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TriHanrahan
Nov 5, 09 13:37
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My family will barely go into my workout room. They said it was 'stinky'. I finally found out what was causing the stench and wow.
My bike seat on my trainer is getting a little long in tooth. It has some small rips in it. Doesn't hurt to sit on it though for a couple of hours though.
However it does store my sweat which it brings back up whenever I sit on it (just like a sponge). All I can say is a direct sniff would knock out a skunk. My wife was not pleased...
Fortunately I grew up on a farm and I only found the smell interesting until I got up close. Now I'm hoping bonktown has a cheap seat for sale.
My wife also finds it disgusting that I can get out of the swim and pee my pants as I go through transition. She especially doesn't like washing my clothes after a race. I no longer give details. :)
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alex_m
Nov 5, 09 13:41
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Nov 5, 09 13:49
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This fall I had my first experience with a toe nail falling off. My 4 year old thought it was awesome, my wife not so much.
A week after that I grossed my wife out a second time when she found the toe nail while cleaning up in the dining room. Seems I forgot to toss it out and left it on the buffet.
Too bad no one else was home when I had to stick a pin in my toe to drain all the blood from the grape size blister surrounding the nail before I popped out.
Following that experience I have started changing my stride to more of a fore foot landing, which is much easier on the toes.
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Nov 5, 09 13:56
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I run in honest-to-goodness running shorts, which is a fashion choice my kids (teenagers) deem to be totally unacceptble and horrendously embarrassing to them. Yes, the word "gross" has been used to describe my "shorty-shorts." Strangely they're perfectly fine with the spandex for the bike.
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Nov 5, 09 13:58
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I don't really think this is a triathlete-specific thing.... I think this is a "do your own training clothing laundry" and "pick up your own toenail clippings" issue!!!
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Nov 5, 09 14:04
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This fall I had my first experience with a toe nail falling off. My 4 year old thought it was awesome, my wife not so much.
A week after that I grossed my wife out a second time when she found the toe nail while cleaning up in the dining room. Seems I forgot to toss it out and left it on the buffet.
Too bad no one else was home when I had to stick a pin in my toe to drain all the blood from the grape size blister surrounding the nail before I popped out.
Following that experience I have started changing my stride to more of a fore foot landing, which is much easier on the toes.
Recently one of my (now teenager) daughter seeing that I was draining some blood out one of my toe nail told me that she thought when she was younger that it was normal for Dads to have at least one black nail or one nail missing all the time ;-)
Devlin
Nov 5, 09 14:04
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Share your experiences.
Which would you like me to start with? The half digested blood spattering off the ceiling from a projectile vomiter with a stomach bleed, or the gangrenous protruding bowel of a gang banger knife victim? :D
You think your seat smells, bad, I got news. In the world of smells, that doesn't even make the list. :D :D
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Nov 5, 09 14:07
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I had a seat with stitching. Same issue. The following years model has a much better designed seat (no stitching) about $100. Well worth it.
TriHanrahan
Nov 5, 09 14:10
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Actually I don't think it smells bad at all. I used to work right within about 100 feet of the largest dairy west of the Mississippi growing up and the mountains of cow poo smell never bothered me even when it was blowing right at me. When I smell skunk I think of home and when my brother was shot in the in face. The only truely disgusting smell I've ever not enjoyed was the overflowing portapotties at a race when it was over 100 degrees and I had to use one of them.
Record10Carbon
Nov 5, 09 14:11
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These newbies could never handle the old panties thread....or the running shorts thread....weak.
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Nov 5, 09 14:17
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here we go again
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Record10Carbon
Nov 5, 09 14:28
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Someone will dig them out ;-)
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Nov 5, 09 14:30
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my walking into the house all sweaty grosses my mom out.
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Nov 5, 09 14:38
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Ahhhhh ... Doctors ... I'm sooo looking forward to my yearly trip to my sister's home for Thanksgiving ... Last year my neuro-surgeon Bro-in-law and his from-out-of-town dermatologist friend sat at the table in full turkey triptophan afterglow swapping gross-out stories. The friend trumped the "arrow through the skull" story with a tale of a woman who's skull was rotted away from a carcinoma concealed underneath a wig. The wig came off and the doctors in the room nearly passed out from the aroma.
