Mad Manatee Mentors CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 13)

I put up a really good fight, Manatees, but you know I can't resist precious pet pics.

Or hot redheads.

And he already comes with a nickname.

You can see how this was inevitable. He'll swim over soon.

I ran a New Year's Eve 5k yesterday and am running another 5k this morning. Great start to the new year; a year without injury!!

CONGRATULATIONS HANDS-MARIE!

You've come a long way, baby

And see ... you don't really need your hands to run

ME TOO

It's been nothing like your and NyNy's misery but it sure will be great to use both sides again!

If you had posted this before, it's highly likely you would have heard a "Just doooooo eeeeeeet!" from the Pod. Something to consider in the future

Reading Troy's bio (welcome!) reminds me that I need to write mine.

Welcome to the Pod, Troy!  Have you considered joining Team RWB?  It's for active and retired military as well as civilians.  The goal is to get the military folks engaged in their health (you're clearly doing that!!) and reintegrate into the community.  They have local chapters as well as the national one and also have a Team RWB triathlon team.  Once you join, you can get into the FB groups.  My local group does weekly workouts and social events.  There's no cost and it's a pretty cool organization.

On another note, let me know if you want to take part in the Salty Manatee Month of Motivational Mayhem.  The rules are on p. 1 of this thread.  I'll be checking logs tonight so there's still time to sign up.

Happy New Year to everybody!!  Good to see that folks are getting out there and doing fun stuff today.  I'm planning to do a 15-min. test run to see how the knee holds up.  We have ~2-3" of packed-down snow so footing could be interesting.  At least it's sunny and warming up a bit.  A couple of days ago, it barely got above 0* F.  Today is predicted to be in the 20's.  The squirrels are out and the dogs are having a field day!

So the "no DL/Race list" rule would apply here?

Nope, don't have to post in advance.  Just post each workout as you do it.

Wow, we have 18 Manatees in the challenge.  Let the mayhem begin!!  And don't forget:

Welcome Troy, I am just the most recent to give you a big "Thank You!" for your service. It looks like we are roughly the same size and I can tell you that every pound I dropped helped not only my racing but my everyday life as well. I am back to the 220's at this point and hoping to race between 205-210 this year. Doc says 200 is where he'd like me, but I don't know if that challenge meshes well with my love of food. So, let's see what we can do in this battle of the bulge, shall we?

A Happy New Year to you all.

Woke up to a bright, sunny 24 degree morning.  Went for a 10 mile run on my favorite trail to start things out.

It's cold and rainy here, but still got my VO2 running (yeah I said running) intervals in.  Doing a quarter marathon (6.7 mile) race next week.

It was cloudy by the time I got out but 23* and no wind.  I'll take it.