Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 131)

Well, I just picked that number out of the air last night...but I think it is pretty close. 

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Originally posted by bcraht Just home from a tour of all the local scrap metal yards with no luck...I've got phone calls or email in to many of them as well to keep their eye out.  Police report filed.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!  Gonna go take my frustration out by putting my back tire on and my front tire on correctly

Oh, Canadians have Christmas? 

And by police you mean mounties, right? 

Yes. And because my bike is tireless at the moment, I had to run reeeeeeeaaaaal fast to catch the horse.

Not too bad actually. Need more sleep, but generally feel ok. That might change once I start a workout though. Lately I really never know for sure until I try to get going.

Ben, there are no numbers in here that I can relate to. This just looks brutal!

Ooooh those descending 100's are tough.

I had to do 12 of them yesterday. My numbers were obviously slower than yours but I ended up fast on all of them, ending somewhere in the 138 range. Which is crazy for me.

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Originally posted by bcraht Just home from a tour of all the local scrap metal yards with no luck...I've got phone calls or email in to many of them as well to keep their eye out.  Police report filed.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!  Gonna go take my frustration out by putting my back tire on and my front tire on correctly

Oh, Canadians have Christmas? 

And by police you mean mounties, right? 

Mmmmm....something about uniforms on horseback.

I now have the necessary mental pics to drag myself into the backyard to trim and mow...in 104* afternoon.

^^^^x1000!

Thanks for keeping us on track!

I think that she may need to change her profile picture!

What Chris said!

Wow, I don't know that I'd attempt a century after 11 months T.I.T.S.-less. As for the bet. You'll go as far as you want to 

Chris!  I am so sorry.  I don't know why I got that so messed up.  (I dreamed it?) My husband should definitely worry about my brain, but not about any dude named Dan.

Really sorry about that. 

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And Ben, that Master's practice sounds brutally yucky.

I think you can finish it if properly motivated. Think bottle of wine!!!!

There is no problem for me at all. I have been called way worse than Dan

Ha, totally.

It's likely going to hurt. 

Sounds brilliant (another UK fave!) - I hope we can find some time to meet! 

It's going to be a tad crazy for me as by Xmas it will be over a year and a half since I was able to be home (not being allowed to leave the country kinda put the kaibosh on Xmas last year) so it's entirely possible that I'm going to want crave with ever fiber of my being to run away from the family for a bit and make my out to THAT place. 

^^ what Chris said! 

Bring the bottle of wine with you so you can have some along the way and it won't hurt nearly as much! 

But yeah... it's probably going to hurt. 

That's still doing alright! Every now and then these are great to try and get through. All the hard bike workouts really help with the mentality of pushing in Masters. Then just making sure to add in control to maintain form. It didn't help directly in making my swimming faster, but did help a lot in getting the hang of executing the workouts well fairly quickly. Some of the others there aren't much faster and haven't shown much improvement (at least from I can see) because they don't get quite get that.

What I'm doing now on the bike could be seen more as MP to lower threshold tempo training if it was running. Hopefully soon I can get into the harder ones and really push it again. Can learn a lot about the effort levels there as there really isn't much else to think about.

I need to learn a few things about my bike. Not sure that I could do the necessary fixes on my own right now

Wishing you clear weather! (although I would do many silly dances for some cloud cover and lower temps right about now)

I just want to point out that I swam five times this week, and so far, I have spent more time in the pool this week than riding or running. That will change after I run tonight and tomorrow, but it's still pretty amazing for this non swimming manatee.

Just patting myself on the back. 

Well deserved!!!!!

Well, I have been a learn as you go kinda girl.  I really only know how to change a flat, and now, put on new tires.  I gotta take a course.