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2011-08-01 8:29 PM

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Subject: my wife hates speedos
I only do my swim training in "speedos" (mostly laps at an indoor military pool nearby).  My wife doesn't like them, but I just don't like the feel of wet trunks, and a pair of jammers were only a little better and wore out too quick.  Briefs are cheap online, and last almost six months.  I wear trisuit for events, so I'm not doing tri's in them, and most of my events have been wetsuit swims, anyway.  I'm not overweight (6'2", 170).  I do like to catch some backyard sun on occasion- but not if my wife is around, she gives me grief about it!  Maybe I'm just a closet Aussie or euro.  Anybody else want to chime in?!


2011-08-01 8:31 PM
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Wicked funny
2011-08-01 8:36 PM
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wear my speedo for almost all my swimming. Im just used to it cause been swimming since i was young and through college. My fiance just laughs at me, but i think she actually likes it.
2011-08-01 8:37 PM
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That's just plain funny. But seriously, I think all women have little apparel quirks. Me, I absolutely hate it, and can't stand it when I see men wearing flips flops, I think its an instant way to ruin a good outfit, and just looks hideous. When I see a man wearing flip flops the first thing I want to do after cringing is go up to them and stomp on their twinkle toes.
2011-08-01 8:40 PM
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Subject: RE: my wife hates speedos

There are a couple of tri's out here that have a "retro" division. No wetsuits. No disk wheels. No aero bars.

Extra points for rocking the speedo.

2011-08-01 8:41 PM
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Nobody's wife likes Speedos...


2011-08-01 8:44 PM
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FishrCutB8 - 2011-08-01 6:41 PM Nobody's wife likes Speedos...

True that. Lisa hates them. Hates briefs at all... I don't get that. But I comply anyway.

2011-08-01 9:28 PM
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FishrCutB8 - 2011-08-01 6:41 PM Nobody's wife likes Speedos...

What about quickies?

2011-08-01 9:57 PM
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ilike them and my wife hates them

 

2011-08-01 10:06 PM
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I'm a lightweight.  I usually wear these Speedos

 

speedos

2011-08-01 10:16 PM
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Subject: RE: my wife hates speedos
I'm a fat man, and was a lifeguard through college.  that's when I decided fat people shouldn't wear speedos.  still follow that rule--although I'm intrigued by jammers.  I train in regular swim trunks then feel like lightning in the tri shorts on race day


2011-08-01 10:22 PM
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Switch to the jammers-- all body issues go away after the first lap.
2011-08-01 10:25 PM
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You're wife has good taste.

Do what you've got to do though to be comfortable, but just know that you will be snickered at Wink.

2011-08-01 10:29 PM
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briderdt - 2011-08-01 8:40 PM

There are a couple of tri's out here that have a "retro" division. No wetsuits. No disk wheels. No aero bars.

Extra points for rocking the speedo.

That. Is. FANTASTIC!!!!!

2011-08-01 10:32 PM
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She should watch this clip.  Maybe speedos won't seem so bad after all.  I tried to find a higher quality clip, no dice.  You gotta love this guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n59L_rjEbTU

2011-08-02 3:37 AM
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reecealan - 2011-08-02 12:32 AM

She should watch this clip.  Maybe speedos won't seem so bad after all.  I tried to find a higher quality clip, no dice.  You gotta love this guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n59L_rjEbTU

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Why on earth would someone record a Youtube video with a video camera and then post it on Youtube????

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2011-08-02 6:27 AM
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I love Speedo. The brand, the brief, everything.

I highly doubt that would change if I were married.

Actually, it just sounds like your wife is making fun of you, not that she genuinely hates them.

2011-08-02 7:03 AM
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perhaps your wife has never seen ME rockin' a pair.
2011-08-02 7:10 AM
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NeilsWheel - 2011-08-01 10:06 PM

I'm a lightweight.  I usually wear these Speedos

 

speedos

Only Speedo's I own. No banana hammocks

2011-08-02 7:18 AM
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jillian_o - 2011-08-01 9:37 PM That's just plain funny. But seriously, I think all women have little apparel quirks. Me, I absolutely hate it, and can't stand it when I see men wearing flips flops, I think its an instant way to ruin a good outfit, and just looks hideous. When I see a man wearing flip flops the first thing I want to do after cringing is go up to them and stomp on their twinkle toes.

HA! I think my boyfriend has nice feet and I've been trying to get him to buy a nice pair of leather flip-flops for years. Proof indeed that we all have fashion quirks. (For the record, my favorite look is the square-cut jammers.)

2011-08-02 7:20 AM
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I rock the onesie most of the time, so I say rock that speedo!!!

Edited by mr2tony 2011-08-02 7:20 AM


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NeilsWheel - 2011-08-01 10:06 PM

I'm a lightweight.  I usually wear these Speedos

 

speedos

Ditto, and I get a kick out of telling people I swim in a Speedo.  Well, technically it's a Speedo, just not what they're thinking.  

2011-08-02 7:39 AM
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SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT!!!

And today, that someone is ME. Laughing





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2011-08-02 7:56 AM
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TriAya - 2011-08-02 7:39 AM

SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT!!!

And today, that someone is ME. Laughing

Thank G-d for race numbers. My eyes!!!

2011-08-02 8:06 AM
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moldoverb - 2011-08-02 7:56 AM

TriAya - 2011-08-02 7:39 AM

SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT!!!

And today, that someone is ME. Laughing

Thank G-d for race numbers. My eyes!!!



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