More Manatee Mayhem - 2017 Edition - Closed (Page 11)

Originally posted by marysia83



Thanks for your advice! Unfortunately, not too many hills in Chicago area :/ But will keep my eyes open
Also, 20 min 5k sounds so awesome...!

Originally posted by melbo55

Oh my...a combination of being busy at work and a new manatee thread with chatty manatees makes it very, very easy to fall behind and look like a bad manatee... 

I am currently finishing the last mint that was in a bag that my mom bought me at least 7.5 years ago (she passed away in July 2010), I found it as I was cleaning out a desk drawer at work.  It formerly was a 'puffy' mint but completely lacks those qualities now.  I don't care, I'm eating it anyway and thankfully so far didn't break a tooth!  Yup, I'm a bit of a sentimental sap.

Hockey practice tonight and maybe a little snow.

Originally posted by melbo55

Replying to the Trainer Road inquiry...

I logged into my account, clicked 'Teams', then clicked on the Manatees of Mayhem link and I can see the recent workouts of the TR manatees.  It is a locked, closed group so I would guess who ever created it is the admin and can add people.

Originally posted by marysia83 Thanks for your advice! Unfortunately, not too many hills in Chicago area :/ But will keep my eyes open Also, 20 min 5k sounds so awesome...!

Originally posted by Rileyvb91 Come to the north shore of long island and you'll find plenty! I would love to get back to where I was by my 28th birthday. I almost broke 20 during a triathlon once as well lol.

Originally posted by jmkizer

OMG! As was mentioned earlier, they are predicting snow for the Raleigh area -- "as much as 6 inches." I stopped by the store today to pick up a few things (not storm related) and the place was cleared out!  The lines were a zillion people long.  It's not even supposed to start snowing for more that 24-hours!

Originally posted by brigby1

Have seen the idea put up that hills are speed work in disguise. In some ways at least. If you don't have any hilly races you'll still be ok.

There are some smaller hills out of the city, but it's still small rolling at best. Longest I have nearby (by a considerable margin) is half a mile. It's about 3% grade. Can get much steeper, into double digits even, but they're also much shorter as the hills aren't any taller. I've tended to use a treadmill for any more substantial hills work. It's the uphill that has more benefits anyway.

Originally posted by brigby1

Complain about people not being prepared, complain about too many getting prepared, sheesh! 

Originally posted by jmkizer

Jim, it's great to hear that Michelle is doing better.

I've heard that Alcatraz is great and crazy and scary and quite spendy for an event of that distance.

What law schools is eldest looking at?  Anything in my area? ;-)

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Originally posted by jmkizer

That's what they say.  They do not have a good history of being able to predict snow accumulation with any kind of accuracy.  Right now they are saying 3-6 inches and "maybe more" starting on Friday night and ending sometime on Saturday.  That should make Saturday's run somewhat interesting. 

We do have a winter storm watch in effect for that time.

Originally posted by bmarsh8386

I grew up south of Detroit where Paczki day is a true holiday! Now that I am on the west coast I have to make my own

Originally posted by JBacarella I saw your picture on Twitter. It made us laugh. When we lived in Atlanta we had 3 inches of snow and the Kroger sold out of eggs, milk and bread. We jokes that Georgian's must east french toast when it snows. Be careful Southerners don't know how to drive in that stuff. [/QUOTE

Richmond is predicted to have anywhere from 3-9 inches at the last check...Subject to change.  My little area rarely gets the seriousness of thunderstorms, but we do get snow....Could be an interesting weekend.

Originally posted by jmkizer

Yes, we have no bananas...

Originally posted by bmarsh8386

Where downriver? I am from Wyandotte
Barbara

Originally posted by Jet Black Sunday is LSD day

Originally posted by jmkizer

INFO FOR NEW AND RETURNING 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. Please try acknowledge inspires, at least occasionally!  They can really help us to get to know each other.

Most of us use the training log on the site (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.   Here's a few shorts article on training logs:  http://running.competitor.com/2013/12/training/why-you-should-keep-... http://www.active.com/triathlon/articles/10-reasons-to-keep-a-train... 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 and events on your training log  -- by adding to My Races or listing them in Dashboard.

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.  Let Chris or Janyne know and we can add you.

We also have a TrainerRoad group that Darren manages for us.  (Darren has said that he will be joining us but I have not seen him around this thread yet.)

Oh, we're on Twitter too.  Janyne manages a Twitter list -- Order of the Racing Manatee

Please be active!  Inactive Manatees make us sad!

Originally posted by Rileyvb91




To be fair, this was taken in Raleigh with 2 inches of snow






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Originally posted by awm007

That is exactly the reason we are NOT going to Raleigh today. We were headed for the governor's inauguration festivities. I will take Christmas down and ride the trainer instead. The combination of Southerners not knowing how to drive in snow, Yankees who think they know everything about driving in snow, road clearing that just doesn't happen (why spend money when it doesn't happen that often) and the black ice that always happens before snow all added together, make driving in snow in the south just plain stoopid. I had to drive in it all across the state for years when it was awful. Where I live now, I don't even go out to run or walk when it ices/snows. Cars sliding into you on the road is a real possibility (we have no sidewalks).

Hope you find some nanners!

Originally posted by JBacarella I have two dream races, Alcatraz and the Athens Marathon in Greece. Phiedippides is my hero haha, I just don't want to die at the end of the marathon. This is not the complete list of Law schools she is considering, just top contenders: Tulane (I think this will be the one), UNC Boston College, Boston University, UC Davis UC Hastings, Georgia and Pepperdine. She is still researching, so there is some fluidity in the list. William and Mary and Temple came on on the radar over break, but she has not done any research on either.

Originally posted by abake Thanks for posting these links, I had no idea there was a bike gallery, twitter site, etc.

Originally posted by Hot Runner Wow--I will stop griping about Oregonians and snow. Portland and Eugene tend to come to a standstill when there is more than a dusting--schools called off, etc. and nobody seems to know how to drive in it, except people from the eastern part of the state, which has more severe winters. But I haven't seen the panic buying. The saving grace is that there's a big outdoor ethic, so pretty much everyone who's physically capable of it has proper equipment for walking/snowshoeing/ skiing, and it becomes something of a community "leave your car at home" day. We got 4-6 inches on Wednesday (varied with elevation). I had to do some last-minute banking and shopping (walked there) and must have seen hundreds of people out on foot, snowshoe, sleds, and skis, as well as several cars abandoned on the steep hills leading to our house by drivers who were overly optimistic about road conditions or their ability to handle them. Did manage to get to the airport Thursday AM and now back in Tokyo waiting for the last leg of my "World's Longest Commute" back to Saigon.