Quote Originally Posted by Tri Girl View Post
I'm over 150 so I race Athena. Why not? I'm not going to place in my AG, so at least there I have a shot at winning something.
My only gripe is when someone who is an amazing athlete races Athena and they are almost 6 foot tall and weigh 150. No fair.
Race Athena Colby.

As for losing weight... I did it by doing the following:

1) Logging all my food on www.livestrong.com/The Daily Plate.

2) I had a base of 1400 calories and would add 1/2 of what I burned exercising to that. So if I burned 400 calories running I would get to eat 1600 calories that day.

By doing that I lost a good 5 pounds in a month... went from 5'4" 125 pounds to 118 pounds. Some days I'm at 117. I'm not trying to lose anymore weight though. Mind you, last year right before my IM I was up to 130 pounds.

It was REALLY HARD to lose those few pounds... but I sucked it up and did it. Now all my clothes fit... and in fact, most of them are falling off me now. Since your IM is over, focus on losing weight, and it will happen. You just have to be very strict with your diet.


I agree Tri Girl... when a girl who is 6 foot tall and is obviously in amazing shape is racing Athena... I think that is BS.

The same for the men too. You see it all the time. Some guy is 6'4" and racing Clydesdale... and he's OBVIOUSLY very fit and a top athlete. I see him as working the system. He KNOWS that he can compete with the samller guys, but he does Clydes just to win a medal.