The Tri Lounge from Sep 22, 2009 to Sep 24, 2009 comments

The Tri Lounge Sep 22, 2009 to Sep 24, 2009

Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 22:25 Comment 193949 E of email: @: GET A ROOM!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 22:01 Comment 193948
Jen of nz email: @: Oh, sorry...um, I meant, MY friend. Of course. :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 21:49 Comment 193947
Rick James of nz email: @: Superbeast, superbeast, yer surbeasty woooooowwww!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 21:49 Comment 193946
tina of @ email: @: WOO-HOOO! :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 21:42 Comment 193945
Jen of NZ email: @: Quit sucking up to Tina already, VIMP! She's MINE!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 21:40 Comment 193944
tina of @ email: @: I would expect this to be a typical fundraiser line for me...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 21:39 Comment 193943
tina of @ email: @: I can woo well for something I believe in!! It's not like I'm trying to 'sell' anything, it's more like "DUDE!?! DON'T YOU GET IT?!?!? THIS IS SOOOO COOL!"
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 20:50 Comment 193942 KP of SD email: @: "beast" is one of the highest compliments. Beast is awesome, cool, amazing, the best, crazy, great, strong and sick.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 20:36 Comment 193941
tina of @ email: @: I just turned a page in the New Yorker and came across an article titled "The It Bird: The return of the backyard chicken" I thought of rita. the end.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 20:05 Comment 193940
tina of @ email: @: Actually, IF I am officially offered this position (which I have not been yet and I don't want to jinx myself) I'm offering her the ability to have a physical US office (which she did want in the near future anyway) as of October 1st. It's a gorgeous two level loft here in our building...spiral staircase, super high ceilings exposed brick, etc, and the main floor is perfect for cocktail parties to woo potential funders. AND SHE WOULD GET ME, TOO!!! :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 20:02 Comment 193939
tina of @ email: @: Geneva and Amsterdam are 617 miles apart. That's more than I had hoped... :-/
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 20:00 Comment 193938 E of email: @: No, you are not moving to Geneva!!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:59 Comment 193937
tina of @ email: @: I'm gonna go do a mapquest thing here real quick. Hold please...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:59 Comment 193936
tina of @ email: @: two things I'm heavily involved with are both based in Geneva, Switzerland... not too shabby :)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:58 Comment 193935
tina of @ email: @: currently sipping a diet dr. pepper about to crack open the newly arrived New Yorker. Just finished with my 'why I wanna work with your global poverty place' letter thing (14 pages, but who's counting) and I will send it, via our friend the internet, to Geneva, Switzerland tomorrow morning (US time :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:56 Comment 193934
tina of @ email: @: I'LL COME AND SIT AT THE FAMOUS COFFEE PLACE!!! I'm good at sitting at coffee places. I can do it for hours! DAYS EVEN!! Hell, I could even probably live in one - what? wait....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:55 Comment 193933
tina of @ email: @: which tells you how much I ride it... :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:54 Comment 193932
tina of @ email: @: I was gonna say that I don't even own a bike, but actually I do...I just forgot... :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:54 Comment 193931
tina of @ email: @: hey! I jumped in at a great time! :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:54 Comment 193930 E of email: @: it would be kinda rude to show up under mileaged
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:53 Comment 193929
tina of @ email: @: "Please, ride a bike a modicum of volume before you travel over so we can hang out :-)" LOL!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:51 Comment 193928
vimp of nz email: @: Tina both fascinates and scares me. My wife always tells me what a great person she is. KP tells me how strong she is. I wanna meet her but am concerned she'll put me in a headlock and use my face to polish her boot marks out of our floors.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:51 Comment 193927 E of email: @: watchin Couger Town...waitin ta see if I see any peeps in it
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:40 Comment 193926 E of email: @: yep, I thought so
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:40 Comment 193925 E of email: @: "Tina is...a beast!"
