Mad Mutant Manatee Mentors 4--CLOSED (Page 2)

TriAya - 2013-04-04 9:59 PM Funny how our fantastic free-breathing Froggy knows to show up just when we've been talking shyte about him, especially Salty.

Ah, you know the little green toad was lurking the whole time!

Aw, shucks. 

Interesting.  I would rather do 500x50 than anything x200.  I just did 5x200 and it darn near killed me.  But it didn't, so it musta made me stronger, no?

HAHAHA I remember very early on (I mean, weeks on BT) Badger Jen Moose (Artemis) sent me a polite but VERY pointed PM not to post Tour de France spoilers ... BT didn't have a spoiler policy back then so I was all PFFFFFFT but it's funny, that's what put her on my radar and upon further investigation I realized she is an awesome soul ... one of the best.

So many people reached out to me early on. I actually posted a thread last year I think where I asked almost exactly what Dub6 did ... who were the first people to respond to a post of yours/inspire you/PM you.

I've met too many BTers to count. I've hosted three in my house here in Bali and it would be a lot more if I hadn't been so deathly ill so often for the last few years.

Asalzwed - 2013-04-05 12:33 PM

bcraht - 2013-04-05 12:26 AM

TriAya - 2013-04-04 9:59 PM Funny how our fantastic free-breathing Froggy knows to show up just when we've been talking shyte about him, especially Salty.

Ah, you know the little green toad was lurking the whole time!

I know! Totally busted! What a trout.

HAHAHA when he called you an old slapper I was thinking in my head TROUT TROUT I can't wait for him to bring on the TROUT

I hate 200s as well, but only in 25m pools. Such an awkward distance--too painful to go fast (but that's the point), too short to go steady. Very tolerable in LCM, though.

Hmmm, never heard it described like that, but it is exactly right.

Don't listen to her Jahe, you are beautiful.  You just have to grow into your ears.

She certainly doesn't listen to me, and we can add "stupid" to that list ... she just dunked her head into my coffee ... DO NOT MESS WITH MY CAFFEINE ...

I should show her what happened to the last cats who got into a box of my Pop Tarts ...

Salty - sorry to see that happened in your neighborhood. That sucks and I am sure you will be safe on all your runs.

Jo - Scooby is adorable. I know I am enjoying the "ride" with Pikatti. In another month he will be old enough to go to a dog park here, so the only dog interaction he gets is with his litter mate, Miki.

Regarding me running with Pikatti. I am only doing very short runs with him, nothing more than a block and that is usually when him and Miki are already pulling me. Any serious running is several months away, maybe around December for anything more than about a block. We will run and play in the snow, but as far as a training run that is a long ways off. From what other husky owners have told me around 1 year old we can start running. I do not include play running in that mix since he does a lot of it with Miki when they are playing outside. I am listening to everyone in that regards and not doing anything that could have a negative impact later on in Pikatti's life.

Jonathan - ENJOY the IronMan race.

I need to learn what those things are, is what I'm saying.  I can't work it in until that happens.

I think I can hit my sub 20 goal without too much speed work.  This year is def learning and marathon focused.  Next year is going to be my speed year all around, with a sub 18 5k goal among others.

Ah, she is wise, the almighty Yanti.

Good move, my friend. Build base, take time, keep adding a bit here and there, and train consistently. By consistent, I don't mean the same thing every day, but something nearly every day.

It is interesting, trying to figure out what people mean sometimes. I know that my "Speedwork" and Salty's are worlds apart.  For her there is an obvious, scheduled, program with an actual, knowledgable coach having a solid goal in mind. For me it is a more free flowing, quasi scheduled thing, with a day that the effort is simply more focused on going faster. Not what most people call speedwork, but I'm not ready to jump into that yet. I'm barely ready to step into it. 

You were the inspiration for my question, I remember yours. I was in the "Introduce Yourself" forum the other day. I try to go in a couple of times a month and welcome someone, because you did that for me and I really appreciated it. The site went from a place to log workouts and learn triathlon stuff to a place to meet people with a similar interest. It started to become warmer and more human on that day. And then being in this group has enforced that feeling even more, and I try to continue learning about the sport AND even more about the people. Because in the end, it is the people that matter most.

Have a great day and an even better weekend everyone!!!!

Froggy, you are talking to fast for me.  What race schedule?  You know that I need details!

Re: bike shopping, several podmates are also shopping!  Fun stuff!

I thought about PMing him but did not.  I have added him to the roster how that he hopped back into our thread though.  (I noticed that his training logs are as active as ever!)  I think that he hopped back because of the 10k this weekend.  He must want a Manatee Send Off!

WAIT!  YOU CAN'T LEAVE TOWN WITHOUT TELLING US YOUR NUMBER!

Is that what you tell your DH?

I was sort of thinking that he was a brick run partner so short stuff but I wanted you to think through the whole running with your puppy thing.  He's lucky that he landed with such a good pack leader!

amd723 - 2013-04-05 9:48 AM I just got my bib number for Sumday's classic distance tri, 2626. Pretty sure that awesome number means I'm going to win

No doubt about it!!!!