Not attractive at all. I'm not sure if it was because she was trying to flex and pose like in a body-building competition, but that is definitely not my cup of tea. I'm sure it's fast though.

i prefer my women with just a little more meet on their bones

Yeah no. Good for her, but no.

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Maybe I am crazy, but I think she is totally hot. But then again I have no problem being chicked ;)

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I have no problem with being chicked, either. Probably just gotten used to it.

Anyways, Im not at all attracted to her body, other than her front midsection which is quite nice. The rest of her is thin, but thats the demands of the sport. Look at the guys in this sport. If Macca were any skinnier he'd be invisible.

When it comes to Chrissie, her smile, her hair, her eyes and face are tough to beat. When she quits racing to have a kid, i hope there are pictures then. shes gonna be hot.

The best part is her personality though.

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Not sure what kind of response you are seeking here but I'll play.

I have utmost respect for her as an athlete and greatly admire her endurance feats. Not that she probably cares at all , but her physique is probably not appealing to most men , including endurance freaks like ourselves. But thenagain , her goal is like ours , to get to the line as quickly as possible....and moreso , faster than any other female on the planet. Granted if she wanted to ,she could probably pack on the pounds and attune her physique to what is commonly desired by most males.

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Getting a mixed message. Eating is cheating. Thin to win. Slowtwitch hates fatties. Fat is bad. If someone suggests you have an eating disorder that is a compliment. But wait! Skinny is not sexy. Women should be sexy. So train hard, eat only when absolutely necessary, race to win but please try to look attractive.

Right on.

it is kinda hard, for some women, to train all day and still worry about having curves. I met her in Timberman this year, her body is IMPRESSIVE. When you think about how devoted she must be to our sport to maintain that.... that is work. For a man, like Macca, not so tough. For any woman= I can only imagine what her training / nutrition must be.

Her spirit is even more impressive, just a great person. That body gets her to the podium, and that allows her to do remarkable work for many worthy causes. She is an inspiration, a remarkable human being, and if all that good heart comes in that 0.0000001% package, than good for her for making sure she crosses her T's and dots the i's - this sport needs her, and many less fortunate have been helped in the process.

Guess I'm just having my FITT shake for breakfast.... maybe for lunch & dinner too!! :o)

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"I met her in Timberman this year, her body is IMPRESSIVE."

No need to feel like you need to rant or be defensive. This was exactly my point. In general, female athletes have more muscular builds than the average male would find "attractive" but Chrissie is just so unbelievably fit and like you pointed it out, it's just a byproduct of how devoted she is to her sport.

No no, the implicit message from the crowd here can't be read in any other way than that women should try to stay the f''k away from manly mens sports and stick to the things they do best i.e. raise children and act as eye candy in the background.

Just a short rant before picking up the kid at day care ;p

It wb interesting to find the still pictures from that photo shoot and see how they photo-shopped out the bandaid and made her skin all one tone. Love Chrissie, beautiful inside and out.

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thanks for your post...mixed messages for certain. I was about to lose it until I read your post. it's no wonder people are nuts.

What's up with the bandaid?

I think a requirement to post/reply/bash on this thread should be to include a picture of your body. Then we could see what a "perfect" body looks like ......

I'll take a women that has chrissies body anyway!

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Yep, you're right, totally easy to lose all unnecessary fat and gain muscle in specific areas needed to win an Ironman as a man....like Macca. All men have this super power to easily shed weight and gain muscle in the blink of the eye without any hard work.

It's hard work, man or woman. Society has a specific image for both men and women that affects our job, income, and social lives.

James Brown was on target in the 60's and 70's, not so relevant in the 90's up to today.

Sir Mix-A-Lot ain't callin...

"No no, the implicit message from the crowd here can't be read in any other way than that women should try to stay the f''k away from manly mens sports and stick to the things they do best i.e. raise children and act as eye candy in the background. "
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There are similar comments when a picture of Michael Rasmussen or Andy Schleck with their gaunt physiques are posted.

It's not about society, it's about personal choice. I admire her as an athlete and she has terrific discipline and spirit that make her an amazing person. But we all have physical traits we like. My wife is thin, but theres a line where thin is too thin. I understand many here are incredibly serious triathletes, but we're not quite that serious. If my wife got that thin Id be worried about her, even as we train for our IM this summer.

