I am withdrawing from SCR (w/ HIM Mallorca 2014 Race Report)

greg66_tri_v2.0

Many years ago I used to do triathlon. 13 years ago I did my last one - an Olympic distance, the longest I have done.

Then children came in the front door, spare time hurried out the back door, and priorities changed.

Until now. As of last night I am a paid up registered entrant for Ironman Canada 2013, which takes place on 25 August in Whistler, BC. I'm a triathlete once more. Unfortunately, there is a long road between here and the finish line.

There will be no more scalping. There will be no more SCR'ing. There will be only training. If you pass me, it will not be scalp. It will because I have just come off 100 * 100m free on the minute, or a week of centuries, or a tempo run to get by 1/2 marathon time down to the hour, or something equally implausible. Or. more likely, I'll be in a recovery week. Or even more likely, I'll be injured.

pangolin

Good luck!!!

My friend tried to convince me Ironman was a good idea. Then we did a 200k Audax together, and near the end I said to him "We've just finished the Ironman bike leg". He went off the idea.

iPete

I'll be the first to say it.

MTFU.

You will not be able to resist the call of SCR.

Wrath Rob

Can I refer you to Rule #42

I hope they offer refunds!

tailwindhome

A bike ride shall never be preceded by a swim nor followed by a run.

Them's the rules.








Good luck with the mid life crisis

iPete

p.s. the course sounds fantastic, drop me a message for any IM training/racing tips.

UndercoverElephant

TailWindHome wrote:

Good luck with the mid life crisis

Prances around in Lycra? Check.
Buys a Porsche? Check.
Enters an implausibly difficult physical challenge? Check.

Greg, you're only a toupé and a dolly bird away from the full set.

Cafewanda

Good luck with that.

I thought SCR could be incorporated into any training, surely?

greg66_tri_v2.0

UndercoverElephant wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

Good luck with the mid life crisis

Prances around in Lycra? Check.
Buys a Porsche? Check.
Enters an implausibly difficult physical challenge? Check.

Greg, you're only a toupé and a dolly bird away from the full set.

A tattoo. You forgot a tattoo.

Relax, boys. I *know* this is a mid life crisis. In fact, for the first time, I really understand what a MLC is and why we have them. I'm cool with it.

mrc1

There's a 40 something in my gym that always wears/ensures are noticeable:

1. Ironman watch
2. Ironman rucksack
3. Ironman t shirt
4. Ironman tattoo on his calf
5. Ironman hoodie
6. Ironman towel
7. Ironman wristband thing

I asked him if he'd ever done a triathlon - he wasn't impressed.

rick_chasey

mrc1 wrote:

There's a 40 something in my gym that always wears/ensures are noticeable:

1. Ironman watch
2. Ironman rucksack
3. Ironman t shirt
4. Ironman tattoo on his calf
5. Ironman hoodie
6. Ironman towel
7. Ironman wristband thing

I asked him if he'd ever done a triathlon - he wasn't impressed.

Haa!

Enjoyed that one.

jonginge

mrc1 wrote:

There's a 40 something in my gym that always wears/ensures are noticeable:

1. Ironman watch
2. Ironman rucksack
3. Ironman t shirt
4. Ironman tattoo on his calf
5. Ironman hoodie
6. Ironman towel
7. Ironman wristband thing

I asked him if he'd ever done a triathlon - he wasn't impressed.

Sheesh. What a tri-hard

UndercoverElephant

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

In fact, for the first time, I really understand what a MLC is and why we have them.

Make your children cringe and give younger blokes a good opportunity to call you 'A sad old man'?

A tattoo does sound pretty rocking, though.

rick_chasey

Have you read The Sense of an Ending by Barnes?

rubertoe

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

In fact, for the first time, I really understand what a MLC is and why we have them.

Make your children cringe and give younger blokes a good opportunity to call you 'A sad old man'?

