Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 138)

Originally posted by Muskrat37 Finished truing my wheels and did the re-wrap of the handlebars today.  There will be cycling and running tomorrow!  

Originally posted by StaceyK Ok everyone to make the JOGO spreadsheet much much much easier and less time consuming for Joanne can I make the suggestion that if you are participating in the JOGO on Thursday night or Friday morning you post your over all totals here in the pod so that she doesn't have to stalk through everyone's log and 100 pages of our conversations about napping, yoga and swimming. So for example I would just post: JOGO 15 from 17 or something along tode lines. Seeing how I am the first one (a part from Jo) to hit Friday morning I will post mine as a reminder to everyone else.

Originally posted by Asalzwed Approximately 3-4 seconds a quarter faster

Originally posted by TriAya

Quick update on a couple friends/issues that many of you had so many kind thoughts about ...

The suicidal friend, she's still in a really dark place but continues to reach out, is trying to get help, and we are helping her. So that, I think, is the ray of light; she realizes she's at the bottom of the pit so she is looking up.

My closest friend in Bali, the one who lashed out at me when I called to ask him how he was and to tell him I care (and he and all of you and pretty much any random stranger who's even met me in the last two months knows what a tough time it's been for me, myself) ... I had a spare couple minutes and found some info/contacts he'd been looking for. I was going to send him the links on FB and found that he'd unfriended me.

Ouch.

I gotta let him go, keep praying for him (this is for my own release and sanity as well as genuinely still loving him), and understand that when some of us are in a bad spot, we do badly. I know I have. I also know here it's him, not me. Letting myself feel sad (huge understatement), letting him go.

Originally posted by switch

Hugs to you special Yanti.  It is so hard to let go of someone you love like that.  I have two friends I still yearn for in this way.  It's a very deep hurt.  I'm sorry that you're feeling that right now.  Let yourself crawl into bed and sob it out if you need to.

Originally posted by TriAya

Quick update on a couple friends/issues that many of you had so many kind thoughts about ...

The suicidal friend, she's still in a really dark place but continues to reach out, is trying to get help, and we are helping her. So that, I think, is the ray of light; she realizes she's at the bottom of the pit so she is looking up.

My closest friend in Bali, the one who lashed out at me when I called to ask him how he was and to tell him I care (and he and all of you and pretty much any random stranger who's even met me in the last two months knows what a tough time it's been for me, myself) ... I had a spare couple minutes and found some info/contacts he'd been looking for. I was going to send him the links on FB and found that he'd unfriended me.

Ouch.

I gotta let him go, keep praying for him (this is for my own release and sanity as well as genuinely still loving him), and understand that when some of us are in a bad spot, we do badly. I know I have. I also know here it's him, not me. Letting myself feel sad (huge understatement), letting him go.

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

In the cool news category... this is what we've been doing all the patents for at work lately - which I happen to think is VERY cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcw6j-QWGMo

Originally posted by TriAya

Aaand ... just because I'm a masochist (aren't we all, a bit? This is a requirement for crazy endurance sports, yes? ) ...

I also gave up the perfect man this weekend. By that I mean ... all the inside and outside things are perfect, we get along perfectly well, we're mad about each other and it was a love-at-first-sight thing a few years ago and has been going on since (it's complicated ... and he was living with a legal partner at the time and I saw other people in between). He brought his daughter to Bali to meet me, she's been back since, and we are great pals and keep in touch better than her dad and I do sometimes!

The deal was that he would wait for his daughter to graduate high school, then he'd move to Bali. In the meanwhile, yes, I'd be waiting for him, but not locked-in-a-castle waiting and this was understood.

Anyway, he did separate from his partner (legally and physically) and his daughter is ending high school in December. And I realized as I was waiting for him at the marathon finish line on Sunday (having just done the half) that this may be the right man and the right relationship but right now it's the wrong circumstances. I'm heartbroken, but I just can't follow through with this commitment. I feel terrible about it but he's a terrific guy (of course) and all is well.

