Just wondering when you can call yourself a triathlete? When I played club/collegiate soccer, I would say I played collegiate ball but when I played for fun after college, I wouldn’t call myself a soccer player. My guess is that if your a pro triathlete, then you can call yourself a triathlete or is this all wrong? Anyway, just bored over here and wanted to get some thoughts, lol.
The second you cross the finish line for the first time.
MT
**Q: When can you call yourself a “Triathlete” **
A: Whenever you want. I’m not a bullfighter, but I am fully entitled to say that I am - lest someone credible calls shenanigans.
Assuming you’re talking about non-competitive types, it all depends on the non-triathlete’s threshold for being considered a dumbass by a community of mostly dumbasses.
P.S. I’m a bullfighter.
The second you cross the finish line for the first time.
MT
So when do you call yourself a runner? Or a swimmer? Or a cyclist?
I really think you can call yourself a triathlete as soon as you get a pair of compression socks.
Hopefully never. I mean seriously why would you want to be known as a “triathlete”?
When people ask if I am a “triathlete”? I usually try to just kind of deflect the insinuation and mention that I do occasionaly do some triathlons. The “triathlon” lifestyle is nothing I am interested in being associated with (as I sit here typing this with compression socks on).
The “triathlon” lifestyle is nothing I am interested in being associated with (as I sit here typing this with compression socks on).
Well played. BTW, compression socks are old news in my sport … That’s right, they’re pink.
I usually tell people I like to bike and run a lot. If pressed, I’ll admit that I do triathlons.
It’s only been maybe the last year or so that I’ve called myself a triathlete, even tho technically I was one when I finished my first race in '02.
If you’re going to claim to be something, please choose something other than a bullfighter. I realize you’re just horsin’ around, but although the pink compression socks are indeed sharp and sexy, slowly bleeding a bull to death while torturing it to madness is hardly a ‘sport’.
How about a fire eater? I hear they get all the chicks.
when you do a “triathlon.”
the garmin 310xt is ginormous.
If you’re going to claim to be something, please choose something other than a bullfighter. I realize you’re just horsin’ around, but although the pink compression socks are indeed sharp and sexy, slowly bleeding a bull to death while torturing it to madness is hardly a ‘sport’.
How about a fire eater? I hear they get all the chicks.
Perhaps that’s why he’s a bullfighter? 
If you’re going to claim to be something, please choose something other than a bullfighter. I realize you’re just horsin’ around, but although the pink compression socks are indeed sharp and sexy, slowly bleeding a bull to death while torturing it to madness is hardly a ‘sport’.
How about a fire eater? I hear they get all the chicks.
Much like the amateur triathlete, my greatest claim to credibility lies in the compression socks. I’ve never actually fought a bull, but I thought it was sufficient to look the part. Agreed that it’s not very “sporting” to kill a vastly defenseless creature.
Note to self: Learn to eat fire.
Well, duh…it’s when you’ve completed an Ironman…no sooner!
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Whenever you want, but why?
When you sign up on slowtwitch, obviously!
when the dream crushing ratio rises above .5
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When you go P-R-O. Or when you become part of a team (sorry, not team Aquaphor), although teams don’t really exist in triathlon.
Seriously, I can go down to the gym and play a game of pickup basketball, but that doesn’t make me a basketball player. A title implies a vocation, not completion of perhaps one event.
I remember a definition a read long ago on the interweb that I liked from a non-elitist-snobbish…er…I mean…um…not here:
“1) If you’ve done a triathlon in the last 12 months OR
2) you’ve done IronMan (lifetime pass)”
-Jot
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I think you can call yourself a triathlete when you swim, bike, and run on a regular basis to train for the sport of triathlon. I don’t think speed or race distance have anything to do with it.
just kidding…you can call yourself a triathlete when you qualify for kona, buy a p3c with custom paint job and Zipp 999 wheelset, and shave all of the hair off of your body from the shoulders down
If you’re a bull fighter, I’m Batman.
just kidding…you can call yourself a triathlete when you qualify for kona, buy a p3c with custom paint job and Zipp 999 wheelset, and shave all of the hair off of your body from the shoulders down
Zipp 999? thats old news! 1080+sub 9…and why stop at the shoulders?