Racing Manatees - Better Together in 2022 (Page 21)

Originally posted by scoty NAME: Scot OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook, of course. twitter @scoty67, strava, you will have to find me Scot Hendren, I am on insta, but not very often STORY: Many years ago I was into cycling with the idea of giving tri a try. Fast forward I got out of cycling until fall of 2019 and decided to buy another bike. It was kinda late in the season and most organized rides were shutting down so I bought some running shoes and started running. I bought a garmin tri watch off marketplace and the fella I bought it off of introduced me to a local tri club. I joined and started training some. I competed in my first sprint and loved, though I can barely swim. This past year I entered an Oly and again loved it though my time was worse than horrible. I still can't swim very good. I just finished a half marathon last weekend with a time of 2.00:36. I will be competing in my first full marathon this coming weekend. Then I will start training for Memphis 70.3 FAMILY STATUS: Married and custody of our 4 yo grandson, puts a kink in my training. BTW I just turned 55 CURRENT TRAINING: taper for an upcoming marathon, then I will start training for a 70.3 THIS YEARS RACES: April 2 Bentonville Half Marathon, April 9 Hogeye marathon, Oct 1 Memphis 70.3, November Tulsa Marathon GOALS/OBJECTIVES/DESIRES: to learn more about the sport, about myself, and my abilities WHAT MAKES ME A GOOD MANATEE: I will ask questions.....lots of questions and soak up knowledge like a sponge. A couple more things about me. I recently became a licensed official with USA Cycling, I have a pretty cool story about my olympic tri

Originally posted by melbo55

Hi Scot, and welcome!!  There are a lot of folks here that have a lot of experience and will gladly help with any questions you ask.  Congrats on your half marathon, that's either impressive or crazy that you are doing back to back [weekend] races, half marathon and marathon!

Originally posted by scoty

NAME: Scot

OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook, of course. twitter @scoty67, strava, you will have to find me Scot Hendren, I am on insta, but not very often

STORY: Many years ago I was into cycling with the idea of giving tri a try. Fast forward I got out of cycling until fall of 2019 and decided to buy another bike. It was kinda late in the season and most organized rides were shutting down so I bought some running shoes and started running. I bought a garmin tri watch off marketplace and the fella I bought it off of introduced me to a local tri club. I joined and started training some. I competed in my first sprint and loved, though I can barely swim. This past year I entered an Oly and again loved it though my time was worse than horrible. I still can't swim very good. I just finished a half marathon last weekend with a time of 2.00:36. I will be competing in my first full marathon this coming weekend. Then I will start training for Memphis 70.3

FAMILY STATUS: Married and custody of our 4 yo grandson, puts a kink in my training. BTW I just turned 55

CURRENT TRAINING: taper for an upcoming marathon, then I will start training for a 70.3

THIS YEARS RACES: April 2 Bentonville Half Marathon, April 9 Hogeye marathon, Oct 1 Memphis 70.3, November Tulsa Marathon

GOALS/OBJECTIVES/DESIRES: to learn more about the sport, about myself, and my abilities

WHAT MAKES ME A GOOD MANATEE: I will ask questions.....lots of questions and soak up knowledge like a sponge.

A couple more things about me. I recently became a licensed official with USA Cycling, I have a pretty cool story about my olympic tri

Originally posted by marysia83Welcome Scot!You definitely need to share your oly tri cool story!!

Originally posted by scoty

Here goes my story. I was training for an olympic tri last year. In July we got custody of our grandson, he is four. My wife was working 12/14 hour days so I had to stop training to help take care of him. Fast forward to September, race weekend, and I am volunteering on set up. As packet pick up opens I realize I have already paid for it so I want my swag bag. Standing in line to get my packet and visiting with friends I manage to talk myself into one of the dumbest things in my life. Trust me folks I have talked myself into some really dumb stuff. Yep that's right. I talked myself into competing in the race. Now mind you I haven't done any or very little since July. I can barely swim, like just barely keep my head above water. My reasoning is that this particular tri is done in a F1 style where it is broke in two. Essentially it is two sprints back two back. I told myself that surely I could do a 700 meter swim then bike and run then a 800 meter swim, bike and run. No sweat.

