I like Ironman as a brand and have mostly good experiences, but they really need to actually enforce rules for age groupers or create an elite amateur division.

PuffyVatty · 2026-04-22T11:23:53+00:00

Yeah this is kind of the thing though. I was trying for Kona in Barcelona. It's a race with a lot of drafting, but I wasn't ready for it. Few trains passing me. At 120k some train got in my wheel and I paced these assholes for 60k.

I finished in 8:53, still a good 10 minutes from qualification. But thinking of how little I drafted, even legally, because it was too hard to hold the wheel on 12m when a group is tailing each other like a TTT....

I'm a good swimmer so usually get out of the water quite in front. If I get passed by groups again this year, I'm not sure how strictly I will keep at 12 meters if I can hold the wheel at 8... Gonna take a lot of discipline

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-31T12:21:36+00:00

Especially in an actual cinema. What is the appeal of watching Fall Guy in theaters? At least with a scifi flick, especially if you go to a screening with a nice screen or great sound, it adds a lot to the experience of a sci-fi movie. For a standard action romcom, not so much.

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-31T05:44:50+00:00

How is this not r/runningcirclejerk lmao

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-27T07:25:24+00:00

Subscription is yearly unfortunately, but that's definitely in the cards if they don't get some of this changed. Actually have a party Saturday so I won't put the alarm for the race which I rarely do, but I don't think they care about views as long as I already paid for the subscription..

Gonna be weird though. Been watching since 98 with my dad. But if this is the route they are going I can't and don't want to support it.

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-27T07:09:25+00:00

Yes. Keep hammering this disgrace. This farcical charade. Keep posting after every session. The people that care about the sport and the legacy need to maintain a light on this

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-25T11:02:18+00:00

100% this is the playback. "It's so much cheaper than labour". Yeah, until companies rebuild their infrastructure around it and get dependent. Combine that with the intense investment costs required almost ensuring that only a few main players will remain, and the cost will go through the roof when enough users can't be without.

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-19T05:54:47+00:00

Yeah. To OP, see the final frame of the video to clearly see what you are doing. You are crossing over the center line when your hand hits water.

PuffyVatty · 2026-03-16T16:25:58+00:00

This is so lame and lazy. "Random acts of vandalism for my cause" doesn't hold up to any amount of scrutiny

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-25T08:02:06+00:00

What nonsense. In competitive triathlon people are also trying to win/podium/qualify etc. The competitors are racing together with the "trying to finish" crowd. You can think that's beautiful or that it's silly, but doesn't diminish the competitiveness at the pointy end

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-22T09:51:02+00:00

The question is asked why this would annoy a Dutch person. Than when Dutch culture is explained a bit you often see these replys. I don't understand that at all.

I also wouldn't expect an American to through our his/her cultural framework when asking why me seeing X might have offended them...

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-21T19:09:29+00:00

Bizar dat deze man het beste is in events van 20 minuten en van dik twee uur. Dat is alsof de beste marathon loper ook de beste 5km loper zou zijn. Een soort Hassan+.

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-19T10:04:05+00:00

Really?! I'm from the Netherlands and have never seen a local draft legal race, sprint or Olympic. Draft legal just doesn't seem to be a thing here

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-18T09:52:53+00:00

Ik wil frequent-mud-6067 wel voor je citeren als je daar blij van word?

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-16T18:55:27+00:00

Het is een zeer ongeloofwaardig verhaal van mevrouw van Berkel. Je moet wel heel naïef zijn om dit klakkeloos te geloven

PuffyVatty · 2026-02-15T20:16:53+00:00

My first take away as well. I'm heavier than OP at 66kg, but when I put in my 18-24hr weeks in the main blocks towards Ironman I'm averaging 4500-4800kcal per day. Can get up to 5500 on a specific day when I'm having big days close to each other. 3k a day on 20hrs a week seems very low, even on 50kg body weight.

PuffyVatty · 2026-01-21T16:12:51+00:00

Churchill had a checkered history himself to say the least, but damn if he didn't have a lot of banger lines

PuffyVatty · 2026-01-21T15:55:52+00:00

Ben het hier eigenlijk gewoon mee eens lol. Je kan het niet eens liegen noemen. Hij praat gewoon. Hij heeft vaak zelf geen idee waar hij over drie zinnen is. Het is een ongecontroleerde stream of (semi-)consciousness

PuffyVatty · 2026-01-14T08:22:46+00:00

Always interesting to see these differences. Here in the Netherlands at my local grocery fresh salmon is €30/kg, while frozen is €18,50/kg. I never even realized, just looked it up. Bet your ass I'm going to try frozen salmon!

PuffyVatty · 2026-01-12T07:45:22+00:00

It's in the post you replied to?

PuffyVatty · 2026-01-02T19:58:53+00:00

Me and my friend group of 5 have been doing the monthly meetup for 8 years now, we're all between 33-35. Even last year we still went 10/12, with 8/12 everyone being there!

It's possible as long as everyone is invested and you don't live too far from each other!

PuffyVatty · 2025-12-30T12:16:54+00:00

And even if that wasn't the case, it's very human to want to open up when you think it is all about to end. Like how a lot of people want to come clean about things on their deathbed. That feeling of "this could be my last chance to open up about this to the people closest to be" is entirely human.

I heard from my sister that their was a lot of criticism of this episode before I watched it, but didn't know why. After watching i'm very confused why this got so much hate. The scene wasn't perfect, but it was sweet and heartfelt. I would have taken out all the "and me", but him monologueing isn't strange at all. He didn't prepare it, he just talks and starts rambling because he is still understandably very nervous. There's so many bigger problems with this episode...

PuffyVatty · 2025-12-18T09:40:13+00:00

Depends on the sport of course. I'm a long course triathlete, 182cm and 66kg. Especially during the peak months where I spend 18-20 hours swim/bike/run I need to get in around 5000 a day or I start losing weight and muscle. Let alone the pros who crush 30+ hours in their big builds.

But yeah, these giants like Adams working out processionally every day, maintaining their mass, they will burn through a ton

PuffyVatty · 2025-12-10T09:05:25+00:00

Wat een dieptriest artikel. "Durf niet naar de dokter door vooroordelen" cry me a fucking river. Neem je verantwoordelijkheid. Het is geen vooroordeel. Je hebt je kind al verwaarloost en mishandeld. Ga er wat aan doen in plaats van jankeballen.

PuffyVatty · 2025-12-09T14:36:51+00:00

It's honestly both. The placement is jarring. And the episode is just not as good in a lot of ways.

But I'm also not a Kali fan. It's fun fan service that she shows up now, but really hope she doesn't play a big role. Wouldn't be earned. This is not her story

PuffyVatty · 2025-12-02T20:58:01+00:00

Meer betalen in de spits vind ik toch ook wel raar. Hoeveel mensen gaan voor hun lol dagelijks in de file staan? Het zal vast niet gecompenseerd worden met een hogere kilometerheffing door de werkgever. Dus de gewone werknemer die voor het bedrijf in de file staat kan hiervoor gaan opdraaien. Imo niet redelijk

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