Yanti & Lynn: Manatee Madness Mentor Group CLOSED (Page 16)

Happy New Year 2012 fellow Manatee's.  Looking forward to spending a great TRI filled year with all of you.

Note the Manatee table further up this page ... will take you wherever you need to go with this group.

What do some of your daily training diets look like?  What do you eat?

The truth is about half the time I eat like crap. However, when I eat like crap, I don't eat much.

I don't have a specific nutrition plan regarding workouts unless they're very intense (which if you're a beginner or doing lots of long-course training, would be very rarely) or very long. If they are, then I'm sure to eat a little protein with carb (PB on toast, Pop Tart with lowfat milk, etc.) beforehand, and if it's long (2-3 hrs) I will take some sports drink or other sugar source (you guys have gels, blocks, etc.) every 45min or 1hour.

It is best to also take a little protein and some carb in highly digestible forms after (the old chocolate-milk fallback, or a flavored yogurt, or some nuts and low-fiber cereal). However, the latest evidence is starting to show that it might not be SO critical to do it within 30 minutes. But it's still wise, I think, as it may keep you from overeating at the next meal, and it ensures the protein is available for repair.

Here's what I've eaten so far today:

Breakfast--lowfat granola (lotta sugar though) with lowfat milk, cup of strawberries, coffee with lowfat milk

Snack--thin slice of Gouda cheese (1/2 oz or so)

Lunch--turkey veggie soup (homemade, fat skimmed off) with 1/2 boiled potato, steamed green beans drizzled with olive oil and apple cider vinegar

Dinner is going to be a lean ground beef burger (I put a beaten egg white into the meat to keep it together) with another slice of Gouda cheese and ketchup; lots of salad (olive oil vinaigrette dressing, romaine/radicchio) and the burger will be topped with plenty of tomato and onion.  Dessert will be two kinds of cut-up fruit, and maybe a mini Mars bar later in the evening.

Clearly, it's a good day, and I'm also cooking for my mom right now, and I'm happy to eat junk but I'm not willing to feed it to her (and she wouldn't eat it; she's old-school incredibly picky has-to-be-perfect-and-healthy German).

On a bad day I'd be eating something like a Pop Tart for breakfast with milk, the other Pop Tart with milk for lunch, and a plain McDonald's cheeseburger for dinner with real Coke. No fries.

So basically, you're getting the same answers from all of us. And repeat repeat on the logging food--it's the best way to start. Awareness. Also, you just don't want to have to write down "hot fudge sundae at 2am."

kgore, I love the croc pic, looks like he's smiling.  What an awesome job to work with animals all day.

Yesterday was strength training and a long swim.  Today is a long bike.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Will check out Boots to see what they have.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, I really do have to do something as it really puts me off looking forward to swim training. (well that and the fact that i am rubbish at it).

Happy New Year my fellow manatees.

So looking forward t at last nights 0o sharing thoughts and ideas with you thru 2012.

Day 1 of my stop smoking plan. So far i am 3 hrs in and all is well. nobody dead yet!

Will be passing up on training today as i should be out on the bike but my head is a little squiffy from a few too many pints of 'Hobgoblin' at last nights New Years party!! 

Will catch up the bike tommorrow with my other training so that i am not behind. I have also been offered the chance to do some circuit training at a local boxing biased gym. Apparently it is really intensive. I think i will be giving it a go as it will help with my aerobic capacity and weight loss especially as i have now given up the ciggies.

Can't wait to see the new me emerge over the next few months. Hope you all reach your goals and have a great year

Allen

Thanks for the Manatee Madness chart!

Happy New Year to everyone!   It's gonna be a great year!

stampinann - 2011-12-31 8:37 PM Today was my last "long run" before Phoenix marathon! Nailed it and felt pretty good!Did a local 1/2 marathon called Yukon Do It! Little slick in places as it was 28 degrees when we started. Rare DRY winter day near seattle! Ran along the water, few small hills though the advertised FLAT! Lovely lovey day!My plan - 30 min run pace 9:45 - 10:15, walk 1 min. Executed perfectly. My final average pace was 10:01 which is what I am hoping for in Phoenix. My fastest marathon run/walking is 4:57....Phoenix I am shooting for 4:30.Bring on 2012!!Look forward to getting to know you all better!AnnDamn iPad formatting- sorry

Awesome job!  It's good to get that last long run done, isn't it?  :-)

PR!!!!

Nice job jogo and stampinann!!

