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Super random question but was curious if people wear jewelry through all their training and how it’s held up between all the sweat and hours in chlorine in the pool?

I have sentimental jewelry (earrings, necklace and bracelet) that i pretty much wear all the time but recently just signed up for a full IM and know that my training will be a lot more significant. They’re all 14k or 18k gold and i know the correct answer is to take jewelry off for the swim or heavy sweat. Just getting tedious constantly putting necklace and bracelet on and off but don’t want to ruin the gold. Should i just accept not wearing it for the next year?

Anyone wear their jewelry constantly and how has it held up?

I’d like to know if I’m having unrealistic expectations of my pet sitter

My husband and I are child free and we have a cat. She is 11 years old and has only ever been around kids a handful of times in her entire life as we don’t live around our nieces and nephews and our friends don’t have kids either.

We are going on a 10 day vacation and she is extremely attached to me so leaving her is hard for me. I am hiring a pet sitter to check in on her 2-3x a day and they are charging me $25 per drop in. Honestly I’m okay with paying that money.

Here is my dilemma - the pet sitter is a stay at home mom and she has a toddler that she said she’ll have to bring with her to the drop ins. She said she might get away with not bringing her toddler in the evenings if her husband is home to watch her daughter.

My concern is that my cat is already pretty shy as she’s a rescue and takes some time to warm up to people. If there’s a toddler that’s loud, banging, crying i know for a fact my cat will not come up from hiding when the pet sitter comes to visit. I feel like the whole reason i want a pet sitter is for them to show some loving to my cat, give her pets and play with her. When I sort of hinted at if there’s any way for her to come alone, i felt like she didn’t understand why I was being so particular about my cat. She kept saying oh don’t worry we teach the toddler to be gentle with our cats at home. But my cat is not used to children at all. I know i can’t expect a child free world but wasn’t sure if I’m being too harsh or a diva to expect it for my cat.

Is it mean or selfish of me to cancel the pet sitter and let her know it’s because of her child and try to find someone that doesn’t have kids?

I’m a 35 F married Christian woman that is child free by choice. I’m realizing this a very lonely walk especially as a Christian woman. It has pushed me away from church and any sort of small group or women’s Bible study as i constantly get the “but you need to have kids…” “why don’t you have kids?” “We’ll pray for you for a change of heart”.

I don’t want to get into the weeds of why i choose to be child free and I’m not looking for other Christian’s to convince me why I should have kids and how they’re Gods gift/blessing. I’m also please asking people not rebuke or condemn me for choosing to be child free and how sinful I am for not being “fruitful and multiplying”.

I am hoping to connect with other Christian women that genuinely don’t want kids. I’m hoping we can help each other grow and continue to strengthen our walk with God while encouraging each others child free choices.

I just finished up an Ironman 70.3 Poznan Poland over the weekend and made a rookie mistake with my goggles that almost cost me not even being able to start the race

Mins before the swim start, I went to put my goggles over my eyes from the top of my head and realized the black silicone suction on the right eye completely came off and was nowhere to be found.

After a lot of panicking and yelling asking if anyone had extra goggles, a gracious soul grabbed me and told me to ask the MC to make an announcement (thank you random stranger for telling me to do this and for calming my anxiety!!)

And miraculously another athlete had a spare and gave me them without hesitation. Huge shout out to her!

This is super rookie of me but i had no idea that the black silicone suction was something I had to keep an eye on or maintenance. With them being expensive goggles, i thought they were fine (had them for over a year now). I do swim in the pools a lot but make sure i rinse them off after every swim and always store them in the case.

Because my goggles are so expensive and hoping they’d be salvageable (which they are)i shoved them into the front of my my wetsuit. Definitely wasn’t comfortable.

Ironically enough, ended up with a PR on my swim.

The rest of the race was uneventful but lesson learned, check your goggles thoroughly before the swim!! Also so thankful to the tri community that helped me out on race day!

Also just curious what other people would’ve done if spare goggles HAD NOT been available. I thought about just swimming it with no goggles but i was worried about my eyes stinging really bad the rest of the day or getting an eye infection?

I just finished up an Ironman 70.3 Poznan Poland over the weekend and made a rookie mistake with my goggles that almost cost me not even being able to start the race

Mins before the swim start, I went to put my goggles over my eyes from the top of my head and realized the black silicone suction on the right eye completely came off and was nowhere to be found.

