Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 25)

Well it's Saturday evening - did I take it easy aftger yesterday's efforts - er no.

So here's how my day went.

drove to pool - 1.5km swim - first 400 at RPE 7 and was done in 7mins - very happy with that.  1.5km took 30mins all up.

Drove to cycle track in my tri suit - my second outing with my clipping in business (should be called crippling in!).  Anyway I'm great at clipping in - off I go, it's a great track about 2km with some badass incline where there is always a mean headwind - a good fast section too where you hit about 45kph before a turn and a pond!!!

so half way round I thought, okay try and stop and clip out.  Unlipped left foot as practised on trainer, hit the brakes and then instead of putting left foot down attempted to put right foot down which was still clipped in - gracefully landed in a heap below my bike!  My first stack!  Now if that had been on the road I would be under a car!  That's why I use the track

anyway, back on the trusty steed I got and vowed every lap to stop and unclip at the same point (so as not to get a phobia) - all good, I did it every time perfectly - okay it's far from elegant but it's better than it was!  Other new things I did today, managed to drink from my bottle while moving!  Also managed to peel and eat a banana while moving!  Total session 50km in 2 hours.

Hopped (staggered) off the bike and set off for a 30min wobbly run/walk.  Done - about 4.5km didn't measure it, I just ran round a footy pitch!

That my fellow manatees was an awesome session!  I particularly enjoyed the bike which is the first time I've used the word enjoy and bike in a sentence.  PROGRESS!!!

And BIG THANKs to you all who think my 3km squad sessions are freaky!  It's just what we do!

Good luck to anyone racing this weekend.

I'm off to have my 'tea' (dinner for the non Anglos!)  Tomorrow just a 30min recovery run along the beach and put my legs in the ocean DIVINE.

Yanti - stay well.

Artemis - awesome name - get as much sleep as you can!

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Good Luck Everyone!!! 

Have a great race!!

May the weather be dry and the wind always at your back!!!

Good luck Sunday!

I'm tired just reading this.  The coach picture woke me up though

I'm sorry about your husband's uncle.

Also sorry about the bad food, but congratulations on tenure!

You and I MUST go eat together sometime ... you saw the St. Regis brunch debacle, yes? Same type of 'buffet,' where we ordered the entire 7-page menu and yes, some favorites again ... I think I went through several dozen courses, including ... I don't know how many mains. Mains meaning including carb and veg I think the final dish count was over 40? It's all fuzzy ...

Well, you should be getting back from the coaching session now, I hope it went really well! I'm sure the 2-hour swim session is a lot of tutelage in between so you should be fine. Ah, please post if you are still alive and conscious, that at least is important to me

I use my "yoga breathing" for just about everything I do, but especially for swimming. Even when I'm cycling or running, however, if I feel that I'm tightening up or 'gasping' for breath, I try to breath in and out through my nose for a few breaths to slow things down and relax.

I send more kudos on that strength routine. You are a machine!

I love New Mexico. I've only been through once, this Christmas, but it was so beautiful. As I grow older, I am becoming more of a desert/plains person. I love the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) changes in the landscape.

Oh, my. That sand looks like snow. Amazing.

Good job on the ride. We drove up through Overland Park yesterday afternoon, and it was windy. I had a hard time keeping the car on the road. A trailer ahead of me for part of the time wasn't keeping it on the road. He was all over the place.

OOOOH we are posting hot coach as well as puppy pics now too? OH YES! THANK YOU JO! Sluuuurp ... please--even if the person isn't YOUR coach, or even a coach of anything resembling tri or its sports ... I call that INSPIRATION and MOTIVATION!

Okay, so both do happen to be my coaches, but I will happily provide many more pics of other gorgeous coaches ...

For our wonderful lady-loving Manatees, that's Miss Sheila Taormina, who is probably history's greatest athlete. Four Olympics, three different sports, Olympic champ in one, world champ in another, ranked at one time top 10 in the third. KA-RAZY!!! Also the nicest person in the world--lady of deep faith and charity.

For our wonderful man-loving Manatees, that's Monte. He's not history's greatest athlete, but he might be one of the greater athlete-humanitarians. Swimming resume is much like van Wisse's, but he has no formal coaching experience except for me. Mainly because I'm the only one crazy enough to want to do the types of things he's done, but dumber. We're very alike, which scares a lot of people, as it should. He also struggles with a debilitating chronic illness, which has made him a really good adviser for me to have, if I listened to him.

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I wish that coach would wake me up . . . um. Sorry. Did I say that out loud?

See, NOW it's perfectly clear why Jo can manage to make pre-buttcrack-of-dawn, 3K swim sessions

Oh wow, so pretty! I love the one on the bridge! It's like it belongs in a movie ...

ooh, now I want to go out and take photos of Sacramento! Maybe I'll just take a few pics at Folsom Lake tomorrow....

Busy day today! I'm finishing a HUGE exhibit remodel (repaint/structure-building/adding & removing tree limbs/adding plants/vines) this afternoon, and cleaning out a tortoise house plus all the usual animal care stuff! Good times! Then a quick little bike/run to get early butterflies/excess energy out (I'm betting there is a lot of the excess energy today---WAAAAYYYY to hyper this morning--at least I entertain my coworkers this way....well, at least I think they are entertained....hmmm.). Beyond that, a bit of cleaning around the house, my kitties have been making multiple messes that I have thus far ignored...its time to remedy that.

Oh well, back to work time!

For sure! Hoping for the best, for everyone and their property, but also thinking of Felicia's race tomorrow ... sounds like a pretty crazy day on the roads today!

Thanks Ladies, when I was in CA it was earthquakes.  So many ways God lets you know who's really in charge, LOL

Got my new Zoot race shoes in yesterday, no laces whohooo!  Will test tomorrow.

Yes, be safe.

I love my Zoots, but it took me a few runs to transition to them (going sockless and with less support then my other shoes); hope you have an easier transition (hey, i just realized that's pun like ) .

Did a test run this morning to see how my hurting hamstring is coming along; it's better, but I still had to stop after 1 mile.  When it is finally healed enough to run, it will probably take me forever to get back to long mileage.  Very frustrating.

On a more positive note, swam 3500 yds with my masters swim group this morning.  The workout called for some IM swimming to include fly!  Usually, we can opt to switch the fly to free, but not this time.  OMG, keeping myself from drowning turned out to be a really good workout I was told my stroke looked pretty good, but I was not getting the 2d kick done properly (or at all).  When we were told we could not switch out the fly, I made the mistake of telling the coach he better not be thinking of filming me.  Of course, he hadn't considered that until I mentioned it and of course he then proceeded to do just that with the threat of posting it on his facebook page. I think it will be posted as a cautionary tale.

Hahahaha ... the nice thing about fly is that it makes free feel SO MUCH BETTER I think you are a super sport for trying!

I did a test outing today to see if my new-felt health would hold up ... FAIL. I was halfway through my list at the grocery store when I realized I needed to head home, ASAP. That was my big outing of the day.

I seem to be out of toilet paper and ice cream ... drat.

Keep being kind to your hammy. Soon, soon.