You know you are officially a tri-dork when: (Page 2)

when i pass other runners i check their shoes, their gait, and analyze their foot strike to see if they are in the right shoes. i can't help myself ever since i worked at a running shoe store for 2 years.

i've had to stop myself a few times when i wanted to tell someone they really shouldn't be running in neutral shoes, but in a nice moderate over-pronation ones.

I'm looking for an apartment in Chicago and I told my wife last night ... "I need to get one closer to the lake because that's where the trail is."

I'm annoyed that I bought a house and that last week and the next few weeks will be consumed with packing/moving/unpacking/painting. I haven't been able to train and I am getting upset even though I love the house.

Instead of thinking about the $money$ I'm taking to spend/loose in Vegas as dollars- I think of it in terms of carbon, race wheels, hammer gel, etc...

Since I have been working with a running coach for the last 3 months... I now analyze everyone's form. I have even been tempted to give pointers to strangers... but figure they probably don't want my advice... AND I run so slow... they might think, "She needs to take her own adivce".

5 distint tan lines that you signficant other laughs at
singlet, tri jersey, bike jersey run shorts tri shorts
the girls at Target refer to you as the Gatorade Guy
you get weird looks from people when you tell them you got F.IS.T Fitted (Fit Institute of Slowtwitch if you have not done it do it.

bill and i have a little game about who can figure out what the bike is first. i have better eyes, but he knows ALL the bikes out there, including the obscure hand built bikes. he can figure some of them out even if they are repainted! the exception are tri bikes, which i've got an edge on.

a drive along summit often sounds like this...

bill 'tri bike'
me 'cervelo, honey'
bill 'trek'
me 'trek'
bill 'and another trek'
me 'bianchi'
bill 'another trek'
me 'cool, a surly!'
bill 'oooh, a kroll!'
both of us 'hey! a rivendell! PULL OVER!'

tan lines. this one is a first for me, but i have a tan line from my chip from sunday. guess 6 hours in the sun with a neoprene strap on my ankle was enough to leave a mark

I can't wait to look for my new house...near a nice clear lake with long bike and run paths!

. . . You tell people you're getting up at 4:00 am the next morning for a race you're "just doing for fun".

I'll also second the tan lines, the impulse to check out other people's shoes and gaits (I also worked at running stores for a couple of years), and scheduling your workouts based on traffic flows on the Chicago lakefront path. I told my friend if I start dating anyone it will have to be another triathlete. No one else will understand the training schedule, the obnoxious amount of my paycheck that goes to tri-related activities and gear, or the tan lines.

I do this all the time! I am sooooooo sad!

that's hilarious and I do the same thing!!

-M

1. Your idea of a good time is riding or running up hills so steep and high that you pass mountain goats puking and have to include "nose bleed tissues" as necessary equipment.

2. Your constant thought is, "I think I can squeeze a workout in!"

3. Every time you pass a bike shop you say to your wife (or husband) "Can we stop for a minute? Please? Can we? Come on! Pleeeeeease!"

Not Guilty but think it's tri-dorky:

Every finish line photo has you looking at your watch (that's what the timing chip is for people!)

Plead guilty which proves I'm not onlya tri-dork but I may need to get a life:

Taking your last race time and finding out what place you would finish in in races you didn't compete in or never will.

Body Glide, Ecaps, gu, and spandex are things I use outside the bedroom.




Edited by Jackemy 2006-07-27 7:40 PM

Ah yes... I use to be this person too!

When you're trying to find the right color handle bar tape to put on the steering wheel of your car.

I'm going to a super formal wedding with my boyfriend in Chicago- I had to be really careful with the little black dress I decided to buy because i have to make sure that the tan lines wont show!

When you're in the pool squeezing in a 45 minute swim you totally don't have time for, and are thinking about what you want to post on BT the next day.

You and the wife start thinking about vacations and visiting family around possible events. Example. Sister-in-Law now in Seatle - possible tri's and 1/2 marathon we may be able to go to and visit. Possible long weekend in Montreal around the Tri up there.

Somehow I got two posts, by accident, so I now say - I was at my first race last night and was checking out the gear more than the women.

Edited by AdCo 2006-07-28 11:52 AM

The tires on my Jimmy have been on the wear bars for 6 months. The tires on my bike were in excellent shape. I bought new tires for my bike because of lower rolling resistance.

I now look at people to see if I could make them into a triathlete. Not the ones that are already in shape, the really really out of shape ones.

I changed my last vacation plans because of a tri. I left later and stayed longer so I would be there for it while on vacation.

You wake up before dawn. Its thundering outside. Instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, you turn on the weather channel to see the radar. "Oh, its not bad down by the lake, lets go for a swim!"

Rain? No problem.
If it's raining but lightening isn't nearby, then train.
If it is lightening, then train. Harder.

I felt like a tri dork when I stopped drinking because it was interfering with my training. I try to rationalize it by saying that it's the healthy option, but deep down I know I'm just a dork.