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 2012-04-14 1:19 PM |
Master  1790     Tyler, TX |  Subject: Racing with your butt crack exposedAt a recent local triathlon in the bike portion I passed a guy whose tri shorts had split at the seam. I was only slightly faster than the guy, so unfortunately I had plenty of time to get a good view.... I didn't say anything to him so I'm not so sure he actually knew he was flashing! It occured to me that, if this were me, I might drop out of the race rather than show my butt crack to friends, family, and strangers. What would you do? Brian
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| 2012-04-14 1:26 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
Melon Presser 52116  | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed Dang! I spend a lot of time trying to GET my tri shorts like that! Johnny "HTFU" Hoogerland. Definitely one of my heroes. Honestly, there are lots of people who feel like they have a reason to drop out of a race, and for each of us it's a personal decision and threshold. Me? I can't think of what would cause me to drop out of a race voluntarily, and I don't think I ever want to find out. That's probably worse than the extreme opposite of dropping out of race for what I'd consider a trivial reason, though. |
| 2012-04-14 1:33 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
Master 2406 Bellevue, WA | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I was at a HIM once where a guy was riding swaddled diaper-style in medical bandaging plus bandaged left leg and arm. Me, I would have liked duct tape for the pants, but it worked. |
| 2012-04-14 1:35 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Member 566 | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I'd tuck my tri top back there and keep going. At T2 I might pull on the shorts I was going to wear post race. Bottom line, keep going. |
| 2012-04-14 2:09 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
Regular 266 Ocala, FL | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed This situation is exactly why we have a drafting rule. |
| 2012-04-14 2:13 PM in reply to: #4150571 |
Expert 819 Cincinnati | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed TriAya - 2012-04-14 2:26 PM Dang! I spend a lot of time trying to GET my tri shorts like that! Johnny "HTFU" Hoogerland. Definitely one of my heroes. Honestly, there are lots of people who feel like they have a reason to drop out of a race, and for each of us it's a personal decision and threshold. Me? I can't think of what would cause me to drop out of a race voluntarily, and I don't think I ever want to find out. That's probably worse than the extreme opposite of dropping out of race for what I'd consider a trivial reason, though. He's got a totally hot a$$! |
| 2012-04-14 2:27 PM in reply to: #4150620 |
Melon Presser 52116 | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed runk8run - 2012-04-15 3:13 AM TriAya - 2012-04-14 2:26 PM Dang! I spend a lot of time trying to GET my tri shorts like that! Johnny "HTFU" Hoogerland. Definitely one of my heroes. Honestly, there are lots of people who feel like they have a reason to drop out of a race, and for each of us it's a personal decision and threshold. Me? I can't think of what would cause me to drop out of a race voluntarily, and I don't think I ever want to find out. That's probably worse than the extreme opposite of dropping out of race for what I'd consider a trivial reason, though. He's got a totally hot a$$! Johnny Hoogerland is just crazy hotazz, badazz, all of it. He became the real legend of the last Tour de France, after coming out of that crash (a media car hit him into the barbed wire fence) to finish the stage (for which he'd been in the lead) and, with 33 stitches, even the rest of the Tour. |
| 2012-04-14 2:29 PM in reply to: #4150620 |
Extreme Veteran 682 Mendenhall, MS | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed runk8run - 2012-04-14 2:13 PM TriAya - 2012-04-14 2:26 PM Dang! I spend a lot of time trying to GET my tri shorts like that! Johnny "HTFU" Hoogerland. Definitely one of my heroes. Honestly, there are lots of people who feel like they have a reason to drop out of a race, and for each of us it's a personal decision and threshold. Me? I can't think of what would cause me to drop out of a race voluntarily, and I don't think I ever want to find out. That's probably worse than the extreme opposite of dropping out of race for what I'd consider a trivial reason, though. He's got a totally hot a$$! dang, that looks like it might have hurt just a little.
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| 2012-04-14 2:40 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Master 2009 Charlotte, NC | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I am fairly conservative and modest about my body. If my shorts had split and the world could see, I wouldn't be able to keep going. I don't think that means I am looking for an excuse to quit, just that I am not comfortable showing the world what I look like naked. |
| 2012-04-14 2:46 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Payson, AZ | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I passed a girl in Galveston pretty much showing her whole butt. I doubt she knew it, no split, just nice thin stretched material. I almost told her but I didn't want to ruin her race and I didn't think it was enough to end a race. I imagine on the run it would not have been as reveling. Just hope she figures it out before her next race |
| 2012-04-14 3:48 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
Regular 853 | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I bought a new pair of tri shorts and on the 1st ride, my hubby asked if my shorts were new? I said yep. He says "oh." I asked why and he said that he could see my butt through the fabric. jami |
| 2012-04-14 5:16 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I bet half the people on here who voted "Finish the race. No worries about indecent exposure" would do exactly the opposite. It's easy to sit behind a keyboard & say "oh I'd HTFU & do xyz" but until you're actually out there & your butt is in the fire there is no way to know how you'd react. |
| 2012-04-14 8:03 PM in reply to: #4150567 |
Master 2468 Muskego, Wisconsin | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed After my first 70.3, my wife told me I needed new shorts because she noticed they were see through all over my bum. I would have continued if she told me at the start, probably would have made me faster. |
| 2012-04-14 8:12 PM in reply to: #4150585 |
| Veteran 185 | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed Trath-L33T - 2012-04-14 11:35 AM I'd tuck my tri top back there and keep going. X2 |
| 2012-04-14 8:32 PM in reply to: #4150648 |
Extreme Veteran 574 Eden Prairie, MN, Minnesota | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed Curtisb - 2012-04-14 2:29 PM runk8run - 2012-04-14 2:13 PM TriAya - 2012-04-14 2:26 PM Dang! I spend a lot of time trying to GET my tri shorts like that! Johnny "HTFU" Hoogerland. Definitely one of my heroes. Honestly, there are lots of people who feel like they have a reason to drop out of a race, and for each of us it's a personal decision and threshold. Me? I can't think of what would cause me to drop out of a race voluntarily, and I don't think I ever want to find out. That's probably worse than the extreme opposite of dropping out of race for what I'd consider a trivial reason, though. He's got a totally hot a$$! dang, that looks like it might have hurt just a little.
