A worthwhile and interesting thread!
http://www.thedailypage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=47027
im stunned that anyone thinks about triathlon at all
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It seems like the main problem people in Madison have is that their town is taken over by a group of people they don’t understand and can’t relate with on any level. That’s fine. But I think that attitude is mainly a small-town attitude.
Folks who live in big cities, or smaller places that are tourist based, are used to convention traffic and large group events where new people come to town every week and weekend. We realize that people like this are good for our city because they do support our local hotels, restaurants, airports, cabbies, and they generally spend their money, have a good time, and go home. Here in Atlanta we have the Dragon-Con convention every year where sci-fi lovers dress up like Klingons or other out of this world space creatures for a week and they can be seen walking and having a good time all over downtown. While I don’t attend such a convention and can’t see myself ever dressing up and going, I do respect the fact that they have a right to come to my city, and have chosen my city, and I should be kind to these folks just like I would any visitor to Atlanta.
If the folks in Panama City, Madison, Lake Placid, or elsewhere don’t want the exposure and revenue from IM races or other non-branded races in their town, then they can turn away these folks and other cities with a different mind-set will surely pick up the races.
It is just ironic to me, that the folks of Madison who do host a major university and the out of towners who come in for Badger football would complain about triathletes being there for a few days each year. Like one poster mentioned, for the most part triathletes aren’t going to be the ones up late drinking at the bars, driving under the influence, vandelizing property, or driving their cars around making noise all night. As for the peeing in bushes, and litering, I can’t vouch for that. Triathletes do need to do a better job treating the host city and its property as they would like to be treated if the race was in their neighborhood.
28-inch waists, 2% body fat, …
There are a few like that (2% of course is exaggerated) but for the most part, they can’t be seeing the same people I see at an Ironman race…
This one is classic:
“I hate this event.
The only time I have ever had a car accident (knock on wood)was during Iron Mad '03. I was driving behind a tall van near Camp Randall when some runners darted out into traffic. I couldn’t see anything but the back of the tall tall van that I hit! The race was supposedly over so I don’t know if these idiotic runners were that far behind or what. I have tried to blame my accident on the Iron Man ever since. That is a joke - i just don’t want to see posts telling me it’s my fault, not the Iron Man’s.
I would HATE to be in a hotel full of triathletes. HATE. I hate their cocky attitudes, their smelly bodies, their nasty too-tight clothes. I really hate how they claim that their fitness and sweat give them natural high. I get high off of my pain medication or a nice drink. And I always look pretty, stylish, and I smell good too. They don’t know what kind of highs they’re missing!
I do respect their dedication and stamina and strength. Though none of these qualities make up for them riding 3 next-to-each-other on the sidewalk in Madison. Or hogging the elevtaor so they can ride with their 2-wheeled lovers. Save the elevators for people who don’t think they have super human powers.These atheletes should be walking the stairs with their 2-wheeled lovers high above their heads. Don’t they like to show off their strength anyway?
Ughhh they just stink really bad. If you see one this weekend tell them that no matter how hard they try there will always be someone better than them.”
I was not aware that I stink. Perhaps I should use cologne?
he has a good point about taking the stairs
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This one is classic:
“I hate this event.
The only time I have ever had a car accident (knock on wood)was during Iron Mad '03. I was driving behind a tall van near Camp Randall when some runners darted out into traffic. I couldn’t see anything but the back of the tall tall van that I hit! The race was supposedly over so I don’t know if these idiotic runners were that far behind or what. I have tried to blame my accident on the Iron Man ever since. That is a joke - i just don’t want to see posts telling me it’s my fault, not the Iron Man’s.
I would HATE to be in a hotel full of triathletes. HATE. I hate their cocky attitudes, their smelly bodies, their nasty too-tight clothes. I really hate how they claim that their fitness and sweat give them natural high. I get high off of my pain medication or a nice drink. And I always look pretty, stylish, and I smell good too. They don’t know what kind of highs they’re missing!
I do respect their dedication and stamina and strength. Though none of these qualities make up for them riding 3 next-to-each-other on the sidewalk in Madison. Or hogging the elevtaor so they can ride with their 2-wheeled lovers. Save the elevators for people who don’t think they have super human powers.These atheletes should be walking the stairs with their 2-wheeled lovers high above their heads. Don’t they like to show off their strength anyway?