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:39 Comment 193924 E of email: @: and dont look now but I think you called tina a beast? lemme check
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:35 Comment 193923 E of email: @: single minded focus
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:34 Comment 193922 KP of SD email: @: Because you get it, you are equally wierd. Of that, I never doubted :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 19:29 Comment 193921 E of email: @: that's a great analogy mang! Close Encounters...must build this mt in my living room
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 18:41 Comment 193920 KP of SD email: @: It's not right or wrong. It is what it is. Fortunately, by going to The Devils Monument many of us can be cured :-) It's part of what a good coach does. Move along dawgie!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 18:39 Comment 193919 KP of SD email: @: The thing about Kona is that it's not for everyone. Some of us just get bitten by this THING. It's not normal. It's like what Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences in Close Encounters when he becomes obsessed with the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. We know we were "different". Point of information: Tina could have gone to Kona as an AGer or as a PRO. That is very very very rarified air. Tina is mentally and physically a beast! No one will reach their physical potential unless they do what she did. Count yourself out unless you are willing to drop everyting else. If not you may reach relative potential (ie within personal constraints). I hope you (Tina) come over to the big island one year to be reminded what single minded focus can do (in any field // business, parenting, sport, etc). Please, ride a bike a modicum of volume before you travel over so we can hang out :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 18:06 Comment 193918
tina of @ email: @: Would you like me to pull up a couch?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 18:05 Comment 193917
tina of @ email: @: Yes. the salt was the foundation for and reason I trained and was competitive.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 17:37 Comment 193916
vimp of nz email: @: MORE LIKE MY SALT'S YER MOMMA!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:49 Comment 193915 E of email: @: so contrary to Chef Ramsey, ya had some salt and then added some training, miles, etc and out came the dish?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:47 Comment 193914
tina of @ email: @: My salt came first. true story.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:43 Comment 193913 E of email: @: what's yer salt?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:43 Comment 193912
Laura of @ email: @: Burgers are up! Ya all are welcome to get one. Red meat is still eaten on this Page, correct? [Czar Ruling]...lates again!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:43 Comment 193911
tina of @ email: @: I have an 'issue' with it for some reason.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:42 Comment 193910
tina of @ email: @: I totally seriously think I need to actually attend IM-Hawaii just so I can make peace with the damn race.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:40 Comment 193909
tina of @ email: @: Under part 2 subsection b...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:40 Comment 193908
tina of @ email: @: But I have comments to make and I'm too far removed from the actual post that I need to refer to the specific post I am referring to. IT'S PAGE RULE NUMBER 962! GAWD!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:39 Comment 193907
tina of @ email: @: 193893! EWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:38 Comment 193906
vimp of nz email: @: 193905 and 193903: stop refering ot other comments! :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:36 Comment 193905
tina of @ email: @: 193882: You're welcome to sit in on any of my psychologist OR psychiatrist sessions. If you can handle it, you're welcome to attend both.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:34 Comment 193904
Laura of @ email: @: I'll definitely have Phil try one out. He fractured his L-3 years ago (horseback fall) and so comfort is going to be key. Nothing too steep.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:34 Comment 193903
tina of @ email: @: 193878: YES HE IS!! :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:32 Comment 193902
Laura of @ email: @: Might even have a calcified GU packet on the frame. Archeological interest, of course.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:31 Comment 193901
Laura of @ email: @: 'Course, mine still has all those stickers. Probably should clean those off and the cobwebs....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:30 Comment 193900
Laura of @ email: @: KP - thanks! Duho! As a matter of fact, I have one of those LiteSpeed bike thingies hanging in my basement..good to know some vintage never goes out of style! Will keep that in mind for next spring.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:21 Comment 193899 KP of SD email: @: Laura -- Litespeed. It will last a lifetime and larger athletes find it very comfortable. I'd buy a used frame, good wheels and solid components. In fact, that's what I ride!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:18 Comment 193898 KP of SD email: @: Too funny Freddie! Sounds like Will may have written that one. Thanks :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 16:07 Comment 193897
FFO of . email: @: This is for all you pinko commies out there who want to governmentize our healthcare. Palin in 2012!! - - -http://pol.moveon.org/insurance_execs/?rc=email
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:53 Comment 193896
Laura of @ email: @: Said husband just got home with the fixings for burgers on the Weber grill. Nothing like grilling outside on a warm fall evening. Lates!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:47 Comment 193895
Laura of @ email: @: Now, the robotic arm that we saw today in the O.R. was sterile....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:46 Comment 193894
Laura of @ email: @: It was so dark ages that you could even enter a M-Dot event for UNDER $500. Quaint, I realize.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:45 Comment 193893
vimp of nz email: @: Hoffy, does your Rrobotic arm conenct to the Internet? Like, could I perhaps control it for you remotely and do stuff with it?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:45 Comment 193892
