Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 160)

Originally posted by QueenZipp Olympic PR. 3:16. Water was super choppy

Originally posted by KansasMom

3:20 something for me today. I purposefully didn't run with my watch, so I'm not sure of the exact time and I have little idea of my splits. Here's the down and dirty and then I'm taking a nap.

SWIM: Two 750m loops, with a short run on the beach between the two loops. I thought that would be a nice break, but it was horrible -- spiked my heart rate, so I had a mild panic when I got back in the water, but I got myself under control and finished strong. (about 30 minutes?)

BIKE: Dropped my chain for no reason. Horrible winds (25 mph at least) The road was worse than last year -- I thought my bike would jiggle apart on one section.  Count them -- 7 turn arounds. We climbed the dam 3 times in each loop, so 6 times. That's a killer for me. (about 1:40-1:45?)

RUN: Just as I was crossing a wooden bridge heading into the second loop, I tripped and skidded on my left hip and left knee. The knee must have taken the brunt of it because it is really sore now and beginning to develop a large bruise. But I didn't break any skin, so no blood. I still felt like crying. Finished strong enough to outrun someone in my age group for a 3rd place AG. (About an hour?)

My transitions were horrible. I had to clean up the grease from my hands before the run. I guess I didn't HAVE to, but I wanted to.

Overall, I feel pretty good, just really tired and frustrated about my knee. :-(

Originally posted by Muskrat37 Thank you Jayne... mostly just needed to vent. .. Blew smoke up the bosses arse... still have my job, but I am aggressively seeking work elsewhere. .. I Refuse to be trapped... Life is too short... I did apologize to the boss though (for the argument with the customer). .In hindsight, I should have left the second she started cursing and screaming at me. .... sometimes I just react and don't think first.... Live and learn right?

Originally posted by switch If you don't want to do TOMRV as a two-day, you can do it in a single day.  A brutal single day, but it can be done.  Some of my friends do it like that.

I don't think I'll ever do RAGBRAI.  I don't want to say never, but it just doesn't sound appealing to me.

Good to know that there are different distances for the Triple Crown events.  I'm really very new to cycling, so it may take me more than one more year to work up to the bigger stuff.  It's hard to get really big hills around here, decent rollers, yes, big hills no.  I have yet to break 40mph (I've done 39 though!) on hills around here, and I'm big ring pedalling until I'm out of gear to get there, cadence 95ish :/

Originally posted by Muskrat37 Thank you Jayne... mostly just needed to vent. .. :) Blew smoke up the bosses arse... still have my job, but I am aggressively seeking work elsewhere. .. I Refuse to be trapped... Life is too short... I did apologize to the boss though (for the argument with the customer). .In hindsight, I should have left the second she started cursing and screaming at me. .... sometimes I just react and don't think first.... Live and learn right?

Originally posted by Muskrat37

 

Ugggghhhh!  I HATE MY FACHING JOB! I am dreading going to work today.  I really want to quit, but I can't afford to.  I can't stand being "stuck".  

My boss is literally the worst boss I have ever had.  He makes every day miserable.  I can't stand to see his face or hear his voice.  My customers annoy the sh*t out of me.  

On Friday, I had a run in with a major beotch.  She always gives me attitude every time I am in this store.  Friday, she had to call the owner of the store to get permission to buy certain wine from me.  She has called him before, and hung up before I could speak to him.  This time, she grabbed the list of wine and walked in the back room whispering... (I'm sure she says sh*t to the owner that isn't true.)  

I followed her, and politely asked "when you are finished there, can I speak to June" - she ignored me, so I asked one more time. She turned around and snapped "If you would quit interrupting me while I'm talking"

She finishes the conversation with him and gets off the phone and hand it to me repeating "Can't believe you interrupted me while I was talking"  

I finish my conversation and say to June "I think April wants to talk to you again" (Those are their real names)... April is talking to another employee (complaining about me) so I say to her (very politely again) "April, did you need to talk to June before I hang up" and she snaps "Interrupting me again - NO!"  

So I hang up - and walk outside to start getting the wine they ordered off my truck... 

As I'm walking out the door - she is telling a customer "I can't believe he interupts me while I'm talking."  

I'd had enough of smiling and turning the other cheek... so I said "April - I could do without your snide little remarks today"... She was egging me on, and I fell for it... Damn it Skrat...!  

She of course hollers something back - but I just walk out the door.. 

Now picture this - April is a white woman with dread locks and she acts VERY, VERY "ghetto".  She has an attitude like there is no tomorrow, and she is not a nice woman.  

SHE FOLLOWS ME TO THE PARKING LOT AND STARTS SCREAMING AND CURSING AT ME.  

So I turn around and I say "Bi**h, Wrong guy, wrong faching day! If you think you can stand there screaming and cursing at me, and I'm just going to take it, YOU GOT ANOTHER THINK COMING!"  