... the pie was good too.
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TriHanrahan
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That's the best time to hug her!
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Nov 5, 09 14:42
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Ahhhhh ... Doctors ... I'm sooo looking forward to my yearly trip to my sister's home for Thanksgiving ... Last year my neuro-surgeon Bro-in-law and his from-out-of-town dermatologist friend sat at the table in full turkey triptophan afterglow swapping gross-out stories. The friend trumped the "arrow through the skull" story with a tale of a woman who's skull was rotted away from a carcinoma concealed underneath a wig. The wig came off and the doctors in the room nearly passed out from the aroma.
... the pie was good too.
Hehehehehe...yeah, I was forbidden from "talking shop" at the family table. :D
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Nov 5, 09 14:51
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Once when camping, I had a very large oak splinter jammed up full-length underneath my thumbnail. Went to the emergency room, where the only way it could be removed was (either) remove the nail or fish it out underneath the nail with various medical impliments. I choose the latter, figuring if it didn't work they could always then take the nail.
The doc asked if I wanted something for the pain. I declined, and just sat it out. It was more than a bit painful (I understand the bamboo-under-the-fingernails-torture-method now).
The attending nurse, however, threw up.
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Nov 5, 09 15:05
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Mom works in a nursing home...Sister 1 is an RN in elder home care...Sister 2 is an RN in pediatric ICU. Thanksgiving (and pretty much every other get-together) is Effing disgusting.
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Nov 5, 09 16:43
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My youngest daughter's least favorite thing in the world is when I call her and ask her for a "Toe Check". She knows something new and disgusting is going on with my feet.
The best game is "Which toe is the worst?". Usually this game occurs when I have 2 or more weird things going on (ie one black toenail, 2 blisters on one toe, etc.). She ranks them in order of grossness.
Good times. I'll miss her when she's grown up. Her mom doesn't seem to enjoy these games quite as much.
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Nov 5, 09 17:27
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I left my bike shoes in my bedroom one time under my bed. My wife spent the whole day trying to figure out if one of the kids left a dirty diaper in the room or had an accident. She said it smelled like a cat peed in the room and we don't have a cat. Finally, later the next day I remembered the bike shoes and got my ass chewed out for leaving them there.
Other times I've left all my gear in the minivan when I've gotten home late for a race and forgot to leave the windows cracked. The next morning the van has a very unique odor to it that I hear about for the next few days.
She's given up on my workout clothes. I have a separate hamper and have to wash them separate or else there's hell to pay.
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Nov 5, 09 17:36
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Pee in the water, not in transition. It's faster and cleaner.
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Nov 5, 09 17:42
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When i first started training, i was tearing scar tissue in my shoulder from surgery a few years back, and getting my range of motion back. I had a coworker ask me why i was icing down so much.
I explained the surgery of re-attching a muscle to the bone, and the anchors, and how the scar tissue limit my range of motion, and needed to be worked out/torn ( this is on a pool deck, no shirt with a 4" long scar on my shoulder, and a couple of 1/2" ones on the back)
She just about fainted...lol
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Nov 6, 09 7:11
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Last season I did a road race through farm country in the pouring rain. One particular section smelled like cow poop...there was a massive BROWN stream in the road from the runoff from that particular field. 4 of use (myself included) became MASSIVELY ill shortly after the race. It turns out it was a parasitic infection from the cow poop water getting into our mouths and eyes. After the race I immediately stripped out of my rain/mud/poo soaked kit and put some fresh clothes on, stashing my jersey and bibs in a plastic bag. When I got home, I went straight to the bathroom and then was unable to function for a number of days. Once my fever dropped down to 102 and I was able to replenish some of the 8 lbs of water I lost, I went out to my car to retrieve the old kit. It smelled just the same as the week old elephant corpse I visited while on safari a few years ago. My girlfriend started gagging and rushed to the bathroom to puke, and she was two rooms away.
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Nov 6, 09 7:48
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If you do purchase a new saddle, what are you going to do with the old one? Any interest in selling? Before you post in the Classified section please give me first dibs on that baby.
TriHanrahan
Nov 6, 09 8:15
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LOL. I'll try and remember that. You have to pay for shipping!
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