Manatee Mentors 2016 - Part deux (Page 13)

Yeah, I remember! And you still won the Vietnam category!

Ha, I don't think anyone gave all my illnesses the "statute of limitations" notice either that or viruses and bacteria can't read ...

Kingsley thinks there's 0% chance of me doing Vietnam. I'm thinking 50/50 at this point. Of course I shall come anyway

Aww thank you and thank you Stace Face

Yeah, it only took me 11 years to learn that racing sick and/or injured isn't the best idea.

I am sorry you are sick, but I am shocked and amazed that you are not racing!!!!!

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Sounds like a pretty good day! Trying for the job sounds like a good experience builder no matter what happens.

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Happy Birthday! I'll cross my fingers for your job!

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Happy Borthday Coonor! I hope you had a wonderful day!!  Good luck on the job front. Working at the bike shop sounds like a perfect job for you, so I'll keep ,y fingers crossed.

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by JBacarella

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Happy Birthday Conner! It's good to see another April Birthday. I'm just a few days older I turned 15+35 on Thursday haha. Congratulations of applying for your first job and good luck. You will never get a job if you don't apply, it's important to put yourself out there, like you did. My son, who really is 15, is looking for a Summer job too. Last year he worked as the Big Boy bus boy and it was a living Hell. I think he will end up scooping ice cream, this year.

Ah teenage jobs. What's the worse one you ever had? Mine was working Sundays at the local burger joint. Not a bad job on the whole but scraping lettuce and other food off the ceiling after kids parties wasn't fun. And dealing with the guys who had been drinking all day at the bar over the road was interesting. It taught me some good lessons.

i had 2 jobs in high school ( besides babysitting) and they both were bad in their own way, so I don't know that I can pick one as the worse.  The first was working at my friend's family sink packing/ shipping company.  We'd go there after school a couple days a week and weekends and spend a few hours in the unair conditioned ( remember I live in Florida) warehouse where we'd uncrate sinks and then box them individually, so they'd could be shipped to retail stores. Sliding those MFers into the box was not fun - if you weren't deft enough the edge of the sink would cut up your fingers!! The could part was we were on own own, created our own work schedule and quota and could crank the music

The second job was at a fast food restaurant called Irvings for Red Hot Lovers.  Red hots are Chicago style hotdogs. You can imagine the comments I received walking around in a shirts with a picture of a hot dog and the name of the store

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by JBacarella

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Happy Birthday Conner! It's good to see another April Birthday. I'm just a few days older I turned 15+35 on Thursday haha. Congratulations of applying for your first job and good luck. You will never get a job if you don't apply, it's important to put yourself out there, like you did. My son, who really is 15, is looking for a Summer job too. Last year he worked as the Big Boy bus boy and it was a living Hell. I think he will end up scooping ice cream, this year.

Ah teenage jobs. What's the worse one you ever had? Mine was working Sundays at the local burger joint. Not a bad job on the whole but scraping lettuce and other food off the ceiling after kids parties wasn't fun. And dealing with the guys who had been drinking all day at the bar over the road was interesting. It taught me some good lessons.

i had 2 jobs in high school ( besides babysitting) and they both were bad in their own way, so I don't know that I can pick one as the worse.  The first was working at my friend's family sink packing/ shipping company.  We'd go there after school a couple days a week and weekends and spend a few hours in the unair conditioned ( remember I live in Florida) warehouse where we'd uncrate sinks and then box them individually, so they'd could be shipped to retail stores. Sliding those MFers into the box was not fun - if you weren't deft enough the edge of the sink would cut up your fingers!! The could part was we were on own own, created our own work schedule and quota and could crank the music

The second job was at a fast food restaurant called Irvings for Red Hot Lovers.  Red hots are Chicago style hotdogs. You can imagine the comments I received walking around in a shirts with a picture of a hot dog and the name of the store

My first high school job was a Winchell's. Early mornings (especially for a teenager) and I always smelled like grease. Couldn't eat donuts for a long time after that but I'm over it now

My second was at a skating rink (it was the 80's after all). I mostly enjoyed that job, other than kids birthday parties (see above comments about kids). Music all of the time and I got pretty good on a pair of skates (had the coolest pair too). 

Originally posted by tomsimper Buzzing today as did my first outdoor brick. 20k ride followed by a 5k run. I now I know I can get round the sprint tri course in 3 weeks time!

