Comments on: An Open Letter to Triathletes

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:07:14 +0000

As someone who is really struggling with the swimming part, I found this piece to be HILARIOUS. I’m actually a hardcore marathon runner who finds sitting on a tiny bike seat for hours much more uncomfortable than running for hours. But I’m going to do an ironman activity anyway this year. Thanks for the laughs!!!

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:35:22 +0000

wow, fat cyclist, you must have some time on your hands to write all this stuff about cycling and triathlons, maybe you should stop doing this for a while and go and actually try one instead of moaning about how triathlon isn’t a sport. but I’m waiting until I have to leave for a race so I’m gonna comment on your blog.

track cycling:

all you hear when track cycling is the sound of your tyres, and you can’t talk during that.
you’re going round and round in a circle, not actually getting anywhere, WHERE IS THE POINT IN THAT?
you can’t take your bikes off the track because they’re road illegal, cos you dont have a brake, and can’t fit one cos you have no break mounts or brake surface on your rims, so you spend all that money on something you can only ride in a circle.
AND you almost definately drive to the velodrome, when you could be using your bike to get there, which isn’t possible as it isn’t road legal…

but I actually do track cycling, and love it, which seems funny cos I can point out the silly things about it, but having never done a triathlon you can’t really point out the bad things about it.

with road cycling you tend to spend the same amount on your bike as you could buy a car for, and the petrol (gas) and get you to the place your cycling to in a quater of the time, which is usuallly where you start from, which makes it seem pointless, cos your not actually going anywhere.
etc etc

BMXing and MTB, now thers a proper sport. lol.

Nah, cycling all good but triathlons are better cos they take a wider range of skills than cycling. you can’t argue with that.

keep up the blog, it’s amusing!

Lloyd

P.s. As for all the fat cyclists out there, why do you spend so much money on your bikes? just because its got a full dura-ace group set, it’s not gonna make you any better. lose some weight then maybe you’ll go faster.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:39:56 +0000

Here’s the thing. Me? I really don’t like swimming all that much. Cycling doesn’t float my boat either. Running? Come on. I only do it because it is the only true way to control one’s weight and remain a lean, mean sexual machine. But put them all together and all of sudden I can’t stay away. Ironman? Bring it ON!!!!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:52:55 +0000

I completely understand your rants! My bike and I have become close
friends and the Spring is finally here in Wisconsin….I am looking
forward to hours of site-seeing while peddling around.
About running, I will only be doing that if someone is attempting to take my head off with a machete!!!!!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:57:21 +0000

You don’t seem to understand just what the triathlons are about do you.. they involve 3 high endurances races.. pushing the body further and testing how well people have trained themselves.. You may think swimming is gross.. and running is evil.. but thats the challenging part Triathletes face. Just becuase you’re not up to it doesn’t mean you have to make sound like a screwed up game. Perhaps its not a sport… but a competition, and a test of skill / endurance. Ever heard the saying "Don’t knock it before you’ve tried it."? Not that I’ve tried it myself, but I respect all those who participate in such events.

By: Gia

Gia — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:05:10 +0000

FC,
Wow, you stepped in it with this subject matter, eh? I am enjoying the fallout as much as your blog! I used to be a competitive swimmer and am still fairly agile in the H2O, but I suck like a vaccuum in the other 2/3 of the tri. I think that competitive tri-ers are a bit uptight and seem to get their knickers in a twist fairly easily, but I have so enjoyed blowing them out of the water before they blow me away on the bike and run!
Whether you believe tri is a sport or not, you have to appreciate the desire for competition and pushing yourself beyond a place you thought you could never reach! Isn’t that what any sport is all about?
Keep up the good bloggin’ and don’t be laughing at my husband and I as we venture out on our bikes this summer with our twin babies in tow! We’re ugly on the bike but havin’ fun anyway!

By: Zed

Zed — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:30:12 +0000

Fatty, I think the funniest thing about this post is that I keep seeing an ad for the San Francisco Marathon in your sponsored links section when I come here. Your advertisers must not read your blog too often, eh?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:00:46 +0000

I’ll be doing my first tri this summer. But only the bike part. I swim like a rock and look like Shammuu, so the run is out too. I’ll be part of a teen, SWMBO will swim, her maid of honor (at our wedding Saturday) will run and I will bike. The course is on my old training stomping grounds, so i know it like the back of my hand. Will challangeing the tri guys to sprint to the next telephone pole make them angry for upsetting their rythemn. Will they cry if I playfully spray them w/ my water bottle to lighten the mood of the non-peloton ? It sounds like an anti-social bunch, no drafting ect…
Just kidding, tri folks. It is a sport and a tough one at that. Just lighten up on the old Fatty.
Hey FC, how about one of those Banjo Bros bags as a wedding gift? That would beat a toaster hands down.

By: regina

regina — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:58:36 +0000

yep most of us cycle, but apparently some really angry triatheletes read here too, and they do not think fatty is so funny, but I do.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:43:49 +0000

Great stuff, I whole heartedly agree.

Keep up the writing. Light hearted and fun to read. For all of you complaining about the tri-athalon piece. Lighten Up! It’s not meant to be taken seriously.

Keep up the entertaining writing.