After a lot of panicking and yelling asking if anyone had extra goggles, a gracious soul grabbed me and told me to ask the MC to make an announcement (thank you random stranger for telling me to do this and for calming my anxiety!!)

And miraculously another athlete had a spare and gave me them without hesitation. Huge shout out to her!

This is super rookie of me but i had no idea that the black silicone suction was something I had to keep an eye on or maintenance. With them being expensive goggles, i thought they were fine (had them for over a year now). I do swim in the pools a lot but make sure i rinse them off after every swim and always store them in the case.

Because my goggles are so expensive and hoping they’d be salvageable (which they are)i shoved them into the front of my my wetsuit. Definitely wasn’t comfortable.

Ironically enough, ended up with a PR on my swim.

The rest of the race was uneventful but lesson learned, check your goggles thoroughly before the swim!! Also so thankful to the tri community that helped me out on race day!

Also just curious what other people would’ve done if spare goggles HAD NOT been available. I thought about just swimming it with no goggles but i was worried about my eyes stinging really bad the rest of the day or getting an eye infection?

I’ve done one 70.3 and am getting ready to do my next… i am a lululemon junkie and was wondering what the etiquette is on buying swag at the expo that has the m dot logo or says “Ironman” on it without having done a full distance? Ive noticed at the expo lululemon only ever has items with the m dot logo or Ironman on it. Hoka usually sells t shirts that has the race specific event specifying it as a 70.3 but i don’t like how hoka apparel fits.

Am i going to get shamed for wearing Ironman stuff when I’ve only done a half? Don’t worry… i won’t get a tattoo until I’ve done a full.

All my fellow sweaty hands sufferers, how do you deal with handshakes? I work in a job that requires me to shake important people’s hands a dozen plus times a day to include my managers and bosses because of meetings. My boss literally walks around every morning saying hi to all his workers by shaking their hands. One day he has even said “wow why are your hands so wet?” In front of all my coworkers. I feel like he’s actually judging how i can be a competent worker if im such a nervous sweater.

I have tried all the anti perspirants on out there to include ionto. It was effective but the problem is i started getting compensatory sweating really bad in other places that i hadn’t ever sweated before like my nose or back of my knees so i stopped. Now my hands sweat but nose also still sweats now.

I really miss covid days when we had an excuse to not shake peoples hands.

Is it almost socially better to just tell people sorry my hands are wet before i shake their hands? Is it unprofessional to say my hands are wet, i can i give you a fist bump instead?

Does anybody else struggle with bad breath from their digestive issues??

My husband has told me that there is a very strong sulfur/garlicy/onion smell to my breath that is very hard to ignore when i sit close to him or even when we’re in the car together and im just talking staring straight ahead.

I know it’s not my gums/dental or tonsil stones as I’ve recently had a dental cleaning and they say my oral hygiene is great.

I have tried everything from tongue scrapers, lots of hydration, and obviously mints/gum but the gums only last so long.

I have had co workers recently always offer me gum when we have to work closely together looking at a computer screen and it’s so embarrassing.

I’m in the process of trying to get diagnosed - i think i might have SIBO and IBS and i really think that my gut just ferments everything and those bacteria odors is leaking out of my mouth. (Gross i know)

It’s making me so self conscious and my work involves me having to be around/talk to people in confined spaces. I hate that people think i don’t brush my teeth or have bad oral hygiene.

Would eating a super bland diet help? Has anyone else struggled with this and have any tips that will help?

Hi, I’m doing a 70.3 at the end of the month and just now discovered that both shoes I’ve been training in the whole time Hoka Mach x3 and Hoka Bondi 9 are on the banned list for height…. I had planned to race it in my mach x3… i start my taper training in a week. I have a new pair of hoka ahari, should i switch over to that for the remaining two weeks and hope for the best?

I am a very sub mediocre age grouper and will be finishing in the 7 hour mark with no chance of podium

I’ve seen other Reddit threads that says just run in banned shoes, no one will care for age groupers. I’ve seen other threads that says i should have integrity and race in legal shoes or why run the risk of one runner noticing me on the course and reporting me and my race cancelling on the run?

