At the weekend I went and watched the Taupo Ironman. To me the Ironman is like the ultimate athletic achievement. 3.8km swim, 180km ride than just a little 42km (marathon) run tagged on the end.
Any trathlon is impressive but the Ironman is the ultimate. So I watch the leaders come out of the swim leg then followed them up to the transition area and watched them set off on their bikes. I then watched a lot of other athletes setting off on the bike leg. It was a big field so these guys had finished the swim pretty strongly. Watching both the men and woman competitors I could not believe how many fat, pot bellied, big a$$ overweight competitors I was seeing. All clad in lycra of course. I just couldn't believe it. If I trained for an event like that I would expect to be a lean, mean, racing machine. Not carrying a spare tyre around my gut.
I just can't figure it out. Either these guys/gals were even fatter when they began training and have actually lost a lot of weight already or they think that all that training gives them licence to totally stuff themselves. Either way I'm surprised .
I expected to see a bunch of supreme athletes and instead I saw a lot of extreme fatties. Fit fatties I guess but fatties nonetheless.
Any trathlon is impressive but the Ironman is the ultimate. So I watch the leaders come out of the swim leg then followed them up to the transition area and watched them set off on their bikes. I then watched a lot of other athletes setting off on the bike leg. It was a big field so these guys had finished the swim pretty strongly. Watching both the men and woman competitors I could not believe how many fat, pot bellied, big a$$ overweight competitors I was seeing. All clad in lycra of course. I just couldn't believe it. If I trained for an event like that I would expect to be a lean, mean, racing machine. Not carrying a spare tyre around my gut.
I just can't figure it out. Either these guys/gals were even fatter when they began training and have actually lost a lot of weight already or they think that all that training gives them licence to totally stuff themselves. Either way I'm surprised .
I expected to see a bunch of supreme athletes and instead I saw a lot of extreme fatties. Fit fatties I guess but fatties nonetheless.