Triathlon - The hidden perils of triathlon!!!!
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Plainsman
04-03-07, 08:53 PM
Nobody warned me about this. I didn't even notice it at first. Should my physician have tipped me off? Where were my peers when I needed their protection???
You read the books, you buy the magazines, you even watch the races on TV, but somehow you are never prepared when it actually happens to you.
Now, here I am, 3 months into my first season of training, and my new shorts no longer fit!!! :eek: 2 - 2.5 inches off the waist since January! Wow, now I need to go buy more Triathlon stuff :D.
efrobert
04-03-07, 09:16 PM
Take two cheese burgers and call me in the morning.
Congrats! I can't wait to have the same problem...actually my pants are already a little loose!
It is the Dirty Little Secret. Any serious multisport training will change your body and require you to upgrade your wardrobe. My wife is getting ready to do her first tri, and has already dropped two jean sizes.
Jim
advicepig
04-04-07, 09:50 PM
Really? My quads just ripped my bike shorts this afternoon. Maybe I've got it all wrong.
StalkerZERO
04-05-07, 09:22 AM
Really? My quads just ripped my bike shorts this afternoon. Maybe I've got it all wrong.
Show off. :rolleyes:
haha.
since starting training since january i've gone from 184 to 166 while adding muscle. feeling pretty good about that. i'm 5'10" so i'm looking to get down to somewhere between 155-160 by my first race (june 17th). a lot of this has to do with working out regularly, but i think changing eating habbits has also had a lot to do with it. cutting out all white bread and way back on all carbs (i'm mostly vegan so carbs made up a lot of my diet), eating 5-6 times a day and much smaller portions - especially for dinner, cutting way back on sugar, and trying to eat almost all whole foods and cutting out processed stuff.
of course this is all stuff i could have done without training for a tri, but working out and having a training goal really focuses everything you do, and wasting all your training on eating poorly just doesn't make sense for me.
now beer, still battling with that. i have cut back to maybe 5-6 pints a week though.