Mad Manatee Mentors CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 59)

Fat tires & fixies!

ETA: And I don't even know what those games in the Sufferfest vids are.

80% of drag comes from the person and not position.  As long as you can get into a solid race position you're already ahead of a lot of the field.

Looking forward to the IG pix!

Hey, at least she's holding a goalie stick!  Smart woman

Ah, the price I pay for posting before reading other comments - team Canada's colors are the Black Widows' colors, black, red, white, so that's a go.  While I could see a few members of the team willing to wear this getup, I'll stick with my regular skates and goalie gear, thanks!  And yeah, what IS the deal with the incredibly high score? 

My sister in law juggles and rides a unicycle 

Hellll yes. Goalies are the best. I ALWAYS wanted to be one. 

At the end of Fight Club there's the gymnastics on a bike thing.  Don't think I'll be taking up that one.  That velodrome looks awesome!

Racing Manatees!

A listing of Manatee Races, Rides and Runs and other events
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January 24-25
Ann-Marie - Town of Celebration half marathon on Sunday
Yanti - Sorrento 5K ocean swim on Monday in Perth
Salty - Mt. St. Helens Ascent

Disabled List
Mary - knee/hip/shoulder
Kirsten - viral pharyngitis
Neil - back

Salty Manatee Month of Motivational Mayhem Challenge participants...
    100% - 11 people (woot woot!!)
    96% - 2 people
    90% - 1 person
    89% - 1 person
    86% - 2 people
    82% - 2 people
    73% - 1 person
    68% - 1 person

That's an awesome picture, too.  Wow.

I'm slowly moving my way towards full-time cycling.  Probably not this year, but I'm going to get my license and ride a few races.  Definitely two TTs and a crit that is about 500 yards from my house.  Still looking for a road race.

BTW, Stage 1 of ToS is in the books.  I dialed back on The Long Scream to kinda/sorta do an FTP test and see where I am.  At -5% I never red-lined on HR, so I think my TR FTP is pretty close.

hahaha, too true!  Sunday morning we will be in the low 40*s for the start of my HM and will warm up to almost 70*.  I consider the 40*s to be really cold, so will have a hard time figuring out what to wear for the race.  I know anyone spectating will be so bundled up that most of you would laugh at them!

RUN like the wind, Ann-Marie!

SWIM like the fish you are, Yanti!

HIKE/SCRAMBLE/ENJOY LIFE like you do in your ascent, Salty!

HEAL, DLers!

Sorry for my lack of SMMMMC participation, but I was sick and so not feeling even doing stretches and whatnot last weekend and Monday.

The pics of the velodrome makes me want to investigate if/how one is able to ride the one ~1-1.5 hours from my house...hmmm...

Chris, I see your point about weather.  50's and 60's is probably parka weather for you.

Salty, that weather for your summit would be awesome!!!  That's almost-but-not-quite shorts weather.  It would sure make the snow slushy though, which could make the going harder.

As for cycling, I'm just scratching the surface too.  I don't want to get too caught up just yet in needing this part or that.  At this point, I'm just trying to get the engine in shape.  Having that all-carbon bike would sure be nice though!  When I switched from my old bike to the step-up one I have now, I was amazed at how much easier hills were.  I've been trading emails with the bus-bike guy, but I still don't know make/model or specs.  Hopefully soon...

I've always though cross would be a blast.  Realistically, though, my body can't handle it.  It sucks to get old and rickety.

If you meant "bike" instead of the first "position" then yeah. The position of the person has a rather profound effect on the amount of drag. A number of newer bikes (most expensive included) are getting faster in their own aero tests, but are actually stacking higher than previous. Not a big deal for many as most don't go that low (which is why they stacked them higher), but for those of us that do it is an issue.

What type of bikes did you go between there?

I've been tossing around the idea of trying some TT action this coming summer.  I know NJ has a regular series/circuit, but it's good to know there are some in MD, too.  Road races scare me. I've watched/worked for/seen 'carnage' of/hauled back wrecked folks off the course during races enough to know I want no part of racing one. 

https://www.bikereg.com/events/Road-Races/Mid-Atlantic BikeReg is a good site to find races on, based on region and type of biking, Mike. 

Have fun, Hands, Yanti, and Salty.  That's what it's all about!!

Kirsten and Neil, heal heal.  Let's get off this list already, right?

Melanie, no need to apologize.  It's a challenge and you do what you can.  Sometimes 100% is too much to ask of oneself, especially when life is being craptastic.  My numbers are low too.  I'm finding that the less I exercise, the worse I feel overall physically and emotionally but I can't exercise because that makes me hurt in specific places.  It's a miserable catch-22.

Go all those who can!

Heal if you are one of those that can't go!

Schwinn Super Sport (*very* basic 10 y.o. road bike) to Giant OCR2 road bike with carbon fork and seat post.

Not only am I (mostly) off the DL, but I'm actually racing this weekend, as well!  We're doing the 3M HM.  I won't be going PR kind of fast, buuuuuuut...

My current pace and The Better Half's are about the same this weekend, so I'll be taking advantage of the opportunity to do one of my favorite things and run with her!  She's not at her PR pace either, or else I would have a lonely run.    I've already prepped her that if I flag at the end (quite possible), she can drop me like a bad habit with no hard feelings (as long as she high fives and hugs me when I cross the line some time later).

I'm actually sooper excited to be on course and able to run again - even if the training wasn't what I'd planned.  I love love love races!  Can't wait to be racing again, too, and soon (races and racing being different animals)

GO Hands!  GO Yanti!  GO Salty!

So.  Much.  Awesomeness.  

(and heal up DLers)

Matt

Love the diversity there! Go get em! + Matt

Rest up DLers! 

We have a local TT series that I enjoy. It's about 5 miles from my house so it's super convenient and pretty low key. I like the challenge of me against the clock.

Good stuff. It's so awesome to think about my Manatee friends doing cool stuff this weekend around the world!

Go get em! And bring back pix

DLers, c'mon now, healhealhealheal

Camera charging! Even bringing my solar charger up. 

Part of why I'm still on my old P2.  Fits my odd body habitus (long torso compared to my legs - Flight Surgeon once told me, "Son, God cheated you out of your legs... But that's good as you likely won't break them BOTH when you eject").

I've found that a very aggressive position on my road bike is dang close to a comfortable position on my tri bike over the same courses (faster on some of the spikey hilly ones here, actually).  However, when I'm dialed in on the P2, it's definitely a faster rig on all but the silliest of hilliest rides.

As for the pricing thing, yes, all bikes are spendy.  No doubt and no way around needing at least some discretionary cash.  But a really solid race rig doesn't have to break the bank.  I bought my bike used (it's an '09) and a set of very nice used wheels, including a disc - and it was way less than I spent on my nice but not crazy nice roadie.  In fact, it was all in barely more than a new disc!  (my wheels are all tubies, which helped keep costs down, too).  I did add a PM, which was a large percentage of the total value, but is definitely not needed to race well (just don't tell that to The Better Half). 

The difference between an old P2 and a new superbike is in the many thousands of dollars level, but the difference in time across an oly I suspect would be well (well) under a minute for most of us - even the FOP folks.  So, one can definitely challenge the FOP with a cheap rig.  By no means a free ride, so to speak, but doesn't have to be cra-cra expensive to contend with the pointy end, IMO/E. 

Matt

GO YANTI, SALTY, MATT AND ME!!  

I am very happy to be in a race again, but, like Matt, I will make the distinction b/w running in a race and racing - cuz I am soooo not racing!! 

DLers, you know what you need to do!