you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read)
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2006-09-14 12:37 AM |
Regular 53 | Subject: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) You know you're a triathlete when..... When asked, how old you are you answer 35-39. Your idea of a great b-day is to run your age in miles with a couple of friends. Your idea of e great date is to go for a 10 mile run with your date. You try to impress girls with your marathon time after swimming 2.4 miles and biking 112 miles. When asked how long your training was today you answer: three to four hours. Your training is more limited by available time then how far you can run. Your first thought when you wake up is how high your rest HR is. You go for a run event although there's a thunderstorm and you enjoy being wet and dirty. You think an Ironman is easier then a Marathon because you don't have to start by running fast. You think it's natural to do your 'business' behind a tree in the woods. Nobody believes you when you say 'Never again'. You take part in the corporate challenge to improve your base speed. You go for a 5 km cool down run after a 5 km race just so that you can call it a training session. You consider work, regeneration time between training sessions. You co-workers don't ask you if you're going to train this weekend, but how long and how far. You have a water bottle when you drive your car. You spend your 2 weeks annual vacation at a training camp. During the vacations, when everybody else is partying, you go to sleep at 10:00 pm because you're going for a long ride the next day. You know inside out how much Protein each energy bar has. You seriously consider applying for citizenship in Tonga, Jemen or Tschad so that you can participate in the Olympic games. When people praising you for being able to run 15 miles you're feeling insulted. In the summer your legs are smoother then your girlfriend's. Your kids grab water bottles and energy bars when you suggest a family stroll. Your wife is not worried if you left for your run 2 hours ago. You need a picture for a job application and you only have race pictures. You use running T-shirts to clean your bike. You are up everyday by 5:00 am, but never in work before 9:30 am! That charming "cologne" you wear to work is chlorine You take more showers in a locker room than at home 6:30 am is sleeping in The dog runs and hides when you get the leash! You think there are only two seasons during the year, racing and off. You can't change the oil in your car but you can completely rebuild your bike in 45 mins you spend more $ on training and racing clothes then work clothes you spend 7 days going to 8 stores in 4 malls before buying a pair of running shoes but you take 1 afternoon to go to 1 car dealership and walk out with a new car 4 hours later. When you see some lady watering her flowers and ask her if you can borrow the hose for a minute so you can fill up your water bottles. You clean your bike more often than your car Your car smells like a locker room. You tell your co-workers that you are going to "do a long brick" on Saturday and just expect that they know what you are talking about. When a co-worker asks if you are racing this weekend, you say "yeah, but I'm just running a 10K, so that is not REALLY a race". You have more water bottles than glasses in your cupboard You consider you bike saddle your "couch" You consider Clif Bars as one of the four food groups You are sick to your stomach at 2:00 in the morning and check the back of the Pepto Bismol bottle for caloric content and grams of carbohydrates, fat and protein. you have plenty of water bottles, safety pins, and t-shirts. you have trouble keeping lunch under 2000 calories. you usually wake up at 4:00 in the morning but do not get to work until way after 9:00. your bed-time reading on your night stand consists of a pile of: DeSoto catalogs; InsideTri; Triathlete, VeloNews, USMA Swim, etc. You haven't bought work clothes in two years, yet you own bike shorts made by every manufacturer under the sun and can recite the merits of CoolMax, Supplex, etc. in your sleep! your car has at least one Power Bar wrapper and two sets of work out clothes! Your laundry continually smells like someone locked the cat in overnight... you wave at other cyclists, because all triathletes are friendly and if they are not, they are probably purist cyclists trying to get into triathlons and they do not know that triathletes are friendly. you can't decide what tee shirt to wear to your next race. you no longer take vacations but weekend triathlon junkets. you have far more pairs of shoes in your closet than your non-tri wife does in hers the one "suit" you own has a QR on the chest. you're tempted to do your long rides in a speedo so that you don't have a stupid tan for your next race. your bath towel is never dry. you bring bottled water to a party so that you're properly hydrated for the next morning's long run, everyone else at the party also brought their own bottled water because you don't have a social life outside of triathlon. Oh yeah, and they all showed up by 7 pm and left by 10 pm. your company announces mandatory unpaid shutdown days - every other Friday throughout the summer - in order to cut costs and stay in business, and your response is "Great - now I can do two long workouts on the weekends and still have an easy day." somebody hands you a cup of water and you have to restrain yourself from pouring it on your head. you forget that talking about daily LSD [Long Slow Distance] and speed weirds some people out. you have no FRIGGIN idea what to do with yourself on your off day. Damnit, I mowed the lawn, cleaned the house, washed the car, and there's STILL 4 hours of daylight left! Aarrgghh! you return from your *Mini-vacation* more exhausted than before you left! you feel like you took the day off because all you did was swim 3000 yards. You get done with a hard workout and drink a recovery drink while on the toilet and in the shower. At any given moment you know exactly where your heart rate monitor and your swim goggles are, but cannot remember where you left you car keys. (turns 90% of the time they are in your bike bag When non-racer friends tell you they ran/rode you automatically calculate their pace to see if you're still in better shape. Cars pass you on the road when you're driving and you either drop back to get out of draft zone or speed up to attack! Cheers Greg |
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2006-09-14 12:50 AM in reply to: #540556 |
Regular 97 New Zealand | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) "you usually wake up at 4:00 in the morning but do not get to work until way after 9:00. " So true!! Love it- thanks for the laugh. |
2006-09-14 3:31 AM in reply to: #540556 |
Member 14 Auckland | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Yes, great read and I recognise myself in far too many! |
2006-09-14 6:54 AM in reply to: #540569 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) I love this |
2006-09-14 7:48 AM in reply to: #540556 |
Champion 5529 Nashville, TN | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Well done and SO accurate on many points. Yes...my friends try to understand but my coworkers think I am insane! |
2006-09-14 7:59 AM in reply to: #540668 |
Expert 1274 Houston, TX | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read)
ADollar79 - 2006-09-14 7:48 AM Well done and SO accurate on many points. Yes...my friends try to understand but my coworkers think I am insane!
