J. Lo - joins the club

[alpinerabbit]

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf...aining_1063209

[crazycanuck]

That's sad(ie WHO CARES..!!!!!)...I just wish she would go away. Tri's are for real folk..

UGH..

[Tuckervill]

Sad? Really? I'm surprised.

My opinion is "Who cares?"

Karen

[KnottedYet]

The article refers to a gruelling endurance event. Do you think she's doing a half-iron? Oly?

After my kid was born, I figured I was lucky if I could just get a shower, put on clothes, and eat breakfast before my kid puked on me. The new mom triathlon. Speed, skill, luck, and intense training. See the competitors carry a baby in one arm and a load of laundry in the other! Thrill to the shower-with-your-head-out-talking-to-the-baby technique of the elites! Gaze in awe as the new mom speed-folds 2 loads of diapers before baby tires of his duplo blocks!

[lph]

aaah - well - I'd like to say something supportive and non-judgemental like... "maybe she'll turn up here and ask all you knowledgeable triathletes for sage advice, and end one of us!" .... but I keep thinking it sounds like a slightly desperate idea to set your sights on your first triathlon 6 months after giving birth to twins.

I'm not really that good at being supportive and non-judgemental.

[KSH]

Well, in all fairness... if she came and posted on this message board about being a new Mom and wanting to regain her fitness by signing up and training for a tri... we would all be very supportive.

Yes, she's an actress. Yes, she has nannies and staff to take care of her kids so she can train. Yes, she will have the best of everything... bike... coach... etc.

But she still has to train and finish.

Think about doing your first tri... and what if you were going to have cameras on you... following you the entire time... watching and reporting your every move. How nervous would you be?

Shoot, they would have been reporting on my first race a duathlon like this,

"She's last on the run... she just got passed by a 76 year old he smoked her... the first transition was 7 minutes because she sat down to blow her nose and rest...a 65 year old just smoked her on the bike... WOW! She actually beat 8 people and didn't come in last place." HAHAA!


Otherwise, I think we all have our mind set a bit skewed. To a lot of people, a sprint tri does sound like an grueling endurance event.

We have to remember the "normal folk" out there who never run, never ride bike or swim. And to put all 3 together, sounds very impressive to many.

[Pax]

Good for her! She's been a dancer her whole life so I'm guessing getting back into shape will be something she's quite capable of.

[KnottedYet]

I was not being mean or sarcastic. I honestly wondered what distance she is doing.

I couldn't have done any tri of any distance after giving birth, too busy crying and being puked on. (and you must admit, dealing with new motherhood is damm gruelling!)