due to training commitments etc?
Sorta new here. On what??
anything and everything.
No, you can do both, just get out of bed earlier.
I think about it all the time… It’s not that I’m missing out, it’s that I’m choosing something else… You can’t live a life full of doubt or second guessing yourself. You can alway’s look at the past and say “I missed out doing that.” It doesn’t matter what’s in the past, it’s what you do with your future.
never.
Missing what? Crap on Television? what passes for entertainment at the movie theater? drinking at bars eating food that will kill me by 50? going out to a club to listen to DJ Trainwreck and MC Tooth Decay while watchnig 20 something little boys walk around with the chests puffed out and girls 40 pounds past hip huggers spill out of them?
Maybe I’m missing out on lazyness. Sitting around and thinking about doing something. Or missing out on getting a liver transplant, hanging out at a pub all night, with 12oz. beer curls being exercise.
I think they are the ones missing out.
Well, I guess we all feel like that sometimes in life. I feel like my training gets cut short by work, I had to n/s at a race this season due to work stuff. Bottom line is I wish that there were 30 hours in the day instead of 24. Still need 8 hours sleep. I have a couple pro friends and wish that I could train like them with triathlon being #1. When I can make a day or weekend of it (training), I feel fantastic!!! But I do like my job, family and friends so it is a juggling act on most days. (okay, I have 42 minutes to swim, then go to work, then I can bike but have to be at a meeting at 7:00…)
I sometimes feel that way about my work. I have passed on promotions because I knew that it would require a larger time commitment…it is hard to swallow taking orders from a position that should be yours…that is the tradeoff though and the highs of tri far outweigh the highs of work.
In regard to the 40 extra #s…get over the belly shirts!
Good point. In 20 years you might not remember June 2205 what you did at company x, but you prob. will remember the blast you had going to a race-even if it wasn’t your best.
It’s funny what people think about when this type of topic comes up. Being a Father of 3 it’s not about drinking or going out, but about spending time with my family. About thinking, while I’m out on a 5 hour bike ride, why I’m not home helping my 6 year old ride a bike without her training wheels. Or later in the day, when I’m short tempered because I’m tired from my 5 hour ride / 1 hour run and I’m giving my wife a hard time. Why I’m down here on the ST, instead of upstairs with my daughters… With that, I’m out of here.
Were all missing out (on doing something else), but as I said in my earlier post, it’s not that were missing as much as were choosing to do something else with our lives.
is it also ‘fashionable’ i the usa to have a big g string sticking out the back.
Just the opposite. I sometimes come out of the woods from a muddy-ass ride and seems like half the people that pass look like they’d give anything to ditch their protective bubble and ride along side covered in earth, taking in the sights smells, and sounds of mother earth.
I think that’s why rednecks don’t wash their trucks for 4 weeks after 4weelin in the woods too. Misplaced Xterra longings?
not if it is your “thing”
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good one.
Hmmmm, let’s see… What am I missing: Spending $50,000 and losing out on another $150,000 in income to get a degree that I can sell to an auto company in exchange for $70K+ a year, under constant threat of lay off, while dressing like a total fred in a polo shirt and dockers and lame shoes with a little plastic “club card” company ID card and kissing the boss’s ass 24/7 to squeeze out another $30K a year so my trophy wife (who’s banging the plumber 'cause I’m never home) can blow it on a white Lexus, boob job (for the plumber) or for a couple video-gaming dweebo kids who are too lazy to take out the trash and are strung out on anti-depressants? Hanging out at the bar trying to pick up a bunch of smoke-smelling, nasty ass, empty headed chicks with cosemetic surgery, no brains, who only want a guy with a 2500 sq. ft+ house in Northville, a BMW and six figures plus? Watching network TV?
Give me a break. My life in this sport is as hard as anyone’s and easier than most. I don’t make a lot of money but I love what I do, even the worst of it is pretty good. I’ve been on all seven continents, most a few times. The stuff I’ve done most people pay to go to the movies to see: Jump out of airplanes, fly in helicopters, blow shit up, climb mountains, swim with sharks, surf, play in a band, fly airplanes, ski, snowboard, ride bikes, swim in the ocean (all of them), go to exotic places to race…
Am I missing anything? Well, one thing for sure, If I decide I am missing something I still have the freedom to try to do it.
But no, I don’t think I am missing much. If I died tonight I’ve packed four normal life times into 43 years. I haven’t missed much.
some of these answers are scary…for info, there is stuff to do besides TV/Movies/Bars/Babes…
Yes. All the time…
Girls.
Social life.
reading.
movies.
etc.
but I love the game& the training. It’s not triathlon that gets in the way. It’s the job!
-K
I confess…I hit all those points. BUT I threw reading in there to boot! 
I woulda said travel but I’ve been able to merge triathlon and travel nicely.
-K
Just stop training for awhile and see how things stack up. I’ve been injured for the last 2.5 months-- and I can’t tell you how much I’ve missed the training— I’ve gotten a lot done around the house— but I wouldn’t say I gained anything by not training. I’m just now starting to be able to ride and run-- and I certainly appreciate having all my parts in working order-- especiallly the ones I took for granted before.