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Hope you are just kidding? Maria Sharapova? Jennie Finch? Kristi Leskinen? Allison Stokke? Natalie Gulbis? Leryn Franco? Chrissie definitely isn't known for her looks.

Very nicely said.

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For the Medical/Ex Phys people, does an extremely low body fat % contribute to a suppressed immune system which could lead to getting the flu when stressed? Not that the week leading up to defending your Ironman title is stressful...

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super hot. Chrissie if you have trouble getting laid and I'm sure you don't, I'll ask my wife if I can help. Probably a 1 in a million chance but THATS A CHANCE!

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It's a fine line.Body comp plays a lot of factors in health. Think of English Channel swimmers. They need to put on body fat to withstand the cold temperatures of the water for long periods of time. However, carrying the extra pounds when not in water has potential for problems and injuries.

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Ok, but is there something wrong with this statement/sentiment? It's the balance of lifesport. The only thing wrong with the above statement is that it is NOT a mixed message and not just "Women should be sexy".

I haven't done the research, but I would be willing to wage my salary that the majority of people that are now into athletics started it to improve their body image.

I think the "wrong" part is that it often feels like this double standard and you're never, ever good enough.

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exactly

the solution of course is to do whatever the hell you want and the rest of the world can go to hell

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two immediate thoughts:

1) she looks remarkably fit - and i find that attractive. have always liked athletic women. more importantly - since it doesn't particularly matter what i find hot - i admire the hell out of the athletism. like others have said, that body's the result of a whole ton of hard work. (though i take exception to the suggestion that it "comes easy" to macca. . . or any other guy.)

2) my second thought is maybe not so nice, but it's started going through my mind at races. frankly, i see a whole lot of people at tris (women especially, to be honest) who look hugely fit but none too healthy. old before their time, strained, creased, blotchy . . . it's not about 'hotness,' it's about fit 40-year-olds who look 60. i've spent some parts of my athletic career straddling the line between being fit and being healthy, and i do wonder sometimes about others . . .

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Speaking of 40 year olds- Dara Torres is smokin' hot and I would vote for her as one of the hottest female athletes.

Some people need to have their glasses prescriptions updated. Just sayin'.

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Bingo. Probably the best smile in the business.

You know that ad on the back of Triathlete? "The most beautiful women...pinned to their bellies"? EPIC. I'd hang that in my office if it wouldn't distract me all day. My wife says that she's ok with Chrissie being on my top 10 list. *wink*.

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I've noticed that too. Seems like a lot are spending too much time outside without using any sunblock. Add that too a very low body fat, and some of them look much older in the face than they truly are.

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I like to think I represent the demographic you are refering to.

As their representative I would like to tell you I started into athletics for the Fun and comradary!

Do you want to Paypal that money or just send me a check in the mail?

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You expect rational thought when guys talk about women?

Anyway, people are confusing 2 types of beauty. From a triathlon aesthetics perspective, Chrissie is near perfect and therefore beautiful.

From "woman as object" perspective, whatever makes ones boat float and therefore a meaningless discussion.

Its always seemed to me that the more specific guys are about the perfect woman, the more time is spend surfing the net, and less time actually meeting women.

Aieeee! Too many veins!!! Muscle/tone/definition is good. Not fat is good. But that's just not attractive. Too ropy, too veiny, too skinny.

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Schwinggg!

And think, "the camera adds 10 pounds". Her personality and performance is what makes her attractive; her appearance is just a result of that, plus genetics.

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Beautiful, in the sense that function follows form. Very cute face, awesomely sculpted body for her sport, very attractive.

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This is especially true for Ironman races. It definitely favors a lean body type, to the point that many people wouldn't consider it "attractive". That goes for men and women. Look at the Kona pictures...Macca and Raelert are so sinewy that their chests almost look concave. Amazing, amazing fitness though. In general, I find shorter distance triathletes (again, men and women) to be more "attractive" than those that race Ironman. ITU racers have a bit more muscle, a bit more fat, and a bit less skin damage.

Anyways, I think we all know that fitness and looking good are not necessarily the same thing. Function over form for us. Otherwise we'd all be adding some free weights to our routines and not eschewing all forms of upper body strength:).

