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Fanatic #3965

posted: 5/27/2007 at 12:41 AM

Quote from pRED on 5/26/2007 at 11:45 PM:

Hmmmmmm... Passing a kidney stone perhaps.

Yeah, hubby had one a few years back. I have heard that the pain is very similar to childbirth. At least after childbirth one gets a baby. All he has is a little, useless rock in a vial...but maybe it does make him tougher as a cyclist...? Wink

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Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

Wingz

posted: 5/27/2007 at 8:26 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 5/25/2007 at 8:01 PM:

I think part of it is language. I don't use words like "pain" or "hurt" even in my own mind to describe what happens when racing. To me this is the language of failure and defeat. Racing does not hurt, it is intense. When things start to get intense in a race I am happy because this is the time to make something of all my preparation. When the intensity starts to set in it is time to focus because only when things get intense do I have an opportunity to accomplish something meaningful to me in running. My best races did not hurt at all, but they were quite intense.

I like this description. Reminds me of how I feel during an intensive stretching session. You kind of go into the pain until all that's in your world is the stretch... It's great for the endorphins, too... Big grin

Roads were made for journeys...

mikeymike

posted: 5/27/2007 at 1:51 PM

I've never passed a kidney stone or given birth--though I've witnessed childbirth from close proximity four times. I'm guessing it's closer to childbirth than the kidney stone since at the end you have something you wanted, something worth working for.

Runners run.

Chenille

posted: 5/27/2007 at 2:16 PM

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away...(unkown)

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Wingz

posted: 5/27/2007 at 2:23 PM

Tease.

Roads were made for journeys...

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