Laura of @ email: @: FFO..aww..;-) that was in the dark ages when we had no power taps, no compression hose, no fast swimsuits, we ran bare foot, rode Schwinn Touring bikes and we liked it!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:42 Comment 193891
FFO of . email: @: When I first got into IM, Laura was one of the page gurus on the sport. She always had good answers back in the day when we actually discussed tri-related stuff her. I learned a lot. I hope she makes it back to Kona again someday.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:41 Comment 193890 E of email: @: I too have a robotic arm
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:40 Comment 193889
Laura of @ email: @: Oh yea, seeing as how I am a currently semi-retired geezerette, who is out of the techo/bike loop; I am in need of bike brand recommendations for big guys. My 6'5 husband casually remarked to me yesterday that he wants to learn how to cycle next spring...and that is how it begins....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:37 Comment 193888
Laura of @ email: @: Vimp..yer thinking of the wooden wheel or rack? The rack is left to those orthopedic docs..This was more like a video game - it was cool! It has robotic arms, a small incision is made and the surgeon sits at what looks like an arcade video terminal, and directs the robotic arms and cannula and instruments inside the body. All about the minimal invasiveness! ;-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:35 Comment 193887
vimp of nz email: @: "The procedure is relatively simple - we'll remove you rectal polyp via this set of mechanically-activated scissors at the end of this 2x4...: :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:34 Comment 193886
vimp of nz email: @: Da Vinci robotic surgery - is anyone else picturing a set of medial tools made out of 2x4 and plywood? :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:30 Comment 193885
FFO of . email: @: IMan is going to be jealous when he sees those manthongs.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:27 Comment 193884 G of idaho email: @: I'm not a kona caliber athlete... but the sun shines some days and roll downs do happen! 202pd this morning.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:21 Comment 193883
Laura of @ email: @: One of these days, I'd like to go back to Kona: but by volunteering and working in the medical tent to give back. But, I'd never not rule out IMC...;-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:20 Comment 193882 E of email: @: no, my goal is not to qualie it is only to get to and finish IMC next year. I just find Kona claiber athletes fascinating and I'm a people watcher and I wanna know what makes them tick, gnomesain
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:19 Comment 193881
Laura of @ email: @: Now today, I got to scrub up, gown and glove and be in an actual O.R., watching a Da Vinci Robotic surgery..that is what currently jazzes me!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:15 Comment 193880 E of email: @: my new pre-Kona kit- http://www.internationaljock.com/mens-thongs.html
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:15 Comment 193879
Laura of @ email: @: E - re the Kona thread: I qualified at IMC in 1998 (4th place in age group), did Kona 5 weeks later. Just missed in 1999, then got lucky in the lottery in 2001, but bike crashed on the course after Havii and DNF'd. In 1998, I was in the best shape of my life: Mike McCormack was my coach, I trained about 16-18 hours a week and worked full time and did alot of my training on the Computrainer at 4:00 a.m. with a young daughter at home, so not to interfere with her needs. I worked my training around my job and my parental responsibilities. It was NOT easy. But, 1998 was the best athletic year of my life and I have ZERO regrets going for it. But, by 2001, I was burned out, had done way too much since 1998. In hindsight, was not mentally or physically up to the challenge. By my 11 ironman in 2003 ( 10 ironman finishes, only the one DNF), I was ready for a looong break. But, I still get jazzed by Kona. :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:09 Comment 193878
FFO of . email: @: KP has got to be an amazing coach to have all those athletes going to the Big Dance. About 50,000 people do an IM each year, but only 1,800 make it to Kona. I'd like to go again, but I don't have that drive KP spoke of. I really like training and competing, but if it ever stops being fun, I'll hang it up.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:08 Comment 193877
vimp of nz email: @: Just hit the Queen K in yer mankini in the week leading up to that race and yer golden!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 15:02 Comment 193876
swoosh! of starlite email: @: I think if E really wants to go to Kona he should just go. it's not like you *really* need to do it as part of an event, right ? I mean, sure, you lose out on the tshirt. Your name isn't on any roster. No finisher photo. No medal. Save several hundred dollars in an entry and all the $$$ spent on "qualifying" events. why not just go do it? :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 14:57 Comment 193875 JD of @ email: @: Aero -Beer off at Cali 10 reunion. 1 Beer. Who finishes first wins. Loser drinks another full one before next match. But I gotta have like 2 or 3 in the gullet first. 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 14:56 Comment 193874
swoosh! of starlite email: @: Challenge events yes, race competition NO! YES! I mean, you know what I mean.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 14:54 Comment 193873 E of email: @: it gets on yer shoes if you do it wrong
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 14:49 Comment 193872 JD of @ email: @: Al -I was just practicing my correct "defocation Posture" from your post. Thanks. I was doing it all wrong. 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 14:16 Comment 193871 e of email: @: oh, now I know what dP2 is sayin- Mackenzie Phillips
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 14:09 Comment 193870 E of email: @: WHAT'S THE SALT!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:52 Comment 193869
tina of @ email: @: I've been sitting in the same dam chair since 8 this morning. blah.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:51 Comment 193868
tina of @ email: @: I was trying to think of a nice way to put it. Dangerously Uniformed fits the bill.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:50 Comment 193867