Realizing that most women may take offense to a lot of these comments, I would like to point out that the majority of women don't find pencil thin men that appealing either. In reality, to be an elite triathlete, most men & women are going top look enemic and the enemic look is just not that hot to most.

wow, I think she looks good. I doubt you could keep that low of BF all year though.

I'd hit it.

Also very well stated. No, we don't expect you to think rationally when it comes to thinking about all of us beautiful creatures ;-)

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Right, elite IMers are at one way extreme end of the 'fit/form' spectrum, just like someone else mentioned the elite grand tour climbers... it's essentially just math & physics that there aren't any curvy chicks or buff dudes at that level in those sports. But that doesn't mean you can't be an elite athlete in shorter more explosive events and look a little healthier and way hotter IMO. I likes me some Lolo Jones, for example. I'm sure CW is super cool and obviously the best at what she does and all, but just to look at? Bleh.

Maybe impressive and functionally supreme from a performance perspective but I don't feel even the slighetest tingle in my johnson. She is no doubt one of the fittest females in the world and I absolutely respect her dominance in the sport but I have a different ideal for my concept of sexy.

Could you explain, why getting to race weight is not tough for Macca or the other guys? It would be even better if your explanation didn't include the word metabolism.

A caloric deficit is a caloric deficit, no matter what your gender, and to take your training to the brink of your physical limits without adequate calories is extremely hard no matter what gender you are. Your gut, glycogen stores, etc do not care if you are M/F.

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looking at that ESPN video of Chrissie Wellington sporting a super lean and musculer body, it is no surprise that she is making mince meat out of her women competitors.

Even though I prefer a woman with some meat on her bones, I find chrissie Wellington attractive.

Joe,

Evolutionary biology has crafted female humans with a hormonal set that really drives them to preserve their fat stores for reproductive purposes......... males not so much. I contend it is much more difficult for females to get them selves extremely lean compared to men. In studies of inexperienced runners training for their first marathon the males dropped tons of weight while the females maintained essentially their exact starting weight. By Slowtwitch standards they had plenty of weight to lose too.

Hugh

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I worked in Mexico with a guy who liked the ahhh.. corn fed womens. He always used to say [in a Mexican accent] "The meat is for the man, the bone is for the dog!". LOL!

Thank goodness there are no mixed messages or double standards in life applied to men. Whew.

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You mean the one on the right or left? Personally, the one on the left is MUCH more attractive, in my opinion.

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And that is exclusive to women?

HER BODY IS BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE OF WHAT IT DOES, NOT HOW IT LOOKS.

Hello medranom and All,

Ahh, the beauty of the female body ..... discussed endlessly through the ages ................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_body_shape

The British Association of Model Agents (AMA) says that female models should be around 34-24-34 in (86-60-86 cm) and at least 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall.[2]

As the late Clive McCay would point out .... Chrissy is doing herself a very big favor by being very thin and it will serve her well by extending her maximum life span, (not that she thinks much about that now - but may later in life) and it greatly improves resistance to cancer and other diseases, and it increases her 'livelyness' or activity level compared to other females with more body fat.

That said she needs to be sure and monitor her other body functions as caloric restriction can suppress her estrogen levels and cause calcium deficits in her bones.

Soon there will be drugs that will allow more body mass but mimic the effects of caloric restriction.

Comments derived from 'The Youth Pill' by David Stipp:

In Aug of 2004 a startup, Sirtris, with $5M in venture capital, gained attention with positive research results for resveratrol (and mimetics) that demonstrated the effects of caloric restriction such as rejuvenation of mammal's mitochondria, (becuse decay of cellular power stations had been implicated in diseases of aging), treating diabetes and neural degeneration. Sitris was purchased in Apr of 2008 by GlaxoSmithKline, a pharma, for $720M.

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Why is my weight a consideration for getting pregnant?

A healthy body weight promotes general health and reduces the likelihood of developing heart disease, some cancers, and diabetes. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is making an investment in your health, your pregnancy health, the health of your future baby, and the well-being of your growing family.

Weight can affect a woman's fertility. Studies have shown that a woman's ability to become pregnant may be severely compromised by two weight-related extremes: excessive thinness and excessive obesity.

