Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 322)

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Are you really asking us????

Naw. You know better than that.

Have fun!

Originally posted by StaceyK What have i done? Help me I have created an exercise monster! So I have this great friend at work that has been morbidly obese for her entire adult life. She has done every yoyo diet that you can think of and then some. In October last year she started the Dukin diet after a number of other people at work had lost a fair bit of weight doing it. So a requirement of the diet is that the person must walk for at least 30 minutes 5 days a week. This was like telling her that she must climb Everest every day. So she asked me to keep her accountable and told me I had to make her check in every day to tell me if she had done her walking. So we have some great weeks and some not so great weeks but 10 months later she has lost 40kg (nearly 90#), she has about 15kg to go but more importantly she walks most days and on Saturdays she drags her husband out for a 10km walk with their dogs. She travels a bit and now will not stay at a hotel that doesn't have a gym or fitness facilities and checks the distance from the train station to the hotel so that she can walk instead of taking a taxi. She is talking about doing a fun run with me early next year - insisting that she will only walk because her knees cant handle running but even that is a huge thing for her because 10 months ago she was too embarrassed to exercise outside in case someone saw her. She is talking about a poolside holiday in Bali in April with her new bikini body, so now I have to get cracking so that I can join her and blind all of Yanti's countrymen with the whiteness of my skin. I can't believe the change in her and I am so very proud of her. Her exercise regularity puts me to shame and is making me embarrassed about how easily I find better things to do than the workout that I had planned.

Originally posted by jobaxas

I am still working on getting my azz over to Busso in December....

Originally posted by rrrunner

I saw that announcement as well. I like how they are staggering the registration to let the "fasties" have first crack at it.

I started the book you  sent and have a hard time putting it down. I got to my hotel room at about 10:30 last night and thought I'd read "a little bit" to relax. Yeah... it was more than a "little bit" before I finally put it down.

And speaking of my hotel room... would you PLEASE put a SBux in Taos. I tried 3 different local Joe joints over the three days and wouldn't go back to any of them! The chai was overpriced and lower quality than SBux

Originally posted by switch First and foremost, this workout is just ridiculously awesome.  I saw those splits, missy.  AHHHHVERYVERYNICE.

Any guesses how long that registration will last?  I'm thinking I won't make it running on the 22nd :/  May try to scramble and see if I can find a close one the weekend before.  Pretty sure everything I'm doing right now is in the "How Not To Train for and Run a Marathon Bible."

Originally posted by TriAya

Oh. Em. Gee. You did NOT find THAT photo

I'm going to be laughing my azz off through the whole race thinking of you guys ...

I know that Bible.

Originally posted by bcraht

Soooooo, if K was not in California with the baby dog right now, I'm pretty sure she would leave me....We brought home 20+ lbs of peaches from the Okanagan and I just canned and jammed my fool head off.  I *may* have boiled some jam over and jamified the stove...

Originally posted by StaceyK so let it cool down a bit and then let one of the dogs lick it clean maybe (I know gross hey)

Originally posted by bcraht

My dogs are 16" tall...Not sure how I could make that work.  And gross?  We cook meat for them.  In our wok.  Which they lick when it is cool.  What's gross?

Originally posted by Richardsdrr I've seen you've all been having fun lately. I haven't been able to join in as I'm in the middle of a shyte storm. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has decided to give me a tax audit next week, so all my spare time is going back over 6 years of accounts getting them in order No chance of me racing this weekend. I am trying to keep up with everything, but life has been put on hold for the current week. As you were....

