Yanti & Salty Mad Manatees PART 3: FULL POD (Page 21)

Nice effort. You go enjoy your Pork & Brew you lucky thing.

Not read it yet, but if you go all out at the Pork & Brew it could make for an entertaining report!

Oh that's like the pool deck on a Saturday - after squad Coach Johnny trains an Aussie Rules football team - they look a lot like that.  Once he said - hey guys I want you all to meet Jojo....oh my.

swim squad report - I led the whole set and have been informed I have to jump up a lane - actually I was keeping an eye on the next lane and I was keeping up with and sometimes overtaiking them - time to bite the bullet.

FINS
200M FREE
200M - 50 FREE, 50 BACK
200M - 50 FRONT SCULL, 50 FREE
200M - 100 CATCH UP, 100 OTTER (no kick)
200M - UNDERWATER CATCH UP
200M - 100 CATCH UP & 4 sculls, 100M OTTER (no kick)
200M - 50 FISTS, 50 FREE

NO FINS
8X100M
100M LEFT ARM (opp arm in front)
100M RIGHT ARM (opp arm in front)

8x25m - free no breath - only success in my lane was me managed not to take a breath every lap!

200m fins backstroke cool down

TOTAL 2.6KM IN ONE HOUR!

Better than her.  I was fine this morning.  A little weak from the no food yesterday, so I went for a really easy run on the treadmill this afternoon.

Oh sure Jo, get all teacher's pet on us!!!!!  Nice job on the graduation to a new lane and on the 25 w/o a breath.  I won't be trying that one any time soon.

Brrrrr minus 1 degree when I set off for my run this morning.  Sun was shining though so many cyclists out today.  I wrapped up with gloves etc.  Soon sweating in the sunshine1  Hungover from the last glass of red last night, wasn't sure how far I'd get, thought I'd try 5 then 10 then see how I went.  I ended up doing my planned 13km so am very happy and my hangover is gone!

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cdban66 - 2012-07-07 11:30 AM

TriAya - 2012-07-07 10:17 AM

Watching Tour de Piglets and trying to stay loose, warm and relaxed for the ocean swim tomorrow ...

Came across this and this is exactly what the lineup looks like tomorrow since all those piglets are who come to race, and those who don't, are working the event in that capacity.

Hm ... might happen to me ...

Hmmm, I think they cropped me out, I was a bit further down to the right. OK, maybe not.

You so funny! 

Holy buckets, nice work! And CONGRATS on your progress!  Jumping up a lane - that's huge!!  Your hard work is paying off - keep it up!!!

So. The 5K swim. Oof.

I'm not going to say it was brutal, because that word gets bandied about too much, but when the surf lifesavers are themselves having to ride in on the Zodiacs and get carried on a stretcher up to the med tent ... it's a tough race.

Last year's 10K winner in just over 2 hours, Andrew Tebbutt (a right piglet, of course!), posted a 2:42 this year ... that's after training all year and saying he gave much more to this race.

Good thing I didn't do the 10K. I'd either be in Australia or the hospital right now.

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LOL. Wasn't *quite* bad enough to end up in Port Phillip Bay, but Darwin maybe.

Love the piccie of your run!

Had a pair of smokin' hot young piglet laddies, both of the Oz national Surf Lifesaving and open-water swim teams and even though they came in 1-2 on the 10K, they mentioned they felt quite subdued by the conditions! One of them was even the surf lifesaving national champion. It bloody well SUCKED out there today! I'm no chump in the water either! Flipping on one's back and floating was not an option ... the waves and chop would have dumped right over one anyway.

This is them. Fellow on the right is Rodney Holt, the race organizer and an Oz Olympian.

Note the "porn 'stache" on the middle fellow, which I teased him about as the rest of his entire body was shaved.

KONGRATULATIONS KIRK!

Congratulations!

Asalzwed - 2012-07-09 1:09 AM Psssh nothing wrong with a little beer on a Sunday morning. One might even consider it communion So, I'm working a triathlon and these two boys are watching their mom head to the swim start. One of them says, in the most dejected voice,"ughhhh I don't want to watch mom lose AGAIN" lol I almost peed my pants.

That's hilarious about the little boys ... made my day, made me realize a decision I made was definitely the right one.

Yanti - well done on the swim, I would barely make it through, i'd still be out there splashing and floundering!  Still one of the hot little piglets could rescue me I suppose!

Kirk - awesome job!

Me - well yet another Sunday afternoon spent feasting with the Greek family - man they know how to put on a spread.  Didn't hydrate sufficiently got heaps of cramps in legs last night.  So no run today save it for tomorrow.  Tonight got swim squad and I think that's all I'll do, that was a big trainign/boozing/eating weekend.