Once you do get pregnant, your weight can affect the baby. Underweight women often have smaller babies. Infants with low birthweight (weigh 2500 grams/5-1/2 pounds or less) are at a greater risk of death within the first month of life, as well as increased risk for developmental disabilities and illness throughout their life.

http://www.goldsea.com/...s/Beauty/beauty.html

Evolutionary psychologists have concluded that humans have an innate attraction to beautiful people. Various studies have produced some obvious conclusions: that lateral symmetry and a healthy appearance rate high on universal concepts of beauty. Another universal seems to be the waist-to-hip ratio in women which converges around .7 (e.g. 36-25-36).

One of the most important, however, is a study conducted by Judith Langlois of the University of Texas. It suggests that even 3- to 6-month old babies who haven't been media-conditioned show a distinct preference for faces that conform to a narrow range of facial proportions. Interestingly, these proportions vary little across racial lines. They are uniform enough to have allowed a company called MBA to derive blueprints showing the proportions and angles that make up ideal beauty.


To help ensure that our species survives and continues up the evolutionary ladder, we are genetically coded to be drawn to people who possess traits suggesting health and strong survival and reproductive abilities. These include wideset eyes, high cheekbones, large eyes, full lips, clear light skin, a short nose and a relatively small lower face. The majority happen to be traits that Asian women are more likely to possess than women of other races.

(While I do have a beautiful wife - she is not Asian - those are the thoughts of the author of the article above.)



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Dude, I can't wait to meet you in Clearwater, you should be really easy to pick out of the crowd, the athlete with the giant head. That is an amazing ego to consider yourself the majority and the sole respresentative for millions.

I will be the guy right in front of you at the finish line!!

(Sorry, way off topic, just felt like handing out a little smack talk.)

I did not say it was. But the thread is about a women's body.

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just be thankfull for the HUGE draft i am going to give you on the bike that will allow you to reighn supreme during your run!

thanks me when you are on the podium and all will be fine.

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Guys so rarely talk about the pressures they feel from the media etc about their bodies --- it seems not as "Accepted" as when we chicks whine about it. So if you want it to be fair, explain. What do you feel the double standards and mixed messages are for men?

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Really? I thought it was about an athletes body.

Come on, have you already forgotten Natascha Badman?

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Fine. Tell me about the double standards men feel. (I am not being sarcastic; I know they exist; y'all just don't talk about them)

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I want to participate in a "mens only" triathlon and do all my training in a "mens only" gym...I can dream can't I?

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I wish he was more sensitive/He's TOO sensitive, it's like dating a girl

I want a guy who's fun and carefree/Ughhh he's so irresponsible

I want a guy who's confident and assertive/Ughhh he's a cocky jerk

I want a guy whose aggressive and manly/Ummm...dating Chris Brown was definitely a bad idea

The same guy, acting the same way, could be called either side of each of those by different women. To me that's just life, you can accept that and work through it, or you can throw a hissy fit and get your feelings hurt that there isn't 1 standard for everyone.

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I saw Natascha at O'side 70.3 years ago. Let me tell you, she is an impressive looking woman. I've never seen Chrissie in person but I'll bet she kicks ass. Chrissie is Mojo's favorite athlete in the world. The word "Awesome" in the dictionary only needs Chrissies picture.....no words are neccesessary. She's the Female combo interpretation of Chuck Norris and Dos Equis "most interesting man in the world"

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i think she's rockin. And I'm pumped for her that she got on ESPN.com (no offense Dan but ESPN is some BIG media exposure!)

For what it's worth...I used to be 200 lbs when I lifted weights. In the past 1.5 years since I have started triathlons, I plummeted to 173 lbs. My girlfriend (mother, and other female friends) HATE it...and they are all very vocal about it..

BUT...I don't care. I am convinced that women are just as superficial. We all have our likes and dislikes.

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LOL, yeah, skinny armed big quads guys are looked at with envy at the gym!!! And going to the bar, yeah, the guys with the gut and comb over get all the chicks.

I went for my usuall run at lunch time. This means going to the gym near my work, changing, and then going outside for my run, then coming back into the gym after the run and taking a shower and leaving. There are usually about 100 people, 75% men, working out at any given time. As I have to walk across the entire gym to get to the lockers, I am stared at. Not in envy, but as the "freak" because I have run gear on, I'm soaking in sweat, and I'm not built like he-man.

