Mental Manatee Mentors Part 3--CLOSED (Page 20)

jobaxas - 2013-03-14 2:30 PM Yanti. Sad news manatees Yantis father has passed away. She will be off line for a while she asked me to let the pod know.

jobaxas - 2013-03-14 3:15 PM If you're into podcasts well clearly maccx Uncensored is worthy and I got mentioned again this week. Now Macca got me onto Rich Roll a vegan ultra runner I don't listen to his but he had a guest Vinnie Tortorich trainer to the stars etc. this guy is funny real funny. His style is no grains no sugar and I'm moving into that slowly. But if you like a podcast this one is worthy. Oh and the latest one #104 I get a shout out. My infamy spreads stateside.......

ponderingfox - 2013-03-15 1:47 PM

Creeper.

jogo - 2013-03-14 11:28 AM

Ok, so I finally have a break in life.  Got a daughter married off last Friday, my youngest (and only one at home) moved to Virginia on Saturday, and my daughter and grandbabies went back to New Mexico on Tuesday.   I am officially an empty nester, if you don't count the husband and 2 dogs and 3 cats. 

This has always been a TMI thread so it is my turn.

My husband is like a new man (sort of).  We have never had alone time (2nd marriage for both of us and blended 5 kids 12 years ago).  He is like a teenager that wants candy. All the begging for window shopping is amusing.  Afterall, he is in his late 50's and although the mind is a teenager, the body is not 18 any longer.  I am enjoying some of the "lines" he his coming up with.  If he was picking me up at a bar, he would lose. He is getting better but I have to share with all the men that telling someone they always smell good, is not really the positive reinforcement we ladies are seeking if that is the best you can come up with.  I had asked him to tell me what he found attractive.   FAIL but oh so cute that he tried.  As I said, with a little coaching, he may be trainable.

So on that note, if all my own husband can find good about my body is my huge melons and that I smell good, I really think I need to start reforming this situation.  As I said, he is old and I need to stay marketable.   You never know when you may need that marketability.  

Big Sur is a little over 6 weeks away.  I had a bit of an awakening at my 5k on Sunday.  I ran all the way through (which is the 1st time to run 3.1 miles without walking in a long, long time-about 10 months).  I went sub 12's/mile so that was okay.  11:20/mile has consistently been my happy pace, my zen pace, my comfort-no stress pace for years so I have definitely lost fitness because this 11:49/mile was a zone 4 effort.   I will still run something at Big Sur but I don't care if it is the 5k or the 9 mile.  I know it will not be the 26.2 or the 21 mile.   I am working with a trainer and tonight is a goal setting session for the next 6 weeks.  

I am going to really concentrate on diet and getting healthy.  My house is going to be purged of clutter (now that the clutter kid is gone).  This is the 1st time since I was 22 years old, that I get to be ME first and not mom.  

Now that I've caught you all up, what the hell is going on here.  When did we change our name to Mental (seems fitting)?  Did we open up to new people or just relocate? 

Yanti-how are your ribs healing?  Are you able to play with piglets yet or was that never impacted by the injury?  

Salty-how is Boston training going?

Fox-thanks for the camping tips in Dayton.  I look forward to meeting you at Hawk.

Any more stories from anyone on crazy family members, drunken women, or training mishaps?  

 

jobaxas - 2013-03-14 4:30 PM Yanti. Sad news manatees Yantis father has passed away. She will be off line for a while she asked me to let the pod know.

jogo - 2013-03-14 12:28 PM

Ok, so I finally have a break in life.  Got a daughter married off last Friday, my youngest (and only one at home) moved to Virginia on Saturday, and my daughter and grandbabies went back to New Mexico on Tuesday.   I am officially an empty nester, if you don't count the husband and 2 dogs and 3 cats. 

This has always been a TMI thread so it is my turn.

My husband is like a new man (sort of).  We have never had alone time (2nd marriage for both of us and blended 5 kids 12 years ago).  He is like a teenager that wants candy. All the begging for window shopping is amusing.  Afterall, he is in his late 50's and although the mind is a teenager, the body is not 18 any longer.  I am enjoying some of the "lines" he his coming up with.  If he was picking me up at a bar, he would lose. He is getting better but I have to share with all the men that telling someone they always smell good, is not really the positive reinforcement we ladies are seeking if that is the best you can come up with.  I had asked him to tell me what he found attractive.   FAIL but oh so cute that he tried.  As I said, with a little coaching, he may be trainable.

