Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 162)

1 more week and I will be more able to keep up with the pod!  Hope everyone is doing ok.

Great job racers!  Yanti, sorry your race was such a poop show, but very cool that you helped your l'il bro!  Felicia, I hope your knee is feeling better. 

We went to historic Steveston tonight--I have been working in Richmond (BC, not VA), so we went for chish and fips on the docks and then went for a walk.  Salty has dragonflys; we have orcas

Originally posted by amd723 That looked like fun! Wish I could find one in my area. Of course the cop attorney in me immediately thought somewhere during the ride people were biking under the influence and the cops could of had a field day! After so many years at my job it's hard to turn those thoughts off - it can be a real pain sometimes ETA: this was directed to Chris's pub ride.

Actually, very few of the participants would have not passed a breathalyzer. Unfortunately, one of those would have been my friend Dan, who parked his bike inn a tree at one bar. We made sure he got home OK.

FTW!!!! 

BTW, these two events may make Salty stop running and devote more time to the bike

OK, you should be receiving an invite.

Quads not included link is giving me significant pause--the anatomy tights? That's just not right.

SKRAT!  Awesome!  Are you going to post this in the challenge thread too?

Can someone give me a synopsis of what I need to do to be technologically up to speed as a Manatee?  I suck at this stuff, but I want to play.

My gmail account is elesawedemeyer (at) gmail (dot) com. <---I'm writing it this way because Richard did ^ and I'm guessing there is a good reason for that, but I don't know it :)

Clueless, party of one.

Yes, definitely keep HR in the zone, don't just look at the average. The average will fall in there if you do. When you start going outside the intended zone, the adaptations to that type of training can differ. Many will still get faster, but maybe not quite as much in the way they intended because the work being done isn't quite doing what they think.

Darren brought up a good point about thinking ahead with HR as well. Sounds fun trying to keep HR up enough for the walking.

We should hand out a starter kit.

We seem to be stepping into the Google realm lately. I think we may have a virtual face to face video thing at some point and I'm pretty sure Chad will invite your abs to come to that  

You should get an invite to the Manatee Group in G+.

Been on the bucket list for a bit, along with Norseman. The elevation is metric as well. The run looks like a wall because it almost is. Goes up a mountain.

You both are sick, sick, sick.

I love it.

Fachmie Manatee on the Furkapass!

People used to laugh when I compared the road up to my house to the Westernport Wall ... until we drove up it. Until it got repaved (and still a lot now), we'd know who every single person's first time there was ... they would inevitably stall their car or even motorbike out. Buncha old guys used to just sit in a shaded hut on the side of the road and laugh at the stalled-out folks. HAHAHA ... not funny?

It's still kind of mind blowing just how much climbing is in that. A number of the hills I did this past weekend were say 400 ft or so. Getting to the 3rd peak in this doesn't look so bad relative to the others, but then it's also 400. Meters at that. So 3 times as high. It's about 5 times as long, so not quite the grade, but still rather notable. Be curious to find more details about the total, but it might be 50% more for the whole course.

Morning Manatees! 

Sometimes living in d/t Chicago isn't all it's cracked up to be.  Between the helicopters, the sirens, incessant honking of horns and all the yelling that didn't stop until about 5am or so this morning... it's going to be a multiple coffee day today.

And I really want a Costanza Desk. 

I was thinking the same thing - that it reminds me of Norseman.  http://www.nxtri.com/race_info/course_and_map

You crazy kids!