[Fair warning.. redheaded mini rant ahead:]
Aright… advice for my fellas (I know for a fact I have at least three, hahah so you three can share this with your amigos): I would strongly advise you NOT to come at a girl – especially a girl you have intentions of scoring a date with – and tell her,
“Hey, do you want a biking buddy? I can even slow down so you can keep up.
”
- Seriously? Dog… strap on some Asics. I’d smoke your ass.
- You are the guy who time and time again prefaces a workout of any sort with, “well I’m not going to be fast today because ______.” (I lifted hard yesterday. I just ate Chipotle. I have a sliver.) Cry me a river homeboy.. you’re just not fast period.
- Your little smiley face does not make up for your cockiness. Confident ≠ cocky.
And then when I respond to your cute little offer to slow down with letter 1) above, and you come back at me with,
“Don’t kid yourself.
expect retaliation. Or better yet… expect nothing. Nothing at all.. because you señor D. Bag are not worth my time, much less a date or any of my precious QT with the Roo. Time to rework your game buddy.
[End rant]
In general I think of myself as a nice, compassionate person. But redheads are known to be feisty for a reason. Remember when someone stole my bike?
LOL and if you think I’m being hard on the guy.. I guess just know that he is a repeat offender and I just don’t play that game.
Glad to hear some people might have a new motivation to jumpin in the pool this week! I definitely had to remind myself of the 5 second ultimatum this morning, but it was a great workout! If you have continuing questions, feel free to leave comments on the Train On Top: Volume One – SWIMMING post (I’ll still be notified even if it’s an older post), or leave any questions in a comment on the Train On Top page! And of course, you can feel free to shoot an email to RunDogMpls at gmail dot com.
The next venture in this series will be regarding CYCLING/SPINNING, and I believe I’ll be calling in some expert testimony here since biking/cycling is my least strong of the athletic trifecta. (And I am aware that that is entirely an incorrect use of the word trifecta, but I like the way it sounds, and that’s just my style. 
)
(p.s. That’s absolutely the photo my mom wanted to use as my picture on our xmas card this year. Alright with me!!) Alllright. Feeling much better now that that’s out… and I should head over to Gold Country – doin’ a little early birthday shopping for myself! Haha sometimes the only way to get what you REALLY want is when you are the one to buy it!
Till next time amigos,
-E
[edit: p.s. Lizzy got the golden beans, and she's sharing!]
Comment By: lizzy
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
haha i love your Mom for wanting to use this pic of you on the xmas card!! sooo cute! And I really want you to go for a ride with this fella and show him whose BOSS! you will kick his a*s!!! haha. I had a similar experience with a lame guy telling me I was too slow to run the 10k race with him….and he finished 2-minutes after me! wooooo! I wish you and I lived closer so we could SWIM/BIKE/RUN together, it would be too much fun! hope your having a great start to your week! can’t wait to read your post about cycling!
Comment By: Courtney
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
First off, LOVE the new site!!!!!!!! I want to step up my game sometime and do the same, so I’ll be coming to you for advice.
Also, you simply MUST go see my latest blog post…there’s a picture on there especially for you!!
Also, I have hip pain…please help?
LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!
Comment By: Karyn
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:32 pm
wow did someone really say that to you? so rude!
total bamf picture too
Comment By: Susan
November 24th, 2009 at 12:16 am
I don’t think he knew who he was messing with…
Comment By: Kat
November 24th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Hi, I’ve been a lucker reader and was wondering if you can do a special post on how you stay motivated/schedule to do swimming/biking/swimming AND college AND worker. Thanks for being so inspiring!!
Comment By: Holly
November 24th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
why are guys total tools? that is a horrible pick up line. you could smoke him any day of the week!
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