Indeed. After last year's tour, the meaning of HTFU was officially changed to "Hoogerland the F Up". |
| 2012-04-14 10:39 PM in reply to: #4151038 |
Master 2642 Bloomington, MN | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed punkster - 2012-04-14 8:12 PM Trath-L33T - 2012-04-14 11:35 AM I'd tuck my tri top back there and keep going. X2 x3 |
| 2012-04-14 11:28 PM in reply to: #4150822 |
Melon Presser 52116 | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed MechengPhoenix - 2012-04-15 6:16 AM I bet half the people on here who voted "Finish the race. No worries about indecent exposure" would do exactly the opposite. It's easy to sit behind a keyboard & say "oh I'd HTFU & do xyz" but until you're actually out there & your butt is in the fire there is no way to know how you'd react. Just as easy to sit behind a keyboard and surmise what a bunch of other people would or would not do in situations they may or may not have been in A lot of the things I've experienced in races--the issue of whether my butt is showing (and judging from my last race pictures, it sure was!) is the least of my worries. |
| 2012-04-15 12:03 AM in reply to: #4151239 |
Extreme Veteran 379 Northern Virginia | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I'd probably try to lower my race number to have it cover me on the bike, but that wouldn't help on the run. Perhaps in T2 I would try to find a used race number (plenty of folks finishing before me) and put it on my backside backwards. |
| 2012-04-15 12:07 AM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Extreme Veteran 502 Washington | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I did competitive swimming in HS and we'd get team speedos that we'd use for all our meets. Anyway, one summer I was doing a swim camp using a speedo from a couple seasons back, and the back had faded a bit to semi-transparent. Had a few people tell me they could see my crack. Didn't really care though, I already feel like I'm naked when I wear a speedo. Edited by ionlylooklazy 2012-04-15 12:08 AM |
| 2012-04-15 1:29 AM in reply to: #4151278 |
| Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed Butt crack....just haev " I'am a Plumber" on your top |
| 2012-04-15 3:11 AM in reply to: #4150567 |
Veteran 254 Central France | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed Butt crack exposure in tri shorts is my pet peeve with almost all manufacturers. All brands I've tried are pretty much see through - especially leaning over on the bike. Can't someone make them a bit thicker? As for dropping out of a race - nope, I just get over it. And I say this from experience. My very first 5k a few years ago it poured down rain. I was soaked after the 1K. About 1.5K from the finish line I started to feel really cold on my backside. But I kept on running ........... ....... then I realized that my capris - which had no elastic at the waist - were waterlogged and about to leave my completely exposed. I finished the race with one hand holding up my capris and sprinting to the finish line. But I must have showed a good deal of butt for at least 1k, if not more. No wonder I had a flock of men behind me |
| 2012-04-15 3:39 AM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed In my last pool race there were two women who were wearing white, unlined, tri suits. Both were rather Rubenesque and why neither was wearing some sort of -er- upper body support was beyond me. Seeing their butt cracks was possible almost immediately from the time each went into the water and was the least of their exhibitionistic concerns. I figure after we've done a race or three, all of us are somewhat comfortable with the "I'm wearing spandex in public and I'm kinda okay with that" so a little more showing isn't exactly going to ruin our day. |
| 2012-04-15 4:53 AM in reply to: #4150567 |
| Regular 132 | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed This poll needs a "Get some butt sparkle" option. |
| 2012-04-15 5:01 AM in reply to: #4151343 |
| Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed There is no Tri - 2012-04-15 5:53 AM This poll needs a "Get some butt sparkle" option. It's at the end, titled "Add your own option"  |
| 2012-04-15 5:48 AM in reply to: #4150567 |
Master 8247 Eugene, Oregon Bronze member | Subject: RE: Racing with your butt crack exposed I voted for the one-piece. As a skinny woman whose waist seems too small to hold up size S and butt too big to squeeze into XS shorts (I do have curves, they're just small curves!), I have come close to losing my shorts on numerous occasions in training and racing. Thus my current race getup--a one-piece, black compression suit! Were it to rip mid-race, I usually have a bright hankie tied to my bike (to identify it in T1 and mop blood, sweat and tears), and I run with it in my hand, so I could get creative with that if needed. |
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