Manatee Monkey Mentors SHUT (Poptart or pet pic bribes considered) (Page 42)

that's weird.  i may have to try again, so i can ensure that i break your work computer!

Yeah, something's wrong!  Let me get us back on track with regular Manatee stuff.

I'm doing an Alaskan cruise in August.  Anyone done one?  If so, what excursions did you love/hate?  I'm booking mine now and my head is swimming (there back to triathlon talk ) 

But if I had done that, I wouldn't have finished, and gotten the t-shirt & medal and gotten to call myself a finisher!  

Being slightly smarter than last year, I just checked to make sure the run portion was still 4 miles and they hadn't changed it to something meaner, like 5 miles.  

I have not done a cruise, but did live in Alaska for 3 years. What destinations are you looking at or visiting on your trip? Beautiful country up there.

It's been 4 miles since at least as far back as 2009. I don't know why they do that. There is a long out & back they could just cut out and bring it closer. Or reroute through the subdivision some more. It's not like there is some special feature they need to include as it's just more subdivision housing.

It's been 4 miles since at least as far back as 2009. I don't know why they do that. There is a long out & back they could just cut out and bring it closer. Or reroute through the subdivision some more. It's not like there is some special feature they need to include as it's just more subdivision housing.

We are in the midst of the second thunderstorm of the day here at work, and as much as I normally love thunderstorms, I don't like them at work because it sounds like I'm sitting in a tin can when it thunders.  For some reason the sound gets changed and it's not deep and rumbly but, well, weird.  Hopefully it stops raining/storming before I need to go out to the car.  Ah, PA weather in the summertime!  Unpredictable at best!

Around here, thunderstorms roll in every afternoon just in time to ruin any plans for an outside workout after work.  I either have to wait an hour or so after I get home or do something inside.  Waiting for the weather to clear is always dangerous; I have a particularly vicious people-eating couch.

INFO FOR NEW MANATEES

If you haven't figured it out, we talk a lot. :-)  Fasten your seatbelts!  Also, we tend to be an inspiring bunch (as in, we use the "inspire" feature of the site a lot).  If you are not familiar with inspires, note that you can reply to them by clicking Reply.  This pops out a new window for you to type your response so that the original poster can see it.  Finally, most of us use the training log on the site (Yanti said that it's required: "Keeping up your training log here on BT and opening it to other group members is mandatory.").  This makes it a lot easier for us to help each other when training questions come up.    If you're not going to log or blog or whatever here on BT, please put a link to your training log in your BT Dashboard.

If you list your upcoming races on your training log  -- by adding to My Races or listing them in Dashboard, we'll celebrate with you!

We have a Google+ community that we use on an irregular basis.  Send your info to a returning Manatee (Janyne, Chris, Monica or Darren) and you will be added.

We have a Bike Gallery as well.  Post a picture of your racing steed and draw Chris' attention to it.  He'll get you added.

We have a Strava group too.  Let Chris or Janyne know and we can add you.  (PRO TIP:  If you decide to join the Strava group, check out https://tapiriik.com/or http://www.syncmetrics.com/. They will sync from Garmin Connect to Strava in the background.)

Oh, we're on Twitter too...

In the past, someone in the Pod (Yanti, Chris, Janyne) has created a table listing all of the pod members with links to their logs.  Once this handy dandy table has been created, feel free to copy/paste it to your own dashboard.

Please be active!  Inactive Manatees make us sad!

Kids are 9, 12, 13 today (10, 12, 13 tomorrow and 10, 12, 14 in August - yep, pretty much on the 2 year plan).  They've moved 4 times already, and by now it's not a surprise.  I think they'll do just fine, but it's my job to worry (even if it's silly).  They're actually sounding pretty psyched about it, which helps the 'rents a LOT!

My family is here in Boston, and they're… well… non-plussed about our leaving only 4 years after coming back.  'Course, if any of them could offer me a job, maybe we'd stay.  

Monica, you might beat us there!  We're shooting for the end of July so that our oldest can start with the band in August (will help the transition to HS, as band is a big deal there and he's quite the tromboner… and, yes, he hates when I call him a tromboner - and then laughs anyway).  Group BT rides in Austin!!!

Never been to Alaska, so can only contribute my envy.    Would love love love to go on a cast & blast (fishing and duck hunting) trip there.  Hope you enjoy the heck out of it (my uncle goes yearly and raves).

As for the grape grabber suits, I wonder if I'd be faster in the pool in those than in my jammers?    Can you just imagine?  (for your own sanity - DON'T!  As my daughter says, some things can't be unseen)  Ha!

Matt

I agree... and I'm going to ask Trudy about it when I see her on Sunday!  

Sooooo, Friday the 13th, everybody!  What are you scared of most? 

I'll start:  Bigfoot.  It even creeps me out to see the signs for Great Divide Yeti beer and leaving a campfire in the woods gives me anxiety attacks.

Racing Manatees!

A listing of Manatee Races, Rides and Runs and other events

June 14-15
Randee - Patriot Half on Saturday
Judi - Rev3 Williamsburg - Olympic Rev on Sunday
Monica - Lake in the Hills on Sunday
Tom - Camp Meeting 5k on Sunday
Tom - Speedy Feet Wed Night Tri #2 on Wednesday

June 20 is Yanit's Bali wedding

Added photos to my RR if anyone wants to see