did you mean to post this in the backdoor brag thread?

Nah, this is right through the front door while clanging cymbals together and shouting.

Generally just being nosey and keeping a catty eye on the competition.

Women constantly list 'sense of humour' at the top of the favoured attribute pile. Now you complain about it. We can't do anything right. I already knew that as well though. Ok, ok, I'll go and mow the lawn now .....

You also tricked me into reading your blog. It's listed in your signature on a triathlon forum, has a reading list containing running books and triathlon biographies, a menu button listing 'Training and Racing, a bucket list of races you wish to complete. And the home page? ...... 400 baby pictures.

Cute kid by the way ..... babies pretty much all look fat cheeked ugly and covered in some form of crust to me, so that's a compliment.

OK, I obviously totally framed the discussion and questions wrong. In rereading my OP the building the house and business stuff does seem braggy to me. Totally my bad--I included that because it has been a huge part of my life and taken tons of hours--hours that seriously impacted my training. My husband's point, and my reason for including it, is that if you're wired that way you gotta direct that energy somewhere. I thought many of you could relate to this, and perhaps the reason you came to doing multisport is because you also gotta direct that energy.

Big shout out to those of you who have actually offerred info. Thanks for having my back TriBeer:)

your seats too high

It's Friday. I'm checked out. I'll play...

Biggest Food Craving: Pizza, but not regular pizza. Specifically, thin crust (rustica style) pesto, caramelized onion, eggplant, light mozzarella, pinenuts and a sprinkle of feta
Introvert/Extrovert: Extrovert, but when it comes to training I'm an introvert, only because I don't like training w/other people or groups
First thing I check out on Triathletes: ALWAYS the legs (to see if they are shaved)

When I had a family meeting this fall to ask for support (permission?) from my family to train for an IM, my husband took two days to answer, but ended up supporting me, but saying because he knew that now that our house was finished being built and our business was solid I would "be OCD about something, and this was probably the best thing for [me] to get crazy about".

Um, yeah. Probably.

So, it made me think that most of us have OCD tendencies, as well as some others, and I'm curious about the groups'. If this has already been done, I apologize for the repeat.

age: 38
gender: F
hours training/week: 16-20
job/hours: basic science researcher, 60
favorite of the three disciplines: running
least favorite: swim
main tri distance you race: HIM
bike: shiv tri
OCD, scale of 1 to 10: 8
comfort with risk, scale of 1 to 10: 10
biggest food craving: salt (in a freaky way), coffee and red meat are close seconds,
hours of sleep avg/night: 6
introvert/extrovert: introvert, hate to train with others
thing you check out first on other triathletes: legs
guilty pleasure that undermines your training, but you can't/don't want to give it up: whisky

Feel free to add other things you think would be interesting to know about the group.

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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" - Les Brown
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn