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Triathletes Are Skinny

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    #62
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    boucher wrote: »
    Yes but you trained hard, lost weight...well done.

    But you are still far from being an actual triathlete.

    You are just someone who attempts, and often fails to complete races.

    A 10.33 IM is a reasonable attempt.


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    #63
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    tunney wrote: »
    elvis jones wrote: »

    A professional footballer who never wins is still a footballer.

    at 100kg I seriously doubt that the marathon was run.

    Perhaps you should do your usual level of research and post a link from the Daily Mail or Wikipedia ?


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    #64
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    tunney wrote: »
    A 10.33 IM is a reasonable attempt.

    Reasonable but not competing............;)

    But qudos to a time like that !


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    #65
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    elvis jones wrote: »
    ebixa82 wrote: »
    No elvis, with all due respect you are not.

    You are too fat to be either. Just because you take part in tri-athletes doesn't make you one i.e. a competitive one who's opinion matters on the subject.

    I've seen plenty of people 100kg plus finishing marathons, are they runners, no!![/QUOTE]

    What are they then ? They've just "ran" a marathon........

    Difference between running and competing...if you do a marathon in 6 hours you are not a marathon runner, you are a fun runner/charity fund raiser


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    #66
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    tunney wrote: »
    elvis jones wrote: »

    A professional footballer who never wins is still a footballer.

    at 100kg I seriously doubt that the marathon was run.

    Someone who can tog out and never actual finish 90 mins on pitch isn't a footballer


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    #67
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    elvis jones wrote: »
    Reasonable but not competing............;)

    But qudos to a time like that !

    LOL - a 66kg single digit body fat 10 hour IMer isn't a triathlete in your book but a 100kg 7 min per km runner is??


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    #68
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    tunney wrote: »
    A 10.33 IM is a reasonable attempt.

    A semi-decent athlete would not end up pulling out of last two events, irrespective of reasons...you create your own luck/misfortune


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    #69
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    elvis jones wrote: »

    Difference between running and competing...if you do a marathon in 6 hours you are not a marathon runner, you are a fun runner/charity fund raiser

    I did it in 5 so i must be better than that;)

    Oh fun runner..........so a runner.........and 26.2 miles is never fun:D


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    #70
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    tunney wrote: »
    LOL - a 66kg single digit body fat 10 hour IMer isn't a triathlete in your book but a 100kg 7 min per km runner is??

    A triathlete does triathlons..........doesn't say you have to do them fast;)


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    #71
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    elvis jones wrote: »
    A triathlete does triathlons..........doesn't say you have to do them fast;)

    I could drive around Silverstone in my Honda Civic...doesn't make me an F1 driver


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    #72
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    I could drive around Silverstone in my Honda Civic...doesn't make me an F1 driver

    Yeah you need an F1 car and to do it in a race sanctioned by FIA. Next pointless agrument please:)

    Where as if a person finishs a triathlon sanctioned by Triathlon Ireland...........hmmmmmmm don't too hard on what that makes them.


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    #73
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    elvis jones wrote: »
    Yeah you need an F1 car and to do it in a race sanctioned by FIA. Next pointless agrument please:)

    Where as if a person finishs a triathlon sanctioned by Triathlon Ireland...........hmmmmmmm don't too hard on what that makes them.

    Someone who finished a triathlon.

    I can have sex in front of a video camera. Won't make me a porn star.


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    #74
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    tunney wrote: »
    Someone who finished a triathlon.

    I can have sex in front of a video camera. Won't make me a porn star.

    How many fat porn stars are at the top of their game?

    (Apart from ones in the fetish categories)


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    #75
    El Director
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭El Director


    tunney wrote: »
    Runners are skinny.
    Triathletes are skinny.

    I suspect that you are underestimating exactly how much weight you have to loose.

    I'd like to attempt to bring this back on topic I personally don't like the personal nature it has taken, although somewhat self inflicted. But before I do, to Elvis- that is some serious, serious improvement in your weight. I mean 119kg was more than overweight and was dangerous. Fair play to you. You must keep it up now even when U&O is done with and you experience the inevitable "What now?" stage and the low point that comes with it. There is no reason why you cannot get to 80kg if you wanted.

    Now back on topic. I agree with the OP statement except I would, as others have eluded to, put the word 'competitive' in front of 'runners' and 'triathletes'. Although I still do not refer to myself as a triathlete. I say "I do triathlons..." Or something to that effect, I think "I'm a triathlete" should be reserved for those who make their living from the sport. But it can be stretched to TOP, AG'ers I guess. Just my opinion. I would feel uncomfortable saying, "I'm a triathlete" I'd feel like a fraud.

    Now the second statement is completely true IMO. I thought that at 84kg (I'm just over 6ft) that I was light, skinny almost. Then I read Matt Fitzgerald "Racing Weight" I found out that I am probably 10kg plus over my optimal racing weight. I though, BS, surely BS. I guess I was coming from a 94kg drop to 84kg and thought that was great. Turns out I was wrong and Matt Fitz was right. I got to 73.5kg last year and had my best performances ever. Although that was a bit too light as I was very shaky and cold after, this is because I only got to that weight a week before my events. Really I should have been at or extremely close to racing weight by April/May to get used of it.

    This could/should be a good topic.


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    #76
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    tunney wrote: »
    Someone who finished a triathlon.

    I can have sex in front of a video camera. Won't make me a porn star.

    Well if you sell the video for money it makes you a pornogarphic actor if thats what you were try to say.


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    #77
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    How many fat porn stars are at the top of their game?

    (Apart from ones in the fetish categories)

    At least I could use vine to distribute.


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    #78
    couerdelion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭couerdelion


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    How many fat porn stars are at the top of their game?

    (Apart from ones in the fetish categories)

    Ron Jeremy?


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    #79
    Sacksian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Sacksian


    I'm skinny and I run. In any race, there's another guy (much) fatter than me many seconds and minutes up the road from me.

    I would actually be faster if I were to eat more and put on weight.

    Trying to argue that someone is or isn't a "runner" or "triathlete" based on weight/bodyshape is pointless.

    Every single person will make that distinction differently.

    I make the distinction based on the volume of training I do. I didn't consider myself a runner when I started running but I do now. My hangup was not running often enough.

    I considered the people who were in clubs - regardless of shape or weight - as "runners". They trained 4 or 5 times a week and competed in provincial and national events. How could they not be "runners"?

    There are very few overweight "runners" or "triathletes" who are under any illusion that losing weight would improve their athletic performance. Those who believe that excess weight aids (or doesn't inhibit) their performance are unlikely to be swayed by the quality of argument presented in the OP.

    This type of thread is unnecessarily divisive and exclusionary. As with the "jogger" complaints that arise from the athletics forum, it generally reflects only the insecurities and hangups of the people creating them.


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    #80
    mrbungle
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭mrbungle


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    How many fat porn stars are at the top of their game?

    (Apart from ones in the fetish categories)

    They're called chubbies or BFFs, (the females that is).


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    #81
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    El Director wrote: »
    I'd like to attempt to bring this back on topic I personally don't like the personal nature it has taken, although somewhat self inflicted. But before I do, to Elvis- that is some serious, serious improvement in your weight. I mean 119kg was more than overweight and was dangerous. Fair play to you. You must keep it up now even when U&O is done with and you experience the inevitable "What now?" stage and the low point that comes with it. There is no reason why you cannot get to 80kg if you wanted.

    Now back on topic. I agree with the OP statement except I would, as others have eluded to, put the word 'competitive' in front of 'runners' and 'triathletes'. Although I still do not refer to myself as a triathlete. I say "I do triathlons..." Or something to that effect, I think "I'm a triathlete" should be reserved for those who make their living from the sport. But it can be stretched to TOP, AG'ers I guess. Just my opinion. I would feel comfortable saying, "I'm a triathlete" I'd feel like a fraud.

