dude, the first ri I did, I got my ass kicked by some fat guy on a mountain bike
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froggy-O
It’s legit–here is his post from the IMFL Message Board from before he came over to Slowtwitch. ANd I checked the IMFL participant list–he is on it.
FROM: Trae McCombs Subject: Grrr… must… get… bike.
Monday, January 17, 2005 07:11 PM Host: ip24-252-197-99.mc.at.cox.net Man FB, I was even on here before December wasn’t I? I thought I’ve been on here for over a month now… but I could be wrong.
The only thing I do go on about is the fact:
a.) I’m poor and can’t afford a bike.
b.) I don’t have a bike
c.) see a and b.
This sport definately isn’t for those who aren’t rich. I’ve had to sell just about everything I can to be able to do the things I’ve been doing so far.
FB, Maybe I could borrow one of your bikes or something if you aren’t going to use both of them. I promise to sweat on it lots and lots. 
Trae
I can’t relate to this guy, he’s poor. Now if you will excuse me I have to take the Bently to my private airstrip and fly my G4 to Maui for a training run.
Kidding occy!
Give it to Trae…if he’s genuine…he deserves it…okay, if I win it, it’s his…
Not my call.
My vote is for Trae.
nobody gonna join me here? I say give him the bike and we outfit him in Tribe stuff for the race. Either that or we shave his head and tell him he has to go as Mr. Tibbs.
Hey again guys…
I’m more used to the world of IRC, and the threads on BB’s are a wee bit awkward to me at the moment. If I’m posting in the wrong place, I apologize.
What a great group. You guys (and gals) seem to genuinly care and emptathize with my situation. Even if I don’t get the bike, it is nice to know people understand where I am coming from.
I don’t want to mislead anyone here. We aren’t “poor” in any traditional sense of the word. We did fairly well in the tech business from 98’ - 01’ But then the bottom fell out. We have a goodly amount of equity in our home, but we can’t get any out of it because I am unemployeed. I can’t get a decent enough paying job because I have never finished college. We, thankfully, have no car payments, and a VERY low mortgage on our house, otherwise we would have been sunk a long time ago. 100% of our money goes to food/utilities. We’ve had to supplement that with our savings due to a lack of any substantial income. If something doesn’t happen in a few months, I’ll be down flipping burgers at McD’s as our savings have almost depleted.
I’d like to think I’m a fairly decent web designer and computer professional. So maybe if any of you are in a position to hire, or need to contract someone, You could do yourselves a favor by getting a top notch graphics/computer/manager person like me, and maybe then I can afford to get a bike.
Some of my websites(hosted for free by friends):
http://fitgeek.org/
http://occy.net/
http://theinterference.com/
http://gotnerd.com/
*note to Internet Explorer users, the above websites look their best, and any website for that matter, in Firefox, a free/open source and superior web browswer that is standards compliant: http://getfirefox.com/ – You are less apt to be exposed to critical security issues under windows if you are using a browser like Firefox and not Internet Explorer *
Anyhoo… I’ve rambled on more than enough here, and I hate spilling out our financial situation to the world, but… hey, things are tough all around in this current economy.
Thanks again for your time, and your kind words,
Sincerely,
Trae “occy” McCombs
PS. Feel free to hop on irc and chat with me. I think it would be cool if we could create a #slowtwitch channel . As a matter of fact, I’m going to do that. ( slowtwitch.com admins, I’ll be happy to turn the irc channel over to you should you desire it )
server: irc.freenode.net
channel: #slowtwitch
My nickname: occy
nobody gonna join me here? I say give him the bike and we outfit him in Tribe stuff for the race. Either that or we shave his head and tell him he has to go as Mr. Tibbs.
Sounds good, vote thread goes up tomorrow.
Why do poor people like you smell like sour milk?
It’s a joke! My god everyone calm down. Frog put down the lead pipe.
Tibbs–you are a dung beetle. But a HOT dung beetle.
not sure if i get a vote - longtime lurker few time poster
this dude sounds worthy - if i get a vote it goes to him.
share the love guys
and tibbs you are a twisted sister
Either that or we shave his head and tell him he has to go as Mr. Tibbs.
Jim–Now you have crossed the lines of human decency.
BUMP! If your essay isn’t on this thread by 0930 tomorrow you are out.
Occy’s got my vote. Read his thread. 'Nuff said. And don’t make me have to get rough with any of you 
T.
But he’s poor. He’ll sell it for lottery tickets.
HAHAHAHAHA oh yeah! I’m the only one not tired of the poor jokes.
Damn it Tibbs, I actually went to this site.
Oh ya Gotta go buy my Lottery ticket Its 130 million and its my wedding anniversary, gotta be a winner.
Oh I vote for occy even though I think Im the only one to follow the 100 word limit. And let me tell you it was tough. Ya I think it will be easier to do a sprint tri on and old mtb bike then a full fledge Ironman.
Ok time to go get my tickets a bottle of wine and get drunk while snuggling with the wife.
Oh ya I got the date of my Spring AUG 28th. My wife said she has to come because some one has to identify the body. Gotta love the support.
Chow all.
Whoever gets the bike can sell it for a lot of this
I know I would
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D., Triathlete magazine has an online article entitled “12 Weeks To Becoming A Triathlete”. Seems to be right up your alley. It’s in the “Tips/Training” link on the left side of the homepage.
Tony