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 2013-10-14 11:47 AM in reply to: Left Brain |
 1652     , Kronobergs lan |  Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete?Not yet, anyway, I am still a try-athlete |
| 2013-10-14 11:50 AM in reply to: Left Brain |
Pro 6011 Camp Hill, Pennsylvania | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Left Brain Originally posted by TriMyBest Originally posted by Left Brain Oh......you'll stir up a hornets nest with this one. HA!! I'll play anyway. I did my first triathlon in the mid 80's. I don't know how many I've done since then....the longest is a HIM. I have NEVER referred to myself as a "triathlete" in any medium. I have told people who have asked, yes, I run triathlons. I used to play softball 2 or 3 times a week.....I wasn't a ballplayer. Yes, you were.
I bowl a couple times per year......sometimes I don't break 100....am I a bowler? Yeah...you're just really bad at it.
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| 2013-10-14 11:51 AM in reply to: gsmacleod |
| Member 326 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Unless someone's paying you to do it, you're not a Triathlete. You're a "whatever it is that you do" who enjoys competing in triathlons. Not that it's a big deal. |
| 2013-10-14 12:00 PM in reply to: VGT |
Sensei Sin City | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? It's a fuzzy line, but to me (and similar to other posts), once it becomes something you have incorporated into your daily life for an extended period of time (what that is? I don't know). I did one race so I just did a triathlon. I did one season and just did a summer of races. But when the went into season two and was something I incorporated into my day to day and planned to continue doing it far into the foreseeable future? Then I was a triathlete. YMMV It may have been the moment when races felt routine - like I had been around the block a couple times. Basically when stopped being worried if I was doing it right (setup, packet pickup, swim start placement, etc). |
| 2013-10-14 12:11 PM in reply to: 0 |
Veteran 2842 Austin, Texas | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by VGT Unless someone's paying you to do it, you're not a Triathlete. You're a "whatever it is that you do" who enjoys competing in triathlons. Not that it's a big deal. Agree with the not a big deal bit, buuuuuuut..... Does that mean I'm not a pilot cuz no one is paying me when I fly a plane? Not a dad, ditto? Not a husband? Not a hunter? Fisherman? Physician (no longer practice, but I certainly feel a bit like a doc) or scientist (got the PhD but am not in the lab anymore)? Just my way of saying that to "be" something doesn't require getting cheddar, in my worldview. It seems more about how you see yourself (or even sometimes how others see you - I know lots of folks I'd call triathletes that make no money at it, but who are more into triathlon than their jobs... or sometimes, sadly, even their families). Happy to have different views, of course! LB did say you'd whacked the hornets' nest with this one. Matt ETA: that last comment was toward the OP, obviously... Edited by mcmanusclan5 2013-10-14 12:12 PM |
| 2013-10-14 12:16 PM in reply to: Tripleplay44 |
Veteran 287 Tucson | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? This is an interesting thread. I have been tri training for over a year but have only actually done one sprint triathlon. After I completed that race I considered myself a triathlete. My hubby bought me a triathlon sticker for my car. Sometimes I feel silly when I see that sticker on my car as I have only done the one race. But I read everything there is related to triathlon and watch what ever there is to watch. When I am not injured I train 6 days a week. Currently I am injured and am swimming 5 days a week. Do I now consider myself a swimmer? Good grief no. Lol. I am an injured triathlete doing a swim focus. This is mostly stuff in my head though. Other than my sticker, I don't go around telling people that I am a triathlete. |
| 2013-10-14 12:32 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
Champion 10154 Alabama | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? I played a round of golf once so for the rest of my life I will call myself a golfer! Pont being, most people don't really care what you call yourself or what your condersider yourself. I am a husband, father, engineer, Christian, republican, American, woodworker, swimmer, runner, biker, triathlete, scuba diver, snow skiier, gardener, southerner, fisherman, boater, explorer/traveler, writer, poet, photographer.....oh yeah, and golfer. ;-) |
| 2013-10-14 12:49 PM in reply to: blynott |
Member 341 Austin | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by blynott When you complete a triathlon. However most people don't seem to know that there are different distance triathlons. Since I told one of my friends that I had completed a few sprint triathlons he started calling me an Ironman and I can't get him to stop!
Last year when I finished my first HIM, I told my neighbor about it, so now he and his wife call me tin man (Thinking that was half of iron on the periodic table of elements. )... and say then will unitl I finish a full. Then they go back to drinking beers and laughing at me as I run by.