My plan of getting up before work this morning and doing my 8 mile run was changed to an evening run as everyone in my neighborhood apparently decided that shooting off fireworks until 0230 was a good idea... 

As for nutrition I try to stay on the abs diet meal plan, 6 small meals a day plenty of H2O.  Normally start off with morning smoothie and go from there.

Happy New Year everyone hope y'all had a safe night!

stampinann - 2011-12-31 5:37 PM Today was my last "long run" before Phoenix marathon! Nailed it and felt pretty good!Did a local 1/2 marathon called Yukon Do It! Little slick in places as it was 28 degrees when we started. Rare DRY winter day near seattle! Ran along the water, few small hills though the advertised FLAT! Lovely lovey day!My plan - 30 min run pace 9:45 - 10:15, walk 1 min. Executed perfectly. My final average pace was 10:01 which is what I am hoping for in Phoenix. My fastest marathon run/walking is 4:57....Phoenix I am shooting for 4:30.Bring on 2012!!Look forward to getting to know you all better!AnnDamn iPad formatting- sorry

Congrats Ann!! You're right on track for Phoenix.

Great way to end one year and start another. Congratluations!!

I had a bit of a strange encounter on my run this morning.  I was running with my dog - male, neutered german shepherd (that becomes relevant) when he stopped to relieve himself.  As he finished up, a 20ish guy stopped his car and asked me if i taught him to "pee like that?"  I think my first response was "huh?".  Turns out he was interested in the fact that Gunnar lifted his leg to pee and wondered how i got him to do that.  Apparently he has had unneutered male dogs that would not lift their legs and he wanted them to lift!  He just got a male german shepherd puppy and when he saw me with mine (who was lifting his leg), he figured I knew how to teach that move.  I had to explain neutered or unneutered, the male dogs I've owned have always lifted their leg to pee and I had absolutely nothing to do with it!  I mean really, how would one even go about starting to teach that lesson?!  He went away disappointed.

I suppose he felt his dogs' lack of leg lifting somehow negatively reflected on his manhood.   If i had been thinking more clearly I'm sure I could have come up with some "lesson" for him to practice to achieve his goal

Odd start to the new year!

Ann-Marie

That's odd. I'm curious, what did he say his  male dog did to pee, did they squat like a female? Or just twinkle standing up?

The impression I got was they just stand to pee w/o lifting their leg - I didn't get that far into it, but there may be some squating too, but not like a female, more like a lowering down. 

On the pee topic, my male dog peed squatting for 9 years until we got another male dog.  Now the newer male dog squats and my older dog lifts his leg.  Must be an alpha male thing. 

So I need suggestions.  My blog title "Gotta Run..."  is so 2011.  I need a new blog title.  Any suggestions.  Its time to freshen things up!! 

x whatever (that means yes) on the soft silicone earplugs.

Also, since your ears have already started hurting after swimming ... and I do this after swimming no matter what, even if I wore earplugs: use a 50/50 mixture of rubbing alcohol (usually you can get 80% ethanol or isopropyl alcohol at the chemist's) and plain white vinegar. Dropper in each ear, let it run out, then pat dry with a towel. Some people go so far as to fan or blowdry their ears too. Should be fine either way.

Oh, and also, the Mayo Clinic says so. (Don't know what the equivalent in the UK is, but in the U.S. Mayo is one of the premier medical facilities/practices/information clearinghouses).

jimmyb - 2012-01-02 2:33 AM Should have told him your dog is a triathlete and learned this from peeing on long rides

You should not have put this idea in my head.

At some point, I WILL hold a canine triathlon in the U.S. (they have canine biathlons and Doggie Du's, haha, so why not a triathlon?)

All I have to do is train my Lisa Labradog how to ride a bike ... shouldn't be too hard, she already knows how to drive. Stick shift, no less. (She wrecked my car into the side of my house. Truth.)

So the answer to the dog pee question is:

It's a holdover from wild canines. If they have something to mark on (a tree, for example), they will lift their leg--the higher the better (indicating size). You'll see some pugs lift both hind legs to get REALLY far up (as far up as a pug can, anyway) to pee. Many canids also lift their legs to pee on a spot where other dogs have peed before. In the wild, at least with wolves, usually only the alpha dogs do this, although subordinates will if the alpha isn't there.

Both males and females will lift their legs. It is much less common in female domesticated dogs.

If there's no pertinent information to leave, the dog just needs to go, it may or may not lift its leg.