It’s 9:45- already went out to dinner and had 2 glasses of wine-call it a night for me. My hubby and I came home… and I’ve got to get ready for a 5 hour ride/brick tomorrow. He wanted to go out with friends. He went out, here i sit. The point is-- I have no desire to subject myself to dumpy bars, blow money, calories…etc. Is anyone else ever in the same boat?
Yep…pretty much every Friday/Sat night. My girlfriend goes bar hopping with her friends while I get to stay home and work on my bikes. If the bars here were smoke free, I’d go and yip-it-up on Diet Red Bull. But, that’s isn’t the case where I live right now…
I am craving a Long Island Tea, but promised myself to be a good boy until after Lou next weekend.
Yes, except i’m 21 and not married, but still staying in bc of a long brick tomorrow instead of hitting the bars.
yep same here, I rather save my money for training/race clothing and accessories than on crappy bars or smoke filled clubs…23 yrs old here btw…got a 2 hr run and then gotta teach immediately after…4-5 hr bike ride sunday
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same boat. Our sitter had to be out of here by 10 so it was like my wife and I had a curfew tonight. How things have changed. Will make it easier to get up for the early ride. se este la vie.
the wife and I just got home from seeing a movie Bourne Ultimatum
dinner
it was great
long ride sat getting ready for A-Z
no drinking for me ha ha
high of 64F sat
Dirt.
Same here, although I’m an old fart with three kids. Even still, the idea of staying out much past 10:30 does not appeal to me at all. I get bored with it and can’t fathom spending money to cram into a smoky loud bar and drinking overpriced beer.
here with ya girl, tho yo might already be in bed since i’m a west coaster. I have a medium run manana. Training for an ultra, so there it be. I have to admit tho I am having a fine glass of vino right now.
Awful night. I had a “fight” with one of my best buds earlier tonight and now I can’t sleep. The alarm will go off at 5:30 am for training…
Typical weekend night for our two-endurance-athlete household. My husband is leaving for a bike race at 5:30am tomorrow and I’m rolling out at a relatively late 9am for a 5hr ride + run.
You know you’re getting older when you no longer want to go out on a Friday night. Would rather drink a few beers or glasses of wine at home than in a bar. I’ll still get up the next day for the long ride.
Just built up a new ride for an AM jaunt…Phreaky Phriday for sure!
…and that’s why i left new york.
Reading this thread makes me feel so much better. I am only 24 and have more or less completely lost my desire to go out to the bar. Did it for about 6 months a few years ago, and am pretty much over it. Got off work a little early today and got in about 30 miles on the bike and am headed to bed and its not even 10 yet. Big weekend like everyone else on here it seems.
Maybe I’m the exception… I wish I was out having fun right now but am home working late. Too much has to get done before heading off to IMC next week so I don’t have to worry about it! Mind you, I’d be more excited just to see friends who I haven’t seen much this past year because of work and training.
Nope, not the exception! I just walked in the door 10 minutes ago. Same deal as you, trying to get things sorted before heading out to IMC next week.
I’m certainly not advocating going to bars, especially for the purpose of getting sloshed or picking up disiease carrying creatures, but you really have to wonder about whether you’re describing a balanced life. He’s your husband, he’s with friends. Going out is about being with them, not the bars or the booze. Sure you don’t have to be together constantly but I have to question the wisdom of not joining him and your friends so you can train.
Just a thought
Dick
I spent Friday evening getting my gear ready for today’s 50/4 brick (last “longish” ride before IMC) and watching “High School Musical 2” with my 4-year-old daughter and her friends! Ooohhhh, that Zac Efron! 
hubby and I usually spend Fri. nite here at home, bottle of good red and a stuff to watch on Tv-movies- I’m in bed by 10 and he stays up til 12-1 doing his thing. If either of us get a friends nite out call, we go- but i"m home by 10:30 and he’s home by 11- all our nightclubs and bars are smoke free now, I gotta go out and do a medium long run and the sun is up!
Same boat. I’m 29 and single but am totally burned out from smoking bars or loud expensive night clubs. I definitely enjoy nice dinners every once in a while with some quality wine but mostly the weekends are early to bed early to rise in order to nail down workout nutrition and preperation and I love it. Every so often i’ll go out with my friends on a Friday or Saturday night because in the back of my head I feel like i’m missing something but this just is not the case- going out to spend way too much money and feel like crap the entire next day is not a fun time to me. I look at it in the perspective that just like I couldn’t take one of my college friends out on a 6 hour ride because he would have to build the endurance and fitness level they can’t take me out to get hammered until 4:00am because I am not adaptive to that anymore. Where as they would be dead 2 hours into the ride, ii’m ready to go home by 10:30.
That all being said any single tri girls in Chicago shoot me a PM:-)