So on that note, if all my own husband can find good about my body is my huge melons and that I smell good, I really think I need to start reforming this situation.  As I said, he is old and I need to stay marketable.   You never know when you may need that marketability.  

Big Sur is a little over 6 weeks away.  I had a bit of an awakening at my 5k on Sunday.  I ran all the way through (which is the 1st time to run 3.1 miles without walking in a long, long time-about 10 months).  I went sub 12's/mile so that was okay.  11:20/mile has consistently been my happy pace, my zen pace, my comfort-no stress pace for years so I have definitely lost fitness because this 11:49/mile was a zone 4 effort.   I will still run something at Big Sur but I don't care if it is the 5k or the 9 mile.  I know it will not be the 26.2 or the 21 mile.   I am working with a trainer and tonight is a goal setting session for the next 6 weeks.  

I am going to really concentrate on diet and getting healthy.  My house is going to be purged of clutter (now that the clutter kid is gone).  This is the 1st time since I was 22 years old, that I get to be ME first and not mom.  

Now that I've caught you all up, what the hell is going on here.  When did we change our name to Mental (seems fitting)?  Did we open up to new people or just relocate? 

Yanti-how are your ribs healing?  Are you able to play with piglets yet or was that never impacted by the injury?  

Salty-how is Boston training going?

Fox-thanks for the camping tips in Dayton.  I look forward to meeting you at Hawk.

Any more stories from anyone on crazy family members, drunken women, or training mishaps?

ponderingfox - 2013-03-15 3:00 PM

I just have to say that one of the things I like about females is that they smell nice.  It's an appreciation for personal creativity that we guys normally don't have.  So it might be lame, but I'd totally say it (hopefully accompanied by a real winner, of course).

Gotta be a wingman for the hubby.

jobaxas - 2013-03-15 2:48 AMArtemis has her birthday 16 march look what she got... She doesn't know yet....

jobaxas - 2013-03-14 11:31 PM

I love Yanti - she sent me a message

"I'm wearing flip flops to my father's funeral"

jobaxas - 2013-03-15 4:48 PMArtemis has her birthday 16 march look what she got... She doesn't know yet....

jobaxas - 2013-03-15 4:48 PM Artemis has her birthday 16 march look what she got... She doesn't know yet....

jobaxas - 2013-03-15 3:53 AMSo funny she walked in kinda didnt notice the dog then looked at me and said whose dog I said its yours and she burst into tears

TriAya - 2013-03-15 6:57 AM

Well, shyte.

THANK YOU for all your beautiful messages and kind words. It really does mean so much to me. I know the Manatees are with me!

Mutti's holding up really well--that was my main concern--but then again, she's the strongest woman I know and she's managed to survive all of us so far.

It's been as colourful and tumultuous a day as my father's life was. Our trip out of the funeral park (which is a trip in itself) ended with my sister breaking down the bathroom doors Mutti and I were locked into (absolutely no way to get out from our side).

Unfortunately Tina kicked the door in so hard it flew across the stall ... and into my wrist and arm.

If it wasn't broken before, it is now! Going to the doc in the morning. Promise.

TriAya - 2013-03-15 7:57 AM

Well, shyte.

THANK YOU for all your beautiful messages and kind words. It really does mean so much to me. I know the Manatees are with me!

Mutti's holding up really well--that was my main concern--but then again, she's the strongest woman I know and she's managed to survive all of us so far.

It's been as colourful and tumultuous a day as my father's life was. Our trip out of the funeral park (which is a trip in itself) ended with my sister breaking down the bathroom doors Mutti and I were locked into (absolutely no way to get out from our side).

Unfortunately Tina kicked the door in so hard it flew across the stall ... and into my wrist and arm.

If it wasn't broken before, it is now! Going to the doc in the morning. Promise.

rrrunner - 2013-03-15 10:51 AM

For the computer geeks among us... (Skrat, this could be your ticket back to Colorado, think of all the coaching you could do there)

http://triathlon.competitor.com/2013/03/news/a-triathletes-dream-job_72055

rrrunner - 2013-03-16 12:17 AM Yanti, the volume of incredible things that happen to you, both positive and negative, baffle me...