Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 227)

Sounds like you need to borrow some of Ann Marie's hands!!  Glad your TT went well.

Congrats on your T4, Teej! (TT x2 )

Hm. Well, can you decide in a couple weeks? When you know better who'll be there? PIIIIIIIIGLETS

I'm trying to figure out how to work the kick sets at masters so that I'm actually kicking during them, at least most of it. Still have a huge disparity between my swim and kick speeds where kicking would be several groups behind where my swim is at. Last night, for example, it 4 rounds of 75 and then 100 done on the same send-off. So the 75 was easier and the 100 was hard. I had no chance of making the 100's, so went all in on the 75's (still falling almost an entire length behind and swam the 100's. And by "all-in" I made it burn just as much as a series of 1-2 min bike intervals would. I made it on all 4 of the 75's, but not by much.

How could I work this better? Something I've had issues with previously is my feet getting worked too much by stretching. Today isn't too bad, so next time I could probably do a bit more. Probably not the whole set, but 400-500 would likely be ok. A couple ideas would be to kick 25-50 of the 100's and then swim the rest. Or somehow split Or maybe to do an occasional arm pull while kicking to help make up the speed.

The kick sets aren't regularly this big. Just trying to get ideas from a few more specific situations to know how to develop, and then it should be easier to apply to other set designs.

I received some amazing/shocking/great news this morning! I got an email from a gentleman who is in charge of accepting article submissions for the "Animal Keeper's Forum" (Newsletter/magazine of the American Association of Zookeepers). I don't remember if I told you all about my article...I worked with the Sac Zoo's Lead Vet Tech on an article regarding our treatment of a bone infection on one of the Spur Thighed Tortoises--which involved a little wheeled cart (or "skateboard"). She wrote about the medical stuff while I took care of the biology, care, etc. of the tortoises in general. Anyway, our article was accepted and published in the April all turtle/tortoise issue...In any case, we (well, Alison, the tech, received it but forwarded it to me)received an email from that guy today saying this:

I have great news for you!  Your paper in the Chelonian Issue of the AKF was selected as the best of the year!  You and Kate are the 2013 Susan D. Chan Authors of the Year!  You will be receiving an award at the AAZK conference in September in North Carolina.  I'm hoping you both can attend.  Can you please send me your director's and supervisor's contact info so I can make them aware of your award, and ask them to consider sending you to the conference?

I am in shock, neither of us was expecting this at all! My supervisor called with congratulations and let me know that he would try to get us money to go to the conference, but it is iffy as the budget is really tight...so I am trying to figure out how I can come up with $900 or so to cover it all. Somehow, I will get there! I really want to visit NC anyway, but now I have a legitimate reason to get sent there! I just had to share my happy news! 

Yo Jen, happy birfday!

Mechanical chili pepper ride is on me for your birthday gift 

Lots of great stuff going on in my life now as well ... not any less crazy busy (even more so!) but light's finally dawning with the business and court affairs. It's not massive daily drama and fuckets by noon anymore ... more like 3pm and every other day. After a downward trend Mutti's stabilized nicely re. the Alzheimer's again ... I think also getting her teeth finally fixed well also eliminated low grade chronic inflammation/infection that was not helping.

I learn amazing new things from Kingsley every day ... funny how I'm (ultimately) reaching for a Strait swim, and also Paralympics, and God dumps the world's best (continuing) swimmer and Paralympian in my lap. Kinda literally. But aside from his obvious utility (in MANY ways), he is simply an incredible person with whom I'm deeply grateful to share my heart and life. (And ... never mind, TMI)

He'll be coming down for Mutti's 80th birthday in October to meet the fam.

He was featured top of Sports page in our very own Jakarta Post (leading newspaper of one of the world's largest cities) and I was grousing to him about how every member of my family except me has been featured (not just mentioned or cited) in the JP ... lo and behold, I get a call from a JP reporter wanting to feature me in a triathlon article because it's become such a fast-growing sport/craze here ... AAAAAH I don't have two decent hi-res pics of me in competition! Must hunt!

Also scored an interview with a U.S.-based women's triathlon magazine through Chris Lieto's More Than Sport, which is working with the Bali Sports Foundation (which hosted the Paragames in Bali) to get Indonesian Paralympians to Rio. YAAAAAAAY

As long as it's you riding and me taking pictures. 

Yo Jen, happy birfday!

Mechanical chili pepper ride is on me for your birthday gift 

This is about how my Ragnar experience went:

Our van had a Kentucky licence plate so we pretty much used that as an excuse for everything.

