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gunforhire
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So what are you drinking?
I can't keep drinking Guiness, Doom Bar or lager! Have missed 2 sessions this week due to over indulging, both started as work meetings.
The very thought of drinking coke all night has me vibrating off my seat.
Water? How boring.
Orange and lemonade seems the likely option. Too gay?
So in the festive season, of client and office parties, what are you drinking?
I can't keep drinking Guiness, Doom Bar or lager! Have missed 2 sessions this week due to over indulging, both started as work meetings.
The very thought of drinking coke all night has me vibrating off my seat.
Water? How boring.
Orange and lemonade seems the likely option. Too gay?
So in the festive season, of client and office parties, what are you drinking?
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I'm a Triathlete of one.
Or take the healthiest option(if not polluted with chemicals of course):
Red Wine!
Of course you should keep yourself in control: 3 glasses max. for me; don't want to flush my hard work and lifestyle down the throat for the sake of being a 'normal' drinking person. Can't help it:
I'm a TRIATHLETE![>:]
If your an elite fine - but really what difference is it going to make.
It's also off season.
We give up a lot to do tri anyway
Had a 10k today - had a cheeky beer last night and got a PB by 90 seconds?
G
There was me looking for non alcoholic booze![:D]
You just need to drink 2 to get wasted![;)]
Come to Belgium and I'll give you the tour of beers.[image]http://forum.220magazine.com/micons/m8.gif[/image][image]http://forum.220magazine.com/micons/m6.gif[/image]
Just get up early enough to rehydrate and get good foods in you.
last time I checked, drinking non-alcoholic beer wasnt illegal?? Strange analogy...................weirdo!! [:'(]
I do feel guilty sometimes when I over indulge but at the end of the day if you train hard and put the effort then where's the harm???
Look at Ricky Hatton ( I know he's not a triathlete), he enjoys a good guiness and he's a top athlete.
The way I see it you can perhaps have a good drink at the weekend but as long as you take time away from the booze to allow your body time to rehydrate and repair itself then its fine.
As I'm not ever going to be an elite athlete, I have no intention of cutting out drinking.
i play squash at 7.20 till at least 8.30 as nobody ever has the late night friday courts, then to the pub for 9 have a bite to eat and 3 or 4 beers.
a great way to finnish the week. The rule is, no squash = no beer !
just happens the wife is a coach and can run me round the court without too much trouble so i get a full work out then i deserve a beer [:)]
i figure 3 or 4 beers a week is not too bad for a novice and i don;t have that on event weeks anyway !
besides i then get up Sat and ether run or swim the effects off before most people are even awake.
Generally I swing from feeling guilty about touching a drop to saying 'what the hell' if I fancy a pint. I only get really annoyed with myself if a beer has prevented me from actually training. That gets my Triahtlon career nowhere. So once and a while I think, go ahead ahead and have a pint if you want one.
But a healthy dose of guilt generally manages to keep me off unecessary excess.
You should be thankful Floyd Mayweather snr isn't your coach!!!! Seriously though have a drink if you want one.
Currently when out I am setting myself the 3 pint limit, cider though unfortunately so full of chemicals which I am sure are twice as bad for you - then onto balckcurrent and soda. The real problem comes with will power, the first 3 pints are great, but if the night is going well sometimes I forget the importance of the training session the next day and have quite a few.
Inevitably, the next day training session is knocked on the head and I spend the rest of the day racked with guilt and wishing I had some element of self control. I am certainly not going to be an elite athlete, but in the same breathe, I dont want to simply plod round the course - I am finding it hard to find the correct balance between social life and training.
Good options I have found though are the latest Becks Vier and Stella 4 (I think) only 4% vol and taste pretty good.....
""common tri mistakes:
[ol][*]Using training hard as an excuse to eat and drink whatever you like. What you eat today, swims, cycles and runs tomorrow. Training hard is not an excuse for eating junk. You don't put low-grade fuel or unleaded petrol in a high performance engine or Formula I car. Triathletes are Formula I athletes. Training for a tough demanding activity demands high performance fuel. And remember it's CARBO LOAD NOT GARBO LOAD. ""[/ol]
Maybe an extra motivation to stop at your preset drinking limit, cheers; of for a glass of wine now in front of tv.[8D][:D]
Called a joke......... no sense of humour or something????
In my rowing days I rowed lightweight so I lived half the year as an emaciated monk, the other half I trained hard and played hard, in fact going to a training session after a drinking session brought on some sort of punishment psychology and we pushed ourselves even harder. ps it was my birthday yesterday and I went out and had a right old night, I got up went to work (somewhat fragile) and then I did my training a hard 10kM run. So drink up and get on with it!
Some good answers there!