Mad Mutant Manatee Mentors 4--CLOSED (Page 25)

jmkizer - 2013-04-09 2:00 PM Poor Chris.  When he comes out from his "no internet connectivity" conference, he's going to have a lot of catching up to do!

Muskrat37 - 2013-04-09 11:40 PM

That IS surprising to hear.  My guess is that it has a lot to do with the person they are conversing with!  You are very likeable.  

I'm so excited for your race!

jobaxas - 2013-04-09 11:46 PM

Seen my brother yet?  Hehe - he is a huge man - obese is the word - with his obese son and his wife and daughter.  They are having a grand time.  if you really wanted to find them hit McDonalds, they will surely be there.

jobaxas - 2013-04-08 10:22 PM

wow a facebook curveball.  Andrew piglet bike coach has an ex I believe i mentioned we are 'friends' well mainly if I see her at an event or squad we chat, we are friends on facebook etc.  I can't say we've socialised EVER.

Today I get a message from her saying if I don't stop posting about how wonderful Andrew is and how much he is helping me etc she will have to block me on facebook.  She works hard at removing ex's from her life and doesn't need the constant reminders.  WTF! 

I have not responded.  Really - a little childish I thought and I have no idea how to respond to that.

Any ideas manatees?

To be honest we are hardly friends, if she blocked me without telling me I would have taken months to notice.

StaceyK - 2013-04-09 9:54 PM

So I'm visiting my home town for a couple of days for work and today I got the go for a run along the foreshore as the sun came up.

It was so magical that I kind of want to move home just so I can run there every day. It just made me want to keep on running, but unfortunately I had to go home so I could go out to breakfast with my mum and sister for yummy pancakes

It feels like it doesn't matter what happens today its going to be a good day just cause I got to run by the beach as the sun came up. God truly did make us a beautiful world.

Muskrat37 - 2013-04-10 12:32 AM

Really?  

I hate the East Coast.  Ok - Hate is probably to strong of a word, but I could never live anywhere on the East Coast.  Visit - sure...live, no way.  (The Navy put me on the East coast for 4 years)

I have met many an East Coast transplant that love it here, but when I lived there, I rarely met someone from the West coast that didn't want to go home.  

Asalzwed - 2013-04-10 12:36 AM Ehhh so I'd generally agree. I couldn't live most places on the East Coast but NYC is an exception. I'm betting Boston will be great too. I've always been a huge fan of big cities though. The people here are fantastic, too. That part was very unexpected.

jmkizer - 2013-04-10 7:41 AM

I went to high school in NJ and we went to NYC pretty frequently.  People were never anything but pleasant to me.  Genuinely pleasant, not the saccharine "hospitality" that I sometimes run into in the south.

StaceyK - 2013-04-09 9:54 PM

So I'm visiting my home town for a couple of days for work and today I got the go for a run along the foreshore as the sun came up.

It was so magical that I kind of want to move home just so I can run there every day. It just made me want to keep on running, but unfortunately I had to go home so I could go out to breakfast with my mum and sister for yummy pancakes

It feels like it doesn't matter what happens today its going to be a good day just cause I got to run by the beach as the sun came up. God truly did make us a beautiful world.

jmkizer - 2013-04-10 8:39 AM

Clearly you were hanging out with the wrong people!

jmkizer - 2013-04-10 7:41 AM

I went to high school in NJ and we went to NYC pretty frequently.  People were never anything but pleasant to me.  Genuinely pleasant, not the saccharine "hospitality" that I sometimes run into in the south.

ArielLIlB - 2013-04-10 6:30 AM

Seriously!  Don't be hatin' - that's a broad statement to rule out an entire coast!

Asalzwed - 2013-04-10 6:47 AM

I did, however, get in an argument with some dude in Times Square. Long story but I was in a sassy mood and didn't feel like taking anyone's sh*t.

 

On another note, a HUGE black man at the track named Kiki just told me he'd like to be my running coach. I know this offer was genuine because if he had ulterior motives I don't think he would have told me his name was Kiki

bcraht - 2013-04-09 9:03 PM Ok, if you have a weak stomach, you may not want to look at this.  But I am a nerd and think this is so cool--I've seen a lot of endoscopies, but none on a rescued harbour porpoise. 

Muskrat37 - 2013-04-10 10:14 AM

It might also have something to do with the fact that it was 1993, I was a 21 year old "kid", I was in the Navy and I was STUCK in Virginia... LOL 

I experienced, first hand, a very overt racism I had never seen before.  I traveled through the south and saw segregated towns.  I traveled up the East Coast from Virginia into New York City and then to DC, Philadelphia, Cleveland etc and I found every Big City to be to rushed for my taste, the traffic was horrible (Especially NYC) , and I personally found the stereotypes of people in the big city to be pretty accurate.  That doesn't mean that people were not polite when I spoke to them.  I also thought that, compared to the West Coast, it was rather flat and brown (especially once you head East).  Upstate New York and Connecticut I found to be beautiful in their own way, as were parts of Northern Virginia.

This was just my experience, and because of it, I could never envision a world where I would actually live anywhere on the East Coast.  Even the beautiful beaches of Florida.  Great to visit, but I could never live there.  I'll take the Green Mountains, Thousands of trees, and giant rivers of the west coast any day.  

My statement was made mostly tongue in cheek, and not meant to insult anyone.

Now - visiting Manatees and experiencing the beauty and history that I know exist on the East coast... You are on!  I would love to travel back to New York and DC as an adult.  I would love to visit some of our national monuments that I didn't have the same appreciation for back then.  In a perfect world, I would win the lottery and travel there to compete in triathlons, meet manatee's, and do a bunch of sightseeing.  

Road trip anyone?  

jobaxas - 2013-04-10 1:12 AM

Hehe!  I knew you'd be onto that!  My parents will be most upset, a truer bluer pair you won't find.  My dad was horrified as a teenager when I marched withe the CND mob and had drinks with Arthur Scargill!

4agoodlife - 2013-04-10 3:01 AM ahhh... gotta love shuffle on the iPod. Rihanna, Nickelback, Survivor

Muskrat37 - 2013-04-10 4:46 AM

Don't confuse DEMENTED with DEMENTIA..  

JJ- - 2013-04-10 10:57 AM

I'm still working on my race report should be up today. It's probably way too detailed but it's my first HIM so I want to detail everything for my records.

Considering a 1/2 marathon for autism this saturday. I ran this morning and felt great. Too much too soon? I don't really have the base for a 1/2 marathon and don't want to risk injury but could be a nice endurance run for good cause.

ukweeble - 2013-04-10 11:14 AM

I ran with music at a race for the first time on Sunday. Just before the starting 'gun' the music changed from AC/DC to Micheal Buble's Christmas Album. Took the edge of my adrenaline rush a little.

Muskrat37 - 2013-04-10 5:40 AM

That IS surprising to hear.  My guess is that it has a lot to do with the person they are conversing with!  You are very likeable.  

I'm so excited for your race!

JJ- - 2013-04-10 3:57 PM

I'm still working on my race report should be up today. It's probably way too detailed but it's my first HIM so I want to detail everything for my records.

Considering a 1/2 marathon for autism this saturday. I ran this morning and felt great. Too much too soon? I don't really have the base for a 1/2 marathon and don't want to risk injury but could be a nice endurance run for good cause.

ArielLIlB - 2013-04-10 4:21 PM

Are you saying Michael Buble is not hard core?  With pipes like that?

ukweeble - 2013-04-10 11:31 AM

I am trying hard not to put up a mental image in case we are talking about different pipes.