Originally posted by StaceyK What have i done? Help me I have created an exercise monster! So I have this great friend at work that has been morbidly obese for her entire adult life. She has done every yoyo diet that you can think of and then some. In October last year she started the Dukin diet after a number of other people at work had lost a fair bit of weight doing it. So a requirement of the diet is that the person must walk for at least 30 minutes 5 days a week. This was like telling her that she must climb Everest every day. So she asked me to keep her accountable and told me I had to make her check in every day to tell me if she had done her walking. So we have some great weeks and some not so great weeks but 10 months later she has lost 40kg (nearly 90#), she has about 15kg to go but more importantly she walks most days and on Saturdays she drags her husband out for a 10km walk with their dogs. She travels a bit and now will not stay at a hotel that doesn't have a gym or fitness facilities and checks the distance from the train station to the hotel so that she can walk instead of taking a taxi. She is talking about doing a fun run with me early next year - insisting that she will only walk because her knees cant handle running but even that is a huge thing for her because 10 months ago she was too embarrassed to exercise outside in case someone saw her. She is talking about a poolside holiday in Bali in April with her new bikini body, so now I have to get cracking so that I can join her and blind all of Yanti's countrymen with the whiteness of my skin. I can't believe the change in her and I am so very proud of her. Her exercise regularity puts me to shame and is making me embarrassed about how easily I find better things to do than the workout that I had planned.

Originally posted by kgore

'kay, my new avi is up to par now.

Here's some more fun:

Japanese Giant Salamander Check out its cute little hands!

hmmm, almost manatee-ish...

Good luck and have fun Yanti!!!!! 

Originally posted by StaceyKwell I didn't think they were really big so I thought that maybe you could pick them up and put them on the bench so they could get to the good stuff that got slopped. Of course you would then clean it after so its really not gross, it would just save a lot of work.My dogs love fruit of every description (with the exception of tomatoes and lemons) I think that they are most partial to mandarins. You definitely can't eat an apple, orange or mandarin without sharing and given that there is 6 of them it doesn't leave much for the person involved.I just brought home a Tuffie Larry Lobster toy for my dogs and after an hour and all of them having a chew and pull on it they haven't managed to rip it apart. This is a major accomplishment for any toy in this house. The other toy that I got (from another tuff toy company) at the same time lasted the grand total of 12 minutes before one dog had managed to rip it open and spread the stuffing around the room and they were both under $20 so I know which sort I will be buying again.

Originally posted by cdban66

I usually have some thing on a Friday morning that may be deep and meaningful, but today is a little different, courtesy of Ted Knight in Caddy Shack:

"It's easy to grin when your ship has come in

And you've got the stock market beat

But the man that's worthwhile, is the man that can smile

When his pants are too tight in the seat" 

 

Enjoy the weekend, race well, train hard, smile lots, and do something that scares you. Heal up if you are on the DL.

Originally posted by amd723 I love that quote, but it is funny that every male I know can ( and does) quote caddy shack!

Originally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!

August 31- September 1
Yanti - IM Japan on Saturday
Chris - Venice Sprint on Saturday
Monica - Great Illini 70.3 on Saturday
Judi - Rock n Roll Virginia Beach half marathon
TJ - Dam to Dam 5k on Sunday
Kirsten - Merrell Multisport Vancouver Sprint or Olympic on Monday

Disabled list:
Ann-Marie - hamstring tendinopathy (improving!  PT graduation next week!)
JoGo - tensor fascia strain with hip flexor and IS inflammation
Jen - right leg unhappy, possible tibial stress fracture + generally bad week
Randee - tweaked lower back

Core Challenge - 100d x 10m = 1 strong core
http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=492917

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Follow Yanti information
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live.ironman.com  <<<< select Japan

To check the current time on Hakkaido:  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=622
Note that Japan is 13 hours ahead of New York so 6:22am on Saturday Japan time is 7:22pm FRIDAY in New York.

Follow Yanti thread on CoJ: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=498806

Accuweather forecast for Toyako-cho on Saturday: Cloudy; a couple of showers in the morning followed by rain and drizzle in the afternoon.  The expected high is 69 degrees and the expected low 60 degrees.  0.14 inches of rain expected in the afternoon and 0.2 inches expected in the evening.

The Weather Channel forecast for Toyako-onsemmachi, Japan on Saturday: Mostly cloudy. High 74F. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 mph.  For Saturday evening they are saying: Showers early becoming a steady rain late. Low 66F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%.