Day of race: I am on the pool deck, nervous as a longtailed cat in a rocking chair factory. I am here I am going through with this. Did I mention that I haven't trained in two months and I can barely swim? I am at the back of the line, you know where the slow swimmers are. I am in the water, this sucks. I am hating myself for this stupid decision, I cannot believe I talked myself into this. I am dying. This is torture. I have swam 50 yards! I have completed 100 yards and headed for my third 50. I have talked myself into quitting. As soon as I get back to the other end, because I can't crawl out on the opposite end, I am climbing out of the pool and headed home in shame. As I approach the wall there was a young lady there that was further in the quitting decision than I was. Looked at her and said come on lets do another 50 then we can quit. We got to the other wall and I once again said lets do another. Now I have realized I can't quit because I am pushing her to not quit. Next thing I know we are 400 yards into the swim. I kept coaxing her and by doing that I was coaxing myself. Finally we are able to crawl out of the pool and head to t1. We roll out of t1 together and stayed with each other every pedal stroke and ever step of the way.

Back into the pool ****amnit. Again we coax each other through every stroke for 800 yards. It was a combination or walking, swimming, floating, something that resembled swimming, pulling myself along the lane lines. Whatever it took to get to the other end of the pool. Finally once again we are out of the pool. She climbed out about 50 yards ahead of me. She stayed ahead of me through the second lap of the second bike when she went wide on a corner hit a cone and went down. We later found out that she broke her leg in that spill. I continued and finished the race.

My time was horrible. They were starting the awards ceremony as I crossed the finish line, I did finish. Shanda, either later that day or the next found me on Facebook and we have remained friends since.

I am proof that you do not need training to get through a triathlon, but I can assure you it sure makes it easier.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Originally posted by scoty Here goes my story. I was training for an olympic tri last year. In July we got custody of our grandson, he is four. My wife was working 12/14 hour days so I had to stop training to help take care of him. Fast forward to September, race weekend, and I am volunteering on set up. As packet pick up opens I realize I have already paid for it so I want my swag bag. Standing in line to get my packet and visiting with friends I manage to talk myself into one of the dumbest things in my life. Trust me folks I have talked myself into some really dumb stuff. Yep that's right. I talked myself into competing in the race. Now mind you I haven't done any or very little since July. I can barely swim, like just barely keep my head above water. My reasoning is that this particular tri is done in a F1 style where it is broke in two. Essentially it is two sprints back two back. I told myself that surely I could do a 700 meter swim then bike and run then a 800 meter swim, bike and run. No sweat. Day of race: I am on the pool deck, nervous as a longtailed cat in a rocking chair factory. I am here I am going through with this. Did I mention that I haven't trained in two months and I can barely swim? I am at the back of the line, you know where the slow swimmers are. I am in the water, this sucks. I am hating myself for this stupid decision, I cannot believe I talked myself into this. I am dying. This is torture. I have swam 50 yards! I have completed 100 yards and headed for my third 50. I have talked myself into quitting. As soon as I get back to the other end, because I can't crawl out on the opposite end, I am climbing out of the pool and headed home in shame. As I approach the wall there was a young lady there that was further in the quitting decision than I was. Looked at her and said come on lets do another 50 then we can quit. We got to the other wall and I once again said lets do another. Now I have realized I can't quit because I am pushing her to not quit. Next thing I know we are 400 yards into the swim. I kept coaxing her and by doing that I was coaxing myself. Finally we are able to crawl out of the pool and head to t1. We roll out of t1 together and stayed with each other every pedal stroke and ever step of the way. Back into the pool ****amnit. Again we coax each other through every stroke for 800 yards. It was a combination or walking, swimming, floating, something that resembled swimming, pulling myself along the lane lines. Whatever it took to get to the other end of the pool. Finally once again we are out of the pool. She climbed out about 50 yards ahead of me. She stayed ahead of me through the second lap of the second bike when she went wide on a corner hit a cone and went down. We later found out that she broke her leg in that spill. I continued and finished the race. My time was horrible. They were starting the awards ceremony as I crossed the finish line, I did finish. Shanda, either later that day or the next found me on Facebook and we have remained friends since. I am proof that you do not need training to get through a triathlon, but I can assure you it sure makes it easier. Hope you guys enjoy!

Originally posted by scoty

Unfortunately she has not fully recovered. It appears she has torn all the medial ankle ligmanents so she has to see a surgeon. The actual break has healed.

Originally posted by scoty Unfortunately she has not fully recovered. It appears she has torn all the medial ankle ligmanents so she has to see a surgeon. The actual break has healed.

