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  1. Charles <[email hidden]> wrote:
    :> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 17:22:46 -0400, Dally <[email hidden]> wrote:
    :>
    :> >Charles wrote:
    :> >
    :> >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:54:15 -0400, Dally <[email hidden]>
    :> >> wrote:
    :> >>
    :> >>
    :> >>>Charles wrote:
    :> >>>
    :> >>>
    :> >>>>So Dally and Lance Armstrong are fellow triathletes. Does your
    :> >>>>vanity know no bounds woman?
    :> >>>
    :> >>>I wore a yellow shirt today.
    :> >>
    :> >>
    :> >> I'll bet it was several sizes larger than Lance wears, and I
    :> >> suspect his entire family could wear your pants at the same
    :> >> time!! ;o)
    :> >
    :> >His entire family are preschoolers.
    :>
    :> His wife too?
    :>
    :> With Lance the Mrs and the pre-schoolers, that would make quite a
    :> knickerful and room for the family dog still!! ;o)

    So you didn't see any of the tour and the associated shows, huh?

  2. On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:57:53 GMT, T <[email hidden]> wrote in
    misc.fitness.weights:

    Quoted message said:
    John Hanson said:

    On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:25:21 GMT, T <[email hidden]> wrote in
    misc.fitness.weights:

    Quoted message said:

    >>My point of view in this thread (since you're not bothering to read it)
    >>is that the sport has to be physically demanding, and you have to train
    >>for it. Most human beings do not train for physically demanding sports.
    >
    >That is an interesting comment. A marathon is a very physically
    >demanding sport but anyone can train for and compete in it.

    Here being able to distinguish 'can train for it' and 'do train for it' would
    save tons of acrimony.

    >many people do who are very inadequate even compared to the general
    >population. You can't make this argument without also assigning some
    >level of excellence in that physically demanding sport.

    Okay.

    >Dally has already done this and made it clear she thinks she makes the
    >cutoff.

    I agree with Dally; she finished in the top half overall, top quarter in the bike.

    Didn't she also compete against cancer survivors

    That might be the dumbest thing anyone ever said.

    Tour de France just ended; want a plot summary?

    Okay, women cancer survivors.

  3. On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:57:53 GMT, T <[email hidden]> wrote in
    misc.fitness.weights:

    Quoted message said:
    John Hanson said:

    On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:25:21 GMT, T <[email hidden]> wrote in
    misc.fitness.weights:

    Quoted message said:

    >>My point of view in this thread (since you're not bothering to read it)
    >>is that the sport has to be physically demanding, and you have to train
    >>for it. Most human beings do not train for physically demanding sports.
    >
    >That is an interesting comment. A marathon is a very physically
    >demanding sport but anyone can train for and compete in it.

    Here being able to distinguish 'can train for it' and 'do train for it' would
    save tons of acrimony.

    >many people do who are very inadequate even compared to the general
    >population. You can't make this argument without also assigning some
    >level of excellence in that physically demanding sport.

    Okay.

    >Dally has already done this and made it clear she thinks she makes the
    >cutoff.

    I agree with Dally; she finished in the top half overall, top quarter in the bike.

    Didn't she also compete against cancer survivors

    That might be the dumbest thing anyone ever said.

    Tour de France just ended; want a plot summary?

    Okay, women cancer survivors.

  4. Roger Zoul said:

    Charles <[email hidden]> wrote:
    :> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 17:22:46 -0400, Dally <[email hidden]> wrote:
    :>
    :> >Charles wrote:
    :> >
    :> >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:54:15 -0400, Dally <[email hidden]>
    :> >> wrote:
    :> >>
    :> >>
    :> >>>Charles wrote:
    :> >>>
    :> >>>
    :> >>>>So Dally and Lance Armstrong are fellow triathletes. Does your
    :> >>>>vanity know no bounds woman?
    :> >>>
    :> >>>I wore a yellow shirt today.
    :> >>
    :> >>
    :> >> I'll bet it was several sizes larger than Lance wears, and I
    :> >> suspect his entire family could wear your pants at the same
    :> >> time!! ;o)
    :> >
    :> >His entire family are preschoolers.
    :>
    :> His wife too?
    :>
    :> With Lance the Mrs and the pre-schoolers, that would make quite a
    :> knickerful and room for the family dog still!! ;o)

    So you didn't see any of the tour and the associated shows, huh?

    None at all!!

    Ugh! It's Monday!! ;o(

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