It’s not that i don’t want to not have integrity..: my concern at this point is just injury or the ahari not being broken in enough? Is 4-5 runs in a new pair of shoes enough to break them in?

Can any finance person tell me if this is legal/correct?

I am stationed overseas and one of my co workers told me that he gets almost $6K/month in housing allowance. When I asked how, he said he gets his OHA for himself for the duty station we are at but also gets BAH for California for his parents because they’re his dependents.

Here is where it gets weird- his parents currently live in a third world country.

I know he plans to send them to Cali if/when they get approved but they’re not living there yet.

Can you get dual BAH when they don’t even live at the location you’re getting BAH for?

Hi all,

Can’t seem to get a straight answer from anyone and was hoping there was some finance folks or anyone with other experience that can definitively tell me where COT leave is supposed to be inputted and processed? I know you have use up your own personal LV days and the Air Force only pays for the plane ticket. Does the LV get inputted into leaveweb like any other leave? I heard that it’s actually supposed to be entered into DTS and then finance will charge the leave days later.

Thanks.

Hi i have a sage/breville coffee machine that’s only 6 mos old. It was dialed in and making good shots of espresso. The last couple days, after I grind my coffee beans and use the built in tamp, it keeps blinking at the lowest light basically saying it’s completely not dosed at all. Even if i add more beans and it grinds more and i tamp it, the light is still at the bottom level saying under dose. I’ve taken the hopper apart cleaned everything out and wiped down the tamper. It’s still doing it. I also feel like the taste of the espresso has completely changed and it taste more sour/bitter.

Is my tamp sensor broken? Is there a reason for why it’s not recognizing that theres beans ground up?

I’m using the same grams of coffee as i have been. Haven’t changed any other settings on it. Is it broken? Has anyone had this issue?

Hi i have a sage/breville coffee machine that’s only 6 mos old. It was dialed in and making good shots of espresso. The last couple days, after I grind my coffee beans and use the built in tamp, it keeps blinking at the lowest light basically saying it’s completely not dosed at all. Even if i add more beans and it grinds more and i tamp it, the light is still at the bottom level saying under dose. I’ve taken the hopper apart cleaned everything out and wiped down the tamper. It’s still doing it. I also feel like the taste of the espresso has completely changed and it taste more sour/bitter.

Is my tamp sensor broken? Is there a reason for why it’s not recognizing that theres beans ground up?

I’m using the same grams of coffee as i have been. Haven’t changed any other settings on it. Is it broken? Has anyone had this issue?

I got short tasked deployed from 25 Feb - 1 July for epic fury. After in processing and r&r it’ll be about 15 July. I wasn’t on continuous hostile pay but we didn’t fly to hostile locations.

I also was completely restricted from being able to take leave for the time i was deployed because I was on status to fly at any given notice. I was actually restricted to a 30 min radius of base for 4 months.

I also have 10 days of mandatory training that i have to attend. So in reality, i only have August/sept to take LV.

I have about 19 days of use or lose. I think i could use up 9-10 days of it. But i hate taking leave just to sit at home and not go anywhere. But trying to plan for that many days of vacations is also expensive. Do i absolutely need to use it up before 1 Oct or what are the odds that the first 1 star would bless me for having special leave accrual roll over into next year?

I’m reading up on SLA and it says I’d have to have been deployed in combat for 120 days which i didn’t. It also seems like i wouldn’t even be able to apply until the fiscal year is done and i run the risk of it not getting approved.

Wanted to get opinions- just take the LV and sit at home or try to get SLA approved but run the risk of forfeiting those days if it gets denied?

Thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I’m looking at purchasing a TT bike but don’t know where to start. i live in rural Germany and the one bike store close to me only sells Orbea that I would custom order. They don’t have any bikes already built in store for me to try out. Do I just pull the trigger and get that brand? When speaking with another experienced triathlete, she said back in the day, she went to a bike store, they took all these measurements, input into a computer and it suggested 3-4 different brands and models and sizes of TT bikes that would fit her measurements. She then went to a bike store that had said bike models and test rode them before pulling the trigger on the one she felt was best

I don’t see a lot of bike stores now a days that just have a plethora of TT bikes sitting around for folks to test drive… what have other people done? Did you guys get fitted and given suggestions or just pulled the trigger on a bike and prayed you’d like it?

it?