Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 132)

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Wow, that's amazing. Nice work Felicia! 

Nice!!!!! I was noticing earlier that the swim color is conspicuously missing from my graph this week. Tomorrow is an OWS so that will help a bit, but i'm def slacking. Hat's off to you for getting it done!!!!

THIS IS A FIRST: I came to my senses early and thought what will this century do to my marathon training that starts next week? I decided to put my ego in check and not worry about saving face or what others will think.  I am dropping to the quarter century.  It will still hurt (and I don't like the bike) but it hopefully will not cause as much damage.

I know I could do it, and finish, but having just done the Big Sur 21 miler off the couch, I would not recommend it to any of you, so why would I be any better.  I really must be focusing if wine is not even a motivator.  Bring on the goal!!!

That sounds like a good idea!

Haha, and nice going Felicia!

Jeebus you people never shut up, can't imagine that

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Welcome Elesa although I may have to call you Switch. Because I like switches. And whips. And riding crops and such, as Salty knows well.

I gotta run to meet a crazy piglet and then meet more crazy piglets and packet pickup and go pack up for the half-mary tomorrow (staying with Sven overnight near the race site. Maybe this will be a Yanti biathlon? Or duathlon? YEEES )

Hehehe. Yanti, I knew I liked you.  Switch suits me more than Elesa, for every reason you can imagine.

Good luck in your race tomorrow.

Good for you.  Why is it so hard for us to make these decisions sometimes?  I'm totally guilty of that, and I applaud you for adjusting your goal and thinking long term.  Very smart.

I don't have time to read the four pages but just popping in to say...

Firstly last night 9.5km run and felt great - comfortable, no leg aches and pains just easy.  Loved it - cold wet and dark.

Secondly - just had nearly two hours with Brenton Ford (Effortless Swimming Coach) - turns out he lives two roads away from me....stalking radar fully operational.

He's as hot in real life as he is in pictures.  not very tall (that's a triathlete thing)

Oh yeah the coaching - AWESOME!  He filmed us on his GoPro - as soon as I get that I'll post it on  here for her Yantiness and Skrat to analyse.  So conscious of holding my stomach in!

Was great to see though, all the things that Coach Johnny says right there on the screeen.  Brenton gave me specific drills to fix body position (so easy to swim once that was right) head position and then stroke.

Forking awesome.

Will go back in six weeks for a progress report.

Wow, triathlon community comes good.

Will report more later - off for lunch with DH.  DD is out at a Aussie Footy match with my cousin.

Dorothy at five swims, Jogo coming to her senses, wtf is this pod coming to?!

Bloody well gonna log "following Sven around" ... that idiot is the Energizer Bunny the day before a marathon. And he runs about 40 a year.

We're taking a motorbike to the mary. I'll probably drive it back. Wish me luck.

Seriously.  I couldn't even make the send-off time.

Yesterday was National Bourbon Day. 

National Bourbon Day:  1

Monica:  0

Ouch. 

Good decision. I'm really glad you are focused on the bigger picture goal.

I wondered the same thing.  I put an elusive comment for everyone to check out what I considered your jogo for 6/13 and not one person commented in the forum about the vibrating pu$$y. (apparently p*ssy is a banned word here because it got taken out so I had to edit with $$ signs).

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Originally posted by QueenZippJo go practice du today. Just in case the river conditions are still crap next weekend can't say I wants du any more than the swim. Think my heart bongs to running any way

my heart, bongs and running, too.

Ha!!  Filled with typos cause texting messages always sucks.  BUT....we have BOTH electric and cable restored this afternoon so I'm pretty happy.

BTW, I meant my heart  BELONGS to running 

Suuuuuuuuure you did;)  Forking autocorrect.

Yes, as much as we want to do things, it's quite easy to get carried away. Last year I probably overdid it with the number of century rides (among other things) and burnt up by the end of summer. This year I just have a few selected. I can handle more often, but would have to adjust the schedule to compensate, and that would likely compromise the overall training. I'll still be getting in 70-80 miles or so for the bigger Saturday rides, but have to keep it there. Going out to a century would be about an hour and some change more, which may not seem like that much for what's already being done, but I could feel the difference in the recovery. Took noticeably longer. It was fun, but was getting in the way of the harder workouts in the week, so performance and enjoyment went down later in the year. Decided not to do one today and it seems like the right choice.

I want to do more event rides, but they seem to jump from a metric century (~60 miles) to an imperial (~100 miles), so will have to see. I'll be getting up to see my brother sometimes though, and with the additional hills up there, a metric century should be fairly close to what I want when looking at time. Comparing a full century there and here, my average speed would likely be ~3.5 mph slower up there for similar power output.