tina of @ email: @: The only way I could deal with her running again in 3 years is if we get more Tina Fey skits out of it.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:50 Comment 193866 E of email: @: not smart is a compliment. i think she is dangerously uninformed
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:49 Comment 193865
tina of @ email: @: I feel the urge to watch a tina fey SNL skit....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:49 Comment 193864
tina of @ email: @: HOW CAN SOMEBODY THAT 'NOT SMART' GET SO FAR IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS?!?!?! *banging head on desk repeatedly*
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:47 Comment 193863
tina of @ email: @: omg. she's back. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125368057547633229.html
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:28 Comment 193862 E of email: @: I think that's called monster with two backs? but I dunno. hey did Phats post earlier or was that a fake fly by?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:26 Comment 193861 E of email: @: that's kinda icky
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:24 Comment 193860
vimp of nz email: @: Xactly E. I mean, what the hell is that about anyways?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:19 Comment 193859 E of email: @: you mean like when a dude gets with a lady?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:18 Comment 193858
d2p of email: @: i knew "John Phillips" would come up today.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:15 Comment 193857
vimp of nz email: @: Perhaps she may like to dabble in the love that dare not speak its name? No?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:14 Comment 193856 e of email: @: well then, what is she wearin'?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:14 Comment 193855
tina of @ email: @: My boss would be the executive director, who is a woman. So, no. Perky was not used with said letter.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:13 Comment 193854
vimp of nz email: @: Got a bookmark of the results returned from a Google "perky" search...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:13 Comment 193853
tina of @ email: @: I mean, seriously. Here are my choices at work pertaining to the coke related world: 20 oz CHERRY coke zero or a CAN of diet coke. WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!?!?!?!!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:12 Comment 193852 E of email: @: JAYZUES DUDE YOU SLEEP IN TILL 2PM EVERY DAY? WTF!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:11 Comment 193851 E of email: @: I hope the word "perky" appears on each of those 12 pages gnomesain?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:11 Comment 193850
vimp of nz email: @: Well, AIN'T YOU ALL A BUNCHA YIPPE-YAP YAPS YAPS THIS MORNING?!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:11 Comment 193849
tina of @ email: @: That would be a 12oz, E. the only 20oz diet coke related product we have available is Cherry *barf* Coke Zero. :(
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:09 Comment 193848
tina of @ email: @: I am composing a required letter to the micro-lending organization I am hoping to work for. In it, I am to address my motivation for wanting to work there and also what I can "bring to the table". I am currently on page 12. :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:07 Comment 193847 E of email: @: aren't Viagra blue?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:06 Comment 193846 E of email: @: 2,500mg of salt a day is the recommended max. Only 500mg maintains the normal salt balance. Average American equals 5,000mg a day. i might be in that range or higher. So, in closing, I offer that my daily salt intake is probably excessive and damaging.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 13:04 Comment 193845
d2p of email: @: riding along at the tailend of everyone at Moo this year i spotted at least a dozen baggies with pills (or tablets) in them lost along the roadside. most seemed to contain white, presumably salt, tablets but several contained both white and blue pills. i hope the blue pills were Aleve.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:57 Comment 193844 Al of email: @: I actually have no idea what the RDA of salt is. Tell you what - I'll go pedal my bike and think about it. Then I'll throw some plate and think about it some more.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:55 Comment 193843 E of email: @: Now let's say I drink 6 of those a day, which I don't, but let's say a person did- that's 450mg of salt added to a diet already high in salt. Discuss
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:53 Comment 193842 E of email: @: there are 75mg in my 20oz diet Coke. Is that high?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:52 Comment 193841 e of email: @: oh hello Alynn
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:51 Comment 193840
ChefRamseyE of email: @: BUT HOW DO YOU MAKE A RISOTO BY FIRST PUTTING SALT ON A PLATE? IT'S FRIGGEN BACKWARDS YA SILLY COW!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:49 Comment 193839 Al of email: @: Diet Coke is low sodium.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:47 Comment 193838 E of email: @: wait, 12 oz can or 20 oz bottle T?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:46 Comment 193837 E of email: @: you make yer own coincidences tina! woo!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:46 Comment 193836 e of email: @: so years of progressive + consistent work, phenominal focus, sacrifice, life adjustment and willingness to hurt. I think that is only what drives yer vehicle to the threshold. Then ta break through ya need "salt" on the risoto. I'm betting that the salt can be different things to different athletes- anger, mean streak, compulsion, fear of failure, masochism or even economic. At the margin, what makes athletes wanna go that extra step. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong: maybe the salt comes first and that is what makes you put in the time, training, sacrifice, etc.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:41 Comment 193835
tina of @ email: @: I just bought a diet coke. E just appeared on the page. coincidence? I think not...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 12:39 Comment 193834 E of email: @: WHAT IS THE SALT?????
