Elite triathletes competing in AG in Sprint??? (Page 2)

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Haha.  Sometimes when I wake up at 4am to get ready for a race I think to myself "My friends are probably just leaving the bars/parties or just waking up in jail".  Why I chose this lifestyle now I have no clue

sometimes when i get up then for a race i ask why i went out with them the night before......

Haha.  Luckily I haven't had that problem since I don't party much anymore (did too much of that from 14-24).  What is real tough was working a physically demanding job (moving pool tables) and spending an entire night up drinking and well sometimes other stuff to leave for work with 0.00 hours of sleep knowing I won't be off for another 12+ hours.

i am only 23, so i get out now and again.

lots of racing in college though that i prob should not have even drove to the next morning.....

Lance did the Leadville Mtn 100 race last year... and got beaten by our local hero Dave Wiens! Lance is supposed to come back this year to try again... my money might be on Dave though. The guy has won it for 6 years straight (or is it 7... can't remember.) Oh, an Floyd Landis did the race in 2007, Dave beat him too.

If you show up and are qualified for the division, then you get to race in it. End of story in my book. Everyone else should just train harder. 

I say no problem, but the wife of a friend of mine said some ran a half marathon she had trained for.  It was demoralizing to her to be hitting the loop section of the course and seeing them coming back in.  Either way I have no problem with whoever shows up at an event. 

It has the opposite affect on me. I get pumped up when a course doubles back and I see the leaders way out in front.