Pleasant Prairie Pix

[Lise]

Great pics Lise! You look so focused, one with your bike. --- Denise

That's just how it felt, Denise. One with my bike. We worked together. It was a great ride. My first race with aero bars, which made me feel the bike and I were one. I loved it.

[SadieKate]

I've got the outrageously expensive Assos bibshorts which are actually more of a windsuit with no sleeves or a trisuit with a real chamois. I wear a sports bra underneath in a coordinating color.

Yeah, my tummy pudges out but screw it. If you're breathing properly, your tummy bulges anyway. Bibshorts/suits actually hide the love handles better because there is no elastic pinching at the waist.

Seriously, that body looks great and it deserves to be shown off. Look around in real life (not just the tri's). How many younger women are flaunting muffin tops?

Now do it or I'll sic Bubba on you.

[Lise]

HA! NOT BUBBA!

That is so true about the "muffin tops". Young women come in for their gyne check ups with me, and they got stuff showing everywhere! They don't look bad, because they clearly put a lot of attention into how they dressed. But their clothes just look too small! I want to say--"sweetie, your FAT is sticking out all over the place!" Of course I don't say a thing.

Well. OK. Trisuit it is next time. I think I have a very blurry picture taken of me with a cell phone, running from the swim in my trisuit a year ago last spring, let's see...

[SadieKate]

You look great! What tummy? I don't see no tummy.

[Lise]

You look great! What tummy? I don't see no tummy.

The secret is extreeemly poor photo quality! Of course, I remember that I was also freezing. It was about 50 degrees out, in May, coming from a nice warm pool swim. All of my internal organ might have shrunk in the cold, pulling in the fat...how's that for a theory? Two degrees in science, thank you very much!

[colby]

I notice that they added two pictures, neither of which has anything to do with me! My swim cap was bright green--those aren't my wave at all. I guess they just threw in some generic swim pix.

That happened with my Danskin pictures on brightroom, too (which apparently are up now). I was excited to think they'd have swim pictures from my wave, but, nope... just random people. Some nice pictures, but not anything to do with me other than the fact that I was there!

I am with you on body image. All I can see in my pictures is all the squishy parts that are still squishy. I thought the same thing about your shirt -- it looks too big for you! Even if you don't go all the way down to the super race position, something that fits closer to the skin would at least not get blown upward by the wind, right?