Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 23)

On tap for the weekend:

Dinner with cycling club tonight.  Mexican is great before an early a.m. ride!

Sat: 30 mile ride with my Mello Velo's for CARTI's Tour de Rock followed by a wedding

Sun: Taking the SeeDoos to the lake then home for kidlet's baseball practice.

Never a dull moment around these parts.

Gee ... I had no idea anyone paid attention to what my avatar was unless it was one of the bikini ones! Sweet!

But more importantly ...

GOOD LUCK to Felicia (KansasMom) in her first race of the season!

Anyone else racing this weekend? Not so far from the sounds of the plans, but say so if so!

Secretly I want to see how long I can make this post by quoting the longest post related to it. 

Ok, so from all of your advice, and with tomorrow being my last long run before Big Sur, and because I am a total idiot at fueling and have only used up to 5 shot blocks and just water on the last 4 marathons I have run, I am going to try actually having some fuel in my body this time and see if that helps.

I'm glad you clarified about the Active articles being useless.  I thought that was a bit over the top but it was the first time I had ever seen a chart based on pace.  I think that a lot of the information out there is based on the "average" runner who is a lot faster than me.  Running a 5:40 marathon is a totally different beast from running a 3:40 marathon.  People run ultras in less time and they usually offer real food on ultra courses.  As my coach reminded me, a 50k is only 5 miles more than a marathon.   I've had this discussion with many fast runners before and there is quite a difference when you are trying to stay upright for 5+ hours than when you are trying to stay upright for 3 hours.   The information is not out there.  I did buy the Paleo for Athletes book and they break it down by time length of the race not distance.

I will try 1 gu/gel/shot block serving or whatever every mile 4 tomorrow.  That will be every 50 minutes but I tried walking 1 minute every mile the other day to simulate race day because I plan on taking a picture at every mile marker.  

Gu isn't always my friend but a friend of mine told me she takes immodium before every marathon and that works to control the gu effects.   I'm not sure I want to do that or just stick with Clif, eventhough gu is served on the course.  I have a pack to carry.   I have never done liquid nutrition before this training cycle so the accelerade or gatorade is all new.  I do like the accelerade.  I'm not crazy about gatorade.  Again, I would have to carry.  

If I seem a little panicked, I am not.  I am really, really curious.  I have trained for several marathons and know that I bonk on the long runs and the marathons.  I have just blown it off to me being out of shape and needing more training.   I have never considered it to be a fueling issue.  You see, I am sort of better than everyone else, existing on water alone and my excessive body fat,  that my body will miraculously metabolize during the marathon, and I will emerge after 26.2 miles looking like a super model.  Yeah, I am that warped. 

I really am curious that maybe I do have the strength and endurance to finish Big Sur, eventhough my training has been interrupted with injury, sickness, and family stress.   It will be interesting to see what this vehicle can do when it actually has fuel to run on. 

x2 so vast and pretty!

I love the desert. I used to live in Redlands, CA, where mountains, desert, high desert, chaparral, and ocean were all within easy driving distance ... best of all worlds ... but for an island girl, it's amazing how much I loved the desert. Even in the middle of the day in summertime ... or snow in the high desert in wintertime! And how alive and beautiful and flowery and even green it is in springtime! I used to just drive out there, by myself, and hang out or hike.

OMG that is a gorgeous view TJ.    It may not be Yanti paradise, but it is a breathtaking view.

I'm so sorry Yanti you are under the weather.  It sucks to be ill.  I hope you start to feel better soon.  Don't let it wait before it get's too bad.  {{kiwi presses}}.

KansaMom, good luck this weekend and have a great time!!!

I too have a race this weekend.  It's a sprint triathlon on Sunday.  400meter swim, 10 mile bike, and 5k run.  A nice way to start the season.    

TGIF!!!!!

Good luck and have fun! Kansas Mom you too - especially in that weather!

Beautiful!  I've been to Sante Fe and Taos and just loved them - is this anywhere near there?

Go get 'em Claire & Felicia.  Can't wait to hear how it goes!

ETA: correct name! (duh, i can read)

I will, I will. (Or is that I won't?)

GOOOO CLAIRE!

Have a great kickoff to this season!

They are down closer to Albuquerque.  the one with the light poles is Sandia Peak and the other is the Santa Ana (Tamaya) Reservation.

I work in Santa Fe and enjoy running biking there as well.

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Beautiful pictures. I love it!

Sooo pretty. See, snow in the desert? I love it! There's something just so lovely about that picture--church, trees, snow, road. Did you take it out of your windshield? Very impressive.

Ohh I also wanted to share that one of my best friends, Andrea, is running her first marathon this weekend! She has lost 50+ pounds and I have kind of been mentoring her (selfishly I have just been inviting her to run with me all of the time so that I have someone to chat with but shhhhh )

I am just super proud of her. 

Good grief!  Serves me right for not keeping track of this thread.

First, Yanti feel better and promise to go see someone if things feel/get worse. 

Second, good luck to all the racers this weekend.  Got get'em Ye Olde Fighting Manatees!

Thirdly, any coffee will do, as long as it has caffeine and I can put cream and sugar in it.  Coffee snob I am not.  I am kind of a tea snob though.  Asian teas and partial to the Jasmine pearl teas for its aroma.

Fourth, You guys are all training fiends! Wow...  I thought I was starting to ramp up my work-outs again.  My ramp looks a bit longer now. Geez

Finally got refit on the bike and it feels much better.  Seat was too high. Of course. Also started swimming intervals instead of just straight long sets. Wow. Those really suck.  As Tony Horton says, "I hate it, but I love it." I'm wiped out after my swim workouts now and I'm not putting up a whole lot of yards either.

Plans for this weekend may be in flux.  Our tri club is hosting a Back Yard Tri or a Build Your Own Tri this weekend. Buy I'll be darned if I get in that water without a wetsuit! My wife just remembered that she agreed to volunteer at a clinic on Saturday morning in Pensacola (she's a doctor) so that means I'm on Daddy duty.  So no chance I can do the tri anyways.  May try to get in a long ride in the afternoon.  Sundays are always my planned rest days so no conflict with church and spandex. :-P

I guess if we're posting up pictures of where we live...

Not as much of a paradise as Bali but I'm not complaining.

Destin, FL

Ok, that's it I'm moving.  I don't know where yet, but any of those pics look better than the long rainy winters we have here.  But, then again, it is, according to the ads, "The best place on Earth"...

I have my second race this Sunday, first in a wetsuit.  Should be entertaining.  Good luck to all!

Wow, beautiful pics of Destin!  I have a friend that lives there and she loves it too!

When someone started a video thread (or tried to) I thought it would be so much fun to see videos/pix of where others live/train.

We should do a Manatee video contest or something. haha.

Oh my goooosh this would be amazing! Then you could all see my treadmill rapping skills!