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This is a multiple choice poll.

Triathlon has...
BY: Guest on 2012-10-10 8:47 AM

I got to thinking today that it will be soon be BT's official 10 year anniversary next year 2013.  10 years of improving peoples health - my primary mission in starting the site and one that we hope to continue with BT's big present next year.

I want to throw up this poll to see how triathlon has positively affected your health.  

Feel free to add options and to give us your story.  It is multivoting, click all that applies.  Who knows, it could become a good article for the New Year's beginners and give them just the inspiration and reasons needed for someone to turn their health around.

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RE: Triathlon has...
BY: danrayner on 2012-10-10 8:52 AM

I wanted to add ".....made me look good in spandex" but I decided against it!!

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: BrianRunsPhilly on 2012-10-10 9:19 AM

...taken care of whatever excess income I might have had.

I added "Made me lots of new friends, because I'm having a Kona party this weekend and nearly everyone who will be there I even didn't know before two years ago, when I started triathlon.

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2014 Goal: Plan less, race more. Local sprints, 5 k's, couple Oly's.
This is supposed to be fun, right?

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: briderdt on 2012-10-10 9:33 AM

I actually just had my blood profile done last month...

Total cholesterol: 147.
HDL: 57, LDL: 77, Triglycerides: 62
Non-fasting blood glucose: 84
Body fat: 11%
Resting pulse: 40

Not bad for a 49-year-old...

But best of all, thanks to tri (and specifically BT!) I met the woman who became my wife (Lisa, lkct01234) on New Year's Eve almost 2 years ago.

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-- Dave T
From this day hence... you are "keyboard warrior" -- Leegoocrap

http://www.mjolnircycles.com/
https://triomultisport.com/

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: GetWetInAZ on 2012-10-10 10:49 AM

Mental health wise I have never been better.  Happier, less stressed, just all around feeling good.

Today is my day 9 off of chewing tobacco.  Oct. 2 was my quit date.  Even though I have only done one tri, this sport has given me a lot of motivation to final flush what tobacco I had left and vow never to touch the stuff again.  This sport has really grabbed me and I want to see what I can do with it.  I know that the tobacco was holding me back, so it had to go.  So I guess you could say that Triathlon has helped me take me life back from nicotine.

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: BikerGrrrl on 2012-10-10 12:48 PM

While a lot of these might apply to me, I just picked the one that's been a constant:  Made me a lot of new friends.  That really stands out. I have SO many more friends both locally and a nationwide network.    I think that's amazing.   Although, I really attribute that to BT specifically (and not triathlon in general).
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
~Ayn Rand

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: ericwjacobson on 2012-10-10 2:11 PM

Just about "All of the above"

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: CycloneVM on 2012-10-10 2:43 PM

Count me as one of the 50+ lb LOSERS.  I had quite a few coworkers that were runners (not fast runners, but they did it) and they kind of inspired me to start.  Once I told them I was a swimmer in HS they immediately started talking about how I could complete a Sprint - "Not a freaking chance!" I told them.  That was just my defense mechanism for not doing it, though.  In my mind I already knew that I could do it, I just had to have the desire to.  Didn't do much with the thought until blurting the idea of a sprint to my sister in October 2011 - she was immediately excited and it was going to happen!

Three tris this year of varying success levels - but all of them FINISHED.  Very excited to see what I can get my engine to do next.

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: amerimanyo on 2012-10-10 3:52 PM

hopefully you can share your tips on quitting. I have been chewing for 20 yrs and would love to quit. I dislike how my body feels with it, but am afraid of the nicotine withdrawl. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: GetWetInAZ on 2012-10-10 7:36 PM

Absolutely, I found two thing's that are really helping.  I will PM you with some info, either tonight, or after my morning workout.

Mike

 

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: petert01 on 2012-10-11 8:36 AM

This is a great poll and its very interesting to see the health benefits so many of us have realized by becoming triathletes. I just started tri training a few months ago in order to get in better cardiovascular shape and have seen great results so far. Next season is when I plan on competing in my first race and hope that as I start training more seriously ill continue to see great results.

