Obviously there's Wind in my face but I also like the following.
"You don't need a power meter to know that you're shit on the bike"
"Just finishing is just that, just finishing - big deal'"
"Ironman is the new Race4Life" RW Forum
and many, many more...
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I tend to opt for news stories to inspire me these days. The more relevant, topical and significant the better of course.
As you were.
Here's mine:
After the Transalpine run I was in poor condition,
I very nearly needed a mortician
But now I'm back in almost tip-top condition
Hope you like it. It nearly rhymes and scans and everything.
Kate Middleton Trivia
Kate Middleton will sleep on a special mattress which will be destroyed after she has used it.
She will be the only person to sleep on it.
Makes it sound like she's contagious ?
<sorry>Jj</sorry>
Just reading the Fink thread....reminded me of the following sage words
"No point worrying about the 2nd half of the marathon in a Ironman until you're sure you'll reach it "
Haiku:
Ironman fighters
race long into the night-time
talk mostly bollocks
Nothing to do with tri really but I like, in a take the piss kind of way -
you rest, you rust
some people have a wish bone where the backbone should be
both apply to me!
A bit cheesy but to the point....
or....
"winner - winner - chicken dinner"
I'll take that "winner - winner - chicken dinner" for the next time I'm struggling.
I sing the Graham and Brown SuperFresco wallpaper ad tune of "What goes up must come down." I picture the bloke wallpapering and think that would be a worse activity to be involved in which inspires me to keep pedalling.
That's a personal fav advert super-tune!
Along with red car and the blue car...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoXJL2hL6kI
"iron rusts ironmen don't"
No more talk, no more rap,
I just talk fecking crap.
But you knew that anyway
2 from Steve Prefontaine (famous American runner who died much too young)....
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
The only good race pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
My heart is thumping so loud i can hear my heart in my inner ear.
That's not your heart, McGonagall! Pull your lycra hotpants up and put that thing away!
(edited for formatting, and iambic pentameter)
Run 51,000 miles, Forrest, run 51,000 miles!
the red car and the blue car had a race
all that red could do was stuff his face
he eats everything he sees
from trucks to prickly trees
but smart old blue he took the milky way
he's looking for a chocolate treat
fluffy and light
cos he knows it won't spoil his app-e-tite
mm mm MMMM!
oh no! the bridge has gone, poor old red just can't carry on
but smart old blue, he took the milky way
Way down deep in the middle of triatholon
The Ironmate took some bodyglide, gel packets and some gaviscon
The finish line he crossed and so he pranced round with his medal on
Then inspir'd pronounced "I know! I'll iimmortalise with a po-em-e-om"
Oh I've not laughed so much on RW for a while - I may have to write a warning thread.
I was going to do kia-ora, but it's too much like hard work
I'll be your mate (iron) - a-woof, woof, woof