Yanti & Salty Mad Manatees PART 3: FULL POD (Page 3)

Photos from yesterday's ride, as requested by Manatee Melody.  Nothing too scenic but here you go!

Country roads (above)

Three deer that I saw on my ride.  I saw these deer on Tody Goodwin Road yesterday morning. I stopped my bike to take the picture and of course a car went by, causing them to skedaddle.

I took this photo near the end of my ride.  It's at a crossroads called Bonsal.  I was trying to get the blueberry sign to the left and the flag on the right but the flag came out itty bitty.

Since when are Manatees quiet?

What she said :-)  Congrats!

Jayne - you're back!   Beautiful pics - makes for a nice ride!!

Nice job on the RR Allen!

Here are my pix for my weekend of training (and some hiking). 

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I found a new road - with BRAND NEW BLACK TOP FOR 3 MILES!!  It was Smooth.... (view from gu stop #2 Hammer Montana Huckleberry)

View from gu stop #, bright and early (Hammer Madarine orange)

Eight-y two km

Seven hundred-ish calories

Six different cities/municipalities (Surrey, New Westminster, Burnaby, Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Surrey)

Flight Path of Pitt Meadows Airport

Five minute dog walk intermission (Rode past my mom's house and let her dog out)

Four hours (minus 13 minutes)

Three bridges over

Bridge #2 (Pitt River Bridge)                                                  Bridge #3 (Golden Ears Bridge)

Two Different Rivers

River #2 (Pitt River)River #1 and 3 (Fraser River)

Equals

One tired cyclist

Sorry I feel like I've been incommunicado but seriously I have been an emotional basket case!  Went to the doctor on Friday and he said how on earth have I been coping like that for so long - replaced medication starting immediately and I feel completely different - we will wait a month and see but fingers crossed the emotional meltdowns have ceased.

Friday afternoon picked up the Trek Mad One!!!  So excited, the LBS owner was also very excited - met the director of Trek Australia who was down visiting.  It was a perfect two hours!

Wish the weather would let me out on the new beast - but it's initiation will be on the drainer

Saturday flew to Adelaide at 6am - optimistically packed my running gear but it was soooooo wet and cold it didn't happen.

No worries - today I started Fink 20 weeks out from HIM - I feel like i'm back on it!  Went for a 45min run at lunchtime, managed to miss the rain but would have gone anyway - I feel all committed again!  Lower back is a bit sore, will stretch that out before swim squad tonight.

So - now I feel normal again, I shall be posting frequently as I won't be clouded by tears!

I can't spell: Mandarin...oops...

Good looking rides everyone!!

45min lunchtime run - around 7km.

3km swim squad:

FINS
4x150m - 50M FREE, 50M BACK, 50M BREAST
4X100M - 100M left arm, right by side, 100m right arm, left by side

NO FINS
4X200M - 200m 90%, 200m recovery
4x100m - 100m 90%, 100m recovery
8x50m   - 50m 90%, 50m recovery
8x25m  - 25m 90%, 25m recovery

200m cooldown

loved loved loved it!

Back from the beach and getting back into it, going for a ride here in a bit and probably a swim this afternoon.

Here is a pic from the beach that I got some OWS in.

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Pretty pretty!

Keep watching that knee, sir. (Now I realized I'm an idiot and forgot to give you more info ... thwack me with a flipper)

Glad you took it easy on it last week. Keep on doing so. You may also find shin stretches (like sitting on your knees with your feet pointed underneath) and calf stretches helpful.

Janyne - Love the deer pic.  I have the same trouble getting pix of animals.  I do have lizard pix though...

Tracy - Beautiful pix.  I can almost smell the greenery.  Wisconsin is stunning! We use to take our boys to the Dells when they were little

Kirsten - Wow, just wow.  The only river I cross is the Rio Grande and it's not so "grande" by the time it gets to central NM.  And the bridges, wow!

Kirk - I love beaches! I've never really swam in the ocean, just splashed around, but I love to run on the beach!

Yanti - Glad you're laying low.  I squeezed in some time to watch TdF piglets too.  I wanted to smack the camera-man that caused one of the accidents.  Seriously? If you respect the sport enough to be there STAY OUT OF THE WAY!!!

I also watched the US Olympic tryouts for swimming, track and gymnastics. It was fun watching S/B/R on one day in 3 separate events.  I thought of Salty while watching the track tryouts (jealous).

Happy Monday Manatees!

Jo - glad you're feeling better! Looking forward to encouraging you as you train for your HIM!

Kirsten - If the elevation is a non-issue for you then I think the lower elevation ride looks "harder" because it has steeper climbs.  The one at elevation has a less steep climb and appears to have more downhill time.  Just my 2 cents.

Thanks Yanti, I figured it was an overuse issue, we have had to be riding in a fairly small area with a stop sign/light every block so a lot of starting and stopping on a heavy bike with equipment...  yeah caused a bit more stress than usual much better now.  Good news is this week and next at least I am getting training for an investigator slot and will get a much easier schedule and no biking in the 100+ heat

So not so much on taking it easy this weekend yanti?  Good set up though

I agree with TJ on those rides as well

Love, love, love everyone's pics!!  Super!

Here is mine from my run Friday evening on one of my favorite trails (rail trail) and the other shots are from the bike race I worked at on Saturday since my own ride didn't pan out the way I wanted it to this weekend.  Stopped to try to get what would've been an awesome pic of a great blue heron perched in a tree hanging out over the creek, but as herons are wont to do, it flew til I got my phone out.  But the pics from the race are very indicative of much of the scenery is around my area.  Farms, corn, crops.  I will still try to get the pic I really wanted to get sometime in the future.

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The Olympic Trials were one of the coolest things EVER. OMG it was just heaven! I have been in 4 states in one week and am dead tired and ready to spend some time at home but the weekend was just amazing. The whole thing was just crazy-exciting. Of course, I was partial to the women's 200m if I absolutely HAD to pick my favorite thing. 

Here is a pic from my training run in Seattle Friday:

and here are some pics from the trials Saturday:

Big Azz hamster wheel

Here is a pic while running the PRE trails with the Brooks team:

I know I've been MIA for awhile but (dare I say it) I am back to training!  Since we are on a picture theme, here is what has kept me so busy over the past few weeks:

Vacation in NC (Lake Norman...that's Bryan and Alex):

Baseball championships (Liam's the catcher):


Camping trip w/Cub Scouts:


ER visits:


Fishing:


First day of ESY (Cole):

Drat, cop, nothing gets by you.

Very cool pics!!! ER visit, nice! Keepin' mom on her toes!