Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 301)

Originally posted by TriAya

WHERE ARE MY POP TARTS?!?!?!

Welcome, Randee!

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk oops

Originally posted by TriAya

Bless you, my child.

Also, unfortunately, you'll have to start putting SOMETHING in your BT logs. We're very nosy and stalkish that way, and we like to come and harass you. Doubly so if there's nothing there.

In fact, three of us are semi-pro pro triathlete stalkers.

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk I'm TOTALLY crashing this party! (well, not really, I had an invite ;) First and foremost let me say I'd never heard of Betty Designs blueyedbikergirl so I just waltzed over to their website and I LOVE IT! The name? MtnBIkerChk or MBC for short. Or Randee for real. I turned 40 this year and for some reason I figured it would be a good idea to try some triathlons. I've done 9 sprints and number 10 is on the books for September. Next year I'm scheduling an Oly and a HIM and I'm an Internet junkie and could surf about swimming, running and biking all day long - and it looks like you all do so here I am! Of course today is the 1 day I won't be at my desk all day so go ahead, poke at the new kid and I'll have to respond later tonight. I'll even give you a topic to start with: I'm really bad about posting my workouts on BT but everything goes into garminconnect so if you're really interested you can check me there. Otherwise I will sit down and put it into BT. I'm only 2 months behind :)

Originally posted by switch

Welcome Randee!

Am I reading that right, this is your first year and you've already done 9 tris? Nice!

Can you just bulk upload your data from your Garmin to BT?  I think there's a button for that. (I may have to test my screen shot abilities---ack!)  One of the more computer savvy people here could explain it much better, than I.

 

Originally posted by switch

I stumbled on this short little video today when trying to find a pic of a super dorked out triathlete for Salty.  It's two minutes long, and hit me just right.  Apologies if you've already seen it.

Chit Triathletes Don't Say.

Which is a spoof on the longer, but also funny,

Chit Triathletes Say:

Originally posted by ponderingfox

Youch, this race hurt.  It was all the bike, and I wasn't ready for a 20 mile rolling course.  The swim was good.  I finally felt comfortable in the open water - victory.  I only pity-walked once - victory.  I might even have a decent average speed on the bike, but that's what did me in.  I haven't had a run hurt like that since my first 5k.  But I persevered, and my second lap was faster, and I ended up feeling pretty good on the run, though it was death earlier.

The race report cometh.

Originally posted by TriAya

MANDATORY MANATEE ASSIGNMENT

If you haven't done so already, please write to the following e-mail:

k r i s t i n  AT  brandbetty.com

including the words Monica McLeod and Betty in the title, endorsing her application to be a Betty by telling them how awesome Monica is, how much she's changed your life, and how she's made you drool to own Betty gear.

This goes double for the male Manatees.

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

WOOT!  I got my Betty Design shorts in!!!

I haven't done anything but pose in them so far, but I LOVE 'em!!

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk I'm TOTALLY crashing this party! (well, not really, I had an invite First and foremost let me say I'd never heard of Betty Designs blueyedbikergirl so I just waltzed over to their website and I LOVE IT! The name? MtnBIkerChk or MBC for short. Or Randee for real. I turned 40 this year and for some reason I figured it would be a good idea to try some triathlons. I've done 9 sprints and number 10 is on the books for September. Next year I'm scheduling an Oly and a HIM and I'm an Internet junkie and could surf about swimming, running and biking all day long - and it looks like you all do so here I am! Of course today is the 1 day I won't be at my desk all day so go ahead, poke at the new kid and I'll have to respond later tonight. I'll even give you a topic to start with: I'm really bad about posting my workouts on BT but everything goes into garminconnect so if you're really interested you can check me there. Otherwise I will sit down and put it into BT. I'm only 2 months behind

Originally posted by JJ- Done

Originally posted by JJ- Done

Originally posted by Artemis

lol...yeah, it's a trip.  The doctors and nurses are so blase about it!  When I worked at Epic Systems (Madison-based company making EMR software), I went down to Northwestern for a week to help train the nurses.  One day, I was in the post-colonoscopy unit.  It was an experience!

Originally posted by TriAya

OH CRAP.

The (God bless them, truly) church people kidnapped Mutti again.

I know exactly what's gonna be happen. It'll be, like, 11pm and I'll have been waiting for hours and start panicking and call the pastor's house and wake his kids up and scream at them WHERE IS MY MOTHER???

Then she'll waltz (stumble-polka in, they and she are German) in totally wasted around 12:30am and puke everywhere.

Karma.

Originally posted by bcraht

Tawit tawoo!!!!

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Any way that you can go "rescue" her before it gets to the puking everywhere stage? 

Originally posted by TriAya

Fortunately, she came home early (early as in 9min ago, at 10:30) and was merely woozy and has cheerfully passed out.

Unfortunately, the folks who came and got her were different from the folks who had come last time, so she still had a little too much to drink.

Fortunately, really just a little. She doesn't smell at all and she's not puking. Just happy.

Originally posted by switch

I stumbled on this short little video today when trying to find a pic of a super dorked out triathlete for Salty.  It's two minutes long, and hit me just right.  Apologies if you've already seen it.

Chit Triathletes Don't Say.

Which is a spoof on the longer, but also funny,

Chit Triathletes Say:

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

WOOT!  I got my Betty Design shorts in!!!

I haven't done anything but pose in them so far, but I LOVE 'em!!

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Loooookin gooood!!!

Posing is the most important part. So long as you've got that covered you are golden

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk I'm TOTALLY crashing this party! (well, not really, I had an invite First and foremost let me say I'd never heard of Betty Designs blueyedbikergirl so I just waltzed over to their website and I LOVE IT! The name? MtnBIkerChk or MBC for short. Or Randee for real. I turned 40 this year and for some reason I figured it would be a good idea to try some triathlons. I've done 9 sprints and number 10 is on the books for September. Next year I'm scheduling an Oly and a HIM and I'm an Internet junkie and could surf about swimming, running and biking all day long - and it looks like you all do so here I am! Of course today is the 1 day I won't be at my desk all day so go ahead, poke at the new kid and I'll have to respond later tonight. I'll even give you a topic to start with: I'm really bad about posting my workouts on BT but everything goes into garminconnect so if you're really interested you can check me there. Otherwise I will sit down and put it into BT. I'm only 2 months behind

Originally posted by bcraht

Way to go Tom!  Look forward to the RR.

Yanti, I hope the puking is kept to a minimum and most of it does not require a clean up...

I'm not sure who the inviter was, but I sure hope they warned the invitee about us ahead of time...Welcome Randee!  Although if you have already gotten through 9 events, you can surely survive us!

I had a long and weird day yesterday and got no workouts in.  I was up early for a podiatry appointment, worked, then went to this weird theatrical performance.  The tickets were free and I am not kidding when I say it was the strangest thing I have ever seen.  It was in the works/maintenance yard at Stanley Park (1000 acre park on the ocean).  The 'stage' was one of those cargo containerspainted white, bordered by stacked cargo containers painted white.  There was no seating because it was considered audience participation.  The first scenes included children being picked out of the audience and being auctioned off as part of the show.  There was a scary headmistress scene in which her head was projected onto the cargo containers behind the stage and her arms onto the cargo containers at the side, and she kept saying she was squeezing and hugging us (the audience).  Many of the scenes were acted out in the audience, with scary men in trenchcoats and fedoras on contraptions which made them fly.  The main character turned into a fish, and we were part of the jury to judge whether she was a 'fish-fish' or a 'not-fish'.  We had to put blindfolds on for no less than 5 minutes, to simulate crossing the ocean on a cargo ship...