When I did both my L1 and L2 coaching courses there was a different guy who wore shorts, in winter with the leg tattoo. Doesnt he realise that most triathletes would have done an Ironman so don’t care. The worst though was the dad at school who wore his GeeeeBeeee tracksuit and cap every fucking day to do school run. Only day he didnt was when he wore GeeeBeeee tshirt and shorts with the cap. He also made a point of telling all the sports teacher how he raced for Teeeeeeem GeeeeeeBeeeeeee. He also turned up most days with his 6k TT bike attached to the roof. I almost asked him if it was an optional extra or did he ride it occasionally. His daughter also brought a participation medal in for a race we were at and told everyone she won it, she came 10th in her age group. I felt sorry for her as its obviously an inherited trait.
I resemble that remark 
I celebrated my 50th year this year with two firsts. My first pair of slippers (UGG things and a gift) and a pair of black Crocs (60% off in Blacks and an impulse buy).
Not exactly the extreme experiences my younger self envisioned in my half century but both purchases have been distressingly brilliant!
Crocs to the water’s edge rather than enacting the ‘walking across hot coals’ shuffle is a game changer and an evening beer by the fire in comfortable footwear is quite simply amazing.
So is “shorts & IM Tatt” at the school run better or worse than “pyjamas & slippers”?
I see plenty of people wearing the latter outside our local schools, in both the morning and the afternoon 
The school run crowd around here don’t look like the IM type 
Oh man I want a GB tracksuit now. I’m tired of my Ironman hoodie. So are they, probably.
If I manage to make cut off for Arc of Attrition, you better believe I’m wearing that bastard! 
Shorts all year for me and yes, I have been asked at the local pub if I’m a postie
Knowing what they’re like over there, I’m struggling to work out how much (if any) of this thread is serious.
Cosmetic surgery/body modification for aero gainz: Triathlon Forum: Slowtwitch Forums
I did once wonder if there was an over representation of larger breasted/earlier developing females being better at backstroke, and wondered if it was buoyancy, or just coincidence locally.
That said puberty definitely does change what swim strokes teens are better at as bodies change.
Someone at British Cycling apparently seriously suggested that Ed Clancy should have surgery to narrow his shoulders to make him more aero .
More worrying was the fact that he was up for it
I daren’t think about how you go about doing that. 
Does anyone remember that series from the 80s (I think) Life & Times of She Devil?
A larger/less attractive woman had loads of plastic surgery including breaking and shortening her bones to look like the woman her husband was having an affair with (who she might have killed first, I can’t remember)
I think the suggestion was to break his collarbones, take a section out and let them heal shorter
I also think this was a joke, like the “specially round wheels” at London 2012 
Very OT but I remember watching a doco years ago about Chinese women having their legs broke and extended to make them taller = richer husband! 
Wasn’t there a myth that team sky riders used to immobilise their upper limbs in casts for muscle wastage?
Do the NHS offer this service? Asking for a friend
Rich husbands or leg extensions? 
I will check with my friend
That’s quite an enlightened and amusing thread for ST.
When my wife trained to be a counsellor the lecturer on her masters course was the physchologist who had to screen people who wanted that procedure. To see if they were mad, as if wanting the procedure wasn’t making that clear