Was it the race in Wycoff? My wife did that 3 years ago. No the race she did yesterday was in Colorado, which I am learning is not runner but rather triathlete dominated.
Was it the race in Wycoff? My wife did that 3 years ago. No the race she did yesterday was in Colorado, which I am learning is not runner but rather triathlete dominated.
And just what do you think football players and basketball players say about runners? Most are pretty gay! Put it in perspective...
Triathlon is mostly made up of Type-A white guys/gals who are highly educated and make $80k or higher. These sorts of people ALWAYS talk about themselves and what they're doing.
true dat
The modern definition of running is all about the "human spirit". The modern definition of triathlon is "look at how much bike stuff I can afford".
I think tri athletes are nice
I did triathlons for a little over 10 years, including 7 IM races. Had a lot of fun.
Can't say I remember much about my daughter for a few years, though, since I worked 40+ hours per week and then trained for 30 hours.
In my book, that's the essence of triathlon, right there. The sport is so in love with the IM mythology of finding out what you have inside that many of us driven people spend all our time there.
I am a runner turned triathlete/runner.
I find triathletes pretty friendly and willing to help each other. In many ways less cutthroat competitive than runners. My exerience is that runners take losing or a bad performance worse than triathletes.
Triathletes are generally richer and older. People are more impressed when you tell them you are a triathlete than when you tell them you are runner. (Actually I find running races more mentally and physically challenging) It is fun to be a runner triathlete because you are passing so many people during the running portion of the race.
I will have to agree I feel a bit more smug telling people I am a triathlete than a runner. People on rare occasion will have somer negative comment about running...."aren't you worried about the pounding on your knees", "running to me would be so boring","I hate running". No one criticizes the triathlon.
Personally I think running is more of a true sport because the amount that you spend (bike) is not a factor.
Triathletes are the Andy Bernards of the Endurance World.
Track Fan wrote:
I was watching my wife at a tri today. Good god, the # of tri tools who strut around thinking ...
So you married a tool? You sound like real winner yourself.
Triathletes are just like runners in that they like getting outdoors and exercising. Maybe they ride a bike to commute or have had injuries from running. Maybe they swam as a kid and wanted to continue this as an adult, so they got into triathlon.
Every sport has it's tossers. Ive seen some pretty pathetic runners, who seem to think they're better than anyone else because they are so frigging wimpy ... I can tell you now, no one is envious
just relax with all the venom, in case you haven't realised, the run leg is the most important part of a triathlon. An ironman run is a marathon.
People who do neither probably think triathletes are tools and they probably think runners are tools. Talking about mileage, PBs, heart rate, running shoes and injuries is just as boring as talking about swim sets, bikes and transition bags. More so because it's 1 dimensional.
branch out guys, borrow a bike (it's not about the bike but the engine that drives it) and try a new challenge
kenny powers wrote:
“You’re not the only athlete here at Jeff Davis. I happen to be training for a Triathlon right now. Well, you know all about that.”
“No, actually I don’t. I play real sports. I’m not trying to be the best at exercising.”
--Kenny Powers (2009)
If trying to compete at three disciplines all at once is called exercising, what do you call a decathlon? That must be like physical education.
johnny rotten wrote:
I did triathlons for a little over 10 years, including 7 IM races. Had a lot of fun.
Can't say I remember much about my daughter for a few years, though, since I worked 40+ hours per week and then trained for 30 hours.
In my book, that's the essence of triathlon, right there. The sport is so in love with the IM mythology of finding out what you have inside that many of us driven people spend all our time there.
Thank you for being honest about that. And yes, THAT is what might bother me the most about tri-guys/gals (besides their incessant need to talk about their training/racing): many ignore their families in the name of their game, and many of those guys/gals aren't even that good! It is mind boggling to me that they think they deserve praise and adulation for being slightly better than mediocre athletes when they are spending countless hours on it and when they could/should be paying more attention to their family. That is not an impressive person, that is obsessive compulsive, self-absorbed egomaniac.
"can't remember much about my daughter for a few years..." Very sad, very sad, indeed. Again, thank you for being honest, but you might as well have been down on bar-stool for those 30 hours a week for all she cares, it amounts to the same thing for her: you weren't around, you had better things to do than to spend time with her.