A tattoo does sound pretty rocking, though.

it could read

"I used to be cool, now I'm just trying to hard"

Good luck though, I've thought about doing a triathlon (I know its not Iron-man) and one of my mates is trying to convince me, two problems though, I hate swimming and I hate running.

jedster

Good luck Greg,

I think the iron man is utterly bonkers. The good thing about being a slacker is that I am planning to do an olympic tri as my concession to MLC and don't have to get ridiculous like you. Bloke I worked with did an MLC iron man. Except he had to learn to swim to do it... (shakes head)

J

mtb-idle

rubertoe wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

In fact, for the first time, I really understand what a MLC is and why we have them.

Make your children cringe and give younger blokes a good opportunity to call you 'A sad old man'?

A tattoo does sound pretty rocking, though.

it could read

"I used to be cool, now I'm just trying to hard"
Good luck though, I've thought about doing a triathlon (I know its not Iron-man) and one of my mates is trying to convince me, two problems though, I hate swimming and I hate running.

That would be the perfect tattoo, especially with the spelling mistake and all that. Reminds me of this...

FoldingJoe

Rick Chasey wrote:

Have you read The Sense of an Ending by Barnes?

Great book - still not sure who the young man was spawned from...

il_principe

You mad fool!

Let me know if you want any company on those long winter training rides.

veronese68

When I saw the thread title I thought you may be wimping out DDD style. Good luck with it, rather you than me.

andyb78

Best of luck!

If you manage to crack the hour for the Half, let me know how!

Although I'm with iPete - I give it a week tops before you're chasing people down who've had the temerity to pass you....

SteppenHerring

So, former star retires from racing, announces that he's competing in triathlons from now on. The story sounds familiar. Just waiting for the doping stories to come out now.

meanredspider

I don't do SCR but I do sort of know the feeling. There are times when I'm riding slowly to try to do that "HR below 70%" training thing and I'm always now worried I'll be passed on my commute - and, really stupidly, only because I've never been passed. There are times when I wish someone would pass me. Who cares?? Nobody! Except that horribly competitive part of me.

sketchley

You can't withdraw from SCR it doesn't work that way.... You will just be a bigger target when practising your TT position on the commute.

Good luck btw.....

Greg T

I will say it again

Swimming is only required should your boat be torpedoed

Running is only necessary if you are being chased, even then you only need to run quickly enough to stay away from your pursuer

No good can come of this, actually cancel that, YES crack on please, I need to laugh like a drain when you tell me you've got rat syphillis from open water swimming and exploding feet.

anton1r

Good luck with the IM training fella, I've a mate who signed up for IM UK 2013 (but he's currently injured... oops).

I can only imagine how beautiful/inspiring the route for IM Canada is going to be.

Kieran_Burns

mrc1 wrote:

There's a 40 something in my gym that always wears/ensures are noticeable:

1. Ironman watch
2. Ironman rucksack
3. Ironman t shirt
4. Ironman tattoo on his calf
5. Ironman hoodie
6. Ironman towel
7. Ironman wristband thing

I asked him if he'd ever done a triathlon - he wasn't impressed.

buy this:



wear it in the gym.

Kieran_Burns

SteppenHerring wrote:

So, former star retires from racing, announces that he's competing in triathlons from now on. The story sounds familiar. Just waiting for the doping stories to come out now.

Gregstrong.

Wheelspinner

On a few occasions I've ridden my bike upwards of 180 km in one trip, and not once do I recall getting off thinking "what I need now is to go running till my feet bleed and I lose control of my bowels".

Nor on the single occasion I ran a marathon did I cross the finish line thinking the experience would have been much improved by starting the day seasick with a gutful of salt water followed by an eternity hunched over some freakin' aerobars attempting to digest Gatorade and carbo gels.

But good luck anyhoo. After your last ride report from Canada, I look forward to the race review!

DonDaddyD

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

Good luck with the mid life crisis

Prances around in Lycra? Check.
Buys a Porsche? Check.
Enters an implausibly difficult physical challenge? Check.

Greg, you're only a toupé and a dolly bird away from the full set.

Real men, who fire lead filled bullets, like me go through a proper midlife crisis. Enjoy your handbags when you reach yours, boys!

FTFY

Good luck. You just wanted an excuse to buy a TTbike didn't you?

ITB just went out and bought his, he's a real man.

bobinski

I have a friend who has completed an Iron man riding a fixed gear bike.

He IS mad

And you may be a little crazy to do one too, but good luck with the training!