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AirRaley		#21	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 16, 2009 6:38 PM "Old Iron Taint"	Remove this ad Not mine, ya bastard. Just a cursory Google search for the most hideous example of a keloid. I have no idea if it is a dude or a chick but it is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Search for it at your own peril. Please do not bring it here again. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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AirRaley		#22	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 17, 2009 8:54 AM "Old Iron Taint"	Got smart last night and slept in the buff for max airflow. Never did have the terrifying wakeup of previous long bike ride nights. This was an obligatory report; I really don't feel like talking about it today. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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RedWagon		#23	[url]	[-]
Posts: 8928 August 17, 2009 8:57 AM I don't know the answer, I'm just asking that's all.	AirRaley wrote: I really don't feel like talking about it today. "Not to mention I defend things that are absolutely ignorant" MrLogic - 5/7/07
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AirRaley		#24	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 18, 2009 10:18 AM "Old Iron Taint"	With taint pain now a constant in my life, tomorrow's bike/run brick looks less than appealing. Not much to add for today other than that it occurred to me sometime yesterday that the level of pain that I now consider acceptable on a day to day basis would have been put me on the canvas just two months ago. Just six more days of relative misery...and one day of Hell looming on the horizon. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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NumenLumen		#25	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10433 August 18, 2009 12:03 PM Shout, shout - let it all out. These are the things I can do without.	A semi-informed suggestion...give your taint a rest, and a good soaking by ramping up your swimming in favor of your biking. My logic is this: You've done enough training in each of the specific legs such that you now either can or can't complete the thing. The real effort now is to build or maintain overall cardiovascular endurance, and swimming is as good of a way to do that as anything. Convert miles you would have run to yards in the pool at about 450 yds/mile of running. So, instead of running a 20-miler, swim 9,000 yards. Long, paced distance sets with little rest between....like 6x1500. You can do a similar conversion with biking....I'd guess about 450 per 5 miles on the bike, so a 100-miler would be (again) 9,000. Yes, it will be way more than that wimpy-ass 2.4 mile IM swim, but it is a low-taint-impact way to top off your CV base. Just an idea.....I just know that over the winter I was swimming 4,000s regularly, and the first 10k I ran felt like a friggin' breeze.
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AirRaley		#26	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 18, 2009 12:16 PM "Old Iron Taint"	My swimming still sucks so the plan is definitely to get a lot of laps in during my taper, but I've gotten so much stronger on each long bike that I want to do one more, which is also the strong recommendation of a friend that has done 5 or 6 Ironman races. Further, long bikes and runs force me to account for nutrition, which I want to have dialed in for race day. Since biking carries the biggest risk for injury, once this week is over I'll be scaling way back just out of risk assessment prudence. Swimming is a GREAT way to continue to build stamina without pummeling the body (and especially thrashing the taint) like I have been. I'll never be the swimmer that you are. Great job on the 10K by the way! "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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LeviBooth		#27	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10854 August 18, 2009 1:26 PM	The focus on your taint has made the origins of the word 'taint' meaningless. You have the world's first 'tis'.
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AirRaley		#28	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 18, 2009 4:46 PM "Old Iron Taint"	Numen, I swam today but not for all that long - under an hour. Went a tad over a mile and feel like I can do the whole swim front crawl but will be slow. That's alright for me though; as long as I'm under two hours and not too gassed I'll be pleased. It's all about pace that day and the fact of the matter is that I'm a slow swimmer. I don't entirely understand it as I feel long and reasonably smooth in the water but people just keep swimming faster than I do. Oh well. Before I went to the pool I peeled off a couple more thin scabs by the way. My taint is like a snake...just have to rub against a convenient rock and the next thing you know there's a paper thin taint shell lying in the desert, waiting to momentarily startle wayward passers by. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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Buddj4		#29	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6794 August 18, 2009 5:26 PM "I too, have never experienced a "meat raffle". I'm thinking about bringing the concept to Texas."	AirRaley wrote: Numen, I swam today but not for all that long - under an hour. Went a tad over a mile and feel like I can do the whole swim front crawl but will be slow. That's alright for me though; as long as I'm under two hours and not too gassed I'll be pleased. It's all about pace that day and the fact of the matter is that I'm a slow swimmer. I don't entirely understand it as I feel long and reasonably smooth in the water but people just keep swimming faster than I do. Oh well. Before I went to the pool I peeled off a couple more thin scabs by the way. My taint is like a snake...just have to rub against a convenient rock and the next thing you know there's a paper thin taint shell lying in the desert, waiting to momentarily startle wayward passers by. This image is why if I ever get the urge to do an Ironman the first order of business will be to grab a beer and turn on Spongebob. I stole a shopping cart from the A&P and go around the office twice a day collecting aluminum cans. It's gotten easier and quicker now that everybody is accustom to my schedule, and just quickly throws a can in the cart without unnecessary chit-chat or eye contact. LumpyWideAss 7-2-2009
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AirRaley		#30	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 18, 2009 5:32 PM "Old Iron Taint"	Remove this ad Snake Taintskin "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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RedWagon		#31	[url]	[-]
Posts: 8928 August 19, 2009 8:13 AM I don't know the answer, I'm just asking that's all.	bump "Not to mention I defend things that are absolutely ignorant" MrLogic - 5/7/07
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AirRaley		#32	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 19, 2009 8:41 AM "Old Iron Taint"	Was going to update a bit later today, but thanks to the bump I'll give a prelude. As soon as I go poop I'm going to head out for a bike/run brick, probably a shade under 1/4 Ironman distance in each. Taint anxiety is medium, as that distance is enough to produce pain on the bike but not enough to really shred it up for days, and I'm not going to push real hard on speed today. Working on spinning in lower gears to see how well I can maintain a decent pace while preserving the quads. Thank-you for your concern RedWagon, from the bottom of my taint. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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DCBadger7		#33	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10461 August 19, 2009 8:49 AM Blissfully Disinterested	AirRaley wrote: As soon as I go poop I'm going to head out for a bike/run brick, probably a shade under 1/4 Ironman distance in each. Hey Air, I hop everything comes out alright.