OldXCguy wrote:
Regarding cyclists, I frequently smile watching them go by when I recall a thread someone started a couple of years ago titled something like, "Why do bicyclists always have to dress up like super heroes to go out for a ride?" Thank you to whoever posted that, because it always cracks me up.
You're welcome.
(I started that thread. I like to stir up trouble now and then.
"Did Shorter Kill Pre" was one of mine also. Look at me patting myself on the back, I more full of myself than a triathlete ! :-) )
Putting the shot, hurdling, and high jumping are not exercising.
. . . wrote:
kenny powers wrote:“You’re not the only athlete here at Jeff Davis. I happen to be training for a Triathlon right now. Well, you know all about that.”
“No, actually I don’t. I play real sports. I’m not trying to be the best at exercising.”
--Kenny Powers (2009)
If trying to compete at three disciplines all at once is called exercising, what do you call a decathlon? That must be like physical education.
As a runner, I never talk about MPW, HR, PBs, or injuries and neither do any of my running buddies.
charlesn wrote:
Triathletes are just like runners in that they like getting outdoors and exercising. Maybe they ride a bike to commute or have had injuries from running. Maybe they swam as a kid and wanted to continue this as an adult, so they got into triathlon.
Every sport has it's tossers. Ive seen some pretty pathetic runners, who seem to think they're better than anyone else because they are so frigging wimpy ... I can tell you now, no one is envious
just relax with all the venom, in case you haven't realised, the run leg is the most important part of a triathlon. An ironman run is a marathon.
People who do neither probably think triathletes are tools and they probably think runners are tools. Talking about mileage, PBs, heart rate, running shoes and injuries is just as boring as talking about swim sets, bikes and transition bags. More so because it's 1 dimensional.
branch out guys, borrow a bike (it's not about the bike but the engine that drives it) and try a new challenge
ickybana5 wrote:
I think the thing about triathletes that irks most people is that their sport is one of those niche sports where there is not much depth and you kind of have to be rich to compete. It is the opposite of running: cheap, simple and anyone can do it. To be a top runner, you have to be faster than a huge pool of competitors. To be a top triathlete, you have to be pretty good at three different sports and have the expendable income to purchase high end gear. We, as runners, feel that we have more to brag about with our accomplishments - after all, our sport is more competitive and doesn't depend heavily on the size of our wallets.
Triathletes interpret the miniscule participation in their sport to mean that other people are too weak to compete with them. They do not stop to consider that it could be due instead to a lack of interest. It is the same with ultra-marathoners. You, me and your cousin could probably walk-jog 100 miles, but we have better things to do with our time. We don't do ultra-marathons because we don't want to, not because we can't.
This is an important distinction and I think there would be much less animosity between triathletes/ultra-runners and normal runners if the former group understood this a little better.
Anyway, just my two cents.
I disagree. I am no triathlete either. I don't think you have to be rich at all to do it. Don't get an incredibly expensive bike and then it is no more expensive than any other sport. And I wouldn't say running is cheap. Having to get new shoes all the time gets expensive. So, a triathlete probably does not have to spend as much on shoes as a runner. But yes, they spend it on other equipment. And your statement about anyone can run/walk 100 miles is incorrecct. 100 miles is incredibly far to run/walk and is harder than you actually think. Don't hate on the ultra-marathoners. And no, I am not an ultra-marathoner.
Tommy B wrote:
Having to get new shoes all the time gets expensive.
Not if you're smart, but maybe you're not.
And your statement about anyone can run/walk 100 miles is incorrecct. 100 miles is incredibly far to run/walk and is harder than you actually think. Don't hate on the ultra-marathoners. And no, I am not an ultra-marathoner.
Learn some history sometime, study "forced marches."
OK in the 1st degree wrote:
As a runner, I never talk about MPW, HR, PBs, or injuries and neither do any of my running buddies.
nor do I dude (injuries being an exception), but seeing as this whole forum string is based on 1 big generalisation, I thought I\'d make 1 of equal magnitude
WHY DO BICYCLISTS DRESS LIKE SUPER-HEROES FOR EVERY RIDE? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT??? 6/13/2005 1:50PM
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