It was like a nuclear bomb went off.... we were screaming and cursing each other in the parking lot.  I may not have been right, but I'm not going to just stand there and take sh*t from a beotch like that... Screw customer service.  

She's screaming at me - and I finally say "You want your Faching wine or not?"  She says "you are not coming in my store again." So I said "Good, you can tell June why you don't have any wine to sell on a Friday night!"  That stopped her dead in her tracks and she said I could deliver it, but I had to talk to the other guy.  

As I finish up the order - I tell "Tyler" to let her know that I will not be returning to this store.  I will be giving it to another sales rep.  

I think it's done - of course not... I get home and go for my bike ride.  About 2 miles in, my phone rings...I never answer when riding, but I always check who's calling, just in case it's my son, because he knows not to call unless it's an emergency.  Keep in mind, I'm reaching into my jersey pocket while riding, and I accidentally answer.  

It's my boss!  (the before mentioned boss that I hate)... He says (very sarcastically) "Funny how you'll answer your personal phone, but not your work phone" (I hadn't realized who it was yet and my adrenaline was pumping) so I say "Who the Fach is this!"  He says "it's your boss" and I say "STOP FACHING CALLING ME ON MY WORK PHONE!"  

He says "Don't talk to me like that" - and I tell him, "I've told you not to call me on my personal time.  I'm not at work, and whatever it is can wait until Monday..there is nothing I can do about anything right now - I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A FORKING RIDE! I didn't answer my work phone because IT'S AT HOME!"  

He just says "tell me about this argument with April"... 

FORKING A-HOLE!  Leave me alone - it's Friday evening - I'm not at work... ugggghhhh.. 

I tell him the short version - and he says "we can talk more monday" so I yell at him "We could have had this entire conversation Monday - thanks for interrupting my ride!"  (I had to stop for this conversation. 

Needless to say - It's going to be fun this morning... because he wants to talk to me and I want to tell him to go Fach himself.  

I don't care about confrontation with him... I'm not scared of this at all.  What I can't stand is that I want to go in and just quit.  I want to literally tell him to Fork off... BUT I CAN'T.  I need the paycheck.  

This job has drained me this year.  It has dragged me down.  I hate that I have let it, but I can't help it.  I am usually so good about not letting work get to me at home, but this year has been tough.  At first, it did not get to me.  Finally, it wore me down.  

My life is a good life, I am generally a happy person, but this year has not gone anywhere close to what I had planned.  I am drained pod... I am stressed to the gills, I am beat.  I just want to throw my towel in, and be able to do triathlons all the time.  

Instead, I'm off to blow some smoke up my bosses arse yet again.  I'll keep looking for a job and find a better one soon, but in the meantime, this sucks.  

I feel better just sharing this... getting it off my chest.. thanks for letting me vent.

 

Originally posted by jmkizer

We're up to four now!

It looks like you need to enable G+ on your gmail account to get it set up.  I was unable to send an invitation to Kirsten even after I had her gmail account :-/

Also, I don't really want to "own" the community so I've made pretty much everyone a "moderator" so they can should hopefully be able to add people, etc.  

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Hi Janyne - I've enable G+ on my gmail account, but when I go to the Manatees Hang Out, I need to be invited.... do I just need someone to add me?  [email protected]

Originally posted by TriAya

Heya sweet Manatees I've been able to scroll through and read everything, love/hate what I've read (as appropriate ... or heck, mostly I'm inappropriate) and will do my best to get back to everyone.

I'm still pretty battered and angry and licking my wounds, and look ... while what I wrote was the worst that happened in the race, a whole lot of other important stuff went very wrong too.

I did spend the whole day with Chris Lieto and then his wife, so that was awesome. Except he's pretty sick with a chest cold, so they come to me for help in figuring out what he can take that isn't on the banned list?! Ummm ... I dunno, a hot shower? And you're serious that you don't know what alternative remedies/relief you can take (since most decongestants and quite a few antihistamines and cough suppressants are on the banned list, especially since he is IN competition right now)? HAHAHA ... oh man, he is never going to hear the end of this from me.

Also, I took both above-water and underwater swim video of him (not to mention one of us racing fly down the pool ... this was yesterday before he got sick) and I threatened to publicly post them if he doesn't rest, use what we did find for him, and get the eff better fast.

However, I told him I WOULD be providing a closed (so probably BT albums posted) link just for the Manatees

Anyway, Chris, Brennan (the U.S.-side sponsor/organizer) and I will be meeting tomorrow to see if we can save this race. Chris has fallen in love with Bali and the Bali Sports Foundation (for disadvantaged and disabled kids) and really wants to keep it partnered with his foundation, More than Sport (which actually raises money for other foundations). Brennan also understands exactly what I'm going to add in large red letters across everything I've ever written or posted about the Bali Tri AND search-engine optimize it if MANY things aren't merely addressed, but amended (like getting our Indonesian athletes new bikes and reimbursing their follow-up medical care). That's for starters.