    Now the second statement is completely true IMO. I thought that at 84kg (I'm just over 6ft) that I was light, skinny almost. Then I read Matt Fitzgerald "Racing Weight" I found out that I am probably 10kg plus over my optimal racing weight. I though, BS, surely BS. I guess I guess I was coming from a 94kg drop to 84kg and thought that was great. Turns out I was wrong and Matt Fitz was right. I got to 73.5kg last year and had my best performances ever. Although that was a bit too light as I was very shaky and cold after, this is because I only got to that weight a week before my events. Really I should have been at or extremely close to racing weight by April/May to get used of it.

    This good/should be a good topic.

    Thank you very much:)

    I read racing weight as well and found some great information in it that has even helped me BUT one of the people involved in getting me to the start line of U&O want me to eventually hit about 85kg but is more interested in my body fat than the actual scales.

    My own muscle mass was about 2kg off and its the bady fat that my problem.


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    #82
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    El Director wrote: »
    I'd like to attempt to bring this back on topic I personally don't like the personal nature it has taken, although somewhat self inflicted. But before I do, to Elvis- that is some serious, serious improvement in your weight. I mean 119kg was more than overweight and was dangerous. Fair play to you. You must keep it up now even when U&O is done with and you experience the inevitable "What now?" stage and the low point that comes with it. There is no reason why you cannot get to 80kg if you wanted.

    Now back on topic. I agree with the OP statement except I would, as others have eluded to, put the word 'competitive' in front of 'runners' and 'triathletes'. Although I still do not refer to myself as a triathlete. I say "I do triathlons..." Or something to that effect, I think "I'm a triathlete" should be reserved for those who make their living from the sport. But it can be stretched to TOP, AG'ers I guess. Just my opinion. I would feel comfortable saying, "I'm a triathlete" I'd feel like a fraud.

    Now the second statement is completely true IMO. I thought that at 84kg (I'm just over 6ft) that I was light, skinny almost. Then I read Matt Fitzgerald "Racing Weight" I found out that I am probably 10kg plus over my optimal racing weight. I though, BS, surely BS. I guess I guess I was coming from a 94kg drop to 84kg and thought that was great. Turns out I was wrong and Matt Fitz was right. I got to 73.5kg last year and had my best performances ever. Although that was a bit too light as I was very shaky and cold after, this is because I only got to that weight a week before my events. Really I should have been at or extremely close to racing weight by April/May to get used of it.

    This good/should be a good topic.

    I was the same. I thought 12 stone was my racing weight. Then I hit it. For a year I thought 11st 6. Then I hit it. Then 11st, then 10st 4. Reckon thats the ideal weight for me racing wise. Health wise less so. But at 13st I'm quite sure what I am and amn't. :)


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    #83
    couerdelion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭couerdelion


    mrbungle wrote: »
    They're called chubbies or BFFs, (the females that is).

    BFF's? I thought it was BBW's? errmmmm 'a friend' told me...


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    #84
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    tunney wrote: »
    Someone who finished a triathlon.

    I can have sex in front of a video camera. Won't make me a porn star.
    We'll be the judge of that.


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    #85
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    couerdelion wrote: »
    BFF's? I thought it was BBW's? errmmmm 'a friend' told me...

    I always wondered what BFF and BBW stood for. Scared to google.


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    #86
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    tunney wrote: »
    I always wondered what BFF and BBW stood for. Scared to google.


    No luck with finding it in the Daily Mail then;)


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    #87
    couerdelion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭couerdelion


    tunney wrote: »
    I always wondered what BFF and BBW stood for. Scared to google.

    I think BFF is "best friends forever", like you and me.
    BBW is "Big Beautiful Women"


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    #88
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    elvis jones wrote: »
    No luck with finding it in the Daily Mail then;)

    "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" really should be a motto for life.


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    #89
    mrbungle
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭mrbungle


    couerdelion wrote: »
    BFF's? I thought it was BBW's? errmmmm 'a friend' told me...

    That was a test.


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    #90
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    couerdelion wrote: »
    I think BFF is "best friends forever", like you and me.
    BBW is "Big Beautiful Women"

    So I'm like Thomas the Tank Engine then?
    I've a big Diesel Engine as my best friend?


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    #91
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    tunney wrote: »
    I always wondered what BFF and BBW stood for. Scared to google.
    SFW unless you google images.


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