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:59 Comment 193833
Aero of Goleta email: @: OH YEAH JIM LEO??? YOU WANT SUMMA THIS? YOU WANT A BEER OFF? Man, when we're done you're gonna feel like, uh, A DUDE WHO'S SERIOUSLY FULL OF BEER!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:59 Comment 193832
tina of @ email: @: excellent times....I hope there's more to come :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:58 Comment 193831
tina of @ email: @: When I was in the house with the 21 year old dude, Corn and Kerri let me borrow a futon mattress of theirs so that I had something to sleep on. true story :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:57 Comment 193830
tina of @ email: @: the greenhouse = tina getting her espresso catering business up and running :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:56 Comment 193829
tina of @ email: @: Dude ended up walking away from the house like 4 months later and let me live in it for free till it sold :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:55 Comment 193828
tina of @ email: @: correction - when I worked at Starbuck's, I was living with Cap't Kirk of mile 141 dot com fame and then moved in with this 21 year old dude who had just bought his first house in an attempt to flip it. We had no silverware, plates, furniture (except one old couch) among other things. We did have maggots in the trash one time, but other than that....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:46 Comment 193827 JD of @ email: @: Tina your way of life is hot helping the economy recover. Apply for a credit card and max it out...just like the government! HAYUL YAH!!! WOOHOO!!! 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:45 Comment 193826 Al of email: @: I 'member when I first came to the Page. Tina lived in a greenhouse and worked at 'Buckies.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:43 Comment 193825 JD of @ email: @: Aero -I challenge you to a beer off! 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:39 Comment 193824
Tina of @ email: @: There are some pretty nice benefits to living way under your means.... :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:38 Comment 193823
ray of @ email: @: I still compete a little. But I'm at the point where the engine is maxxed out and only the small tweaks in technique improve the overall results which are far below the qualifying for Kona level. For me, it will take luck to get there.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:38 Comment 193822
tina of @ email: @: on my fb status, I wrote that I was going to meet with my boss to switch to a 30 hour work week. Someone made the comment that they went to 35 hours beginning in February and thought they would love it. They then said that the 'money shortfall' has caught up to them and it will catch up to me too at some point. All I could think of saying was "NOT IF YOU LIVE LIKE I DO!!" :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:36 Comment 193821
tina of @ email: @: I know! Isn't that cool!?!?!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:36 Comment 193820
tina of @ email: @: OK. said 2pm meeting got rescheduled for tomorrow. :-/
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:35 Comment 193819
ray of @ email: @: 193808--you've been close to being globally poor lots of times in your life. ;-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:19 Comment 193818
tina of @ email: @: :-D
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:18 Comment 193817
Aero of Goleta email: @: Got passed by Tina at a race once. I have no idea what the front of her looks like. Shapely pooper...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:07 Comment 193816
tina of @ email: @: Spent three hours comatosed in the med tent afterwards, but still....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:06 Comment 193815
tina of @ email: @: My most favorite and most memorable IM race was IM-Moo. It was my first race as a pro and I needed to prove to myself that I belonged there...and I did :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:04 Comment 193814 KP of SD email: @: Aero, doode knows stuff. See you there!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:02 Comment 193813
Aero of Goleta email: @: Ol' Aero is with KP on all counts. Challenge events yes, race competition no. EC2010!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 11:02 Comment 193812 KP of SD email: @: Reminds me of the BT Express: "Do it, do it, do till your satisfied ... whatever it is"
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:59 Comment 193811 KP of SD email: @: That would be a huge accomplishment! I'll do something like the EC bike ride. Challenge events are fun. I hope I don't ever have to stop that stuff.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:57 Comment 193810
tina of @ email: @: AND...just as an fyi, as part of my grand master global poverty plan, in one hour I meet with my boss to discuss my need (and want!) to scale back to a 30 hour work week. Wish me luck :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:55 Comment 193809
tina of @ email: @: And the 100 mile TRAIL (has to be trail or else it's YUCK!) would be 1. to see if I can do it and 2. to see what it feels like. No racing or wanting to be top in whatever age group or anything like that. To allow myself to do it just for the sole purpose of doing it. I don't think I've ever done that before...true story :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:53 Comment 193808
