Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois (Page 2)

Are we interested in doing a virtual race or not?  I don't want to waste time pursuing it if the group is lacking motivation. 

Try this URL.  I was able to view without logging in so I *think* that it'll work.

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/tcrno4s111

OK, this is what I told the folks at Racery.

We are interested in a virtual race for triathletes.  We were thinking something like Appalachian Trail, which we saw is already mapped out, or Pacific Crest.  The only tricky thing is that because we are triathletes we'd like to have a formula with swim/bike/run equivalencies.  For example 1 bike mile might = 3 run miles and 1 swim mile might be = 3 run miles -- whatever seems fair.  We do not anticipate a large group of people.  We'd like to direct money towards a charity of our choosing. 

Follow up question for the group, what is the charity of our choosing?

If we can't help his family directly then I'd like to help kick cancer's azz

I finally finished month end reports and made my way to the new thread...

Hi, I'm TJ, I have done triathlons up to and including HIM. Right now I am mostly run focused and am training for my second ultra marathon, a 50 miler. On my recovery days I am enjoying training for a metric century ride with Mary S. Swimming I could live without, can you tell?

I live near Albuquerque, NM with my husband and one of our adult sons and, as of next week, a nephew-in-law (is that a thing?)  I also have one more son who is proudly serving our country. In addition we have 3 dogs (GSHP, Australian Kelpie, Pit Bull mix) and two cats (both long haired calicos).

Agreed.

This is what Racery came back with for cost:

Normally there is a minimum $300 setup fee for a custom race and then $3 - $6 per racer at signup for tech and support -- depending on the duration of the race! We have a Pacific Crest trail route that's ~200 miles long that I could set you up with to cut down on the setup cost. It's not Google Street View optimized though.

I think that we can do a free version of the Appalachian Trail though.  If we do that, we'd just have a suggested donation in Steve's name to [insert charity here].

Thoughts?

P.S.  Free race is limited to 40 participants.

I like this line of thinking.

Yay less than 2 pages for me to figure out a new thread!  It's a holiday here today, so I give myself some slack.

Kirsten, lifelong athlete, runner since 2009, triathlon since 2011.  Two time IM finisher.  But I like all the distances for different reasons.  Right now I am trying to get re-motivated to train regularly.  Currently mostly running, although I did swim today for the first time in 3 weeks.  SO and I live near Vancouver Canada with 3 dogs and 2 cats. 

RE the virtual race, I am up for anything.  I have done the Terry Fox run before so that would work, but would also do a Manatee specific  I am not much on the organizing though, so just need someone to tell me where to sign up/show up.

It looks like Darren is just outside of Poisson.  I think that he spent longer than he originally anticipated in Vichy but he's on the move now!

For those of you who do masters swim, what is the normal schedule?  What I mean is, are the sessions scheduled for an hour?  75 minutes?  90 minutes?

Morning.

I am Robin, an adult-onset athlete wannabe. I recently took early retirement from working with the NC EPA. I live with hubbie, the best dog in the universe and 3 cats. I have done several sprints and olympic distances and keep trying for a HIM but seem to find injuries easily. If I would ever actually get 100% (or even 70%) motivated for consistent training, things could be different.

I am up for any of the virtual race ideas. The charity... Kicking cancer's to the curb would be grand!

Thanks!  My masters group has mostly 75 minute morning sessions but that group is going away at the end of the month. A new group is taking over but not on the days that I want to swim.  Anyway, I may rearrange the schedule and go with the new group at my current pool or try one of two other masters groups that might be a good fit.  Both of those groups -- RSA and YOTA -- have one hour sessions though.