Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 27)

My fly is laughable, it's like an underwater set there is no height obtained at all.  We had a kid in our lane Thomas who is 13 shoulda seen the height out of the water on the fly.  BUT that pull/band set - I wiped the floor with him.  Boys and their sinking legs!

And I saw this today. Thought of Jen in particular, but for all the Manatee mommies (be it kids or critters) this weekend. My daughter loved it, and I heard that theme song more times in 5 minutes than I did in a year of watching the show!

I'm glad that you saw the PT but I'm sorry that this has been dragging on for you. Hang in there!

Wow. At work using the computer to post. Shhhhh.... can't tell anyone.  The interface is a lot nicer on a computer.

Ok, back to the little boys.  When I was a surfer, I was called a c*** by a 12-year old in the line up.  Funny, he wasn't that cocky in the parking lot where I yelled and threatened to spank him.  That was that story.  Very unsettling to hear the youngsters talk like that!

My sweet momma has been suffering with neck pain and high blood pressure and we have been spending a lot of time with our favorite ER docs until early in the morning like 4:00 am early.  I've been sleep deprived and grumpy, but heading over to swim right now. I promise I will work out more this week if I can keep her from having a set back.  

Here was my question.  I love a long workout.  Like an hour. If I have to put on a suit, shower, swim, shower again and then do all the grooming redo, I want to make it worthwhile. The sprint tri workouts are so short! Is it ok to just do long workouts or should I really stick to those times.  Sometimes it doesn't feel worth it to wake up at 5:00 am to swim for 20 minutes.  

What say you?

Renee

Strange, not able to post on the forum on google chrome, no "reply" button.

Anyway, my bio, finally....

NAME: Richardsdrr/Darren

STORY:I used to be reasonably fit in the past, when I was serving in the infantry, but 12 years of a sedentary  life style had piled on the pounds. I saw a photo of my self at a wedding I was attending and was disgusted by the lump hanging over my belt. So, in October 2012, I stopped smoking and had a look around for some sort of long term goal to keep me on the straight and narrow and shed a few pounds along the way. After a bit of googling I found an event being held in my home country, Wales(Cymru Am Byth), called The Brutal. Basically, what I now know is that what I was looking at was a double iron man distance event. Great, I thought. A bit too much for me to take on at the moment, so what can I do on the run up to it? That is when I discovered the hidden world of triathlon (fairly hidden in our country unless you go looking for it). I then spent the last winter starting training, reading as much as I could and aquiring kit as soon as finances would allow.

FAMILY STATUS: Married (Hannah) with two sprogs, Emmylou(4-5), Finley(3) and one beast, Lucy (4, St Bernard)

CURRENT TRAINING:Been stopping and starting a lot. Sometimes to do with niggles/injuries, sometimes lack of motivation, sometimes life getting in the way. Hey, I'm still learning, so my training regime is not perfect, but it's getting better. And at least I'm getting out.

THIS YEAR'S RACES:
I have my 1st tri on the 19th of this month which is the Llanelli sprint. 800ows/30km/5km.
Next will be another sprint in June 500ows/20km/5km.
Then the biggie that I'm doing for charity in July, which consists of a 3.8km ows on the Friday. A 112 mile bike on the Saturday. And a marathon on the Sunday.
To finish off, I have an olympic tri in September.

BODY COMPOSITION:till got a nice layer of blubber on me, but then, I'm never gonna get a six pack. When I was in the Army I was under my BMI and was the lightest I have ever been, but still could pinch an inch. I have lost about 21-24 lb since starting my little escapade in October.

Any peeps had any probs with garmin holding their charge? I have done a fair amount of googling on the subject and a lot of the advice given is full charge/fully de-charge/ fully recharge +1 hour/ repeat.

My FR410 has been giving me about 4-4.5 hrs of use on a full charge. Various sites say this should be 12-8 hrs per charge. After not getting any joy with the charge/de-charge exercise, and completing a few resets on the watch, I sent off for a replacement battery and soldered it in on the watch(wouldn't advise it, very tricky). But, the new battery is giving the same amount of usage time as the original battery. Which leads me to believe either something is causing extra drainage on the battery, or the software in the watch is corrupt and it's not recognising the full charge.

Just wondered if anyone has had any experience of this.

I have not had this specific problem, however, when I have had problems with my Garmin, three things have helped.

1. Soft reboot (hold down the start & reset button)
2. Clearing the history (I just clear it weekly now)
3. Hard reboot (PitA because you need to re-pair your HRM strap, cadence sensor, etc. and reset all settings including screen look/feel, and so on and so forth).  This basically takes it back to factory settings.

I have not had this specific problem, however, when I have had problems with my Garmin, three things have helped.

1. Soft reboot (hold down the start & reset button)
2. Clearing the history (I just clear it weekly now)
3. Hard reboot (PitA because you need to re-pair your HRM strap, cadence sensor, etc. and reset all settings including screen look/feel, and so on and so forth).  This basically takes it back to factory settings.

Wooo boy, I got to do my first "real" track workout since the marathon. I was told to hold back one group for the main workout which was a 4 mile tempo, doing the last mile about 10 seconds faster than the other 3. I was kind of ho-humming because my legs felt just SHOT because I swear, Yanti is trying to kill me with this OLY stuff. Anyway, I HTFUed and did the damn workout.

We did:

6:56 
6:55 
6:55 
6:46 

THEEEEN, we did 5 x 200. OMG I haven't even run 200 before. I felt like my legs finally came alive, they were:

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