THE DECEPTION

Some guys will do anything to win!!!

After interviewing anyone and everyone who completed a triathlon in 2004, my good friend, Tommy Rosenthal determined that the key to improving performance in the offseason is to log a significant amount of time on a bike trainer. While Tommy was nice enough to share this information with me, he neglected to mention that he had purchased a trainer six weeks ago and has been training morning, noon and night in order to improve his performance.

Not since Nina Kraft was found guilty of doping has the local triathlon community seen such a shady attempt to shave seconds off of their time.

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem that Tommy's addiction to this sport compelled him to purchase this $775 piece of equipment that if used properly will save him an extra :28 seconds during an eight hour race. The issue, ladies and gentleman, is that he kept this to himself. He planned to use his trainer all winter long in secret so that he might enter race season in superior shape, leaving his friends to wonder how he was able to excel despite the fact that he trained the same amount of time as we did???

I would have fallen for it too if I was not over at his house helping his lovely wife install HIS ipod. There it was - HIDDEN in the basement!!!!!!! I wonder if the Survivor contestant committee is aware of the lengths that this guy will go to in order to win. If they did, I am sure that they would select him for Survivor 11 - after all, the ruthless dominate that game.

Makes you wonder what his real time in the Chicago Triathlon was???? Did he really lose his chip or was this more of the same???? You be the judge!!!