Be, Do, Have - a different way of looking at the world

Triathlon Forum
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As triathletes we are equipment junkies. We look for the new gaggets in the hope that they will make us faster. Most of us function from the concept of Have - Do - Be.

I go out and buy the bike, running shoes, wetsuit, goggles, etc., etc., etc. I now HAVE the toys.

I take my new toys and start practicing (DO) and learning my skills in the hopes that eventually I will BE the triathlete.

What if you woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and said that you were (BE) a triathlete. Then you took your body and whatever toys you had and started DOing your sport. After a while you saw a need to upgrade your equipment so that you HAVE other toys.

Point being - it is attitude toward who you are that makes you who you are. Your toys do not make you the athlete. The time you hit or the distance you travel does not define you. Your attitutde does.

Two weeks ago I was told my someone who I coach that I am “a Jew with an attitude.” And damn it, I am.

DougStern

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I politely disagree.

It’s not how fast you are, it’s how fast you look.

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can I get an amen for the rodent…

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And I beg to differ…it’s not how fast you are nor is it how fast you look. It is, quite simply, how fast you tell people you are!

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“Two weeks ago I was told my someone who I coach that I am “a Jew with an attitude.” And damn it, I am.”

Therefore Doug, you shall be known henceforth as JWA. :wink:

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I’m sure there are plenty of us who take that mentality… at least a little bit. When I got into this sport, I had no bike, no shoes and an old set of swim trunks that had never been used (and could never be used) for serious training.

I bought some jammers and cheap goggles for swim training, some running shoes for run training and a rather low-to-mid end road bike (Trek 2000) for bike training.

Since that time, I’ve bought new jammers, as the old ones tend to wear out after a while, new goggles (a little fancier than the originals), and have replaced the shoes a few times. But I still have the old bike… albeit, with some newer components (Ultegra 9 sp, as opposed to the Tiagra/105’s that came standard) and now with aerobars and a Fi’zik Arione saddle and some race wheels.

I can afford a new tri bike. I want a new tri bike, but I have some expenses coming up that are far more important to me than triathlon. One day, I’ll get that P3C or Lucero or Blade, but for now, I just enjoy being a FOMOP triathlete on a lower-end road bike set up for triathlon.

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Frank13,

The older I am the faster I was but still with an attitude.

DougStern

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From the new CD, “Straight Outta Bensonhurst”, sung to the tune of “gangst, gangsta”

here’s a little somethin’ bout a brother named doug

teaching all the kids to swim like a water bug

doug stern, i’d like to say, that i’m a crazy assed swim coach from around the way

since i was a youth, i preached breathe out

now i’m the motherfucker that you read about

teaching a stroke or two, that’s what the fuck i do

don’t like how i’m teaching, then fuck you

swim is the game, and i’m in it, that TI shit’l fuck you up in a minute

with a right, left, left, right your toothless, and then they say well dam doug’s rutheless

everywhere i go, people say, damn,

JWA is fuckin up the program

he don’t just say know, he too busy saying yea

about swimmin straight for the lane bottle

do i look like a motherfuckin role model

to the kids lookin up to me

life aint nothin but swimmin and money
.

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That’s hilarious :wink:

I think the next thing we need to do is get trailbait to make a skully with JWA on the brim.

http://www.tribabe.com

Next we need to get you to record that rap Beastie Boy style, the original JWAs by the way.

Then have that song play automatically on Doug’s new coaching web site with a picture of him running with the JWA skull cap.

Hey, it’s Friday right?!?!

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Straight outta Brooklyn!

Edit–Should have read on past Tom’s post before replying. An F for originality on my part.

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No worries…you’ve got the vibe.

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Stevie,

I love it. Now my kids will be singing it around the house.

I taught swimming in a high school in the Bronx for 29 years. The first day of class I told my students that my name was Stern and i am! After two weeks they understood and we all got along very well.

DougStern

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"I am ‘a Jew with an attitude.’ "

Isn’t that redundant? You know, like a Mick with a drinking problem or a Frog with B.O. or a redneck with trailer…

Speaking of rednecks, do you know the difference between a fiddler and a violinist?

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Speaking of rednecks, do you know the difference between a fiddler and a violinist?
The number of teeth they have.