That water looks wet, so ... not feeling it today.

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Ok, nothing these guys do could remotely be confused with training but there's a group of
guys that are denizens at the local YMCA.

The most they will ever do is walk a mile. If the whirlpool is closed for whatever reason they
won't even do that and off they head straight to IHOP.

So, no whirlpool, no one mile walk.

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Personally I won't run if it's raining to threatening to rain. I'll cut a training run short if it starts to rain and looks like it won't stop

These are the ones I've heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA

The last one is the best one ...

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My favorite was just this week ... I'm short course racer but the group I train with occasionally are training for a HIM. This weekend they said they couldn't train on Saturday (Bike) because they had a 10k run on Sunday they wanted to be ready for. My mind went ... KAAABOOOOMMM!

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"Friends is on"

Running in the rain is one of my favorite things in the world!!!

Forgot my iPod.

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"I want to lose weight, but I really want to focus on it, since I think I can't focus 100%, instead I will do nothing."

I don't really hear it as much as I see it - at my pool, if it's raining. I'll be the only one swimming.

Call me crazy, but wet is wet. :-|

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List of what life owes you:
1. __________
2. __________
3. __________

"My trainer didn't do a good job motivating me." (I'm paraphrasing here.)

I blew my knee playing ultimate frisbee. I'm unable to run [or workout for that matter] until the end of time.

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"It's too dangerous to ride where I live."

What's lame about that is that people would choose to live somewhere that fits that description.

Can't swim... It's raining.

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yah, see post 11 above. I don't mind the pool to myself. but, it is ironic.

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List of what life owes you:
1. __________
2. __________
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In all fairness, I took it easy last saturday so I would be rested a bit for a short race on sunday.

To make up for it I rode 75 miles on friday instead.

Yeah they didn't race the 10k they "worked on pacing" and it took them 51 minutes. I guess different levels of athleticism and commitment but to me if you're doing a HIM in July you should be working out 6-7 days a week at various intensities at this point. They tend to think 3-4 days a week of any intensity is "training" haha

Again in all fairness they are just in it to complete where as I'm a highly competitive guy. I sometimes question others logic using the wrong lens so to speak.

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I know a guy who aborted a training run one time because his GPS watch wouldn't synch with a satellite. True story.

Mark

Too funny ... mostly because I almost bailed on swimming today because it's a rainy day. I was hemming and hawing going to the pool only to have the lightening sensor go off but I did go ahead and go anyway. The alarm did sound about 30 minutes in but I did get to swim some.

Once I'm in and it's raining I'm fine but standing on the deck when it's raining feels silly to me.

"I'm going to exercise, but not until tomorrow"

Ok, I was close to this on many occasions. I finally decided to go ahead without gps or a watch and timed myself by the songs that played on my ipod and then mapmyrun.com to get the distances I ran.

Dave Matthews Band is really easy to run to for tempo, but Foo Fighters is for Fartleks!! In case your gps/watch craps out and you need to run to something.

Up here in the NE I overheard many times this winter, "Can't swim, it's too cold outside" (in an indoor pool)

And this is from people that run outdoors in the teens F

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What are you talking about? This is totally valid. Garmin didn't see it, I didn't do it. Why do you think there are so many bitch threads about Garmin's not uploading data?

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To be fair, some pools close during rain (indoor) mainly because of the threat of lightning.