Ughhh they just stink really bad. If you see one this weekend tell them that no matter how hard they try there will always be someone better than them.”
I was not aware that I stink. Perhaps I should use cologne?
I swear to God that a middle aged guy went past me yesterday leaving a trail of cologne. I couldn’t believe it.
A woman who was to finish at after 11pm was on the run course. She got to her friends who were north of the capitol building…she took a wet nap to wipe her face, a mirror and put on some lipstick an some face powder (or what ever the hell it was).
Good to see that non-triathletes speaking anonymously to one another on message boards share a similar tone and absence of civility. We at slowtwitch can feel better about ourselves now.
Best comment on the thread: “Do women dig guys with sunken eye-sockets and POW camp legs?” LOL!!
Great read! One of their points is that triathletes are narcissistic, which can often be true. However in most of those posts all they write about is themselves and how the IM affects them. I don’t get it. Can’t they see they are just as selfish as the next human who happens to practice a different hobby?
I guess people are always willing to rag on people that are different from them. But at the end of the day what’s the point to even complain or get worked up about complaints? People are going to do and act however they want and all you can do is control how you act and perceive things.
Looks like a post for outraged fat people. Go back to your donuts, fatties.
While I wasn’t in that event I’ve smelt perfume coming off women at a couple races, and cologne on one guy. Not that I run up and sniff people or soemthing…
i get no respect. Not from roadies coz i am not good enough. not from runner coz i am not good enough. not from swimmers either for the same reason. I say, f*** them all. I am a triathlete.
Have come up to pass folks on the bike during races and been engulfed by cologne smell…how does that work…are people hitting the Brut 33 in T1 or is there some “tri specific” well marketed stench that stays on through the swim and keeps you douchey all day…wtf is wrong with you people?
Have come up to pass folks on the bike during races and been engulfed by cologne smell…how does that work…are people hitting the Brut 33 in T1 or is there some “tri specific” well marketed stench that stays on through the swim and keeps you douchey all day…wtf is wrong with you people?
I wondered that to, how does it stay on during the swim? Strange!
Have come up to pass folks on the bike during races and been engulfed by cologne smell…how does that work…are people hitting the Brut 33 in T1 or is there some “tri specific” well marketed stench that stays on through the swim and keeps you douchey all day…wtf is wrong with you people?
Can we just stop referring to it as “cologne” please, and call it what it really is - man perfume. WTF gets in to the head of a guy willing to spray perfume on himself is WAY beyond me. Men should have no smell, soap maybe if anything, but man perfume, gimme a break.
Derek Zoolander would say;
'Its a shame when fat people attack really really really in shape people."
Seriously, a ton of those posts just stink of jealousy.
We get the same crap in our local editorial section after IM CdA. All the critics are so caught up with the fact that people ride around in spandex and don’t stop at all the stop signs and that they are so inconvenienced by the bike traffic. Big effen deal. I think it is just a few loudmouths who are jealous of people who actually get off their duff and exercise, because most everyone else in the area is supportive of the event and respectful of cyclists.
This one is pretty funny.
“I am really disgusted that some hard core athletes pee on themselves.
For all of their hard training and dedication I think peeing on themselves -even during a race- is a major step down from all they have worked for.
How can one feel good about themselves doing that? Is a good time really going to make them forget they are soaking with sweat AND URINE?Sickening. Unless you’re a possible winner of this race, go take a pee in a real toilet. Lose 1 minute of the race, it’s ok.
It’s uncivilized to pee on oneself. These athelets buy $5000 bikes, several hundred-possible thousands on outfits, shoes, helmet, gloves, socks, etc. Many of these people are rich yuppies- it is expensive to enter the Ironman, everything it takes to compete is very costly. Peeing on yourself doesn’t seem to fit into this equation. Elite people shouldn’t pee on themselves.
Now i am even more annoyed by this event here. So grossed out. No one could pay me enough to pee myself.
Someone mentioned pooping themselves too. I don’t even know how to express my negative feelings about that one.”
the world of internet forum’s where we can all cry, moan and spew negatvity about whatever we like, what did humans do to express their negative feelings before forum’s existed…I have to go shower now as i really do stink
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