Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 166)

Now, my new dream and passion is triathlons.  Not just doing them, but helping to grow the sport.  Specifically, I want to help get more and more kids into this sport and encourage a healthy lifestyle.  Childhood obesity saddens me greatly, and I want to help fight this epidemic with the sport of triathlon.  I am working on exciting things (that you will all learn about eventually).

"Skrat....Jen and I know a guy here in Richmond who has a coaching company and he specifically focuses on youth triathlons.  Michael Harlow, I  think he was named a Youth Coach of the Year recently.  Check out Endorphin Fitness.....I wonder if he can get you started in the right direction in your area.

There are Manatees stalking each other's workouts on google as well as here and FB.  We are a pervasive group of stalkers.

Do you have a gmail or G+ account? If so, someone will invite you into the super secret Order of The Manatee. OK, it is simply a Google community, not really super secret or anything, but a bit on the private side.  

Chad, I sent a maybe. I have a B-Day dinner with my MIL and then a trip to the Y. If I am back in time, I'll get logged in.

Hands Marie - we are planning on doing a Google Hangout (video call) so we can hear each others "accents"..  Activate Google + (Google's version of Facebook) and post your gmail - we will send you an invite to the Super Secret order of the Manatee...it is a private group - though not much of a secret..  

Christ - if it doesn't work out - post a general time that will work - and we might have to modify it.  considering what an active bunch the Manatee's are - we may have to do a hangout at midnight on Friday!   

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Day 2 of Ab challenge is done.  

Off to my sons first swim practice!  Yippeee!

And I have the exotic accent (LOL) but will unlikely be on the hangout coz I'm at work - and it's another biatch of a day - China.

I love you.

^^this.  I know I am way behind on this, but although I still run with my GPS watch, I don't pay a ton of attention to my HR.  I just run at a comfy pace.  Some runs are faster than others, but they are pretty much always comfy.  I have improved quite a bit doing it that way.

gymnastics/acrobats>ballet/jazz/tap/highland>soccer/basketball/volleyball>shotput/javelin>hockey>triathlon

I have started running by time rather than distance.  I found that when I ran for distance, I would often run too fast so that I would get it done faster.

I kind of roughly have an idea of how far I should run but I run to time.  IT's usually my lunchbreak anyway - so an out and back 20mins out and 20mins back.

FACHMIE MY ABS HURT!

Was sitting in my chair, watching a little TV, eating a little dinner and I coughed... OUCH! 

As I say to my daughter when she says - mummy it hurts when i cough - DONT COUGH!

Originally posted by bcraht Just registered for a 2km OWS race on Canada Day

Australia Day is my favourite day of the year when I do my 1.5km OWS.  love it.  Youll do great.

It is so past my bedtime, but I was so excited to make a video of my son's first ever swim PRACTICE, that I could not go to bed without working on it.  I am such a proud father right now, more proud than I've ever been.  These are the things that matter in life, not crazy ladies yelling at me in the parking lot over crappy wine.  :)  

Anyways - here is a picture I took tonight.. Love how this came out. 

Here is the Youtube Video: I cut a 1 hour practice down to a bit under 6:00 minutes.  They did everything - flip turns, starts, kick sets, pull sets - I was impressed with my little guy.  He has never done anything like this, and he rocked it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mba0XgnRbOY

On our way home from practice - the sun was shining on the harbor - small rainbow...looked cool - so I snapped this pic.  Thought I would share.

Originally posted by bcraht Soooooooooo, my SO took the train in to meet me yesterday after work so we could go out for dinner.  She was behind and I got off a little early.  The sidewalk sale had just been moved to the Richmond store....  I just started on my last pair of my shoes.  They will go on sale every so often (usually when the next model is coming out) and I pair a couple pairs, as they are comfy and my feet like them.  I wouldn't say I have a problem, I am just looking ahead.  I usually retire a pair to work shoes, and have 2 pairs for running at any given time.  But my SO always wants me to get rid of a pair.  So getting a new pair in the house was going to be a bit of a problem...  Solved it by not taking the box.  Brought them home, put them in the old new pair box, which has not yet made it's way out of the closet.  Hey, she buys ice cream bars in boxes of 25.

Heh, I like your rationale and way of getting the new shoes in 

I <3 U Skrat

Start a youth tri team--check out Cherie Gruenfeld's Exceeding Expectations. If youth, triathlon, and childhood obesity are where your passions are, hers (she's been the IM World Champ in her age groups since forever and still has some course records in them) is really the original and flagship foundation. I worked, volunteered, participated, rallied blah blah blah a bunch of the activities and events they were involved in when I lived in LA.

Look up Superman as a yoga or pilates or swimming land-training pose. That's a great one to add in.

Also, remember that crunches can be done with legs straight out, legs slightly lifted (harder!), legs straight but pointed at ceiling (bit of stretching there as well), knees bent on the ground, knees bent off the ground, arms behind your head/neck (but not helping to lift at all, just for support), crossed across your chest, and then there are also oblique crunches (where you crunch up to the opposite side).

That should keep you busy for a while