tina of @ email: @: I, at some point in my life, would like to do a 100 mile trail run, but first, I need to get securely situation in the world of global poverty eradication...of which, I am dangerously close to doing... :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:44 Comment 193807 Al of email: @: Yes, it's about poop, but not scary.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:44 Comment 193806 JD of @ email: @: http://funnyflash.com/games/pissoff/
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:38 Comment 193805 KP of SD email: @: A sign of how tough it is on the mind/body to get to Kona: Aero, Tina and KP haven't raced in years and I don't think any of us are going to race again. I'm retired since 2006. Tina? Aero? FFO and ArtieParty are still at it though. These days I just help others get there.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:30 Comment 193804 JD of @ email: @: Al -That link scares me. I can only immagine... 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:29 Comment 193803 JD of @ email: @: Aero? Dude check out these moves in the foam. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//090913/ids_photos_ts/r2282230732.jpg/
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:26 Comment 193802 Al of email: @: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/squat-poop/
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:22 Comment 193801 JD of @ email: @: Hanley man. Sup my brutha from a nutha mutha? 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:21 Comment 193800
Aero of Goleta email: @: Dillion man.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:21 Comment 193799 JD of @ email: @: Tina -You try Beginnertriathlete dot com? 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:19 Comment 193798
Aero of Goleta email: @: Bri. Jon. Boys.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:16 Comment 193797 JD of @ email: @: PAIN IS ONLY WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY!!! STFUAR!!! 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 10:15 Comment 193796 JD of @ email: @: I totally agree with KP. Transgression to Kona takes years (as a non gifted athlete myself). I see that with the work I put toward it and consistently fall short. Each year absolutely has to have progress towards the next. Staying at the same level is obtainable by your average Joe athlete but to improve takes focus and time. More focus leads to more time which leads to improvements. I see it as a step ladder. You get to the first step which leads you to the next step which ultimately puts you on top. Its also takes on a cone shape. The more focus the smaller the cone and the closer you get to the opening at the top. 8)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 9:43 Comment 193795
Phatty of email: @: Dude din't call glass...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 9:35 Comment 193794 IO of Seattle email: @: Silly distraction http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/dude-perfect-worlds-longe_n_296163.html
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 9:10 Comment 193793
tina of @ email: @: ...or, if I need to know what triathletes keep in their shorts.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 9:03 Comment 193792
ironmanny of sd email: @: tina - if you need data on a below-average triathlete, give me a call. :o)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:58 Comment 193791
tina of @ email: @: beautifullllll!!!!!!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:56 Comment 193790
tina of @ email: @: This will actually do! http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/126363
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:48 Comment 193789 KP of SD email: @: Ahhh ... yes. I saw something about finacial demographics on slowtwitch once. Perhaps a search there would help.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:44 Comment 193788
tina of @ email: @: I was thinking of the stuff that is provided to potential advertisers...avg salary, stuff like that. I saw it at one point years ago but hadn't seen it since. No biggie.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:43 Comment 193787 KP of SD email: @: Yeh, Joe, those buggers hurt!
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:42 Comment 193786 KP of SD email: @: E, I have guided about 30 athletes to Kona slots and about 10 AG championships at international IMs. The descriptions below holds true. The athlete is always super focused and executes well under pressure (think military, EMT, Firefighters). If they are not gentically superior they are exponentially more focused and patient.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:42 Comment 193785 G of idaho email: @: E - The ability to tolerate a lot of pain for 10 hrs doesn't hurt either.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:33 Comment 193784 KP of SD email: @: Tina, good morning! I am not aware of data for the average triathlete. I've never seen one. We are all different :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:30 Comment 193783
tina of @ email: @: I'm goin' to Dunn Bros...it's time for a refill :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:30 Comment 193782
tina of @ email: @: KP apparently is in his 'coaching zone'....