Remember Charles Atlas and the ad in every comic book with the sand being kicked in the face of the "skinny" kid? Or how about every "mens" magazine for "fitness". Any of those guys look skinny or over-fat? Nope, all toned, hairless, muscular (ok, that sounded very odd). Besides Paul Giamante, Danny Devito, and Jason Alexander, how many other actors are not cookie-cutter?

My wife gives me crap everyday about my weight and diminishing pants size. She loves to go through the family clothes and hold up my 3 year olds t-shirts and ask loudly if the shirt is Williams or Daddy's.

So please, it's not one-sided. Just because some don't complain about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I think you underestimate the pressures guys like bighorsecreek have to face going through life with their big hairy penises.

M'kay

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It's a burden, both literally and figuretively

My post was so brilliant, I again feel compelled to state that her body is BEAUTIFUL because of what it can accomplish, not because of what it subjectively looks like. That body has taken women's iron distance triathlon to a new level. That body races sub 9's. That body is beautiful, regardless of what it looks like.

Agreed. But there is also the charity work, like www.waronals.com and Blazeman. That "body" is also helping to raise funds for ALS. That "body" is strong enough to greet finishers, all of them, after a race and hand out finishers medals.

No matter your personal opinions on beauty, most have to admire her dedication to her fitness and her body is just a by-product of the level she has attained.

Amen to that, you make my point better than I do. What could be more beautiful than all of that.

it's not shocking. Most elite female athletes are very very lean.

I like a sturdy girl myself. Meh, whatever.

WOULD NOT KICK HER OUT OF BED FOR EATING CRACKERS........BUT SAME APPLIES TO ALL THE TOP 100 OR SO WOMEN....

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You only say that because you know she doesn't eat crackers.

You know what I find sexy? Excellence. Success. Good Attitude. Chrissie has it all. She is sexy.

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Another big Amen to that too!!! That is eggsactly the point.

See Shallow Hal.

And photoshop loses 50 pounds, what's the point? Gaaahhh I hate that argument.

And no, I haven't gone to the link--the side commentary is way more interesting. She is who she is.

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You left out: "Everyone hates fat until you put a nipple on it."

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it's not shocking. Most elite female athletes are very very lean.

Not shocking to me at all.

Suggestion: Focus less on the upper body and more on the hips and the legs. Very strong. Very well built. and very powerful.

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Not attractive?

Well, form follows function and I will suggest that Ms. Wellington's form is a beautiful adaptation to the task she has prepared for: Ironman.

Think about these concepts of beauty and the adaptations or settings in which they were conceived:







It's all a matter of context.....

And I happen to think Ms. Wellington is quite fetching. Fast too.

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Dammit Tom,

Now Chip is gonna post the third photo of that series and we will all have to scratch our eyes out...

Huge.... ( I hope not!)

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she can go persistance hunting with me any day

hell- she can lead the hunt=> and go for the kill....

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I don't think I ever said "there are no double standards for men." It's very interesting to read what you and others wrote.

It's interesting to leaf through some Men's Fitness magazines - yes, all the guys are pretty cookie cutter. (At least in female magazines they try to say "love your shape! you can be curvy!" except "curvy" models are still about a size 2). And while female magazines have all kinds of articles about weight loss, all your nutrition articles are focused on gaining muscle.

Just like the men on this thread are clearly attracted to different body shapes of females, I can promise you that there are girls who like skinny runt runners. I'm one of them :-) gorgeous skinny calves and tall and thin, gorgeous.

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Very interesting.

It's not that there isn't one standard for everyone; it's that there are multiple, contradictory standards and you're supposed to live up to all of them.

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Yup life is complicated...

If someone says 'I don't like that look, it's not my style', totally fine with that.

If that same person elaborates with 16 reasons why and how could anyone else possibly disagree with them, then it LOOKS like an attack where none is really warranted (and makes others feel defensive).
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Really? I don't...but maybe it's just that I'm not into staring at dudes. ;)

Never YOUR responsibility if all the conflicting demands on can be blamed on the nameless "they."