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: quasimodo63 on 2012-10-11 9:26 AM

Triathlon has done a great deal for me.  Some of you may remember my post about losing 100 pounds and completing a half ironman.  I was going to post a link but was too lazy to look for it.  On January 2nd I weighed 300 pounds, my blood pressure was 174/120 and my resting heart rate was 96.  I lost about 15 pounds in 12 weeks basically running and riding an excercise bike, and eating right.  I then signed up for the Racine Half Ironman woefully unprepared.  This was the end of March.  Over the next 3 and a half months I joined a forum group (Thanks, Steve), learned all I could and trained my off.  I finished in 7 and a half hours, and it changed me!  It's been nine and a half months, and I currently weigh 191 pounds (15 % or so body fat), my resting heart rate is 42, and my BP is usually around 120/70.  Oh yeah, I don't have asthma anymore either.  Triathlon has given me something to occupy my obssessive personality in a positive way.  I don't sit around and think how good pizza and beer sound (I was also a problem drinker and haven't had any alcohol in 9 and a half months).  I've gained confidence, energy, and a new passion for life.  The only negatives are that my but hurts sitting on bleachers because I don't have a big butt anymore, and I'm cold all the time without the extra insulation.  Go Triathlon!!!

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: mcgilmartin on 2012-10-11 10:03 AM

x2, largely because of BT.  It's the reason I continue to be a mentor, too.

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"Math is hard"
~Barbie

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: McFuzz on 2012-10-12 12:45 PM

I'd lost weight and got active before I started triathlons, but ithas helped me stay active and keep the weight off for 7+ years. 

I've made a lot of new friends, and met some wonderful people in real life that I first met on BT. 

Provided a lot of positive mental training.  I'm quite grateful to have been a BT mentor on several occasions and that has been as beneficial to me as it has been to my proteges. 

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RE: Triathlon has...
BY: tech_geezer on 2012-10-12 1:04 PM

I was getting lots of little overuse injuries from running back 12 years ago.  I started riding an exercise bike to reduce the strain from running, then I started swimming some too.  Then, I rode my old road bike outside again after many years which rekindled a favorite hobby of 30 years ago.  Things fell into a regular routine.  What I do looks like triathon training, but I never actually felt the need to enter a race. But, I have stayed injury free mostly for maybe 12 years. 

I am currently on a training break because family life has intervened but I will be back.  The running bag is packed and in the car for any opportunity.   

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: SpeedKnight on 2012-10-12 4:53 PM

Triathlon has given me a way to say "YES, I have a gut.  NO, I'm not a small guy.  I HAVE finished triathlons!"
To me, triathlon is a means of showing to the society that we live within, that one does not have to be rail thin to be happy, active, or "in shape."

Where some wish to be more than just a "finisher," I take great pride in it.  It all leads me back to a recent thread that pointed out DLF > DNF > DNS, when DNF was due to quitting and DNS was due to cowardice.
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Jim, The Kilted Clydesdale
"You don't have to finish fast. You just have to finish!"
http://clydesdaleracing.wordpress.com

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: kmfioc on 2012-10-13 8:47 AM

Mike/amerimanyo,

Please send that info my way as well. Tri s have made me healthier overall, but can't seem to kick this habit. Want to be able to do so before my child is old enough to take notice. TIA

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: SpeedKnight on 2012-10-13 8:58 AM

For the guys trying to give up chewing tobacco, might I be so bold as to suggest what I did.

Just.
Stop.

Finish the can/pouch you have now.  Then, don't replace it. 

Seriously... just give it up.

 

I did it.  I'm nothing special. 

 

Besides... if you've ever finished a triathlon, you've already proven you have the gumption.

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Jim, The Kilted Clydesdale
"You don't have to finish fast. You just have to finish!"
http://clydesdaleracing.wordpress.com

RE: Triathlon has...
BY: 1stTimeTri on 2012-10-13 2:01 PM

made me find this sight.

It made me find some cool people to chat with on the Interwebz and share thoughts, ideas, and other odd things that I never would have found in my real life and at work.