Lots of great stuff going on in my life now as well ... not any less crazy busy (even more so!) but light's finally dawning with the business and court affairs. It's not massive daily drama and fuckets by noon anymore ... more like 3pm and every other day. After a downward trend Mutti's stabilized nicely re. the Alzheimer's again ... I think also getting her teeth finally fixed well also eliminated low grade chronic inflammation/infection that was not helping.

I learn amazing new things from Kingsley every day ... funny how I'm (ultimately) reaching for a Strait swim, and also Paralympics, and God dumps the world's best (continuing) swimmer and Paralympian in my lap. Kinda literally. But aside from his obvious utility (in MANY ways), he is simply an incredible person with whom I'm deeply grateful to share my heart and life. (And ... never mind, TMI)

He'll be coming down for Mutti's 80th birthday in October to meet the fam.

He was featured top of Sports page in our very own Jakarta Post (leading newspaper of one of the world's largest cities) and I was grousing to him about how every member of my family except me has been featured (not just mentioned or cited) in the JP ... lo and behold, I get a call from a JP reporter wanting to feature me in a triathlon article because it's become such a fast-growing sport/craze here ... AAAAAH I don't have two decent hi-res pics of me in competition! Must hunt!

Also scored an interview with a U.S.-based women's triathlon magazine through Chris Lieto's More Than Sport, which is working with the Bali Sports Foundation (which hosted the Paragames in Bali) to get Indonesian Paralympians to Rio. YAAAAAAAY

This is about how my Ragnar experience went:

Our van had a Kentucky licence plate so we pretty much used that as an excuse for everything.

Glad things are working out so nicely in so many areas.  I must say, however, even reading about someone else's BF meeting the family makes me twitch a bit

This is about how my Ragnar experience went:

Our van had a Kentucky licence plate so we pretty much used that as an excuse for everything.

Lots of great stuff going on in my life now as well ... not any less crazy busy (even more so!) but light's finally dawning with the business and court affairs. It's not massive daily drama and fuckets by noon anymore ... more like 3pm and every other day. After a downward trend Mutti's stabilized nicely re. the Alzheimer's again ... I think also getting her teeth finally fixed well also eliminated low grade chronic inflammation/infection that was not helping.

I learn amazing new things from Kingsley every day ... funny how I'm (ultimately) reaching for a Strait swim, and also Paralympics, and God dumps the world's best (continuing) swimmer and Paralympian in my lap. Kinda literally. But aside from his obvious utility (in MANY ways), he is simply an incredible person with whom I'm deeply grateful to share my heart and life. (And ... never mind, TMI)

He'll be coming down for Mutti's 80th birthday in October to meet the fam.

He was featured top of Sports page in our very own Jakarta Post (leading newspaper of one of the world's largest cities) and I was grousing to him about how every member of my family except me has been featured (not just mentioned or cited) in the JP ... lo and behold, I get a call from a JP reporter wanting to feature me in a triathlon article because it's become such a fast-growing sport/craze here ... AAAAAH I don't have two decent hi-res pics of me in competition! Must hunt!

Also scored an interview with a U.S.-based women's triathlon magazine through Chris Lieto's More Than Sport, which is working with the Bali Sports Foundation (which hosted the Paragames in Bali) to get Indonesian Paralympians to Rio. YAAAAAAAY

That's a LOT of cool stuff in a single post! So happy things are looking up for you! He's going to meet the fam?!?!?!?!? And congrats on the JP feature! US based women's tri mag?! Never heard of it!

I'm so happy that things are going well for you right now.  It really makes me smile. 

Oh boy, that RR will be EPIC!!!

Why yes it is! Do you happen to be close to there? It would be nice to finally meet a manatee in person!

Random and off the top of my head ... are these with kickboard? Go sans--better for body position--and put in the occasional pull if need be. Got shorty fins? (I actually don't like those but med/long ones will make you too fast and might make your feet extend too much, if stretchiness is a problem)

Kicking isn't done with the legs, really ... it's done with the hips and core (nothing you don't know). Work on a kick that originates from the opposite shoulder and gets its real leverage/power from hip driving down.

http://swimspeedsecrets.com/2013/03/19/swim-speed-workouts-serape-kicking-drill-video/

Yeah, Salty's all freaked out about how fast it's going, which of course makes it even funner to go even faster ... kinda like triathlon.

We're not exactly by-halves people, either of us. Oh, and neither is Kingsley