That is the fun part! |
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2006-09-14 8:55 AM in reply to: #540556 |
Champion 6931 Bellingham, Washington | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) The dog runs and hides when you get the leash! Mine does the opposite, he finds his collar and goes ballistic. |
2006-09-14 1:35 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Veteran 183 Grand Rapids, MN. | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) You forgot that: You think of Ibuprofin as "Vitamin I". Loved the read thanks. |
2006-09-14 2:39 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Veteran 259 Maryland | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Great post. My first tri was to be Saturday, (nation's tri) but the swim was cancelled. It is now a duath. I immediately had to find another race to do (Gen. Smallwood on the 30th), so that I can call myself a triathlete and FINALLY put the swim-bike-run sticker on my truck bumper. Larry |
2006-09-14 3:12 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Master 2060 Northern California | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Only 3 of those apply to me. Does that mean I am less of a triathlete? |
2006-09-14 6:39 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Extreme Veteran 321 Guelph | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Great .. great post, i've been at this just over a year and alot of this is me already and I can see more of it on the horizon. Made my night |
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2006-09-14 8:44 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Expert 1023 Malvern, England | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Great post. Very funny....and the sad thing is I had to resist asking my hubby to read through it 'cos he just wouldn't understand. Jackie PS My dog loves to come out with me but after about an hour she isn't pulling anymore and occasionally looks up at me with a sorrowful "is this nearly over" look. |
2006-09-14 9:48 PM in reply to: #540556 |
New user 72 | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) You have a water bottle when you drive your car. You can't change the oil in your car but you can completely rebuild your bike in 45 mins you spend more $ on training and racing clothes then work clothes You clean your bike more often than your car You have more water bottles than glasses in your cupboard You have plenty of water bottles, safety pins, and t-shirts. When non-racer friends tell you they ran/rode you automatically calculate their pace to see if you're still in better shape. Okay...so I'm sorta, kinda on my way to being a triathlete, right??? |
2006-09-14 10:31 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Champion 5807 Henderson NV | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) The worst part is I am new (really new) and I saw 3 women riding and I was watching their Cadence. |
2006-09-14 11:01 PM in reply to: #542009 |
Extreme Veteran 317 Geneva, Illinois | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) "You know you are a triathlete, when you go to family reunions to pick up chicks...." Oh wait!...sorry, wrong type of list! Yes! Those are all so true, exagerated, but cool! |
2006-09-15 6:47 AM in reply to: #540556 |
Member 39 | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) "You have no FRIGGIN idea what to do with yourself on your off day." I'm not a triathlete yet, but this is true for me. Some days I just can't stand to rest and have to go for a jog or something. |
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2006-09-15 11:13 AM in reply to: #542009 |
New user 72 | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) The worst part is I am new (really new) and I saw 3 women riding and I was watching their Cadence. Dude, we all do that. I've been riding since I was 12 (really riding...training for organized rides riding; also at the age where guys should be much more important than bikes) and I couldn't tell you if I was passing a guy or a girl on a bike, but I could tell you what kind of bike I was passing, what components s/he was riding and whether or not the rider stood a chance at feeling good at the end of the ride (you know, based on form, perceived exersion, all that). Yeah, I was 12. |
2006-09-15 12:27 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Pro 4292 Evanston, | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Ooh, one of my best dates this year was a 5 mile run. The thought of a 10-mile run date give me shivers. |
2006-09-15 12:50 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Champion 6993 Chicago, Illinois | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) yeah. I got a girl coming in but nothing in happen because she wants to Qualfy for the Olympic trails. You also forgot when you go to Las Vegas but staying out late to you is 8 pm. When you have to run a 5k and you say you would feel better about it if you swam .5 miles and bike 12.5 miles before it. |
2006-09-15 12:51 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Pro 3673 MAC-opolis | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) |
2006-09-15 1:44 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Expert 1148 NW Suburbs, Illinois | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) Very good. I liked it a lot. I think I am in the 65-75% range on which ones apply to me....or Zone 1, if you will....heheeheee |
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2006-09-17 6:00 PM in reply to: #540556 |
Expert 936 Springfield, MO | Subject: RE: you know you're are a triathlete when!!!! (Great Read) |