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I hear ya, but it’ll blow over. It came up tonight at a dinner party I hosted for some work colleagues. I try to brush it off as i don’t want everyone to know how much time I spend training, but they’re not stupid either.
Same here on friday night. How many times can you explain the different distances or explain if its safe or not to swim in so n so lake ? I live in a smaller NJ town where everyone sees everyone and knows everyone. I get the " Seen you riding or seen you running today what are you training for ?" questions. I try to side step them by saying looks like you been working out yourself what have you been doing.
Next time don’t wear your IM finishers shirt and hat to the party.
and the reason you’re single is because you spend too much time answering it - be smart - find a way to talk about if for 5 seconds, and turn it into a question or questions for the women you’re talking to. Figure out a way to let them talk about themselves. It’s what they really want anyway
Take a long-term approach to solving this problem: give different answers every time someone asks you the distances, trending upward. Start dropping hints that you’re a secret agent, too. Eventually they’ll decide you’re just full of shit on the whole thing and they won’t want to talk about it anymore.
Next time don’t wear your IM finishers shirt and hat to the party.
ha- awesome.
Was walking around the village here in Germany last night with my girlfriend with my Roth finishers t-shirt on. By chance we come across a street party which her uncle was at so we went along. No one really enquired about the ironman but when my girlfreind said my work was veterinary all i heard was about dogs and then was shown a dog with allegries to diagnose. Much worse than saying you are an ironman, and one reason i don’t practise nowadays as you are always ‘on call’ and never free; food safety work is better.
Get the woman talking about their hobbies and you will have to hold them back pretty soon. I always ask very early on, 'what are your favourite hobbies and then listen alot when something is incommon.
If they keep going on about ironman then give them your card where you sell yourself as a coach or sell sports clothing, then you might get something back instead of feeling annoyed, hehehehe.