triathlon on biggest loser!!!
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Leroy Bonkers posted 6 weeks ago.
Yeah, I'm a biggest loser fan. It's the only show we watch. Ali was actually a decent swimmer! And while the bikes were a riot, even funnier were the BMX helmets.
I've got to give them props. I am so glad that I don't have to climb 44 flights of stairs as the fourth event. Crazy. And a final observation... isn't there a lot a crying men on that show? I'm fully amenable to being sensitive and all that feminine crap... but give it a rest Mark. Even his wife was telling him to toughen up!
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scottbland247 posted 6 weeks ago.
yeah, my wife loves watching the show with me becuase I get so fed up with the tear fest....i mean can't these dudes eat a sandwich without crying....
the "man up" factor of taking one for the team and volunteering to go home is completely negated by the ridiculous sobbing speeches and groping man hugs
its down right nausiating
It is better to hurt from doing something than from doing nothing...
First Triathlon (400m/20k/2.75mile) 1:39.15 including 33 minutes in the water
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Socket posted 6 weeks ago.
I watch that show with my girl every week. We think the tear-fests are hilarious, especially when his wife said "Are you crying AGAIN?!" :-)
44 floors isn't exceedingly horrifying, but you have no idea how disheartening it is climbing up in little circles and every floor looks exactly the same thinking "I must be at least half way by now" but you've only gone a few stories. It'd be like running with the same scenery repeated every 10 feet.
I'm really thinking of skipping the Urbanathlon this year after last year's 52 floors after running 8 miles and the last 4 of them with a blown knee. It was fun, right up until then. Especially the coming back down part.
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ChunkyB posted 6 weeks ago.
They actually did one last season, but it was indoors, and it was totally screwed up. The started with the treadmill run, and the first 6 people to finish got to advance. Then they did stationary bikes, and the first 3 people to finish got to advance. Then they did a pool swim and the first person to finish was the winner.
The thing that sucked is that the same lady won the run and bike, but it didn't give her any kind of advantage on the swim. They all had to start each event at the same time. So this one lady that barely made it to the swim won because she used to be a swim teacher or something. I was pissed.
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Socket posted 6 weeks ago.
I remember that one! I don't think I was even all that into tris at that point and I still thought it messed up. Even if they started the same time for each event, the lowest total time should still win.
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ChunkyB posted 6 weeks ago.
And the worst part is that she got to share the prize with one other contestant, and she didn't share it with the lady that pretty much dominated the whole thing. I guess I'm still pretty bitter about the whole thing.
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watrbg2 posted 6 weeks ago.
Socket wrote:
Sort of like running on a treadmill? :)
It'd be like running with the same scenery repeated every 10 feet.
The whole crying man thing is starting to get to me, too. I like a sensitive guy but enough is enough, most women don't cry that much. The biggest loser men are becoming high maintenance.
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Leroy Bonkers posted 6 weeks ago.
Maybe those "Hungry Man" commericals are right? Eat like a man, Mark.
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diva_mom posted 6 weeks ago.
I had to turn it off last night. Too much man-crying.
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qb ant posted 6 weeks ago.
I never watch the show but do watch Law & Order which comes on right after so when I turned on the TV a few minutes early for L&O, I caught the last five minutes of the biggest loser and thought I was gonna throw up - Richard Simmons must be so proud!
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In a very nerdy way I was ridiculously excited to see them do a triathlon (albeit heavily modified) while in australia in yesterdays episode. It was awesome.....although, what was with those bikes?
It is better to hurt from doing something than from doing nothing...
First Triathlon (400m/20k/2.75mile) 1:39.15 including 33 minutes in the water