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:27 Comment 193781 KP of SD email: @: ChuckieV started the thread on my forum. The link is below if you are intertested. It starts out about discussing injury and evloves from there. Injury and lack of consistency prevent most athletes from reaching their goalos: http://www.coachkp.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=8725
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:24 Comment 193780 KP of SD email: @: In all my years coaching I have only worked with 2-3 athletes who could lay down 22-25hr weeks, hold demanding professional careers (40-50hr work weeks) have successful relationships and stay healthy. Even they had to take breaks after years of focus. So, the guys and gals who qualify alter their lives. If you have so-so genes you would need to alter your life structure even more! Of the six athletes who qualified only two of them hold down full time jobs. For the others, training is a full time job. One group trains 25-28hrs a week the other 17-10hrs a week.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:18 Comment 193779 KP of SD email: @: 5-7 years just to qualify. For me, in my early to mid 40s I shut down my chiropractic office to train full time. From 2001 to 2005 I trained 25hrs a week all yera long. I went to bed at 8:00am and got up at 3:00am seven days a week for that enture time. I never had a drink of alcohol and ate like a champion; I didn�t not go out to restaurants or to the movies or watch TV. I had a sponsor and close friend in gordo; the kind few athletes will ever benefit from like I did. Weekly volume was about 20,000+ yards swimming // about 300 miles riding // 35-40 miles running. So, 6 to 7hrs swimming // 15 hours riding // 5.5 to 6.5 hours running. It took me five years to qualify.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:17 Comment 193778
tina of @ email: @: GO TATI!!! :-)
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:16 Comment 193777
tina of @ email: @: KP - Mr. All Things Triathlon...I was thinking of posting this question on your page. Do you know of anything?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:15 Comment 193776
tina of @ email: @: Question: Does anyone know where I can find 'facts and statistics' on the average ironman participant?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:15 Comment 193775 KP of SD email: @: Hey E, I wrote quite a bit about this on a thread on my forum recently. Currently I am coaching six athletes who qualified for Hawaii this year and will be racing in Kona on October 10th. They are all different but they all restructured their lives to accomplish the goal. All things being equal (and they seldom are) the most genetically gifted athletes are age group champions and can race PRO within two years of entering the sport. For the rest of us it takes 5-7 of complete focus to reach personal potential.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:11 Comment 193774
softrider! of @ email: @: Followed by Queen - Sheer Heeart Attack. Level 8. It looks like another pounding rock morning.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 8:10 Comment 193773
softrider! of @ email: @: Pink Floyd - One of these days. Level 7.
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 6:49 Comment 193772
softrider! of @ email: @: American Idol?
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 6:15 Comment 193771
tina of @ email: @: ...as sing is to...
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 5:51 Comment 193770
d2p of email: @: the salt is to sing
Date: Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 4:14 Comment 193769
tina of @ email: @: this string was way too deep to read before my first cup of coffee...my head sorta hurts. ow.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:42 Comment 193768
FFO of . email: @: Just a few grains, that's all.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:37 Comment 193767 E of email: @: Hey Freddie! No I don wanna qualify, I'd be happy with jus starting for a change. But while I train I jus like philosophizing and pondering the why and whatnot behind the whole thang. Whatever the salt is I'm sure that Kev's got a shaker or two of it, as do you
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:35 Comment 193766
FFO of . email: @: E - KP is the man to go to for how to get to Kona. He's been there like three times but has qualified several more times but did not go. I've only been once. In 2006 I have no idea how I did it. I was just out there having fun. I had hoped and trained for the last five years to get to Kona but failed everytime. This year it was time just to have fun. When I was just 300 yards from the finish line, Nancy yelled out that I was second in my AG. And there were two slots that year. And I was over an hour slower than my best time at IMC. Go figure.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:26 Comment 193765 E of email: @: I remember when my life was full and a dude named Brian usta post a lot and stuff. Now that dude doesn't want me to have a full life and only posts like once every decade
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:22 Comment 193764 e of email: @: I mean I dont need to know what the salt is I just need to know what KP thinks the salt is....but also anyone else that maybe has ever thought about that
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:19 Comment 193763 E of email: @: WHAT IS THE SALT????
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:14 Comment 193762 E of email: @: stay off the walking path V
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:13 Comment 193761 E of email: @: ya know, like after all the hours and sufficient training it would be the inner mean streak that made the difference between qualie and also ran. Like the mean streak made ya jus bad ass enough to cross the threshold. Cause I'm convinced that ya havta be very bad assed to qualie...that hours and miles alone don't gaurantee it. The bad ass quotient is what causes the tipping point, the training and equipment just provide the vehicle
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:12 Comment 193760
vimp of nz email: @: Time to move the cranks through a few radians. Later Idaho bruva!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:11 Comment 193759
vimp of nz email: @: The salt is a speedo-compression combo.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:09 Comment 193758
vimp of nz email: @: Just cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there...forwarded onto me by an LA garage beaver....good mang...a good mang...
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:08 Comment 193757 e of email: @: I was thinkin during my ride that the "salt" was mental, like a mean streak, or confidence, or a compulsion
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:06 Comment 193756 E of email: @: VIMP! FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB IS WE DONT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB! GAWD!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 22:05 Comment 193755 E of email: @: so on today's mtn bike ride at sunset I'm all thinking aboot Ironman and Kona and stuff and it occurs to me that many athletes try to qualify for that race and reach a high standard. Something makes the difference. Many have the drive, determination, background, genes, training hours, equipment, etc. But I'm wondering if there is one thing that is added to the mix that allows the threshold to be crossed. So then it occurred to me, why not ask Kev! so, all things being equal (if that was possible) if the training is done, the equipment is right, the health on that day was good, and the talent level is there- is there one thing you would say makes the difference at the threshold between just missing and qualifying? kinda like a nice risoto with a pinch of salt on top. What would be the salt gnomesain?
