Manatees - 2019 Edition - Practice Maximum Enthusiasm - CLOSED (Page 22)

Aww, so sweet! Welcome to the Manatees Ellie May!

Awww, love her sweet face!!!

Can you stand another post about the weather? Things weren't too bad this morning --- 34F with some wind and it was raining just a bit when I went to the office. Now it's just about closing time and it's below zero and I can hear the wind screaming outside. It's kind of scary, actually.

weather is one of the things that shows us we are not the masters of the universe.

Yikes--at some point I'm suspicious that we will be paying our winter weather dues here in Idaho. Mom was complaining about it being "cold" but actually very mild compared to almost anywhere east of the Rockies and north of Florida--lows in mid-20's, high about 41, fog clearing to pleasant sunshine, minimal wind.

I just had a swim workout today after three days of really hard bike and/or run workouts. (I think my coach's idea is to make the race seem "easy" by comparison.) If only they would heat the pool building and locker rooms. I swear they don't--they have infant swim classes in an "instructional pool" next to the lap pool, and the parents sit poolside in their coats while the kiddos learn to swim! They keep the baby clothes and towels in the sauna so they can be wrapped, dried, and dressed in warm clothes afterwards. Thinking about doing the same! (I do put myself in the sauna after swimming.)

Edited by Hot Runner 2019-01-28 8:08 PM

Karen hopefully the Wanaka weather isn't like our. Generally February is our hottest month of the year and you can almost guarantee that for the first week of February which is when school goes back we will have a string of 40*C (104*F) days. If you look at Accuweather they will show what the average for each day in February normally is.

What a cutie

I'm sorry that you are having such bad weather. Up until the last week or so we have had really nice summer weather and it has been fairly mild. That changed about 10 days ago and we have had a number of days above 100 now with more to come this week.


The wheels have fallen off my "Keep Moving" and "Distance Travelled" challenges. Phil is unwell again (a bit like he was in 2014) and so he isn't able to do any of the watering and yard maintenance. Given that we are having days of around 100*F everything has to be watered and it takes all of my morning running time to get it done. Thinking that I might have to start going to bed at 9pm and getting up at 4 so I can get some running in.

On a positive note despite my eating not being perfect I have actually managed to still lose some weight this week.

(Adam I have fixed your entries in the distance traveled challenge as you had gotten yourself a week ahead - I hope that is ok)

I actually have ZERO worries about Wanaka being too hot! Anything up to 36-38 degrees C of dry heat is fine with me; it's a bucket list race, so I don't really care if I have to back off the pace or walk a bit on the run to cool off. Much more worried it's going to be miserably cold. Wanaka's toward the south end of the South Island and surrounded by mountains. Erratic weather at best (have been there in mid-March before) and the warmest I've seen all summer has been about 25 degrees C. That 36 I mentioned was the low in degrees F (about 2 C). Yikes! More worried that mid-February might actually be trending more toward fall weather. That would be like mid-August in the northern hemisphere. Far enough north in Canada (i.e. Calgary and points north), that's really more the beginning of fall than peak of summer. Will check their weather trends shortly as I start thinking about packing--definitely bringing "full body armor" (full wetsuit, neoprene cap, booties) for the swim (notoriously on the chilly side) and layering options for the rest, just in case.

We are going on to a bike tour in Australia (out of Melbourne) after so will also come ready for those triple-digit (F) days!

I love that face! HI CUTIE!

"Pretend riding with my pretend friends" was coined by daughter #3, while she was emotionally abusing me. It ended up sticking. The rest of the comment was, "if you had friends, you could for real ride with your for real friends." Teen aged girls are the more viscous animal on earth.

What a doll!

cuts to the bone!

Pretend riding with real friends! It's almost like be social.

Anybody else in the JoGo weight loss challenge wishing we also had a column for total weight lost in addition to the Over/Under Goal metric? One weekend of gluttony may doom me to the dreaded red numbers for the duration!