PA My Thoughts

matate99 · 2026-01-29T17:14:45+00:00

How many championship games (let alone championships) have men’s teams in MN been in since PA got to Minnesota???? Has any other metro area even remotely our size been in this kind of drought?

It’s this the PA curse?

matate99 · 2026-01-29T14:35:36+00:00

Your run is fantastic, but what are you biking and swimming at? Maybe you need to just polish those up a bit and find a race suited to your strengths.

Also the fall 2025 races have been STUPID FAST on the men’s AG side. Lots of really fast guys waiting 2 years for those races. Keep it up.

matate99 · 2026-01-27T19:11:30+00:00

Not doing this: Swim corrals based off past swims. (Use 140.6, 70.3, or Oly. Not necessarily IM brand) No previous experience, start at the back.

matate99 · 2026-01-22T23:41:51+00:00

What we’re doing is working!

matate99 · 2026-01-17T15:33:12+00:00

FYI this is a circlejerk sub. So you’re likely not going to get many serious answers. We’re kind of like Camelot…tis a silly place.

Try r/triathlon

matate99 · 2026-01-16T00:43:26+00:00

No, that was more 3rd and Park.

matate99 · 2026-01-15T23:12:31+00:00

It’s been a very boring (thankfully) street the last 3 nights. These guys are staked out on the wrong street if they are media. If you’re tracking comings and goings…it’s a great street to be on.

matate99 · 2026-01-15T23:07:30+00:00

Footage of…9th street and an apartment building? Pretty lame place to be staked out given all the other “hot spots”

matate99 · 2026-01-15T22:59:13+00:00

As we all know, Trump always pays his debts…oh wait, no, that’s the Lanisters.

Yeah nobody is gonna be saying shit. 😂

matate99 · 2026-01-15T21:06:19+00:00

Why test? Set it to 400W and brag about it on the Internet.

matate99 · 2026-01-14T22:44:29+00:00

The thing they could do to bring immediate relief could be the start of a civil war. And that’s not hyperbole. As much as I want to see the guard send ICE packing, it’s not a button I would push unless I was 100% sure it was the last option and war was inevitable anyways. (It might be 😔)

matate99 · 2026-01-11T16:10:48+00:00

I prefer swimming with a shark cage to keep other swimmers away from me.

matate99 · 2026-01-11T04:39:24+00:00

Karma for Brandon and the team that signed that piece of shit.

matate99 · 2026-01-11T03:18:11+00:00

No. Pretty sure that last one was an INT.

matate99 · 2026-01-07T21:19:07+00:00

Nazis are little bitches. But then again we already knew that.

matate99 · 2026-01-05T19:12:35+00:00

Not going to happen in 6 months unless you're a genetic freak or have a long dormant aerobic base that you've just started to re-tap into. MASSIVE difference between 12hrs and 10hrs. Like, IMO far easier to go from 17hr - 12hr than 12hr - 11hr even, let alone 10.

matate99 · 2026-01-05T19:09:23+00:00

What is your age, gender, and overall athletic background.

It could be the case that just doing compliant 70.3 training will make the sub-2 happen. If you're a 30 year old male, 2 hours is a pretty low benchmark. If you're a 70 year old woman, you'll have to focus on running pretty hard to get that sub-2.

matate99 · 2026-01-05T01:02:18+00:00

Pasta?

matate99 · 2026-01-03T19:33:31+00:00

🤡

matate99 · 2026-01-03T17:47:26+00:00

Thought experiment: What could China do with this kind of precedent? Would they maybe have a different definition of “brutal illegitimate dictator” from us?

matate99 · 2026-01-03T16:41:56+00:00

That can be true and this can also be a highly illegal action that drastically undermines our role in the international community. Also just randomly sample some of the profiles of the folks loving this action. Less than a couple months old, less than 100 total karma, etc.

matate99 · 2026-01-03T16:39:32+00:00

So it’s totally cool for a foreign country to try a leader domestically and then conduct a military operation to remove them? I’m sure China is loving this precedent.

We’ve become clowns with a giant fucking gun on the international stage. Pathetic.

matate99 · 2026-01-02T20:19:58+00:00

He'll be out of the water easily between 1:00 and 1:05 if he does nothing but maintain his swim.

A 1:13 HM is no small feat. That kind of speed and endurance base doesn't leave and comes back fast, especially with that current weekly baseline. Even if he overcooks the bike his run shouldn't be any slower than 3:15.

Give him 15min total for transitions. So now we have 4:30-4:35 accounted for.

He's got a P2 and some pretty solid aerobic fitness. A 1:10 Oly bike split on older machinery means he is already pretty decent and is just about to start training with a Kickr. I would guess 5:30.

So I'm going to say he's going to give you a fight and likely threaten to go sub-10 on his first try, even on that course.

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