Sit at my favorite bar drinking cold Coronas and eating chips and queso. Then sleeping in the next day, then lounging with a double-tall nonfat latte and a bagel.

And of course trying not to feel guilty because I didn't work out!

I, too, like to enjoy adult beverages when I want to get away from the routine of training.

Why is it that most triathletes I know love the adult beverages! Maybe there is a connection between the insane training schedules we keep and being lushes!?! Ha, ha.

Yeah, I think that we are so dedicated to our training as triathletes that a night out is just the remedy--only once in a while, tho--LOL. Let loose, have fun, forget about training for the time being ('cause you know you just got finished riding that long ride before meeting up with your buds at the bar)...good times:) And so what if you don't train the next day til later? At least you'll get it in;)

I'm most likely to slack on biking...

not set an alarm, lay on the couch with a blanket and bad tv and chips and salsa, go out on the back of my roommate's motorcycle (however, there is a great local biking road -- both for bicycles and motorcyles -- and I tend to want to get out there on my road bike the day after motoring it)

a day without training.... hmmm.... how about alone and without the kids as well?

i would get completely decked out in black with a beautiful bag and great shoes and take the earliest train into NYC. i would spend the whole day in SOHO - first start out at a cafe have a giant cappucino and fresh baked warm bread loaded with butter. then i would stroll in and out of each and every boutique shopping till i could no longer carry another package...

then late in the afternoon i'd treat my aching shopaholic body to a relaxing masage and mani/pedi at my favorite day spa. top off the day with a visit to my favorite upper east side bar. i'd have a couple of tangueray and tonics and just enjoy people watching and thinking about my wonderful day. then i'd hail a cab and head back to the train. back to LI... back to the real world.

you dirty dog, you! ( just kidding)

i am soooooooooooooooooo jealous! but i hope you had fun in my favorite place on earth!

That sounds great Shaun... my surfboard is mad at me cause I haven't used it since Oct 2003!!! I need to make a fun morning like that sometime!

Sometimes I think that just about anything would sound cooler than training.

For me training is so closely linked up with what I am eating, and my number one indulgence is wings. I love em. And of course we all know what comes hand in hand with wings-BEER. Wings+BEER+me= no training for the day.

Although Beer is not all bad. The night before a race or a big training ride I always down two Guinesses, and think about the commercials. "BRILLIANT!" Then I pound water and pass out. Because I used to be a hella lush, and now I am an Ironman Dreamer.

Sleeping all afternoon on the couch does sound pretty sexy too though! :rolleyes:

Actually SB, there's nothing I'd rather do than ride a bike, run through the park or go to the lake for a swim.
This is where I live and train:

If you look closely, there's a road along the lake on the far side. That's part of the Ironman Canada bike route.
I swim in the bay on the far side of this pic and sometimes I swim across to the point there and run the 11km home in wet runners.

so of course, I like training!

PoC

PrinceofClydes
great pics...i did IMC 2000, it was a beautiful course, and the people were fantasic!

Thanks, glad you like them. I agree the atmosphere during Ironweek in Penticton is second to none. I'm looking forward to this year's race.

PoC