training was today you answer: three to four hours.

Your traning is more limited by available time then how far you can run.

Your first thought when you wake up is how high your rest HR is.

You go for a run even though there's a thunderstorm and you enjoy being wet and dirty.

You think it's natural to do your 'business' behind a tree in the woods.

You take part in the corporate challenge to improve your base speed.

You go for a 5 km cooldown run after a 5 km race just so that you can call it a training session.

You consider work, regeneration time between training sessions.

That something hard between your legs is usually a pull buoy

You have a water bottle when you drive your car.

You've forgotten how to drink out of cups.

You know inside out how much Protein each energy bar has.

When people praising you for being able to run 15 miles you're feeling insulted.

In the summer your legs are smoother than your girlfriend's.


You need a picture for a job application and you only have race pictures.

You use running T-shirts to clean your bike.

That charming "cologne" you wear to work is chlorine

You take more showers in a locker room than at home

6:30 am is sleeping in

the dog runs and hides when you get the leash!

You think there are only two seasons during the year, racing and off.

You shave way too many body parts for a guy.

You can't change the oil in your car but you can completly rebuild your bike in 45 mins

 

Just to get started.......lets hear some more!



2008-07-27 7:22 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
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2008-07-27 7:34 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
Haha, love 'em
2008-07-27 7:34 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When you are on a non-marked unfamiliar bike course, 18 miles into a 14 mile ride, get a flat, have no idea where you are...and don't realize that the strangers you are flagging down are looking at you strangely because you wear a spandex onesie with butt padding with impunity!
2008-07-27 7:59 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When you discover a neighbor/coworker/relative/etc. has a roadbike so you want to talk their ear off for an hour or so.
2008-07-27 9:44 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
Your friends ask you if you even own 'normal' clothes because all you wear is athletic gear


2008-07-28 6:41 AM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
You have to make a conscious effort not to blow snot rockets when going about normal daily life.
2008-07-28 8:17 AM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

Good stuff!

...when you can remember your exact splits, distances, and sets from your last swim workout by memory, but you can't remember where you put your car keys/cell phone/first born, etc. 

2008-07-28 8:53 AM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When driving down the Interstate and you cross over a bridge, you look at the water and think, "I could swim that!".
2008-07-28 9:00 AM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
jford2309 - 2008-07-28 8:53 AM

When driving down the Interstate and you cross over a bridge, you look at the water and think, "I could swim that!".


I just thought that yesterday.

These are great...
2008-07-28 9:14 AM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

That something hard between your legs is usually a pull buoy 

he he he...

 

When gu is your meal of choice.

 When a "great weekend" consists of an 80 mile bike ride followed by a 2 mile brick run, only to be followed up on Sunday with a 16 mile run.

 



2008-07-28 9:19 AM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
jford2309 - 2008-07-28 8:53 AM

When driving down the Interstate and you cross over a bridge, you look at the water and think, "I could swim that!".


Don't try to swim the Mississippi... as fun as it looks I somehow think it would end badly.

And for my contribution:

When you throw together a simulated tri on a whim "for the fun of it".

2008-08-16 2:07 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

Going down a road, you see a moderately endowed female running and your first thought is, "she needs to wear a sports bra".

2008-08-16 2:20 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When you are driving on a a business trip and you look down at your odometer and it reads 70.3 and you think Hey I have just done a half...

OK maybe it's just me.

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2008-08-16 2:25 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

your dishwasher is filled with water bottles

every imaginable surface in your bathroom has workout clothes drying out prior to being thrown in the wash

you own more workout shoes than regular shoes (and you are a girl)

everytime you drive somewhere you check the roads out to see how bikeable they seem.

you agree to take your kids to Walden Pond (that way you can get some OWS time in

2008-08-17 4:50 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
you bring your swim cap and goggles on a family boat trip.


2008-08-17 4:56 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

you leave your wife/husband because she/he dosen't get "it".

2008-08-17 5:00 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
you're bike is worth more than your car
2008-08-17 5:51 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When you are cleaning off the kid's dishes into the sink after dinner, you scarf down their left-over meat portions (whether fish or chicken nuggets) thinking, "Ah, a little more protien!"
2008-08-17 6:21 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
You buy yellow race socks
2008-08-17 7:31 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

flmonkey_gbp - 2008-08-17 5:21 PM You buy yellow race socks

... when your race socks become yellow regardless



2008-08-17 7:35 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When you offer to take you wife/husband to Bermuda for vacation and the first thing he/she asks you is "is there a triathlon there during that week?" I did this and was told no, so I am going to go without her > Escape from Bermuda 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2008-08-17 7:43 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

Kicking somebody in the face is perfectly normal.

Everybody calls you crazy and you're ok with that.

Chicks you don't know get to write stuff on you.

You will admit to other d00ds that your "junk" and "arse" go numb.

You call pics of bikes "porn".

You're trying to convince your significant other that 3K is not a lot for a bike.

You own more than one bike and are always looking for another.

You post a bunch on BT! 

 

 

2008-08-17 7:44 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........

...when you look at your wife with a straight face and say $700.00 is a great deal for one front tire.

...when you start buying revoverite and gels in bulk, then start wondering if body glide comes in a six pack.

...start planning all your family vacations on dates and in places that just happened to have a tri scheduled at that same time.

...when people ask what you did this weekend, and you tell them and their jaws drop and they quite often say, "Are you trying to kill yourself?"

...when every time you walk out of the LBS your wallet is 60 bucks lighter.

...when you start countind down 40 months, because that's when your youngest son will be old enough to sign up for his very first triathlon!!

...when you meet with a Pool Designer and you ask them how much extra and is it possible to segway a 50 meter double lap lane off the side of a free form pool??  (gonna find that out next spring)

...when you spend your lunch hour getting gas, going to the bank, dropping off ebay stuff at UPS, then hit the deli and make it back to work a minute late and your pissed you missed your PR by 8 minutes and your drop-dead goal by 60 seconds.

...when you TIVO triathlons and hit the replay button 20 times during each transition so you can study it enough to make certain you didn't miss any tips

 

2008-08-17 7:48 PM
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Subject: RE: you know you're a triathlete when........
When your kids body mark themselves before heading to the town pool...

Okay..yea it has happened
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