NEVER worry about what "they" think of you, expect of you, want from you, unless you can substitute a NAME for the word "they."

Either I'm just being a smartass or I'm just sick of being "chicked".Hell,my girlfriend beat me in a cross-country race last weekend which was just shamefull.Mind you she did win the womens race overall at the age of 46 so I'm not going to complain too much about having such a speedy girl aound the house.

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if the women's only gym is Curves what do we call the men's only gym?

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Tools.


You know that when women say things like "size 2" that 95% (including me) have almost no concept of what the hell that really means. :shrug:


Oh, and I think she's amazing. Very gifted in many respects.


Jay

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I'm not sure it's a compliment to compare her physical beauty to a cheetah. ;-)

That would get me a month's worth of couch time if I said that to my wife.

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She would probably be fine with cheetah. Cougar on the other hand...

;-)

Jodi

Chrissy is doing herself a very big favor by being very thin and it will serve her well by extending her maximum life span

Are you sure about that? Did Mr McCay take into account the oxidative stress produced by IM training and racing at the top level? I do think Chrissie is a phenominal athlete at the top of her game. No question. But does that make her physique traditonally attractive? Does that make her healthy in a reasonable sense of the word? Probably not.

We are the guinea pig generation of endurance sports. There is no real data on the long term repurcussions of IM-type training.....especially at Chrissie's level. If you look at the 1st generation of long distance triathlon athletes, you will find a lot of relatively young people with serious health issues that may or may not be related to the training they did. Hard to see how an intelligent person can discount the possiblity that going to such extremes may not play out well over the long term. Who really knows?

Is Chrissie super fast? Undoubtedly. Is she "fit"? Depends on your definition of the word. Is she healthy? That could be the real question 10 or 20 years from now. And if it turns out that she isn't, will she consider her accomplishments worth the cost? Only time will tell.

And, yes......I would like to know......what IS up with the bandaid?

G

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla.........you don't stop when you're tired.........you stop when the gorilla is tired.

I actually agree with you, I just think it's not a female only scenario. We're all required to live with double/triple/quintuple standards all the time. I just have found, that some people find that harder to grasp than others. I know plenty of women who fully understand they don't meet the "Chrissie" standard and are OK with that because their guy likes some curves. And I know an equal number of guys that are OK with that fact that they might be considered "Too sensitive" by most women, but their wives love them for who they are, that "over sensitivity" means the world to them.

I just find it amusing that so many people twist themselves in a knot hoping for there to be 1 true standard...and for that standard to be them...or what they aspire to. When, through all of human history, at least as far as I've been able to read, people have always wanted different things. Strange...how people, at their core, don't really change over time...yet we always want to pretend they have.

I will get on a soapbox here for a second and state one other, probably obvious statement. In addition to the people who exceedingly naively want to pretend everyone should have the exact same expectations, you have dipsticks who try and put forth the idea that any standard should be OK. If someone wants to be lazy and a complete lard arse, well darn it, that should be just as good as being hard working and fit. OK, clearly that's ridiculous. We should be able to acknowledge and accept that different people will have different standards for what's acceptable and what isn't without becoming so neutered as to say that ANYTHING is OK as long as SOMEONE happens to say it is. OK, soapbox put away now.

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than to do the wrong thing and be rewarded richly.

What I've gained from this thread....


1. Chrissie is THE prime example of a female endurance athlete
2. Chrissie's calves make me feel like an old, fat man
3. I do not find Chrissie sexually appealing whatsoever, but I have immense respect for her abilities and her personality/presence. Different stroke for different folks...
4. Tom D wants to have sexy time with a cheetah

My husband just got his newest issue of Men's Health. There is an article about the "Best Of" in different male sports. I don't think of Craig Alexander as slightly built when I see him in the Triathlon magazine but compared the other 4 guys in the article, he looks VERY lean.... even if you take the massive NFL guy out of the comparison.

She's hot, hit and run, no questions asked. Just show me mercy.....

Huge.

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Mojo has determined that Chrissie is "The Shit"

Haters can hate and suckers can be suckers.......and if i felt like it I could make a rhyme out of the rest or it...... if I felt like it.....

Go Chrissie!!

