through your blog i found the "truthaboutragen" wordpress and was introduced to a whole world of "WTF". i had no idea who ragen chastain was before this and it disgusts me that there is actually a human being out there that profits off of the insecurities of obese people. blatantly lying to them about their health to further delude them into thinking their lifestyle is okay, while continually lying about her own. YUCK. i feel sorry for those naive enough to follow her.
Yep. Ragen Chastain is nothing but a grifter. She loves pushing fat people to alienate themselves from everyone else by encouraging hypervigilance. The misinformation she spreads about nutrition, exercise and weightloss are bad enough but her alleged accomplishments and current ironman training are… rather chimerical.
For instance, last month she was learning how to ride a bike, learning to turn, brake and switch gears and being scared riding with people or near traffic… and a month later (minus a week that she was sick) she’s doing half centuries (50 mi)?
Ummmmmmm…
NOPE!
Even if she had the endurance (it’s obvious she doesn’t) there’s no way you could - in a month’s time - bust out anything close to 50 miles in one ride without it feeling like you had hot knives in your ass cheeks (extra padding or not). There’s just no way. I know that feeling, and there’s not a goddamned thing that would keep me on a bike with that kind of pain.
So since the half-ironman is less than 2 months away, I see this “miraculous cycling feat” as a last minute jolt to get her followers to send her money. Then, she’s not going to make it to the half-ironman. Something will happen and she’ll have to cancel BUT BUT BUT SHE TRAINED SO HARD AND WOULD HAVE FINISHED!!! Then she’ll have another year to grift people for more money until she bails on the full ironman in 2016.
I’d be thrilled if she proves me wrong!
Until then, I’ll follow Ragen’s madness and Dances with Facts’ excellent commentary. It’s a bikewreck in slo-mo.
Addendum: I love when people create goals and push themselves to meet their goals, and I’m in no way ‘discouraging’ Ragen Chastain, but she is in over her head... it’s not reasonable... it’s foolishness. She doesn’t have to do anything that extreme to prove anything. For fuck’s sake. I would love to see her get some honest 5k or 10ks under her belt. But an ironman? Come the fuck on.