Mad Mutant Manatee Mentors 4--CLOSED (Page 20)

This guy was at Oceanside and had some really need pieces of yard art and display racks and hooks.

ETA:better link

So piglet Andrew bike coach - I went to his gym last night to observe.  He trains in the art of primal move and kettle bell and stuff that i am clueless about.  He is ex armed forces, he was also on the Olympic team for Tae kwon do.  So he kinda knows his stuff.

The class last night was taken by his gorgeous girlfriend Shannon.  It looked tough.  I cannot commit to the classes I just don't have the hours in a week spare!  BUT I have committed to PT with Andrew - we start Monday and I'm not afraid to say I'm afraid!  So we do an hour on a Monday night 6.30pm then he gives me homework 2 x 20mins sessions to do at home.

And Andrew is away this weekend, but he hasn't let me down, Shannon is taking me for a ride Sunday.  Aren't I the luckiest girl in the world!

YES HALLELUJAH MY DAD FINALLY DIED!!!!!

All the major eff-ups along the way means a few other people are going to have to, as well, but too bad.

For those of you who have been following, it's been a bureaucratic nightmare that only 3rd World and in particular Indonesian bureaucracy could possibly produce, rife with Catch-22s and impossible requirements.

The President finally stepped in and had my dad killed off. THANK YOU. (This was a last resort but for ferk's sake, the poor guy died on March 15th and he wasn't dead yet! And without him being officially dead, we can't REALLY proceed with any of his VERY messy issues and paperwork and legal processes, both business and personal estate).

See what happens when you jump in so late? Froggies need water...especially manatee lagoons. Lesson learned?

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4agoodlife - 2013-04-07 6:02 AM I took Silver out for a ride today...clipped in and everything!  16 miles in a little under an hour and NO MAJOR SCARINESS   I practiced shifting a lot and not losing speed around corners. Of course, unclipping before stops. Getting started at lights was a pain at first because I forgot to shift down before stopping...DUH!!! Heart rate shot through the roof a few times, until I stopped worrying about getting my foot out "in time".  My last stop I had a little trouble because I got too cocky. I shifted twice before stopping but didn't pedal through...oooops!  Left foot shot out of clip when I only got grinding chain upon take off.  I'm sure it was a good show for the cars around the major intersection where I was flailing away.   Overall a great confidence-boosting first ride. Yes!

Silver. Nice.   I hope i can find a cool name for my bike when i get one, yet it seems a bit, well, girly. I guess i will have to secretly whisper it's name.

 

Full name is Silver Streaker And why is it girly? Guys name all kinds of things....cars, motorcycles, boats, tools. I bet it was men who began naming inanimate objects in the first place. :D

Siver Streaker isn't a girly name, but I just might get some odd looks if i announced i was going to give Trevor a hard ride.

Could be worse, you could be overheard exclaiming that your arse is still sore from riding Trevor so hard over the weekend.

Coffee out the nose!

I'm straggling in here just like at the end of my half yesterday!   I'm back in the old thread talking to myself like a crazy person, unless Allen is still checking in there.  Thought it was odd that only a couple pages had happened since I last checked in...then realized I didn't get any email updates...thanks for finding me, Erin!

Here's what I posted on the old thread:

Well, I survived the half.  It was really a training run (not for any other race in particular, but when you run 3 long runs before hand and pretty much nothing during the week, you just go ahead and call this a "training run."  Training my mind to keep going when legs say stop?) and given my lack of preparation plus the very hilly terrain, I was aiming to just keep running the whole time and not hurt myself.  It ended up finishing on 5 minutes slower than my best time (although, admittedly, I have never "raced" a half because I'm afraid of using up all my energy before the end of the race - need to work on that) and I'm not too worse for wear today.  My knees hurt from the downhills and my quads are a little sore, but not as bad I feared.  At the finish yesterday I could barely walk!  My legs honestly felt like they had done a full marathon, not just half way.  I'll work on getting the race report in, but that's the long and short of it.  Oh, and my post-race firecracker wings and cajun fries were AMAZING!!!  They taste better when you've earned them.

I've been wanting something to store/display my medals, and found this today:

Got it in purple...I'm thinking I will bedazzle it myself (rhinestones on the letters, for sure) when it comes in, to real give it that "bling" feel!

Well, you know the Manatee motto...maybe you should teach it to her

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I didn't know we had our own stash of bike porn. Must check it out and offer my own up.

We have a motto???

Or  maybe i just have a bad memory

Demented.

(which is why I am starting to like you)