Woooooo!!  It's a great feeling to know you are ready!

Super far behind and trying to catch up

Adrienne - I’m glad that you recovered enough to run the Earth Day 5k (need to read the race report yet)

Mary - I’m glad that the vision therapy has started and I hope that you are noticing improvement

Ben - Riding outdid AND doing pull ups!  That’s a huge improvement!

Karen - I hope the Singapore Sprint was awesome and not the cluster that you feared.  It does sound like it was (perhaps) a decent tune up race for you leading into Vietnam.

TJ - Congrats on the new addition to the stable.  Does newbie have name yet?

Markus and Sean - That’s a whole lotta water.  Stay safe!

Jen - Good news on the reno.  I’m sure that you’ll be glad to have Darren back in town.  I hope the 10k went well!

Sean and Monica - I’m glad WTC finally posted a bike route for IMTX!

David - Good work in the Cycling Everyday Project!

Chris - Thanks for posting the racers list for me!  BT was down when I was at the computer to do it.  Loved the skydiving pics!

Laura - That’s pretty cool about the random resume call :-D  Sorry about your mom’s eye woes.  My dad has them as well.  Sucks.  Glad that he shoulder is improving at least.

Yanti - I hope that you are feeling more yourself as you read this.  We need to get you well!  Take care!

Connor - Belated Happy Birthday to you!  I’ve added you to the birthday list (anyone else who wants to be added, PM me) so now you need to stick around for another year! ;-)

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Happy belated birthday, Conner!  I'll keep my fingers crossed for your bike shop job, it would be good experience in many ways.

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 It's finally the weekend! I've been really busy with school projects and tests and homework all week. But it was all worth it because.....Today is my 15th birthday! To celebrate, I rode my bike for three hours . Here's the race report: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp... Tonight I'm going to dinner with my family then coming home and opening gifts. Also, I applied to my first job yesterday! I want to work at a local bike shop that I go to for all of my cycling needs. I'm assuming they hire minors because one option on the application sheet section for education was a high school student. I'm hoping all goes well, but I won't be surprised if I'm turned down.

Happy Birthday, Connor! That would be an amazing first job! And good on you for giving it a shot, even if they aren't able to have a 15 year old on staff (I'm not sure of the policies around this)

Meh, I wouldn't worry about what everyone else is doing. 

Originally posted by DaveL

Originally posted by StaceyK Ah teenage jobs. What's the worse one you ever had? Mine was working Sundays at the local burger joint. Not a bad job on the whole but scraping lettuce and other food off the ceiling after kids parties wasn't fun. And dealing with the guys who had been drinking all day at the bar over the road was interesting. It taught me some good lessons.

Haying at a farm - essentially its lifting heavy hay bales onto a wagon, hot days and you have to wear long sleeves and pants to protect your skin which scratches you up anyways. After seriously sucking wind all day I discovered that my arms were bright red and pocked everywhere. I am, as it turns out, very allergic to hay and have allergy induced asthma. That eneded my career in farming. Race report for Paris to Ancaster offroad race is up http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...

My DH is also quite allergic to hay - and found out while haying. I grew up in a rural area but thankfully never got to experience that. :D 

I had a few jobs - other than babysitting I worked at a family friend's dog/pet grooming/boarding business. I got to clean up a lot of poo. But i also got to play with fun puppies. One summer there was even a litter of adorable lab puppies that i got to take care of. They can be gross but soooo cute!

I also worked at a convenience store for several years. I can still make change like a pro. It was good work but there were definitely annoying things about it. Like when there hadn't been a customer for hours and then a whole bunch come in right before close. 

But in university i worked at a paintball factory for a summer on the continental shift rotation. It is not as cool as it sounds. I inspected, sorted and packed paintballs for 12-hour shifts wearing workboots, a hairnet and paper lab coat. I was constantly in trouble for not getting enough done. (because I actually looked at the paintballs instead of passing them all, sigh). One night i was on packaging all night and all i saw when i got home was bags of paintballs coming off a conveyor. 

good memories ... 

I agree with your friend that hills are good. They are nature's speedwork . Quality time in the saddle is probably your best option though. Like swimming and running it's about having a base and getting out there and doing it.

As for your HR, you can raise it by either spinning faster or pushing harder at a slower cadence. Either one will get the HR up.