Manatees - 2019 Edition - Practice Maximum Enthusiasm - CLOSED (Page 106)

I'll take care of the new thread this week.  We have a meetup in May so I know we're gonna continue :-D

Have a great holiday, everyone!

Merry Christmas, happy Chanukah , and joyful festivus Manatees!

Randee- I agree with the TM opposition position and the curved treadmill exception. It kicked my again today.

ETA: apparently you can’t type as! On BT!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has the Merriest of Christmas's, the most Celebratory of Channukahs, and the Happiest of Holidays. And a great New Year as well.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Thank you! Please feel free to take the day to celebrate 

Do we have a motto for 2020?  2019 was Practice Maximum Enthusiasm.

For a thread name, I was thinking Manatees Roar into the 20s.   

We also need to discuss our ground rules. In the past, we have said that keeping your training log on BT is mandatory. That is becoming increasingly difficult for our members.  Maybe say "or post a link to your Strava training log on your BT dashboard."  You know, until such time that BT actually imports stuff form Wahoo, Sufferfest, Zwift, and so on and soforth.  I think that keeping some text in your BT training log is a good thing but that's just me.  Thoughts?

Haha, very clever thread name!

i agree that posting all workouts in BT can be a PITA ! I don’t understand why I can get all my different platforms imported to Strava and TP, but BT seems to only like Garmin! 
I do like the blog portion of BT though. In fact, just recently I was able to look back 4 years to compare a current injury with a past one  I also like reading what others are up to v just seeing the metrics of workouts. That function I think helps keep us a bit more connected than we’d otherwise be.

Happy bday Janyne!

OK, so maybe ask for the training log (metrics) and/or training blog (words) be in BT.  If not posting workouts to BT, then post a link to where we can see it (Strava, etc.) in your Dashboard.  How does that sound?

sounds good

As a guy with a non-Garmin device, I have been less likely to use BT since purchasing it. That said, I think that something in the blog should be mandatory, even if it is simply a link to the other online tracking system (Strava, MapMyRide, TP, etc) and some text in the blog letting people know you are still breathing.

I have no motto input, given my inability to live up to this year's motto

I agree that activities or links to activities should be part of the Manatee 'requirements'.  I personally like the blog aspect for reasons Ann-Marie stated - having history to go back and look at comments/data on workouts or races, injuries, etc.  I've done that quite a few times.

As much as I love our core group, I'd love if new manatees would stick around.  For whatever reason, our retention rate is a bit lacking, not sure why.

I have concerns about the future of both BT and Strava. Do you listen to the FIT Files podcast? They indicated that if Strava doesn't start to make some money in the next 8 months or so, they may be in deep trouble.

At any rate, we had a somewhat half hearted try to move some discussion to Strava once before and that didn't take. If necessary, we'll figure something out.

I suspect that they leave for one of two reasons (1) they leave BT altogether or (2) we have too much shared history and they don't want to dive in.  What are your thoughts?

Are you guys fine with staying here on BT? 

i agree that those are probably the 2 main reasons we don’t keep new members. I have noticed a complete lack of workout uploads when I go looking to see how new members are doing. I also suspect that for some the issue is a different expectation of a “mentor” group, e.g., I think some think they will get more of a coach type of thing v what we have going. 

I fine staying here bc I don’t think we have any real option! If BT and Strava fold what will people do to show off their workouts  JK, i do like seeing what everyone is up to!