Dadbod Racing

Commuted a few times in the last two weeks and love it. What made me laugh this morning was some chommie in a MK1 golf came screaming past me in Lansdowne trying to beat the traffic and when I got to Obs I passed him while he was sitting in traffic... Love the commute!

Hahahahaha that brings back a memory I suppressed after forgetting my onnie at home too one day. Walking around commando at work was not too bad but also forgetting my socks on the same day was a bit uncomfortable.

The missus just messaged me now saying she's going to sort out accomodation. If push comes to shove we'll stay with family. I the family has my back, the wife and I have been doing events for years, she's slowed down cause of the kids but hey best way is to get them involved too! lol The girls first Tri is next weekend :-)

Payment made .... I shook as I clicked pay now, I messaged the wife and she replies woohoo! I'm excited for you! WTF women, I'm shitting my pants here and you making plans and sending friends and family "the news". Anyhoo she messaged a few of her friends to say that she's now officially a Triathlon widow. I'm weirdly excited, I think I should be scared but this has been a goal of mine for a long time.

I tried not joining a gym but it was impossible, the public pools in and around Cape Town favour the unemployed!

That looks awesome, my missus has only ridden hers a handful of times!

Well done!

Good Luck for Sunday, I'll be there too. I'm doing the Ultra. If you've not done any mass open water swims then try and get some space, either the back or sides of the pack. Enter the water early get water in your suit, stick your head under the water and just get familiar with your surroundings. The water is dark (well last Ultra I did) so keep that in mind. Don't get freaked out by the dark water, try and relax and the most important thing is to go out there and have fun, make yourself proud it's your race!

You based in CT?? You talking about Cape Ultra this Sunday 6 Oct? I'll be there aswell. Good luck! Don't worry about times and where you are placed, I can tell you now there's massive respect to those folk who slog it out and finish long after the winner has crossed the line. Hell once I even walked with a guy he had the clean up crew behind him and we all chipped in and helped him along we could see he wanted to finish and that he did! Massive applause all around. At this years discovery Tri in Cape Town, someone standing close to me saw that a swimmer was being caught and passed by the next group, they immediately said why would people enter if they know that they will be caught. My response was firstly, why haven't YOU entered? Secondly it doesn't matter, everyone races their own race. Didn't have much to say other than, "but still" so the asshole in me questioned what the "but still" means? He really didn't have anything to say after that, or I couldn't make out the mumbling of me being a d*ck about what he said.

A part of me wants to tell you to stay away from this very addictive sport but the other half is standing in a little corner whispering to you to come to the dark side cause we have cookies... True story, best sport in the world. My mate got involved recently and he joked saying he's glad he gave up drugs for this sport, without hesitation I replied saying that drugs are still cheaper than this sport. Have your feet/run analyzed, apparently there's a really good guy out in the Bellville area. If you are struggling to run then try the run for a few mins walk for a few mins, some watches have that setting to make it easier. But yes, welcome it's an awesome sport. I'm entering my 5 and 8 year old into an event in November and they are super keen! Still working on the missus as she's not made her comeback after having our kids, but on the bright side she finished the cycle tour this year and didn't say no to when I mentioned that the entries should be opening up soon.

Awesome, one day when the kids are bigger I'll defo commute to work. Right now I'll enjoy the hugs and kisses and them wanting to hold my hand until they get to the classroom.

Looking forward to this, defo going to spectate.

The other day some telemarketer phoned me to offer me some or other phone contract with data etc... So I shouted loudly, I WON A PHONE and bombed her with questions, what type of phone did I win, what colour is it... do you need my address or can I fetch it... She's in the background shouting NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOO... She hung up, I went back to work, she hasn't phoned back... My colleague on the other hand was upset with me for the rest of the day cause I think she pissed her pants with laughter but didn't want to tell me....

I see what you did there.... lol Stevie Wonder can even see that!

Nope, I actually bought these from the company I used to work for years ago.

I still haven't gotten around to buying a stand, however my hack is car in garage bike rack on car, hang bike on rack... :-) I still haven't learnt how to post pics otherwise I would have posted a pic...

True to some extent, however I always seem to break one finger.... My wife seems to find it funny when I come back inside with powder all over my hands and one dirty finger, and the joke goes... Where have you been putting that finger??? So not funny anymore!

Bought a TT bike from a friend missus brought it back from me. I was super excited to get that bad boy up and running... NOTE TO SELF: Switch the lights on, yes it was light but then it gets dark! In my excitement I split the tube! Eventually ended up paying a frame builder close to where I lived to weld up etc.... Moerse fail! I was advised to sand down and smooth the weld out but I asked him to leave it as is so it's a reminder of how flippen stupid I can be.

LMAO Like my wife's friend, they talking to each other on the phone, the friend is packing up her **** and all of a sudden starts shouting... Someones stolen my phone I can't find it anywhere... the wife is shouting it's in your hand it's in your hand! Didn't have to work abs at gym that day... I had my work out right there!

Ever do that thing where you put a tool in your pocket and then walk around the garage looking for the tool you swear you PUT down here a few mins ago?

Years ago my buddy and I were our own mechanics. Anyhoo, he'd been having bearing trouble and I mean serious trouble, fit new ones two weeks later the same thing. So the Friday evening we put on some tunes and we go on stripping and he takes out the old ones and the bearing cage has completely deformed so he cleans out greases the new bearings up and replaces them and I take a look and say stop. I asked if this is the way he'd been fitting them all the time and he says yes proudly... Turns out he'd been fitting them "back to front" it didn't line up and he just thought he needed to tighten it to bed in properly!

Earlier today I sent the missus a 12 week program which I got off 220 Tri... her response... YOU CAN DO IT... I guess I can't argue or shouldn't argue with the wife then? I also emailed our conversation to myself, so should I ever need it in black and white I have it!

I was in PE the week before Ironman this year (my timing sucked!) Was there for the start of the SA Lifesaving champs and man was I pissed off. Every corner you turned there some IM related poster, seeing the folks doing their taper runs on the beach :-(

Awesome, love the story. Do you feel you would not have achieved your medal if you had NOT joined Tissing Training?