I feel like complaining
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diluzio123 posted 17 weeks ago.
This has been my first season and I've been training since the first week of November. I'm ready for the offseason. I see several holes in my training plan, and I'm looking forward to working on my plan here and getting back to it on Monday November 17th!
"To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt." --Scott Tinley
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KitKat posted 17 weeks ago.
If someone shit in my pool I'd be made too. WTF?
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SueR posted 17 weeks ago.
If someone shit in the pool, I would be way pissed off. With that kind of luck of course you suffered on the bike...Seriously, shit in the pool?
110 degrees??? You don't need winter, you need to move to Newfoundland. It was 15 degrees celsius here and raining. Nice and cool. Great climbing weather. Brrrrr.
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vanjames posted 17 weeks ago.
Many more take care of business at the start line of a swim. What's the diff? jk. Sucks to have a floatie.
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TriSooner posted 17 weeks ago.
diluzio123 wrote:
This has been my first season and I've been training since the first week of November. I'm ready for the offseason. I see several holes in my training plan, and I'm looking forward to working on my plan here and getting back to it on Monday November 17th!
Me too. Have done probably 10 hours in July since IM. Go me. This time of year - 100 degrees every day - I'm more interested in couches, air conditioning, and beer by in the pool.
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Leroy Bonkers posted 17 weeks ago.
Get a snorkel and "overcome" it. He he he... naw, that's nasty.
You should teach that kid a lesson. If he poops in your pool you should go swim in his toilet. On second thought... not really helping here.
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diva_mom posted 17 weeks ago.
beer in the pool is much better than poop in the pool.
Don't be so easy on yourself 'cause this one might be all that you have left
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beads1985 posted 17 weeks ago.
Are you sure it wasn't a 'Baby Ruth'? ('Caddyshack' reference)
Sounds like it was just an off day, regroup and then punt ;-)
Nothing to it, but to do it
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TryScott posted 17 weeks ago.
I can complain to you guys, but if I dare say anything negative about training to someone else, I already know the reply. "Why are you doing it then?"
Yesterday I emailed my wife about doing my first HIM on Oct 25. Her reply wasn't "Great idea, that's only 60 min from where my Grandma lives, and 60 min from Disney!" and she didn't give a constructive reason not to. She said "Have fun...you do not need my permission to make your body feel like crap."
Unrelated to people not understanding, but still a complaint: This time last year, my brother begged and begged me to run road races with him. Now that I'm in shape, I asked him to run a 5k last week, and he watched instead. We did our first 10 mile and half marathon together last year, but in May when I did my first marathon, he changed his mind 2 weeks before the race and signed up for the half.
Basically, I need to surround myself with competitive people, so I don't feel so out of place.
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danpatgal posted 17 weeks ago.
Though I don't think 100 degrees is nice, 25% humidity would be a blessing. It was probably only 85 degrees yesterday but with 70% humidity or something (we're often up around 80% or 90% too), my bike home and quick 20 minute run left me dripping all over the place. I jumped in a cold shower and was still sweating 15 minutes later. I recall vividly the frozen fingers and toes and 16 layers of clothing to bike in winter, so I am trying not to bitch about sweating like a garden hose, but some Fall weather would sure be nice. Just another month maybe, yes?
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trigirltina2 posted 17 weeks ago.
TryScott wrote:
I can complain to you guys, but if I dare say anything negative about training to someone else, I already know the reply. "Why are you doing it then?"Yesterday I emailed my wife about doing my first HIM on Oct 25. Her reply wasn't "Great idea, that's only 60 min from where my Grandma lives, and 60 min from Disney!" and she didn't give a constructive reason not to. She said "Have fun...you do not need my permission to make your body feel like crap."
Unrelated to people not understanding, but still a complaint: This time last year, my brother begged and begged me to run road races with him. Now that I'm in shape, I asked him to run a 5k last week, and he watched instead. We did our first 10 mile and half marathon together last year, but in May when I did my first marathon, he changed his mind 2 weeks before the race and signed up for the half.
Basically, I need to surround myself with competitive people, so I don't feel so out of place.
Be careful. Family is first, but could feel competitive for their own reasons when it sounds like you've pulled all your training together. Remind the wife grandma lives an hour away or that Disney is there too. Hit it before she can say have fun. Your brother, you could remind him how it felt to do the the race together and finish together. Surround yourself with the competitive people, but keep family closer.
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olivestri posted 17 weeks ago.
darn - i was trying to be first with the baby ruth reference.
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PrinceofClydes posted 17 weeks ago.
Two years ago I was on the beach in Mexico and a rain squall came over. The wind picked up. We had no shelter and no rain clothes. I was wet, very cold and far from the hotel, besides we had paid for beach admission - it was a dolphin park.
I swore that if God would only make it stop and the sun come out I would NEVER again complain about being too hot during the summer, so.. bring on the 100 degrees and the humidity.
Remember, I live in Canada. You people don't know from cold!
heh.
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PrinceofClydes posted 17 weeks ago.
Good one. Somebody's brain is working this Tuesday morning.
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diva_mom posted 17 weeks ago.
Once the poo is in the pool - it takes days for me to get back in it. I know it opens within a few hours, and I'm sure it's still cleaner than the OW swim I did on Sunday, I still can't get right back in it.
If it's yellow, let it mellow
If it's brown, flush it down
Don't be so easy on yourself 'cause this one might be all that you have left
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azmojo804 posted 17 weeks ago.
One of the last tri's I did, the kid's went first, then the adults. At the end of one of the laps, the kid was saying to the cheering father, "I threw up in the pool" and the father said, "it's okay, keep going!"
I thought to myself, "Self, please don't swallow any water, please!" Nasty!!! :) Not as bad as poop, but there was probably some of that too. :(
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Raygir posted 17 weeks ago.
Yeah I can relate,, like the time I was lap swimming and the couple withthe 6 month old baby thought it would be cute to teach baby to swim in my lane- I was next to the stairs- WITHOUT A DIAPER- not happy and told them as much,, didnt make any friends that day
,,, oh well just simulating swimming in one of the local bays where the boats have the habit of releasing the wrinkle back brown trouts into the bay. yuck I wont mention the bay's name as it it has a couple more races coming up this season but it rhymes with Fishin Hay
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JMA posted 17 weeks ago.
beads1985 wrote:
Are you sure it wasn't a 'Baby Ruth'? ('Caddyshack' reference)
So at 2:30 today I went to the YMCA to go swim but some kid had pooped in the pool. So I drove home and got on my bike. I was planing on doing an area with hills then going and doing some flat areas. It was 100 degrees and 25% humidity. Usually I don't have an issue with biking when it is under 110 degrees while I am doing flat areas but for some reason I had issues with doing the hills. I don't know if it was the humidity or the fact that I go so much slower on the hills but it felt ridiculously hot.
Anyone else ready for winter? Anyone else feel like complaining?