Nick Diaz, UFC fighter on the subject of Triathlons

"I do triathlons. I’ve done f------ 112-mile bike rides and 26-mile runs all in the same event. You can do it high, it feels great loaded.

Q: Wait, you compete in triathlons when you’re high?

ND: Hey, you know, it’s not going to be a problem. If I was going to go and try to win first place and become the most competitive triathlete in the world then, maybe I wouldn’t go out and try to compete high. But if you’re just going on a big, long relaxing workout event day then yeah, do a triathlon as completely loaded as you can get because you’re only going to be able to get high probably – you get out of the car and next thing you know go up and transition. Everything is going to take an hour to set up your transition and you can get high during that time. So you can get high and then for about an hour set up your transition and then go do a triathlon and you’re still going to be loaded. It’s going to go about a couple hours into the event, I guess. But why not do a triathlon high? "

From CBS Sportline. Full interview (and it’s a doozy…) at http://www.sportsline.com/mmaboxing/story/10350359/2

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so you don’t have to be a complete retard to do a “sport” that involves getting punched and kicked in the head…but it helps
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what do you expect after hitting having your head slammed against the ring fence a thousand times??

Seems like a fairly intellectual guy … did he forget to swim??? Maybe he just does high altitude triathlons … maybe a Colorado type guy. :wink:
Dave

wow.

wow I used to really like that guy.

My Buddy is trying to combine UFC and Ironman! Read the report from IM Wisconson…

The real excitement started about 10 minutes later on the walk back to the hotel when a drunken college student walked into me. My father tried to block him by pushing him out of the way and he went ballistic. He tried to attack us there but race officials pulled him back. That only lasted so long as he actually followed us into the hotel and hit my father – my adrenaline sky rocketed. Apparently I should have worked harder in the race because I still had the energy to drop him with a few punches. Even on the ground he kept going after us so I began choking him from behind before the hotel security pulled me off him. He got arrested on 2 charges of
battery and 1 count of disorderly conduct. It was definitely an eventful day through and though.

Seems like a fairly intellectual guy … did he forget to swim??? Maybe he just does high altitude triathlons … maybe a Colorado type guy. :wink:
Dave
Seems to me like a complete numbnut. I read about 3 answers to his questions and feel much dumber now.

Crikey!

http://perfecttimeevents.com/results/event/1943/results.php

Hope you guys are ok. I was just coming down from showering and saw the last part of the fight when he was being lead out into the motor court and the police were responding. That guy was a drunk idiot.

I bet fourth place finisher Michael Moulds of San Luis Obispo is steaming about this.

Was that an Ironman qualifier and could Diaz be disqualified for that? I looked through the rules and I couldn’t find anything about pot in the books.

Vineman won’t let that third place finish stand, will they?

Well, ganja is on the WADA list, which is an interesting social commentary.

Note that he also did NOT say “I did Vineman 2007 high as a kite,” although what he does say is pretty incriminating.

I set up transition next to the guy WITHOUT knowing who he was. He actually moved his stuff over to make room for me. We were shooting the shit when I realized the guy had a TV camera pointed at him the whole time. Drug stuff aside, I’ll say this: he was as cool of a guy to chat with before the race as anyone I’ve racked next to. Absolutely nice guy.

So is vineman a WADA rules triathlon? All WTC events use WADA, right?

Of course he was cool…he was blazed!

Maybe he was, actually…

Either way, he was damn cool to me.

What was he riding?

You know, I can’t remember anything except that it was a pretty sweet bike…

I just looked at my pictures and it looks like a Trek, but I could be wrong. The guy definitely wasn’t tooling around on a POS. (The picture is actually pretty funny; we’re shooting the shit, I’m taking a swig of water, he’s doing something with his wetsuit, and 2 feet behind me is a kid with a tv camera pointed over my shoulder at him. I was oblivious until about 1 minutes before the start of the race.)

And actually, we were giving eachother knuckles on the run course as we crossed paths.

Yeah, drugs or not, the guy was pretty cool.

He was on a Trek TTT pre Equinox. I know I have seen him with a disc but can remember if he was on that at Vineman (passed him at about 6 miles).