Originally posted by JBacarella I changed the trainer tire to the road tire, took the pedals, electronics and water bottle off, and cleaned my bike. Saturday I drop off my bike at the "local bike shop" (3 hours away) for Tribike Transport to take it to Houston. God Speed Fireball. Lets see how this works. In my head I'm scouring flea markets on Thursday to buy a used ten speed. Just planning for worst case scenario.

Originally posted by JBacarella I changed the trainer tire to the road tire, took the pedals, electronics and water bottle off, and cleaned my bike. Saturday I drop off my bike at the "local bike shop" (3 hours away) for Tribike Transport to take it to Houston. God Speed Fireball. Lets see how this works. In my head I'm scouring flea markets on Thursday to buy a used ten speed. Just planning for worst case scenario.

Originally posted by amd723

Let the race nightmares begin! Everything will be fine and you are going to crush it!

Originally posted by canadarn2001

Ok everyone. Now that my 100 mile RUN is over, I am looking forward to starting my training for my first 100 mile bike ride of the year.

I have signed up for the Fletcher Flyer on June 2nd. I think’s about 8 weeks. Does anyone know of an eight week training plan? My timeon the bike has been limited but I feel like I have the endurance/fitness to get back into it.

Let me know your thoughts?

Thanks!

Originally posted by jmkizer

Racing Manatees!!!

April 9-10
No racers that I know of this week

Is anyone else racing or doing anything else fun this weekend?

Originally posted by scoty

Here goes my story. I was training for an olympic tri last year. In July we got custody of our grandson, he is four. My wife was working 12/14 hour days so I had to stop training to help take care of him. Fast forward to September, race weekend, and I am volunteering on set up. As packet pick up opens I realize I have already paid for it so I want my swag bag. Standing in line to get my packet and visiting with friends I manage to talk myself into one of the dumbest things in my life. Trust me folks I have talked myself into some really dumb stuff. Yep that's right. I talked myself into competing in the race. Now mind you I haven't done any or very little since July. I can barely swim, like just barely keep my head above water. My reasoning is that this particular tri is done in a F1 style where it is broke in two. Essentially it is two sprints back two back. I told myself that surely I could do a 700 meter swim then bike and run then a 800 meter swim, bike and run. No sweat.

Day of race: I am on the pool deck, nervous as a longtailed cat in a rocking chair factory. I am here I am going through with this. Did I mention that I haven't trained in two months and I can barely swim? I am at the back of the line, you know where the slow swimmers are. I am in the water, this sucks. I am hating myself for this stupid decision, I cannot believe I talked myself into this. I am dying. This is torture. I have swam 50 yards! I have completed 100 yards and headed for my third 50. I have talked myself into quitting. As soon as I get back to the other end, because I can't crawl out on the opposite end, I am climbing out of the pool and headed home in shame. As I approach the wall there was a young lady there that was further in the quitting decision than I was. Looked at her and said come on lets do another 50 then we can quit. We got to the other wall and I once again said lets do another. Now I have realized I can't quit because I am pushing her to not quit. Next thing I know we are 400 yards into the swim. I kept coaxing her and by doing that I was coaxing myself. Finally we are able to crawl out of the pool and head to t1. We roll out of t1 together and stayed with each other every pedal stroke and ever step of the way.

Back into the pool ****amnit. Again we coax each other through every stroke for 800 yards. It was a combination or walking, swimming, floating, something that resembled swimming, pulling myself along the lane lines. Whatever it took to get to the other end of the pool. Finally once again we are out of the pool. She climbed out about 50 yards ahead of me. She stayed ahead of me through the second lap of the second bike when she went wide on a corner hit a cone and went down. We later found out that she broke her leg in that spill. I continued and finished the race.

My time was horrible. They were starting the awards ceremony as I crossed the finish line, I did finish. Shanda, either later that day or the next found me on Facebook and we have remained friends since.

I am proof that you do not need training to get through a triathlon, but I can assure you it sure makes it easier.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Originally posted by scoty I'm running in my first marathon. The Hogeye Marathon in Springdale, AR

Originally posted by jmkizer

Dooo eeettt!!!!

P.S. I'm sorry, Scot, I didn't have you on my list yet. 

Originally posted by scoty

I'm running in my first marathon. The Hogeye Marathon in Springdale, AR