Gotta love em though.
btw so you don't have to look it up later. fe = 26, sn = 50 on the table.
This was my 3rd year of doing triathlons, and I would consider myself a triathlete. Once it became an obsession over just something to "try" |
| 2013-10-14 12:50 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
Master 2725 Washington, DC Metro | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Left Brain Originally posted by TriMyBest Originally posted by Left Brain Oh......you'll stir up a hornets nest with this one. HA!! I'll play anyway. I did my first triathlon in the mid 80's. I don't know how many I've done since then....the longest is a HIM. I have NEVER referred to myself as a "triathlete" in any medium. I have told people who have asked, yes, I run triathlons. I used to play softball 2 or 3 times a week.....I wasn't a ballplayer. Yes, you were.
I bowl a couple times per year......sometimes I don't break 100....am I a bowler? Depends. How much beer do you consume over the 10 frames? |
| 2013-10-14 12:52 PM in reply to: jetsers |
Pro 15655 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? I know one thing......I don't care at all what you call yourself, but whenever I'm at the gym and someone calls themself a triathlete I'm lookiing for the exit signs. I just don't want to hear what's usually coming next. |
| 2013-10-14 12:53 PM in reply to: Sous |
Pro 15655 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Sous Originally posted by Left Brain Originally posted by TriMyBest Originally posted by Left Brain Oh......you'll stir up a hornets nest with this one. HA!! I'll play anyway. I did my first triathlon in the mid 80's. I don't know how many I've done since then....the longest is a HIM. I have NEVER referred to myself as a "triathlete" in any medium. I have told people who have asked, yes, I run triathlons. I used to play softball 2 or 3 times a week.....I wasn't a ballplayer. Yes, you were.
I bowl a couple times per year......sometimes I don't break 100....am I a bowler? Depends. How much beer do you consume over the 10 frames? Wait!! Is that part of the score? I take it back! I AM a bowler dammit!! |
| 2013-10-14 1:00 PM in reply to: jetsers |
Veteran 441 Clearwater, FL | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by jetsers Originally posted by blynott When you complete a triathlon. However most people don't seem to know that there are different distance triathlons. Since I told one of my friends that I had completed a few sprint triathlons he started calling me an Ironman and I can't get him to stop!
Last year when I finished my first HIM, I told my neighbor about it, so now he and his wife call me tin man (Thinking that was half of iron on the periodic table of elements. )... and say then will unitl I finish a full. Then they go back to drinking beers and laughing at me as I run by.
Gotta love em though.
btw so you don't have to look it up later. fe = 26, sn = 50 on the table.
This was my 3rd year of doing triathlons, and I would consider myself a triathlete. Once it became an obsession over just something to "try"
Alumiman! (13, half of 26) |
| 2013-10-14 1:03 PM in reply to: Tripleplay44 |
| 1300 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Me = When I win at Kona! Anyone else = whenever it makes them feel good! |
| 2013-10-14 1:11 PM in reply to: Tripleplay44 |
| 127 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? I'll leave it to Martin Heidegger to address the "being" questions but for me I guess it will be when there's never a moment I don't have a race on the books. If I have a race on the books and I'm training for it then I get into a different zone and when I get to the longer distances that's going to be pretty much a full time job. I do not hold Mark Allen to the same definition. Nor would I say that Muhammed Ali is not a "boxer", only that he "boxed". But I'll leave the language questions for Wittgenstein. |
| 2013-10-14 1:30 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
Member 5452 NC | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Left Brain The race hat, race tech-t, race socks and race water bottle are usually a good hint. |
| 2013-10-14 1:44 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
| Master 1946 Memphis, TN | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Left Brain Originally posted by TriMyBest Originally posted by Left Brain Oh......you'll stir up a hornets nest with this one. HA!! I'll play anyway. I did my first triathlon in the mid 80's. I don't know how many I've done since then....the longest is a HIM. I have NEVER referred to myself as a "triathlete" in any medium. I have told people who have asked, yes, I run triathlons. I used to play softball 2 or 3 times a week.....I wasn't a ballplayer. Yes, you were.