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 21:58 Comment 193754
vimp of nz email: @: FIRST ONE TO COMPLAINS LEAVES WIT A BLOODSTAIN
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 21:55 Comment 193753 E of email: @: count me as among the willing
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 21:05 Comment 193752
d2p of bedtyme email: @: "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:51 Comment 193751
Boop of LA email: @: I did see Larry King, Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi at the hotel today.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:50 Comment 193750
Boop of NYC email: @: Vimpy...haven't seen your PM but he's probably been cruising around town in a Black SUV. Just a guess. ;-)
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:32 Comment 193749
vimp of nz email: @: My Prime Minster and my boy John Key is in the Big Apps and is on Letterman on Thursday US time. He rocks compared to the prior Man-Bear-Big lady we had as a PM :-)
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:31 Comment 193748
Boop of NY email: @: NYC is NUTS this week! We've got big politicians staying at our hotel so they've got metal detectors outside to get into the hotel...the street is blocked off with police, secret service, dogs, guns, etc. I've never seen so many law enforcement in one place. Makes getting around town challenging. The good news is I feel safe! :-) And I ran for two hours in Central Park this a.m. so I got that going for me. :-)
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:18 Comment 193747 KP of SD email: @: Reminder to me: most of us agree on 80% of seriously important issues that face mankind and our neighborhoods.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:05 Comment 193746 KP of SD email: @: Bathroom noises?
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:04 Comment 193745 of email:
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 20:03 Comment 193744
vimp of nz email: @: KP, I'm sure I heard some growling between his expletives :-)
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 19:42 Comment 193743 KP of SD email: @: ALL CAPS BAY-BEEEE!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 19:42 Comment 193742 KP of SD email: @: E, I remember those posts during the last Presidential election cycle. Insightful :-)
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 19:01 Comment 193741 JC of SC email: @: Aero, Softrider knows all about locktite after not using it at a certain race that he did not finish and it was all my fault because I did not dive off my bike to catch such object rolling along the road.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 18:37 Comment 193740 E of email: @: I swear, A LOT. especially when I'm drunk
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 18:36 Comment 193739 E of email: @: dan swears? no way
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:33 Comment 193738
tina of @ email: @: waitaminute - I do believe this is the first time I've heard Dan swear.... hold on, I just kinda need to absorb this....
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:32 Comment 193737
tina of @ email: @: Any wonder I'm growing my hair long...?? C'MON! YOU NEED TO FIGURE STUFF LIKE THIS OUT!! GAWD!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:30 Comment 193736
tina of @ email: @: I mean, ya know, you use what you've got to work with for the betterment of the world...
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:29 Comment 193735
tina of @ email: @: Al - so what your saying is that I should wear them when hosting a fundraiser for global poverty initiatives... :-D
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:28 Comment 193734
d2p of email: @: also why there's a delete button . . .
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:27 Comment 193733
d2p of email: @: uhhh, JohnMusicalLawyer? A$$holes like you is why tweeter limits posts to 140 characters.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:14 Comment 193731
vimp of nz email: @: More like "dent-me-floor-boots" :-)
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:10 Comment 193730 Al of email: @: Woohoo!!!! Biggest Loser!!!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 17:05 Comment 193729 Al of email: @: Those are f-me boots, for sure.
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 16:56 Comment 193728
vimp of nz email: @: POLISH THIS!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 16:44 Comment 193727
Mr Miyagi of @ email: @: SHOW ME 'SAND THE FLOOR!'
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 16:43 Comment 193726
ray of @ email: @: Yeah, Vimp, then make them strip down to their bra and panties and knee pads and give em each a small wood block and a piece of sandpaper for each hand and have em get down and redo the floor by hand. Watch them get all sweaty while the floor gets smooth again...
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 16:17 Comment 193725 E of email: @: Everybody knows that heels leave permanent marks on hardwood, I mean duh? What is she thinkin'? Wtf
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 15:52 Comment 193724
vimp of nz email: @: Here's how ya do it Hoffy...I picture Tina wearing em in our lounge on the couch with my wife, lights are turned down low, they got a glass of wine in their hands, the room's nice and warm, they're all chatting and flickin their hair at each other, laughing and gently brushing each others' shoulders...then I come in the room and say "WTF ARE YOU DOING WEARING THOSE ON ME HARDWOOD FLOORS?!!" GAWD!! SERIOSULY!!
Date: Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 15:49 Comment 193723 E of email: @: KABLAMMO!

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