Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 142)

GO SALTY!!!

Run hard enough to feel as effed up as I do!

Wait, I take that back. We don't want you leaving the field on a stretcher or anything. But if it happens--PICS!

Morning Manatees and happy back-of-a-camel day to you all!

Jo - I tried some of the tips you got too, particularly with the head position, and it felt so different - hopefully I'm doing something right. 

Salty (the non-feline kind) - super speedy vibes being sent to you!

Yanti - such adorable puzzies - they look like they want to be played with. 

Switch - cute teeny tiny frogs!

Originally posted by Muskrat37

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.

Wait just a minute! Hold the horses! Are you saying there is an open position as Yanti's BFF? Where do I apply? Please give extra credit for me being the first applicant, as I know you will get a thousand applications In other words, you are highly loved here (and I'm sure everywhere)In all seriousness, I'm sorry you have to go through this ..{{{ Peck Presses }}}

At this point, it looks like the BBFF (Boy BFF), BF, and as always the FWB positions are all wide and free. COME ON OVAH!!!

I just *love* that fachmie has become another Manatee motto well, it's just so true, and versatile!

I've gotta tell Fachmie of his newfound fame. My mom's new dentist is in that building, so assuming he's still doing Whopper time, I'll probably get the opportunity

I think so too!  Getting some of these through the patent office was a huge PITA as the examiners weren't entirely savvy with the technology and what we were trying to do - but we got there!    

It just seems like the right thing to say in so many different situations.  Fachmie! 

Brenton Drills just has the best ring to it ever.

I will say, somewhere in the annals of Manateemania, that I mentioned holding a coin in your butt cheeks regarding body position.

Yes, that was referring to swimming ... or is that Manatee "swimming" ... either way, ooooh yeah!

Now I am hungry AND ... humpy.

Hey, not much happening here, just continuing the streakin' and working through refinance stuff---seriously spent the majority of yesterday tracking down records and paperwork--and had to wait for a few hours for the bank online services to work--everything else was fine, but can they at least allow one to print out statements? Noooo...grr. finally got them late last night. I am sending stuff off today, and plan on running a bit then relaxing.

Switch--whereabouts do you live--I want to see what froggies those are! Given a general location, I can narrow down species. (nope, can't leave work at work...)

Not a problem dear lady.    The great thing about literature is just how many great writers of all cultures there is to explore.  Who and what speaks to one may not speak to another.    But somewhere there is an author and a story that will speak to the individual and spark that moment when, through the story, the world will just downright make sense, at least for a bit.  And the story lingers with the individual thorough out the individual's life.    

I, too like Steinbeck, but my life more resembles that of Tom Joad.   I aspire to be more like Doc  of Cannery Row fame.  *Sigh*  Such is life.   My life....   

Being a prose junkie I need a fix.    Off to dig out my copy of Desert Solitaire.  Abbey is the bomb.

Edit:   Just had to add one of my favourite passages from Abbey.

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”

Totally random stuff about all the weight stuff been discussed ...

It's not easy for anyone to get and stay in shape (or everyone would do it, duh). That's one of approximately 6.022x10^23 reasons I love the Manatees ... all of your efforts and inspiration.

So. Not easy for anyone, but especially women, and those over 35--metabolism plummets, we have less muscle mass to begin with and that starts to go too, BLAH BLAH BLAH ...

So in other words, we actually need to lose weight just to maintain weight.

That said, I too have had the mass creep ... I guess parts of me missed myself and wanted to come back ... heh. My bro and sis have packed it on since my dad died ... one of the ways we cope.

I'm pretty sure if I were 10kg down, I could do IM Japan TOMORROW.

I think I've said this before but I don't like to think of things as weight LOSS or restriction (like Goody said) ... I try to reinforce the thought of health GAIN, fitness GAIN, strength GAIN. Y'know?

There are many reasons I do strength training/yoga, and one of them is this muscle mass loss/metabolism/weight gain relationship.

Dazzers, I love you. That is all.

Well, I can walk without a limp today but am still quite sore high up on the quad and down on the inside of both knees. My first thought was to just bag the race tonight but once I got up and around I felt a lot better.

I'm thinking that the places I am sore are more relevant to up and down and some lateral motion, not forward which of course is why I am sore in the first place (I did something extremely difficult without proper training) but maybe why it might not affect my running? I am not sure of this but I am hoping for it to be true.

In the small amount of running I have done the past few days, once I get moving I don't notice the pain but of course that is at a jogging rate, not a fachmie pace.

If this was just a random 3000 I would have no problem just jumping in and doing the best that I can but these things are extremely competitive (as in Pros race them.) So, obviously I am a bit on the fence.