J. Lo - joins the club

[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!)

[KSH]

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!)

Motherhood is gruellling... especially if you don't have a nanny, a cook, a maid, a driver, a pool guy, etc.

Let's face it. Jo-Lo is sleeping. She's resting. The nanny can watch the baby while she's training.

She's not like a real mother who is at home alone with the baby.

[Trek420]

Motherhood at any stage is pretty grueling. Good for her. Yes I'm sure she has access and help and bikes that "jest folks" don't. The cameras will be on her and I'm sure she plans to do well.

Hey J. Lo, you'll want to look great and TE has the best Tri gear.

[alpinerabbit]

I sorta put it up there as a newsflash that "somewhere in China a sack of rice fell over"

comeon, she probably started liposucting and personal training as soon as the pups were out.

[VeloVT]

It's not too different from Lance Armstrong running a marathon. Although I personally love to make fun of JLO (I'm not a big fan), my reaction is the same -- all sorts of people got really mad at Lance because it was somehow considered arrogant or entitled or dilletante-ish for him to think he could run in this "serious" event. And of course, we know that he didn't knock himself out training (longest distance was something like 15 miles) and he didn't achieve a knockout time. But how many people do we know who run in marathons and either a) don't have a Spartan training ethic or b) don't finish in the top 20? Probably many if not most of the folks we know who have run a marathon -- and yet we consider it an accomplishment for them, not an arrogant flight of whimsy. Lance should be entitled to the same -- as should JLO, I think.