Mad Manatees 2015.4 CLOSED (or Poptart/pet pic ticket) (Page 17)

She's a whole lot of adorableness!  

Welcome Lisa! 

Janyne, OMG sooooooooo cute.

Erin Love the pics. I really want to do a Bryce, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon, Arches, Grand-Staircase-whatever-the-heck-else-National-Forest-Park-ETC-Extravaganza. Doing notable runs in each location. BTW, do you guys have a 4x4 to get to some of these places (this may or may not be a self serving question with a follow-up  

I did an excellent mountain-venture trail run over the weekend. 

It was about 22 miles and 5K gain (and loss.)

I have found the IDEAL running buddies. Three of them are  atmospheric scientists and the other works on mapping data for google. I didn't even have to use my brain once. Just let them do all the planning and thinking and I just had to run

Wow such lovely photos today! Puppies! Mountains! Scenery! 

I have a follow up x-ray this afternoon and am very antsy to hear if my fibula is on the right track. It's only been 16 dayssssssss but feels like forever. I did manage to wrangle on some tights this morning as it's finally fall weather here (and I am wearing only skirts and dresses to work with this huge boot on my foot). 

Another awesome adventure with great pics Adrienne.  Would be pretty cool if you could run Monument Valley in March.  I was watching the movie Desert Runners and then I saw this and thought it is the same type of epic run (considerably shorter) without having to go to China or South America.  Here is the link again.

http://www.grandcircletrails.com/monument-valley-general-info/

Yes, it's been puppy madness.  The kitties are getting jealous.  I'll have to dig up a pic of our little Lulu.  She is the twin of Monica's dark tabby.

Hope the x-ray shows things healing well.

Oh, I know the feeling.  I had to buy pull on clothing when I had only one working arm.  Ugh!

Hey, did you see that Vineman was branded?  I'm not sure how I feel about that. For independents that leaves what?  Redman and Great Floridian and B2B now that Chesapeakeman and Vineman were acquired.

There was the Wilderman, but not sure if that will stay. Looks like "fast" on the bike & run was 9 and 7 hrs. Each.

I think Ironman Vineman sounds kind of redundant.  I hate to see it.  It was a very well organized event without WTC.  A good large race IM alternative to WTC.  I don't have anything against WTC just that more options in the market is beneficial.

What about cats? 

This may be my FAVORITE perso..ahem...personality to follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/miss_raspberry_kittay/?hl=en

Oh that's very cool!

I'm hesitant to RACE something like this. I do these mountainous runs because I really enjoy taking in the scenery. I stop and take about a million photos. Take the time to boil some water and have coffee on the top of some rugged peak. I wonder if that would be lost if I were caught up racing? 

A big advantage would be that support is provided. So, I could sign up and not race per se. But, I wonder if I could really do that 

yeah, think we were discussing this some before. At what point is something more of an event than a race? Slowing down a little to take it in is one thing, but stopping for pictures and such is another. A number of the bike things I've been to the past few years have been clearly on the event side even though the effort can be pushed up for them. I don't know if running has that so much. Even with the more laid back attitude a lot of off road runs have, it could still be a fairly significant attitude/cultural shift in the feel of these.

Getting to Monument Valley would be so cool simply because a fair amount of Airwolf was filmed there.

I think your capacity to race something like this is far different than mine so I hear what you are saying.  I know I'm not competitive even in my age group so while yes it is a race per se I will have a time goal but absorbing the full experience is far more important than a few minutes (or more) on my final time.  I have read many race reports in this series and most people are taking the time to take lots of pics and even stop just to marvel at the vistas.  I'm planning on doing the 50k so will have plenty of time to take it in.  If I was running the 4 mile I'd think a bit differently.

It's sad to see that in taking over Vineman, WTC has also done away with 2 aspects of the race: the aquabike & Barb's race which was a fundraiser for local cancer charities.  

OMG - the lack of productivity I'm now facing is alllllllll Salty's fault!!  

PUPPIES!!!  New manatees!!!  Gorgeous pics, as usual, from our adventurous manatees!

I saw that today and it makes me kinda sad. I'm glad I did it when the cost was less than $300 (3-for-2 promotion, my total cost was $297.55!), we can kiss that good bye. It was a very special, smaller, boutique-type of race. That will all go away now, along with what Monica mentioned about the aqua bike and Barb's Race. The venue will always be beautiful, but part of the special-factor of that race was the limited hype and low athlete count.

TJ, I think this is right up your alley. 

What a relief.

PAR-TAY!