God, triathletes are hard bastards

[andygates]

I thought I'd got away with yesterday's bike-swim-bike morning.

Until I woke up this morning. Oh shoulders. Oh, hips. Ohhh, fatigue. Ah well, run it off tonight!

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[skean.livejournal.com]

I'm trying recovery drinks. I specially chocolate milkshake blended mix of carbs, proteins and rehydrating stuff. Definitely helps me with the splitting headaches I get when I overdo it.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

You have an icon! When did that happen?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

A few days ago. I got involved in a discussion with an anorexic Australian girl about using piercings to restrict intake (she'd got her tongue pierced just to keep her off solid food for a week) and she wanted to know what a slavebell looked like so I took a snap. As you do. ;)

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I've offered him icons. Silly Munky wouldn't take any of them.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd always assumed it was some kind of defiantly-Luddite thing.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Definitely slack, more likely.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Oddly, my wife's dad is training for his first triathlon, at the tender age of 64 (I think -- and it's very bad that I'm not sure, because her dad and my mom were born all of 3 days apart, and I really should oughta know how old my mom is).

But then, he's got one of those superhuman will things. He found out he was borderline diabetic, and the next morning had completely reworked his diet and started exercising. No weaning off his old way of eating, just cold-turkey went off sugar entirely and limited carbs, started walking 5 miles a day, no breaks, no excuses, no complaining.

That was a few years back. More recently, he entered a kayak race (I think it was 5 miles or similar). The guy who won was this 30-something doctor, tan, taut, and athletic, skimming along in one of those $1000 racing kayaks. Finishing about ten minutes behind him was my father in law, age 60+, in a pre-owned plastic kayak he had bought for $50 at a yard sale.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

The doctor must have been spitting teeth!