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Origin of the term "BRICK"
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I have read the origin of the triathlon brick is "cloudy." That there is a mystery to it.
I have read that BikeRun "ICK" but that sounds a little dorkey I also heard that the origin in connected to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" from the west coast. That you need to do a bike/run to create a fundamental building block of training. That sounds like some gonga was used.
are either of these true, or are there other explanations.
thanks for your insights
dotmanreds
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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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And I thouhght it was because "after this workout I'm going to shit a brick"!!!

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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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I heard once that it was named after former two-time world duathlon champion Dr. Matt Brick (from New Zealand). Or maybe it's how your quads feel when you start running after a hard ride:)

Scott
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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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'Cause it feels like that's what's attached to your feet when you start the run.




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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [WiScott] [ In reply to ]
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It started back in 3000 BC, when the ancient Sumarians hastily crossed the Tiberius and fled to Larak. During that time the scrolls revealed the term 'Bricanuis', which loosely translated means, 'Do I really have to run now? I just swam the Tiberius'.
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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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When I told my daughter what my Saturday workout was going to be she repeated Bike, Run, ICK...BRICK

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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [JReed] [ In reply to ]
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And I thouhght it was because "after this workout I'm going to shit a brick"!!!
Thats what I thought too! So it has nothing to do with that?

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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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I think it just evolved from the early weekly hand written training calendars or logs. Something like B/R: 3:00/1:00. The B/R just morphed into BRICK instead of verbally telling someone you had to Bike Run on Sunday your said Brick.
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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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Strangely, in Quebec a lot of people use brick to mean a Swim/Bike/Run workout. Just Bike/Run is a transition workout.
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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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I think I read years ago that Mark Sisson and a bunch were out on a ride and he said when he got back he was going to go for a run. When asked why he said he was just putting another brick in the wall. I could be completely wrong on this.
Monty could probablly tell us exactly how it came up. Hell, he was probably there when it was first used.
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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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Because if you do it right, you would rather be hit in the head with a brick than do it again!
That is a quote... but I don't remember where from.

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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [dotmanreds] [ In reply to ]
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Triathlon legend tells that Mark Sisson (former Tri-Fed Executive Director & ITU Secretary General) & Scott Zagarino (who has worn many hats in the sport) coined the term. The Pinlk Floyd song was their inspiration. It was not Dr. Matthew Brick, who practices medicine just the down the road from where I live, that the term was derived.

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Re: Origin of the term "BRICK" [JReed] [ In reply to ]
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the ab muscles during a workout seem to compress the shit pretty well.
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