Mad Manatee Mentors CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 10)

Originally posted by fortissimo Okay, let's see if I can post my bike pic: First pic is of the bike I came down the stairs to one morning. My husband and coach snuck behind my back and built it for me. Jerks. . The second pic is of the cat taking a bath while I'm doing a 2 hour trainer ride .

No saddle AND a kitteh on the aero bars. Wow you ARE hard core

Sounds like a great training day!

I ride a Felt as well. Her name is Fi, short for Fiona.

Whew, we are off to a flying start!!

Jo and Jonathan, welcome back!  Jo, DOOOOO EEEEET!!  Jonathan, glad the hammy is healing, the baby's doing well, and good luck with the new business venture.  Don't forget to post your bios, you two.

Robin and Nancy, suh-WEET rides you've got there.  And Robin, your kitty's pretty cute too.  Kinda balances out the warm-cat-in-lap inertia to know that you'll still have company when you're on the drainer, huh?

Salty, you're gonna have to set a new body composition goal.  You're obviously already a lean beast woman.  Yowza!!

Tom, good call to skip the race on your friend's wedding day.  The race will be there next year, the wedding won't.  Think your knee will be up for the challenge of all those races?

For everybody, last call for the Salty Manatee Month of Motivational Mayhem.  It starts tomorrow so if you want to play, now's your chance to join up.  Rules are on the first page.  I won't be checking logs until after 6 p.m. Mountain Time tomorrow so you have until then to let me know that you're in.

Lastly, Stacey, I saw this on dogshaming.com and totally thought of you!

The sun has come out over here as well, but the temps have dropped to like 4 degrees. Not quite riding weather.

Nice ride...LOVE the white/black color scheme. 

As I mentioned in my bio, my 12 YO daughter is a year-round swimmer and is pretty decent (as in "it's cool that she swims and does pretty well, but don't spend the college fund just yet ).  With Christmas vacation being two full weeks this year, she has spent the two weekends at various grandparents' houses so has missed a boatload of practices right before the meets she has this weekend and next.  So, on to yesterday and today...

We're trying to get her caught up a bit so she's swimming with me (which we do about once a week - it's her easy day LOL).  During yesterday's session, I'm doing 50M pull/paddles coming in at like :45ish, which is pretty quick for me.  She's swimming behind me, doing a kick set, AND GAINING ON ME.  So, she's doing kick sets at about 1:15/100y pace.  <facepalm>.  Then this morning, we're doing longer intervals I have to do 150s to keep pace with her 200s. 

Totally humbling.  :-/ 

(Just for the record, I can TOTALLY smoke her on the bike and running, so there! ).

Yeah how about it?

My cycling goal for the year is to ride farther than Adrienne runs.  :-/

That's awesome that she's such a fishie!!!!!!!!!!

I have a 24yo son who smokes me on the run, but I can beat him in the swim and bike

I would suggest a bike computer and a bento box. You may also need additional bottle holder(s) for those long rides.

I'll echo this.  Get an Edge 500 if you can.  They should be on sale for cheap now, as newer units are released.  It's a really good bike computer that will give you access to way more info than you need at first.

Thanks Chris.  When I got home I was able to edit the dashboard.  It was the work computer something or other that blocked me. 

Originally posted by brigby1

Originally posted by IndoIronYanti

Originally posted by StaceyK Thank you my friend for the book that arrived in the mail today "Slow Fat Triathlete". Loving it and have got no house work done...but who cares. I never knew this though "bike shorts, helmets, wetsuits and goggles look dorky on everyone, especially if you wear them all at the same time."

Jayne is a friend of mine and an extraordinary lady. That book, as hysterically funny and practical and personal as it is, is just a tiny slice of who she is and what she does.

By the way, the shorts-helmet-wetsuits-goggles look ALL AT ONCE has been done--and not by me! Can't remember which race it was, a 70.3, weather turned bitter and cold very quickly so it was shortened to a sprint distance. The pros simply did the whole race in their wetties for warmth and time saving! There are great pics of this!

Over here it was done at Boise 70.3. Mostly it was the bike that was cut down to like 15 miles or so as they had some snow at the high points. Made for a very odd distance tri. Matty Reed and Trevor Wurtele left their wetsuits on for the bike, but took them off for the run. I think a few women may have done this at another one as well, but Boise stands out as Matty tied at the line with another guy and there was some debate in how to handle it.

Yep, Boise 70.3.  That was my last HIM and it was soooo cold.  Everyone was freaked about the water temps before the race but after shivering for an hour before the start the low 50 degree water actually felt warm.  I'm going back in June to get my revenge.

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That's a good goal.  It took my combined bike and run miles to keep up with her this year.

Good to see you again Mike.

If you are talking about the free HIM plan, it is a very well laid out plan and will prepare you well.  There are a few things in it that are kind of odd in my opinion though.  First time through I followed it to the letter but in subsequent years I've loaded it into a spreadsheet and modified certain workouts and rearranged some of the workouts within the week while keeping the overall workload true to the plan.  There used to be a pretty active thread each year for folks following the plan that was very helpful.  In fact, I think a few of the folks here have joined in that fun.  Which race are you doing?

Yes, that will be good enough.  Maybe not 100% optimal, but it will be good enough.  I'm pretty sure you can get a quick-release mount for the 920, so that you can set it up on your bike directly in front of you.  Another way to use it (as I did for a while with m 310XT, was to face the watch on the inside of my arm, and that worked OK.  I ended up getting a dedicated Edge 500, but the only thing the 920 lacks is screen size for extra data.

Alternately, if you're loaded, get a dedicated bike GPS.  If not, don't worry.

Yes. We picked up a 500 from Performance a couple of months ago for about $150 (with the "optional" accessories). Still have to get the power meter and cadence sensor set up. DH really likes it so far, though.

They cut out a lot of the bike course and it was only 15 miles or so. Not 56. That race is split transition and it looked like they made the bike route about as short as they could between the two instead of going up the mountain.

Has the quick release gotten better? I've heard of the older ones popping off and they were kind of bulky. A lot of people did fine with their 310's and 910's unmodified, so would think this should do just as well. I prefer having an 800 series dedicated to the bike, but seems to be more than most really need or want.

Yep, Boise 70.3.  That was my last HIM and it was soooo cold.  Everyone was freaked about the water temps before the race but after shivering for an hour before the start the low 50 degree water actually felt warm.  I'm going back in June to get my revenge.

I'm so disappointed right now. It's 39* and dropping, windy and rainy. Woke up with such a craving to take the kids out to the mountain for a hike. After being in the car for two days, and away from our sunny home for 10, I wanted to soak up some happiness.