Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 157)

Hey Stacey--hope your dog is preggers.  Is she a Mastiff?

I like "Fachmie it's a Manatee"--hilarious.  I really would be a big fan of having Fachmie somewhere on the kit.

I know about the Whopper burger (if you grew up in the States in the 80s you almost have to know about it), but I thought I might be missing out on another inside joke because of the way Yanti used it. 

Yay!  Another challenge taker. 

I know everyone is saying no pics, but it might be fun to take them--even if you don't show them to anyone--just as a cool, look how far I've come thing.  Not that it's about aesthetics, it's just a little tricky with abs to have a functional measurement, but maybe I'm overlooking something.  I do that  a lot

Good Morning all. I hope all is well with Manatees near and far. I have been checking in, but work has been a bit much lately, so it cuts into my BT time. Darn Job!!!!

Go Racers, Heal injured and keep JoGoing!!! Congrats to all that are at 100%, and to all who took on the challenge. You ALL rock.

Jo - I am one day short of 100%. Today's Pub Ride will be 32/33 I think. I am going to continue until June 27th.

Switch - I like the core challenge, but not for me. I will be keeping the Fine China that is my abs wrapped in the bubble wrap for safety sake Good luck on AG Nats.

Judi - I really hope that the bike saga can get finalized. Somehow. It has gone on way too long and you have my condolences that this continues. So Frustrating!

Yanti - I follow Lieto on Twitter and I was expecting to see him tweat about you. How awesome is it that you got/get to spend time with him. Enjoy it!!!! And smile, cry, and think about your Dad on Sunday. I know I will be thinking of you as well. Race as only you can.

TJ - I am sorry for your loss. He sounds like a wonderful person. Obviously he was loved, and affected others. What more can one ask for in their life? I'm going against standard Manatee practice, but I think DS2 is a smart young man and should concentrate on Med School. Racing will always be an option in life, and shorter races give you both many an opportunity to be together.

Janyne - You Are Awesome! Thanks for the G+ hangout, I'll be in. ([email protected]) And for the race list and for the inspires and for being a motivating factor for my improvement.

Kirsten - I hope yo have de-bugged from your run.

TW is so awesome, we were working on some music we are doing for an ordination this weekend and she asks if I would like a new guitar. Um, let me think about it for a nano second. "OK, yes I would!" My current Guild guitar is about 16 years old and it is getting to the point of needing refurbishing. It has been really good to me, and sounds awesome, but it is showing signs of aging. I have played it in church, at home, on stage and about anywhere else you can think of. I will keep it, it has a lot of character. But it is time, so after much searching, I will be receiving a Martin this week. For those that are not familiar, in the pantheon of accoustic guitars, Martin and Taylor are 1 and 1A. Needless to say, I am really excited.
Enjoy the weekend everyone!

For all interested parties.....

I got a little delayed, but I'm heading out for my ride now...

My son just got asked to join the swim team!  He will be practicing 2 times per week, and 8 swim meets this summer.  So excited.  

I AM SO GOING TO OWN THIS... I AM IN LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW!  

I have one of those big balls - complete with the ab workout dvd, and I have never even taken it out of the box.  Ab's are the last stage of my physical transformation.  

I would like to suggest that we all take pictures of ourselves every 7 days.  Take the picture with the same camera - wearing the same clothes, and from the same distance.  I did this when I was losing weight, and when I lost motivation a month in, I looked back at my "Day 1" pic, and that current day pic and the transformation was amazing.  

IT MOTIVATED ME TO KEEP GOING, because when I looked in the mirror, I only saw Fat Chad, but when I looked at the pictures I said "Is that me, holy crap, this is working!"  

Pictures do not lie.  

If anyone agrees to the pics - I will volunteer to organize them in an awesome slideshow.  If you allow me to - I will post the pics on my blog (will be easier for me to do the slideshow there).... If you are not comfortable with that - I will post mine on my blog, and I will see about a way to create a slideshow in that Google + group that Jayne created for us... 

I am so FACHING pumped for this challenge!  Thank you so much for posting this challenge!!!!  

I found it!  Can't wait to do a hangout!  

Common Manattee's  - we need more than 3 of us... 

I was afraid I wasted 20 bucks!  Grrrrrrr.

I even disabled my incoming calls...

Out of curiosity - did you "tune in" close 2 12:10 PST?  That's when I started my ride...  Or did you tune in later than that..? 

I really want this technology to work better than it does... grrrrr

The sign on the cow said "Keep off Cow" - so of course I encourage my son to climb up and jump off!!  Anything for the perfect shot.    

This pic was taken with the "Drama Shot" feature on my new Galaxy S4 (I love this phone). 

Two things pod:

1) I have created a core challenge that will start on Monday. 10 minutes a day of core for 100 days.  Would be fun to have any of you join me

2) I just signed up for the waitlist for Age Group Nationals, Oly.  Thanks for the help and encouragement with that.  So if I actually get in maybe I'll meet some of y'all there.

This is my ride today... Was such a perfect Day.  I'm pretty damn happy with these stats after not riding for almost 2 weeks.  Keep in mind, this is very hilly country around here... lot's of climbs and lots of rewards.  

This is a pic I had to stop and take: 

And this Panorama shot came out so awesome...

(I took this from the same bluff where the above pic was taken)

Woah. It was hot out there bro. And what do you mean without the hills?  That SS looked pretty hilly to me. 150K?  Strong, strong work.

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Originally posted by bcraht I learned a couple things on my bike and run today.  First, in the past couple weeks, I have finally started to 'get' the push and pull of my foot in my shoe when pedaling.  It definitely makes climbing easier.  The second thing I have learned, unfortunately, is that I think focusing on that aggravates my Achilles...  When I first injured it, I had recently done some ILT, so I wonder if pulling up on the pedal is the precipitating factor.  Doesn't totally bode well for my cycling... 

Ouch, please be careful. I know how much you fought through the hurt, and I hope you don't go back there.

I'm trying to picture this better. Trying to figure out what part of this is aggravating the achilles. What do you mean by "pulling up"? The farthest around I really try to do something useful is into the bottom of the pedal stroke. Just far enough for the other leg to take over with its push. The back part just kind of comes around.

Also, what's ILT? Can't seem to remember.

Pulling back is maybe the better description--at the bottom of the pedal stroke.  It may not be related, but it sure seems suspicious that I have Achilles irritation when I focus on it.  ILT=isolated leg training.

I was afraid that was what it stood for and if it's anything like one-legged pedal drills ... DO NOT. DO NOT. DO. NOT.

One of the banes of my tri existence trying to eradicate that from the face of the Earth (that, and deliberate oxygen deprivation while swimming).

They do not help. They can and do injure.

There's only one thing you really need to focus on. Push the pedal down and try not to have a dead leg on the other side (but even that's not so important).

And ride lots.

Aw Yanti you know I love a hypoxia breathing set . You never know in life when it may be useful to hold your breath . Actually we don't do much of this these days breathe 6 with pull is the most and I just breathe when I want. Rebel

Big dif between breath control sets (which is mostly what piglet Johnny does) and full-out hypoxic training, which he forces on you guys only occasionally

What is this and why would one not want to do it?  

I think when johnny makes me swim 4x 25m underwater with fins. I'm okay at this I've never asked why we do it. I'm his slave - he says it I do it

With fins? - you puzzie!  

Back in the day - I used to swim 3 1/2 laps (85 ish yards) underwater!  JUST BECAUSE I COULD!  LOL