Originally posted by cdban66

I'm seeing about this whole moderator deal, so you should receive an invite.

Originally posted by TriAya

Heya sweet Manatees I've been able to scroll through and read everything, love/hate what I've read (as appropriate ... or heck, mostly I'm inappropriate) and will do my best to get back to everyone.

I'm still pretty battered and angry and licking my wounds, and look ... while what I wrote was the worst that happened in the race, a whole lot of other important stuff went very wrong too.

I did spend the whole day with Chris Lieto and then his wife, so that was awesome. Except he's pretty sick with a chest cold, so they come to me for help in figuring out what he can take that isn't on the banned list?! Ummm ... I dunno, a hot shower? And you're serious that you don't know what alternative remedies/relief you can take (since most decongestants and quite a few antihistamines and cough suppressants are on the banned list, especially since he is IN competition right now)? HAHAHA ... oh man, he is never going to hear the end of this from me.

Also, I took both above-water and underwater swim video of him (not to mention one of us racing fly down the pool ... this was yesterday before he got sick) and I threatened to publicly post them if he doesn't rest, use what we did find for him, and get the eff better fast.

However, I told him I WOULD be providing a closed (so probably BT albums posted) link just for the Manatees

Anyway, Chris, Brennan (the U.S.-side sponsor/organizer) and I will be meeting tomorrow to see if we can save this race. Chris has fallen in love with Bali and the Bali Sports Foundation (for disadvantaged and disabled kids) and really wants to keep it partnered with his foundation, More than Sport (which actually raises money for other foundations). Brennan also understands exactly what I'm going to add in large red letters across everything I've ever written or posted about the Bali Tri AND search-engine optimize it if MANY things aren't merely addressed, but amended (like getting our Indonesian athletes new bikes and reimbursing their follow-up medical care). That's for starters.

Originally posted by cdban66

The ever awesome Janyne has beaten me to the punch!

Originally posted by TriAya

Heya sweet Manatees I've been able to scroll through and read everything, love/hate what I've read (as appropriate ... or heck, mostly I'm inappropriate) and will do my best to get back to everyone.

I'm still pretty battered and angry and licking my wounds, and look ... while what I wrote was the worst that happened in the race, a whole lot of other important stuff went very wrong too.

I did spend the whole day with Chris Lieto and then his wife, so that was awesome. Except he's pretty sick with a chest cold, so they come to me for help in figuring out what he can take that isn't on the banned list?! Ummm ... I dunno, a hot shower? And you're serious that you don't know what alternative remedies/relief you can take (since most decongestants and quite a few antihistamines and cough suppressants are on the banned list, especially since he is IN competition right now)? HAHAHA ... oh man, he is never going to hear the end of this from me.

Also, I took both above-water and underwater swim video of him (not to mention one of us racing fly down the pool ... this was yesterday before he got sick) and I threatened to publicly post them if he doesn't rest, use what we did find for him, and get the eff better fast.

However, I told him I WOULD be providing a closed (so probably BT albums posted) link just for the Manatees

Anyway, Chris, Brennan (the U.S.-side sponsor/organizer) and I will be meeting tomorrow to see if we can save this race. Chris has fallen in love with Bali and the Bali Sports Foundation (for disadvantaged and disabled kids) and really wants to keep it partnered with his foundation, More than Sport (which actually raises money for other foundations). Brennan also understands exactly what I'm going to add in large red letters across everything I've ever written or posted about the Bali Tri AND search-engine optimize it if MANY things aren't merely addressed, but amended (like getting our Indonesian athletes new bikes and reimbursing their follow-up medical care). That's for starters.

Originally posted by amd723 Hello Manatees! I am back from a great vacation and am trying to catch up on pod doings, but you all are so chatty - what else is new?- that I know I won't ever accomplish that. I see we have two new pod mates, so a belated "welcome" to you both. Congrats to everyone who raced the past 2 weekends; I'm sure you did awesomely!

Yanti, I'm sorry your race experience was for shyte, but as others have said it shows your generosity of spirit to give up your race, so another racer could finish his. Good stuff! I too hope the race can be salvaged

. On a different note, fachamie has officially entered my vocabulary. I don't know how it did it, bit it did. In fact, while on vacation I used it when I realized I had forgotten something in my hotel room and had to go back to get it. It just rolled off my tongue like I had been using it for years. Love it!

Originally posted by cdban66

I was thinking about your trials and tribulations this weekend and I decided that you are a fairly awesome person. OK, I may have decided that before, but I was reminded of that again. Giving your bike to someone else, and the obvious concern you have for the race, the racers and for the reputation of the country as a whole. I think that is why you were there and I also think you did your family proud by being there. 

