Vegan Triathlete Blog

Vegan Triathlete said:

What do you think? Are you going to read it?

No, I have no interest in veganism or triathleteism. Good luck with
that.

Donga

Vegan Triathlete said:

Vegan Triathlete Blog

I just decided to become a triathlete. It's going to be a little while
before my first triathlon (and hopefully a very long time until my last
one), and I plan on blogging about it the whole time. Check out the
blog that I just launched today:

http://vegantriathlete.info

What do you think? Are you going to read it?

I've also added some forums to bring the triathlon community together.
Check them out too:

http://forums.vegantriathlete.info

P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Vegan Triathlete said:

P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Vegan Triathlete said:

Vegan Triathlete Blog

I just decided to become a triathlete. It's going to be a little while
before my first triathlon (and hopefully a very long time until my last
one), and I plan on blogging about it the whole time. Check out the
blog that I just launched today:

http://vegantriathlete.info

What do you think? Are you going to read it?

I've also added some forums to bring the triathlon community together.
Check them out too:

http://forums.vegantriathlete.info

P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Vegetarian. A word from some obscure language meaning "lousy hunter."

Dan Burkhart said:

Vegetarian. A word from some obscure language meaning "lousy hunter."

Hehe. Does the same dictionary define triathlete?

Donga

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Vegan Triathlete said:

P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Ya think genetics 'may' have had something to do with it?

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Vegan Triathlete wrote:
> P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Ya think genetics 'may' have had something to do with it?

My point is that Dave did well in spite of being a weed eater, not
because of it(BTW-I work on his bike all the time).

BUT good luck....

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Vegan Triathlete wrote:
> P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Quoted message said:

Ya think genetics 'may' have had something to do with it?

I think genetics played a big factor in his victories. I still contend
that the Ironman championship is so grewling that even with great genes
if he was competing with a handicap that there is no way he could have
won it 6 times. I don't think he was handicaped by his vegetarianism.

I was a vegetarian when I raced (still am actually) and while my
achievements pale in comparision to Mr. Scotts I never found it "tough
to do."

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
> Vegan Triathlete wrote:
>> P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
> with a face...tough to do...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Quoted message said:

Ya think genetics 'may' have had something to do with it?

I think genetics played a big factor in his victories. I still contend
that the Ironman championship is so grewling that even with great genes
if he was competing with a handicap that there is no way he could have
won it 6 times. I don't think he was handicaped by his vegetarianism.

I was a vegetarian when I raced (still am actually) and while my
achievements pale in comparision to Mr. Scotts I never found it "tough
to do."

Speaking to a couple of pro bike racers, the two tried to race and be
vegan and just couldn't do it.Maybe they didn't have a proper diet but
tired, sick, most of the time until they started eating things with a
face...

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Vegan Triathlete said:

P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Riders on the Linda McCartney racing team supposedly had to pledge to keep
on a vegetarian diet:

"For those unacquainted with the fact that there was ever a cycling team
using Linda McCartney's name (yes, that Linda McCartney) it's perhaps a
good idea to fill in the blanks. Around the end of 1997 and beginning of
1998, a man called Julian Clark had the excellent marketing notion of
having the Linda McCartney range of vegetarian foods sponsor a fledgling
cycle team. The premise was, what could be a better example of how healthy
a vegetarian lifestyle was, or could be, if a top level team was developed
that would eventually compete in the Tour de France that was sponsored by
the Linda McCartney Foods Company? One of the major kudos behind such a
venture was that all the riders, mechanics, admin. staff etc, would be
vegetarian. There's actually nothing new in top flight cyclists being
vegetarian - Robert Millar, Britain's highest placed finisher in the Tour
and King of the Mountains in 1984, and yellow jersey holder, Sean Yates
were both vegetarian during their competition years."

From:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/?id=2002/reviews/TOTRbook

Gary Young said:

Bruce Jackson said:

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

Vegan Triathlete wrote:
> P.S. I'm a vegan, that's the reason for the domain name.

Quoted message said:

good luck..I have known a few racers that have tried to eat nothing
with a face...tough to do...

Didn't stop Dave Scott winning the Ironman 6 times.

Riders on the Linda McCartney racing team supposedly had to pledge to keep
on a vegetarian diet:

'Supposedly' is the operative word......'"Earlier this year, Mckenzie
was one of the riders left stranded by the ill-fated Linda McCartney
Racing Team, which folded in dramatic circumstances earlier this year."

Quoted message said:

"For those unacquainted with the fact that there was ever a cycling team
using Linda McCartney's name (yes, that Linda McCartney) it's perhaps a
good idea to fill in the blanks. Around the end of 1997 and beginning of
1998, a man called Julian Clark had the excellent marketing notion of
having the Linda McCartney range of vegetarian foods sponsor a fledgling
cycle team. The premise was, what could be a better example of how healthy
a vegetarian lifestyle was, or could be, if a top level team was developed
that would eventually compete in the Tour de France that was sponsored by
the Linda McCartney Foods Company? One of the major kudos behind such a
venture was that all the riders, mechanics, admin. staff etc, would be
vegetarian. There's actually nothing new in top flight cyclists being
vegetarian - Robert Millar, Britain's highest placed finisher in the Tour
and King of the Mountains in 1984, and yellow jersey holder, Sean Yates
were both vegetarian during their competition years."

From:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/?id=2002/reviews/TOTRbook

Quoted message said:

'Supposedly' is the operative word......'"Earlier this year, Mckenzie
was one of the riders left stranded by the ill-fated Linda McCartney
Racing Team, which folded in dramatic circumstances earlier this year."

And supposedly, euro-pros don't drink and smoke the night away at the
discos either......Yeah, right! Hope you true believers never see 'em
in action in Vegas or at a club after a big race!
Jim

Quoted message said:

'Supposedly' is the operative word......'"Earlier this year, Mckenzie
was one of the riders left stranded by the ill-fated Linda McCartney
Racing Team, which folded in dramatic circumstances earlier this year."

And supposedly, euro-pros don't drink and smoke the night away at the
discos either......Yeah, right! Hope you true believers never see 'em
in action in Vegas or at a club after a big race!
Jim