I bowl a couple times per year......sometimes I don't break 100....am I a bowler? Nah, it means the pitchers of beer were cheap at the Bowling Alley Bar As the Walter would say F*&k it Dude, let's go bowling. |
 2013-10-14 2:02 PM in reply to: 0 |
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| 2013-10-14 2:02 PM in reply to: Rollergirl |
| Champion 10154 Alabama | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Socrates said: “To be is to do.” He meant that in order for someone to develop into something, like a triathlete, they must first do the work of a triathlete, s/b/r. Plato said: “To do is to be.” Plato felt that before we do anything special like a triathlon we must first become that person inside that can do the actions required of a triathlete. Freank Sinatra’s on the other hand said: “Do, be, do, be, do.” So Sinatra was saying it is a process....a lifestyle. |
| 2013-10-14 2:48 PM in reply to: Tripleplay44 |
| Pro 5361 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? If you go to a party- do you know how to tell if there's another triathlete in the room?
. . . he'll tell you |
| 2013-10-14 2:57 PM in reply to: Rogillio |
| Veteran 2842 Austin, Texas | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Rogillio Socrates said: “To be is to do.” He meant that in order for someone to develop into something, like a triathlete, they must first do the work of a triathlete, s/b/r. Plato said: “To do is to be.” Plato felt that before we do anything special like a triathlon we must first become that person inside that can do the actions required of a triathlete. Freank Sinatra’s on the other hand said: “Do, be, do, be, do.” So Sinatra was saying it is a process....a lifestyle. Bwaahahahahaaaaaa! I actually started laughing at my desk when I read this. Fachin' awesome. You are when you feel like you are - who cares about the rest of the definitions and pedantry (oh, wait, this is the interweb!). And, for the record, I don't call myself anything - except Matt, usually.
The triathlete formerly known as Matt |
| 2013-10-14 3:01 PM in reply to: mcmanusclan5 |
| 489 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? I've taken part in many sports competitively all my life (different sports at different times) but I've never described myself as an [insert sport]er I've always said, I swim / i play football / i do triathlons / etc etc but each to their own. I wouldn't look down my considerable nose at anyone describing themselves that way i |
| 2013-10-14 6:04 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
| Member 341 Austin | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Left Brain I know one thing......I don't care at all what you call yourself, but whenever I'm at the gym and someone calls themself a triathlete I'm lookiing for the exit signs. I just don't want to hear what's usually coming next. what comes next for you?
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| 2013-10-14 6:06 PM in reply to: jetsers |
| Pro 15655 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by jetsers Originally posted by Left Brain I know one thing......I don't care at all what you call yourself, but whenever I'm at the gym and someone calls themself a triathlete I'm lookiing for the exit signs. I just don't want to hear what's usually coming next. what comes next for you?
Oh, I don't know, I'm thinking about the professional horseshoe circuit. |
| 2013-10-14 6:11 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
| Member 341 Austin | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by Left Brain Originally posted by jetsers Originally posted by Left Brain I know one thing......I don't care at all what you call yourself, but whenever I'm at the gym and someone calls themself a triathlete I'm lookiing for the exit signs. I just don't want to hear what's usually coming next. what comes next for you?
Oh, I don't know, I'm thinking about the professional horseshoe circuit.
ok so that didn't read correctly. I meant to ask what is it that the person who calls themselves a triathlete at the gym say that makes you want to run away?
At my gym I would love to meet some other triathletes. I think my wife and I are the youngest and most "active" people at the gym that are not trainers. I keep thinking I want to move to the big "triathlete" gym in town just so I have more people to talk to and train with. |
| 2013-10-14 7:13 PM in reply to: jetsers |
| Pro 15655 | Subject: RE: When do you consider yourself a "True" Triathlete? Originally posted by jetsers Originally posted by Left Brain Originally posted by jetsers Originally posted by Left Brain I know one thing......I don't care at all what you call yourself, but whenever I'm at the gym and someone calls themself a triathlete I'm lookiing for the exit signs. I just don't want to hear what's usually coming next. what comes next for you?
Oh, I don't know, I'm thinking about the professional horseshoe circuit.
ok so that didn't read correctly. I meant to ask what is it that the person who calls themselves a triathlete at the gym say that makes you want to run away?
At my gym I would love to meet some other triathletes. I think my wife and I are the youngest and most "active" people at the gym that are not trainers. I keep thinking I want to move to the big "triathlete" gym in town just so I have more people to talk to and train with. See, we're different. I can talk about it here, because I can "walk away" from the discussion whenever I want, but I don't want to talk with other people who do triathlons because I almost always want to just walk away while listening about what races they've done, what they are doing next, how fast they are, what kind of bike they have, what the best shoes are, and on and on and on. I can pick and choose what I want to talk about on the board, but I don't want to seem completely disinterested (which is what I get really quick) to someone who is obviously excited about what they are doing and can't wait to talk about it. It's just triathlon, not a cure for cancer or something that's actually important. |
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