Originally posted by TriAya

You're making me cry!

I thought about that when you said it ... yeah. So much of what was good about this race was bringing people back to Bali, a place that's suffered horribly from terrorism, giving back to the community through some really amazing causes, and getting INDONESIAN triathletes established/sponsored/experienced/prepared to compete internationally/etc. Establishing triathlon as a sport in Indonesia, especially for those who are talented but can't afford/access training and equipment.

My family, and my dad too I'm sure, really are proud.

The "kid" I gave my bike to? (I think of him as my kid brother ) He HAULED ASH in on it, blew out a 0:44 T2 (this was a BIG transition area, which you had to run AROUND after chip swipe to get into, killed himself on the run, AND WON THE M20-29 AGE GROUP (competitive--15 athletes in it, including several other of our development athletes.)

The trade was technically legal since I "sold" him my bike in exchange for his shoes. He did not abandon equipment on the course (his bike), because he handed it off to an official (me!).

This is what he posted on my FB wall (he tried really hard to write it in English so more people would understand it--bless him):

"Big gratitude to Mrs Yanti Ardie being my angle. she teach me never give up though you fall in the bike you got injured and bike broken. you must keep continue.
event condition is so bad never give up.
once Big Thanks Mrs Yanti Ardie you."

Now that's worth an effen cry!

In other good news, I was top 15 (out of well over 200 counting relays) out of the water. Chris Clone Piglet said he counted me as 7th but there's this 100m steep sloping soft-sand run before chip swipe--sigh--but oh well, I still held on to a damn good place. That effen Sheila T I hate with her 1000 fly and 1000 kick in "recovery endurance" workouts has done me some good it seems! Also, as usual, the swim course was mismeasured. Every frickin' year! Not as bad as previous years, though. And shockingly enough, I was not DFL either in the bike, run, or the whole race!

However, adding insult to all the injuries many of us sustained, there was some serious course-cutting happening (on the bike, likely purposefully ... this happened in previous years as well) ... you gotta get a little suspicious when the top guy pulls out a Brownlee, Gomez, and Lieto-shattering 0:53 on an Oly course (that has a long steep hill in it and shyteloads of Asian traffic).

Run course was a fiasco and most of the 5K people ran a lot longer (some the full 10K!) because of no turn sign/marker/volunteer/etc., but there shouldn't have been any course-cutting on the Olympic (no marker there either but it was the end of the road), and there likely was cutting there too.

They have not amended the results and the prizes both overall and by category are significant. Especially to Indonesians, for whom the cash prizes mean several months' salary.

I still need to do some introspection about this in order to have a clear head for tomorrow--it's just that so much (basically anything actually having to do with THE RACE, duh!) went wrong ... but at least I'm not swearing EVERY word about it now, just every other word.

P.S. Chris Lieto took a DNF rather than risk actually trying to race the bike course--he had a GoPro mounted on his bars and the evidence is just damning. He looked at one of the intersections and rather than trying to go through it, just turned back, and rode very slowly through the traffic, stopping, etc., and getting it all on camera. He did do the whole run course.

Because he "turned himself in" after the race, he got a DNF rather than a DQ (that's for people who get caught, so to speak).

So, that's TWO races I've beaten Chris in now

But seriously ... shameful. Effin' shameful. We bring triathlon's greatest cyclist, one of triathlon's greatest, period, and certainly one of the nicest guys in triathlon ... shame, shame, shame!!!

Thinking about it, I can't believe he's still willing to even talk to us, never mind in a positive and constructive fashion.

But that's who he is.

Originally posted by TriAya

This is what he posted on my FB wall (he tried really hard to write it in English so more people would understand it--bless him):

"Big gratitude to Mrs Yanti Ardie being my angle. she teach me never give up though you fall in the bike you got injured and bike broken. you must keep continue.
event condition is so bad never give up.
once Big Thanks Mrs Yanti Ardie you."

Originally posted by amd723 Hello Manatees! I am back from a great vacation and am trying to catch up on pod doings, but you all are so chatty - what else is new?- that I know I won't ever accomplish that. I see we have two new pod mates, so a belated "welcome" to you both. Congrats to everyone who raced the past 2 weekends; I'm sure you did awesomely!

Yanti, I'm sorry your race experience was for shyte, but as others have said it shows your generosity of spirit to give up your race, so another racer could finish his. Good stuff! I too hope the race can be salvaged

. On a different note, fachamie has officially entered my vocabulary. I don't know how it did it, bit it did. In fact, while on vacation I used it when I realized I had forgotten something in my hotel room and had to go back to get it. It just rolled off my tongue like I had been using it for years. Love it!

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Okay kiddos... here's the latest long-winded race report.

Apparently I like the pre-race stuff a lot better than the race itself judging by the amount of writing I do about the pre-race fun and shenanigans. 

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=493171