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AirRaley		#34	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 19, 2009 12:35 PM "Old Iron Taint"	Taint hurt from mile 15 to mile 20 and then was smooth sailing for the remaining 8. "Ran" 5 miles after and the legs feel great. WAY too hot though with a heat index of 97 and relentless sun. 5 miles is a long time to go without water under those conditions. Thanks DC, everything came out just fine...and no, I did not deliver myself an upper decker. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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AirRaley		#35	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 20, 2009 12:59 PM "Old Iron Taint"	So the cable that operates my front derailleur broke on my ride yesterday. For those that don't know, that's the thing that moves the chain between the large and small front gears. When it broke, it took away half my available gears. Anyway, I took it into the shop and retrieved it this morning. Hopped on in the shop parking lot to test the shifting out. Naturally, I wasn't wearing padded bike shorts but just regular ol' shorts type shorts. That was a rude awakening for the taint. And truthfully, in complete fairness, the problem sincerely is less the taint proper and moreso the area impacted by the "sit bones" of my ever diminishing rump. It's clearly in the taintal region, which is why I refer to it as such, and I don't think there's a more recognizable name that the board would recognize. Anyway, going to swim now before tomorrow's penultimate taint torturous 112 mile ride. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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badgerab		#36	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1654 August 20, 2009 1:27 PM	Air: I'm a recovering triathlete with my longest being a Half Ironman. I've got two words for you: Baby Powder with Corn Starch (yes, I know it's more than 2 words...that's the joke). Trust me on this one. It's a taint saver. Michael Flowers- #22 in our program, #1 in our heart
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PrepKick1		#37	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4006 August 20, 2009 1:27 PM Pretending to be an important person again.	Anyway, going to swim now before tomorrow's penultimate taint torturous 112 mile ride Hey, you walking plague, take a soapy hot shower beforehand, OK? The pretending to be important again, naked but still miserable, formerly Whimsical, Most Rev. Dr. PrepKick1, Esq., Attorney at Law, Certified Private Accountant, "clearly the e-manliest of the e-manly on this board," the Crystal Bacon Award's Susan Lucci, and The Board's Etiquette Guru. Not a resident of Cecil, Shawano, Platteville, or Bonduel.
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Sandy Colfax		#38	[url]	[-]
Posts: 783 August 20, 2009 1:28 PM	Hey Air - I'm not going to get into the gorey details nor am I a clinical specialist (I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express either), but I'd be careful of any potential for a staff infection. "The infection caused by a Staphylococcus (or "staph") bacteria. About 25% of people normally carry staph in the nose, mouth, *genitals, and anal area. The infection often begins with a little cut, which gets infected with bacteria. These staph infections range from a simple boil to antibiotic-resistant infections to flesh-eating infections. The difference between all these is how deep and how fast the infection spreads, and how treatable it is with antibiotics." Article posted from WebMD*. A guy I ride with on occassion was down for 6+ months and I think about 3-4 weeks of that was in the hospital with a staff infection. He lost a ton of weight in excess of 30% of his bodyweight) and it did do some flesh eating! The cause of his was wearing the same stinky fucking bike shorts over and over.
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PrepKick1	Seriously, Air, is it looking like this yet?	#39	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4006 August 20, 2009 2:40 PM Pretending to be an important person again.	The pretending to be important again, naked but still miserable, formerly Whimsical, Most Rev. Dr. PrepKick1, Esq., Attorney at Law, Certified Private Accountant, "clearly the e-manliest of the e-manly on this board," the Crystal Bacon Award's Susan Lucci, and The Board's Etiquette Guru. Not a resident of Cecil, Shawano, Platteville, or Bonduel.
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AirRaley		#40	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10749 August 20, 2009 4:05 PM "Old Iron Taint"	Remove this ad Goddamnit Prep. badgerab and Sandy, thanks for the words...and ab, good job on the half Ironman! I wash the bike shorts each time and keep my taint nice and clean. The condition is currently not as bad as it was at its peak, though there is one additional hotspot, most likely from minor position adjustments to relieve current discomfort. It's like playing Risk (I assume), I try to quell one uprising and another flares up in the area from where I withdrew some troops. After today's slightly over IM distance swim I only have two more days of hard training - full IM bike tomorrow and then 18-20 mile run Saturday. I can hardly believe the taper is about to begin. Thrilling, really. Just a couple more taint updates this week and then an occasional twaint (get it?) here over the next three weeks as the TAINT WATCH! thread has also become my unofficial training diary. Sandy if you have any last minute brilliance to share with me I'm all ears. "I rear ended him pretty good. He took it well though." - MarkIt8, 9 JUN 2009
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