It just feels like another heavy loss right now.

It's just as well, though ... two idiots who power through races regardless of training or injuries sustained, and whom, when they get together, somehow always get involved in a police chase on a motorbike ... yeah, maybe it's better that I put this one off for a while. Such a pity to sacrifice a pretty piglet who's a dead ringer for Daniel Craig, though.

Originally posted by KansasMom Yanti . . . . huge hugs.

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

In the cool news category... this is what we've been doing all the patents for at work lately - which I happen to think is VERY cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcw6j-QWGMo

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Awwww, Doll    Do you have to say "Not ever"..."Not now" won't suffice?  YOU waited for him.

And I really wanted to make a 007 reference on FB a few days ago.

Originally posted by TriAya

Aaand ... just because I'm a masochist (aren't we all, a bit? This is a requirement for crazy endurance sports, yes? ) ...

I also gave up the perfect man this weekend. By that I mean ... all the inside and outside things are perfect, we get along perfectly well, we're mad about each other and it was a love-at-first-sight thing a few years ago and has been going on since (it's complicated ... and he was living with a legal partner at the time and I saw other people in between). He brought his daughter to Bali to meet me, she's been back since, and we are great pals and keep in touch better than her dad and I do sometimes!

The deal was that he would wait for his daughter to graduate high school, then he'd move to Bali. In the meanwhile, yes, I'd be waiting for him, but not locked-in-a-castle waiting and this was understood.

Anyway, he did separate from his partner (legally and physically) and his daughter is ending high school in December. And I realized as I was waiting for him at the marathon finish line on Sunday (having just done the half) that this may be the right man and the right relationship but right now it's the wrong circumstances. I'm heartbroken, but I just can't follow through with this commitment. I feel terrible about it but he's a terrific guy (of course) and all is well.

It just feels like another heavy loss right now.

It's just as well, though ... two idiots who power through races regardless of training or injuries sustained, and whom, when they get together, somehow always get involved in a police chase on a motorbike ... yeah, maybe it's better that I put this one off for a while. Such a pity to sacrifice a pretty piglet who's a dead ringer for Daniel Craig, though.

Originally posted by KansasMom

I finally realized that I could take a picture of my bike for the bike gallery with my webcam. (face palm) But I'm still too stupid to figure out how to get the image to be un-mirror. oh, well. Here it is. My baby.

Originally posted by cdban66

x2, or however many you would like. You are loved.

Originally posted by TriAya

So cool! BA ROONS! Who doesn't ruv those?

I had heard about this, and also about the balloon project regarding global warming. Fascinating stuff. Only related by balloon involvement, but still.

Originally posted by KansasMom

I finally realized that I could take a picture of my bike for the bike gallery with my webcam. (face palm) But I'm still too stupid to figure out how to get the image to be un-mirror. oh, well. Here it is. My baby.

Originally posted by switch

I was thinking about your race on my bike ride this morning.  I thought I might throw out an alternative strategy.  12-16 seconds/mile is some time, not insurmountable time, but not negligible either.  It's in the damn grey area.  2 sec/quarter and I'd say tuck in behind.  But I also don't know how you have picked your pace and how she's picked hers. 

It's really easy for this race to go out too fast.  Really easy.  3000m is long enough that if you go out too fast and blow up, it's tough to recover.  Another approach might be to purposefully dial back the first 800 (so you don't get caught up in the outta the gate cray cray) a couple sec slower than your goal quarter pace, then hit it right on for the next 1600, then negative split the rest if you can.  Those people who have gone out too fast are going to be mentally fragile (that self doubt is uber present at threshold), if you go by them strong in the last 200m, it will be very hard for them to hold you off, and you'll have less time in the doubt zone.

And now I'll shut up.  I want you to know that all of this unsolicited advice is from someone who's slower than you, so, meh, take it for what it's worth   Good luck Salty.

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

At first I was all "why the heck are they calling it 'Project Loon'?  Are they all crazy maniacs or not right in the head or something?"  Yeah, today isn't a smart day for me.