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Finally, someone with a reasonable response. :)

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I'm not a complete idiot, some of the parts are missing.

so many posts about how unattractive Miss C. is? I love how men can only judge a woman on whether she is fuckable or not.

She's not reading her dissertation on the impact of European regional policy on British small and medium enterprises....she's oiled up and flexing half-naked for the camera.

For the record, I am not judging her, but I'm sure while she was doing this she could've seen this thread coming a mile away. This is the youtube equivalent to a "critique my position" thread, and she's smart enough to have expected a wide range of comments. But if she weren't confident/comfortable with herself then she wouldn't have done it.

I find her very physically attractive, I like lean athletic women. But I've had the opportunity to meat her a Kansas 70.3 a couple times . She is so friendly , approachable , flat out nice. This component of Ms. Wellington adds to her attractiveness . If she were a total bitch or something like that it would affect my overall opinion. Plus you add her world class, best ever staus which is also hot.

To me she's as hot as any of the other women on that youtube clip.

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John Mayer said it best, Your Body Is A Wonderland

And men are judged by their wallet. Big deal, live with it.

BTW, I find it hard to believe you actually read all the posts on this thread and still came up with that conclusion.

There's actually a men's only gym called CUTS - same format as the CURVES, but for guys and slightly different machines. I looked into opening a few franchises about 4-5 years back. Glad I didn't, as they're struggling right now to maintain membership.

Well you sir, surely are a dick. The thread is about her body. From an aesthetics only standpoint (which is what this thread is about), she's a lean, mean (ok not really), triathlon machine. To me: thats not necessarily attractive (although as was said earlier- them abs is kickin'!). To all the peeps that like the absolutely 0.00001% body fat, are y'all into female body builders as well? Similar thing, just opposite end of the muscle spectrum. It seems like everyone on here agrees however that from a whole package standpoint, shes pretty awesome. The smile, the personality; its the bomb.

PV maintains the hottest female atheletes will always be pole vaulters...

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Hello gleveq and All,

You are right - I am not sure - for some of the reasons you mention.

But if you have to go one direction or the other - the very thin way has the most science backing it for disease resistance and life extension.

Insulin response is a marker for aging and we hammer our insulin response with all the sugars we consume for training and racing.

Mark Sisson has written about athletes health training and racing here on ST and on his website.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/...when-you-carb-binge/

It would be interesting to peer down the road and see how we guinea pigs will fare.

Cheers,

Neal

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

I like it.

There are many many things that make a woman fuckable.

I like how many men in general have high standards on the internet. Like every woman better be super model hot complete with air brushing and make up or they just couldn't stomach her. I think it was like a month ago where a photo of 2 woman before some race was posted and somebody refered to them as ample or some shit. Yeah, I would have plowed the crap out of both of them. But then again, I am a pig. I'm ok with that.

    



There is actually really only one, maybe 2, if you find the right one ;-), "things" that make it possible.

If you don't think that look is attractive, then don't look at it. Bottom line is she is an athlete for endurance sports not your child rearing and home making. She is a phenomenal athlete with an unquestionable determination. Take her as a person and athlete and not whether she is attractive to you. Just for the record, there are very few women that in the right situation, we would not all hook up with. Our standards as men are not all that high.

I think the ESPN piece is odd. They have a Triathlete posing like she was a body builder.... many if not all athletes would ( other than body builders ) look out of place/funny/strange doing this.

I don't think it's really a matter of standards. I think when people cut the crap and are honest with themselves they realize you are wired to want to fuck.

I like Mirinda's physique, her legs are sublime.

nice rely. name calling. hope you feel better about your self for it>

interesting point about the equivalent to "critique my position? I guess Michael phillips did a similar thing in I thing si after the big show..But it was photos. I why if swimming forums had a field day with his body. I guess I thought the Miss C. thing would be look at as good press for the sport. maybe by some...

Yes please. I was reminded of this once again during the rebroadcast of Kona yesterday.

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Yeah, me too. I love watching her run. So smooth and powerful. She's a doll in my book, like a bada$$ little pixie.

In 2007 I did a race in Subic Bay, Philippines where I was living at the time. Chrissie was all smiles and personality then, too; rode an old Klein road bike, but body-type-wise was virtually unrecognizable. The change over two years was remarkable. She must have dropped 20 lbs over those two years.