Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 109)

She is darling! And you are right. Towing is tough, especially if there's any wind at all. Towing Jayson with his tag-a-long is a little easier because we're more aerodynamic. Sometimes I just let him pedal, and I coast. lol

Originally posted by iamDawnAnderson Hi Manatees! Thanks to all of you who have checked in on me over the last few weeks. I really appreciate it! I had actually PM'd Yanti after the first few days of the group and asked to leave. I was completely overwhelmed with the coolness of the cool kids & really felt like too much of a newbie to keep up, let alone contribute. But, I see once a Manatee always a Manatee Again thanks for all the inspires & such. I've been stalking the group & will continue to do so

Are we the cool kids???? I'm glad you are still here. Jump in any time. I'm still a newbie, too.

Perfect! Thanks for that link, Ben. I knew that Barry P had the information somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

We should have a Manatee link archive and put this link and the Scout blog in it for future reference. Kind of like our bike gallery.

Perfect! Thanks for that link, Ben. I knew that Barry P had the information somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

We should have a Manatee link archive and put this link and the Scout blog in it for future reference. Kind of like our bike gallery.

I just finished reading In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen last night. I also love Greenleaf's stuff. I am a disciple of the servant leadership model. What a fun paper to be writing.

Asolutely!  And the cuteness factor adds on too!  LOVE the sport sandals!

Very cool; and good on ya for getting on the TM!

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by cdban66

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by iamDawnAndersonHi Manatees! Thanks to all of you who have checked in on me over the last few weeks. I really appreciate it! I had actually PM'd Yanti after the first few days of the group and asked to leave. I was completely overwhelmed with the coolness of the cool kids & really felt like too much of a newbie to keep up, let alone contribute. But, I see once a Manatee always a Manatee Again thanks for all the inspires & such. I've been stalking the group & will continue to do so

You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

Dawn, the cool ones aren't really that cool Actually, the cool part is that they are all very helpful!

Ann-Marie, the rain started an hour ago and I had to look to see where it was going. It looks like it'll cross right north of you. I hope so!

Looks like we're getting the feeder bands. About to get some pretty serious weather, should last until about 11, then a bit of a break until the back portion passes by this evening when we should get another round of junk. Tornado warnings popping up lots of places, so I blew off my run. Gunnar got his walk and I went to Einsteins though!

Stay safe, although it looks like it is No Big Deal. Einsteins for the win!

I was thinking about the new site this morning and my observation (worth what you paid for it) is that the social aspect seems a bit more cludgy, while the training/logging side added a few features. Or maybe they existed before, but I didn't find them. If nothing else, the new site has forced me to take a fresh look and I have found some reporting that I didn't know existed. I think some of the logging and such is more cludgy now as well, and I don't upload workouts either, so I can't comment on that, but I pulled a graph on the past few weeks, then months for comparison sake. It was simple to do the look back in time, which I really like. The conversation in here got me thinking about my recent training volume, much like Ben did. And I did notice that my running has taken on a VERY consistent, yet low volume nature in the past 2 months. I need to shake it up with some different distances.

As for the quiet Manatees, I believe that our fearless leader has been immersed in life and has slowed her banter back and forth with our other fearless leader. I hope and pray that things calm down for you at some point, Yanti.

Originally posted by cdban66

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by cdban66

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by iamDawnAndersonHi Manatees! Thanks to all of you who have checked in on me over the last few weeks. I really appreciate it! I had actually PM'd Yanti after the first few days of the group and asked to leave. I was completely overwhelmed with the coolness of the cool kids & really felt like too much of a newbie to keep up, let alone contribute. But, I see once a Manatee always a Manatee Again thanks for all the inspires & such. I've been stalking the group & will continue to do so

You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

Dawn, the cool ones aren't really that cool Actually, the cool part is that they are all very helpful!

Ann-Marie, the rain started an hour ago and I had to look to see where it was going. It looks like it'll cross right north of you. I hope so!

Looks like we're getting the feeder bands. About to get some pretty serious weather, should last until about 11, then a bit of a break until the back portion passes by this evening when we should get another round of junk. Tornado warnings popping up lots of places, so I blew off my run. Gunnar got his walk and I went to Einsteins though!

Stay safe, although it looks like it is No Big Deal. Einsteins for the win!

Yeah, we see worse weather with our normal summer storms, it's just going to last longer.  Stay dry!

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by KansasMom 

Perfect! Thanks for that link, Ben. I knew that Barry P had the information somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

We should have a Manatee link archive and put this link and the Scout blog in it for future reference. Kind of like our bike gallery.

Well maybe there is some sort of IT person in our pod that might like to set that up for us (Its definitely not me I know how to turn mine on and that's about it) I am enjoying a very relaxing week of vacation this week. Ok so i am supposed to be finishing my paper on Servant Leadership but lurking in the Manatee pod is so much more appealing.

OK, what are you saying? Is this a challenge?????

Check my updated Manatee Table

I am honored! And thanks, but if you wanna see logs with stuff in em, check out the rest of the Manatees. Folks like Janyne, Salty, Judi and Ben and number of others are really racking up some training time. I am so impressed by the way ya'll juggle life and training.

Awesome stuff, congrats on a vacay that sounds AWESOME! I'll be hunting you down on Facebook when I get home tonight. Welcome back.

Sounds like a great time!  Welcome back.

The workout setup has all been fine for me. Everything has been loading easily, I can see the calender. I like that the workouts can expand or pop up directly from the calender so we can see specifics of what we did quite easily.

Not sure I like so much how things with the races have been over simplified. I haven't really noticed dates on race reports. There is nothing to say what year that report was for. That can matter a lot with various conditions and situations differing from year to year.Have they done away with Official Threads? I really liked how we could go to the race page and on it the discussions for previous years were all linked there. They do have a nice short hand page for race reports with links to the full report by individuals, but again, there are no dates associated with it, so can't tell if something was going on one year or whatever. For example, is swimming through the heavy weeds a regular issue or did they just goof one year?