In light of the postings of a few omniscent triathletes here (you know who you are) and their comments dealing with pro women, you have been banned to the gulag that is known as Letsrun.com. You will find their negative surroundings more suitable to your superior abilities. Everyone there is a 12:52 5k runner, maybe you guys will be 8:30 IM guys when you get finished over there! Tell us how it goes and, oh yeah, don’t tell them you are triathletes, they’ll tell you that you are gay or like little boys…
Those letsrun.com people are a bunch of anaemic, emaciated little pussies. I got into a fight there one day after posting for running advice and mentioning that I was a triathlete.
Just remember 97% of letsrun.com posters are bored hs school kids working 15 hours a week and running 30 mpw this summer. (And think that is a lot) 2% are college runners that post just to bash other programs and talk about how great their own team is. 1% want to actually hold an intelligent conversation about running. It is not worth the time to wade through all the junk anymore but there used to be some interesting posts. Especially when Jack Daniels contributed. I can tell you in the non letsrun.com world it is becoming cool for hs and college xc teams to do a triathlon during the summer.
Yeah they do seem to have a one track no logic mentallity there. I posted on their tri bashing thread asking them sincerely if anyone there could tell me what’s so special about their sports of pure long distance running besides improving cardiovasculer (which one can get from many other more technically interesting sports) and getting stick thin (which is not an advantage unless one’s idea of pencil neck is macho), despite posting the same question 3 times or so got no response whatsoever.
Could try too but their asses would be kind of too skinny to be any good. … oops now I guess I’m starting to sound a bit like ‘them’. Yeah as they say all Triathletes are gay …are you all gay? …well I’m Bi and I say their asses are to boney to be any choklate dougnut punching good.
I know 3 frequent posters on the board – acutally nice guys.
One is at >50mpw, and the other two are has beens who have hit over 80. Not all of them are bad guys…but I’m sure if they’re “behind the monitor” their competitiveness may come out.
I agree that the ones that always post the remarks bashing triathletes are probably just a bunch of immature HS kids who have a lot of time on their hands. It used to be a pretty decent website with truly helpful information & insight with a little fun & humor thrown in, but it’s just totally ridiculous now. Most of my runner only friends have respect for triathletes just like a lot of roadies secretly do too ( I’ve actually had a couple of them admit there is no way they could do the hammer rides they do all the time if they had to run also :). Recently a friend of mine who has been a top ranked marathoner for years started cycling & doing some tri’s. He told me he couldn’t believe how tired his legs were when he was doing his long run the day after a tough bike ride & had new respect for triathletes.