Originally posted by jmkizerRacing Manatees!

August 31- September 1
Yanti - IM Japan on Saturday
Chris - Venice Sprint on Saturday
Monica - Great Illini 70.3 on Saturday
Judi - Rock n Roll Virginia Beach half marathon
TJ - Dam to Dam 5k on Sunday
Kirsten - Merrell Multisport Vancouver Sprint or Olympic on Monday

Disabled list:
Ann-Marie - hamstring tendinopathy (improving!  PT graduation next week!)
JoGo - tensor fascia strain with hip flexor and IS inflammation
Jen - right leg unhappy, possible tibial stress fracture + generally bad week
Randee - tweaked lower back

Core Challenge - 100d x 10m = 1 strong core
http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=492917

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Follow Yanti information
#1550
live.ironman.com  <<<< select Japan

To check the current time on Hakkaido:  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=622
Note that Japan is 13 hours ahead of New York so 6:22am on Saturday Japan time is 7:22pm FRIDAY in New York.

Follow Yanti thread on CoJ: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=498806

Accuweather forecast for Toyako-cho on Saturday: Cloudy; a couple of showers in the morning followed by rain and drizzle in the afternoon.  The expected high is 69 degrees and the expected low 60 degrees.  0.14 inches of rain expected in the afternoon and 0.2 inches expected in the evening.

The Weather Channel forecast for Toyako-onsemmachi, Japan on Saturday: Mostly cloudy. High 74F. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 mph.  For Saturday evening they are saying: Showers early becoming a steady rain late. Low 66F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%.

Originally posted by StaceyK well I didn't think they were really big so I thought that maybe you could pick them up and put them on the bench so they could get to the good stuff that got slopped. Of course you would then clean it after so its really not gross, it would just save a lot of work. My dogs love fruit of every description (with the exception of tomatoes and lemons) I think that they are most partial to mandarins. You definitely can't eat an apple, orange or mandarin without sharing and given that there is 6 of them it doesn't leave much for the person involved. I just brought home a Tuffie Larry Lobster toy for my dogs and after an hour and all of them having a chew and pull on it they haven't managed to rip it apart. This is a major accomplishment for any toy in this house. The other toy that I got (from another tuff toy company) at the same time lasted the grand total of 12 minutes before one dog had managed to rip it open and spread the stuffing around the room and they were both under $20 so I know which sort I will be buying again.

Originally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!

August 31- September 1
Yanti - IM Japan on Saturday
Chris - Venice Sprint on Saturday
Monica - Great Illini 70.3 on Saturday
Judi - Rock n Roll Virginia Beach half marathon
TJ - Dam to Dam 5k on Sunday
Kirsten - Merrell Multisport Vancouver Sprint or Olympic on Monday

Disabled list:
Ann-Marie - hamstring tendinopathy (improving!  PT graduation next week!)
JoGo - tensor fascia strain with hip flexor and IS inflammation
Jen - right leg unhappy, possible tibial stress fracture + generally bad week
Randee - tweaked lower back

Core Challenge - 100d x 10m = 1 strong core
http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=492917

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Follow Yanti information
#1550
live.ironman.com  <<<< select Japan

To check the current time on Hakkaido:  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=622
Note that Japan is 13 hours ahead of New York so 6:22am on Saturday Japan time is 7:22pm FRIDAY in New York.

Follow Yanti thread on CoJ: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=498806

Accuweather forecast for Toyako-cho on Saturday: Cloudy; a couple of showers in the morning followed by rain and drizzle in the afternoon.  The expected high is 69 degrees and the expected low 60 degrees.  0.14 inches of rain expected in the afternoon and 0.2 inches expected in the evening.

The Weather Channel forecast for Toyako-onsemmachi, Japan on Saturday: Mostly cloudy. High 74F. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 mph.  For Saturday evening they are saying: Showers early becoming a steady rain late. Low 66F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%.