Any Slow People?

Thank you for posting.

Remember that your slow is someone else's fast. And my fast is someone else's slow!

And all of us doing it, for fun, fitness, competition, or survival are INFINITELY farther ahead than someone who never left the couch ...

Yep. I'm out there to complete (not COMPETE) and improve and do the best I can do.

I'm a decent enough biker, I think; at least I'm happy with my bike speed. I'm slower than some but faster than a lot of people I know. I'm very much a middle-of-the-pack runner and I've dealt with some injury this year, so these days I'm on the slower side of that. And I think I'm a slow swimmer no matter who you talk to.

I'm totally enjoying IM training because I'm just focused on completing the distance comfortably and I'm putting no pressure on myself as far as speed, I just want to make all the cutoffs!

I have never NEVER entertained the thought of winning..  For me, I'm a Super clyde.  I would consider it a great success if I could get down to 220 pounds.  So with that said, I like to consider myself a pretty fast swimmer (For people my size).  I did an 880 yard swim in about 18 minutes in my last race.  I like to think I'm a pretty fast biker, (Averaged 18.8 0n a rolling hills 15 mile bike) and I am a TERRIBLY TERRIBLE runner.  I just can't run the three miles.  even if I could, it would be way slow.  I am working on it though. (15 minute miles for this guy during the race)...

Also, I don't do speed drills, or super intense workouts.  I can bike for miles and miles, and I can OWS for a mile, but I am never exhausted at the end.  Just getting out there and doing it is more than I have ever done..

13 minute miles for long runs.

10-12 MPH for the bike

3:00/100m swim.

I win.

Be careful when asking for someone slow to compare yourself to.  You might find that the people that call themselves slow will still FLY past you....

It's all relative.  Don't compare yourself to everyone else. Just to your former self. Your goals need not be anyone else's.

I will always remember the IMAZ 2011 (I think) RR where the OP stated "I paid for 17 hours and decided to get my money's worth".

As has already been said, your slow is someone else's fast.  I  might be slow, myself, but I am improving every day and am MUCH faster than if I'd never started. 

Isn't there a more politically correct term?

Speed impaired?

I'm faster than I think I am... Somehow I've got a few AG medals but I still think I'm pretty slow.

I'm the guy joking around at the start walking to the back and asking "Is this where the slow swimmers start?"

You sir, are now my hero.

That's me - but I'm not joking when I say that.

Partial credit:

I am slow in the water.

But pretty quick on the bike and also ok on the run.

As Meatloaf once said, "Two out of Three Ain't Bad."

Been there, done that.  I do 5K's and an occasional 10K to keep from getting too far out of shape, and to get my daughter running.  Now I'm going to do triathlons again (24+ years since the last one).  My daughter has medal-ed in almost every 5K she's been in outside of high school XC.  Last year at the Jekyll Turtle Crawl 5K I medal-ed.  I was shocked.  I never medal.

I'll be even more shocked if I do it in a triathlon.  I see 5K times in the sprint that are _way_ faster than I can run a 5K without the swim and bike preceding it. 

My goal right now is to feel good at the end and not be DFL in my age group.  My stretch goal is to be in the top 50%.  That may take some a bit of practice time.

I've heard the same said about golf when the scores get high, "we're getting our money's worth!"

I'm too fast.

I don't need a medal to feel good. I need self improvement. In being realistic, changing to the Olympic distance in August was a good thing for me. It'll keep it a challenge and fun. And it'll make me want that half next year. If I did the half, I might struggle through it and hate it by the end for not being prepared. That would push me away from triathlons with a negative experience. The Olympic will leave me feeling accomplished, and at the same time give me the taste if the next level and make me want to push even more. I've met some awesome people doing triathlon this year. It's been an adjustment from undersized football lineman, to oversized triathlete. But in the end it's about me and my development as an "athlete" (and I use that term loosely).

I even got my girlfriend to do her first this year after having only ridden bicycles for a month or two. And we are entering her daughter in a kids tri next month...who might be the bet runner of us all at 10 years old...she already has a 5k to her credit at nine!

Have fun. And keep developing yourself!

Shane

Edited by firemedic001918 2012-07-23 7:13 PM