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favorite sport vs best sport
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favorite = best29 Votes - [27.36%]
favorite is different from best19 Votes - [17.92%]
my favorite changes18 Votes - [16.98%]
i love them all the same3 Votes - [2.83%]
i hate them all the same1 Votes - [0.94%]
Love them all, Suck at them all!10 Votes - [9.43%]
Favorite, running Best, swimming3 Votes - [2.83%]
Favorite=Bike, Best=Run7 Votes - [6.6%]
Favorite = Bike ( Worst )1 Votes - [0.94%]
Favorite = bike, Best = swim, Downfall = run8 Votes - [7.55%]
Favorite=bike, suck at all three3 Votes - [2.83%]
Is eating a sport?2 Votes - [1.89%]
favorite=swimming tho I suck at it, best = running by far1 Votes - [0.94%]
Favorite = run; Best = tie between swim & bike1 Votes - [0.94%]
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2010-06-11 2:20 PM
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Subject: RE: favorite sport vs best sport
ToeKnail - 2010-06-10 4:15 PM
rowdypaint - 2010-06-10 3:52 PM I was going to add this, but someone already did.
Favorite = bike, Best = swim, Downfall = run

I simply hang on for the run.  Really, it's not a run.  More like a shuffle.  Or stumble.  I might as well just walk.


Yeah, I added that one. The worst part about having the swim as your best and the run as your worst, is once you get out of the water, you have already passed everyone you're going to pass. On the run, I am never chasing anyone in front of me, just watching people whiz by.




I know this feeling.  Last year I came out of the water about 20th overall (out of 200) out of t1 in 35 and out of t2 in 135
I got passed by 100 people on the bike.  Overweight guys 20 years older than me on fancy bikes passed me.  Even though it was my first race I said to myself.  I will not race again on a steel mb.

As for me swimming is my best and favorite.


2010-06-11 3:16 PM
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Subject: RE: favorite sport vs best sport
ToeKnail - 2010-06-10 5:59 PM
Pector55 - 2010-06-10 4:35 PM
There is usually someone who is having a rough day that you can pass somewhere along the line.  I'm horrible at the run but even I get to pass someone.  At the last race, I got a boost when I passed a guy who was walking.  He was wearing a sun glasses, a cool race hat, matching outfit, 3 watches (one was probably a HR monitor?) and a fuel belt with 3 bottles.  I couldn't help but think, "lucky for me you prepared with your wallet and not your training."


I was definitely exaggerating a little - I usually get to pass at least a couple people on the run as long as I'm not in the first wave. But considering my slow run pace, if I'm a faster runner than guys in my AG, odds are I was also faster in the water and on the bike.


Ha but you gave me a reason to talk about that guy.  ;-)  I rarely pass anyone on the run but I fly like heck going downhill ont he bike.  Uphill is a different story.
2010-06-11 4:05 PM
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cnsegura - 2010-06-10 1:08 PM I've been cycling for the longest by far, so it's easily my best. My favorite depends on how my training is going. I like seeing the significant progress my swim/run has made over the last 6 months (easy to have significant progress when you start from 0), so my favortite to train currently switches between the two.

In a race however, my favorite == my best. It's much more fun to pass people on the bike than to be passed on the swim/run... actually few people pass me on the swim because I start in the back anyway


This, exactly.

My favorite during a race = my best (bike).  My favorite to train has been swim and run because there is so much room for improvement that I can see easily measureable changes.
2010-06-11 4:19 PM
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If I close my eyes and dream a sports dream it always involves me walking out onto the pitch at Wembley Stadium.  So no doubt that my favorite is soccer, despite not having played in quite a while.

At this point I haven't the foggiest idea what sport I am the best at.   Given 3 months to shake off rust probably still soccer.  Hard to know for sure.

% placement wise in triathlons it is the swim, no doubt.  My 5k swim down in Pensacola confirmed that pretty well.
2010-06-12 7:14 AM
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2010-06-12 7:21 AM
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UrsusAdiposimus - 2010-06-12 8:14 AM My best is the bike.......but my favorite is the run. There is NOTHING on earth better than runner's high. OK maybe one thing. But still.

That feeling I get 45-50 minutes into a long, slow run at an 8-9:00 pace - amazing. I have never ever gotten "biker's high."

Does anyone know if there is some kind of scientific explanation for why it's easier to get runner's high than "biker's high?" I think it's partially because biking is so much more of an adrenaline rush that it's harder to relax and just go into Zen mode.

Don't get me wrong, I love my bike and biking, but I just get two very different sensations. Running makes me feel like I can have tantric sex while levitiating for 6 hours, whereas biking makes me feel like I want to gnaw on human flesh.


Funny I get bikers high much easier and it is more intense than running. It's hard to to explain but when I ride I feel one with my bike and all I have to do is will myself and I go there. I think the speed difference between bike and run adds to the joy of cycling.

I'm best on the bike and truly love it.


2010-06-12 9:15 AM
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Subject: RE: favorite sport vs best sport
The run is my weak link in triathlon, but I love training for it more than anything.  I go through periods each year where I wish I was 'just' a runner so that I could fit in more run time.  I love it that much and I think I could be a decent runner, if I all I did was run.

My swim and bike are pretty balanced these days.  When I first started out, however, I was definitely a better swimmer than I was a biker and my run wasn't even in the same zip code. 
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