I was at a family get together earlier in the year and my whole family kept on me about shaving my legs the entire time I was there. so lately i just let my hair grow and shave it before a race. It is working ok but my wife still freaks out when I do shave them up nice and clean, though she has gotten better lately.
how does every one else deal with it,
I need to come up with something better than just sitting by and taking all the BS when ever I am around non tri peeeps.
I just tell the ladies if they can’t handle the legs, they can’t handle me.
(If you are happily married, I strongly discourage that response.)
Options:
Wear long pants, like a grown-up.
Come to my in-laws for dinner with me sometime, and gain a full appreciation of just how gentle and kind your family really is in comparison. You’ll be lucky to escape without bursting into tears.
How about don’t worry so much about what other people think of you or your beliefs?
Or tell them you have a non-transmittable skin disease that causes your hair to fall out. 
Just don’t shave. I never have. I can’t see any reason to.
-C
i’m just a beginner but i really dont imagine shaving my legs for racing… maybe gain 1-2 seconds on the swim??? look “cool”?
i also said i would never wear tights but i’m about to purchase some for my next race so who knows…
I don’t understand your wife… shaved legs are a definite turn on for me
I would say that but then again my wife would end my life as I know it and she would remind me of it for all of eternity or at least until I wished i were dead.
Not about saving time in a race for me. I got used to the feel - shaved feels MUCH better. Also they dry off much faster after showers, and I probably take 3 showers a day. And of course hair is gross.
There are better places than the legs. :o)
Dave
Freak them all out and tell them you just had a Brazillian wax too. If that doesn’t work belt out “Send in the Clowns” and then burst into tears. That should shut them all up. Not that I know from experience.
There is no reason too, riding a bike with hairy legs just isn’t right!!!
can i play basketball or soccer with hairy legs? surf?
Guess I will never be a true biker. Shaving my legs to tape bad ankles in high school was enough for me!!
Dave
How about don’t worry so much about what other people think of you or your beliefs?
If that were the case, how many people would actually shave their legs? Isn’t the #1 reason for doing so because “The pros do it” or because “everyone else does”?
I stated this in another thread, but while trimming my chin hair with the clippers and #2 guard, I used it on my legs. Short hair that allows for leg vascularity and definition to show, tanness to occur, and yet still retain some sense of masculinity in the traditional form.
The head is the only place hair belongs!!!
Dont fool yourself - your still a leg-trimming sissy boy
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I refer to it as “grooming”. =)
I swim in our lovely midwest mud-lakes. I think that hair attracts and retains the filth more readily. Shaved legs shed filth faster than you can say “toxic algae bloom.”
Options:
Wear long pants, like a grown-up.
Come to my in-laws for dinner with me sometime, and gain a full appreciation of just how gentle and kind your family really is in comparison. You’ll be lucky to escape without bursting into tears.
Long pants? What’s that? Don’t own any here.
Aloha,
Larry