Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 326)

This just posted by Kingsley on FB:

I've been in contact with Yanti. She missed the bike cut off by about 1 minute and ended up in hospital.

Yanti crashed 3 times on descents in the closing stages of the ride in the wet and very windy conditions. Her special needs bag that was supposed to be at the half way mark was at 140Km so she suffered from severe dehydration, lack of food and hypothermia. The regular aid stations also ran out of supplies.

She knocked herself out in two of the crashes but kept going when she came too. She has a concussion and apparently had a seizure on the way to hospital but checked herself out after being warmed up and rehydrated (she isn't thinking straight at all). I convinced her to go back under observation and she's on her way now in a taxi.

She'll contact me when she gets there. As I learn more I'll let people know.

She stopped after one run loop...said heat and humidity were ridiculous. She was happy with what she had done up to that point and didn't want to drive herself into the ground with B2B coming up.

Looks like drinks were in her immediate future

Oh crud.  Words escape me.  Yanti dear, please take care!!!

Goodness me - thought of Yanti for all of my ride today.

NOT SO HUMBLE BRAG

100KM.

It was not a part of your plan so it was at most a C race/training day.  You rocked it!

BTW, what did you think of the event?  As I mentioned to you earlier, I have generally liked Virginia Beach as an event destination (never vacationed there but have done several events there).  RnR Virginia Beach has been on my radar for a while so I'm curious what you thought of it.

Hi Manatees!

My heart is breaking for Yanti - I wish we could all be there for her to give her hugs, love, and tie her down if needed to make sure she doesn't try to do anything Yanti-like. 

As for my race - I had a great time on the swim, even if my sighting was shyte and I ended up swimming an extra 150m or so.  The bike was fun and I was pretty pleased with my 3:03:xx ride, including 4 stops for stupid mechanical stuff.  But with an hour or so left on the bike it was so hot that my water bottles were warping from the heat which was causing them to droop and rub on my back wheel.  By the time I got onto the run course it was over 100F and it was hot enough that shoe prints were being left in the tar in the pavement.  There was NO shade on the run, and it was on a country road in between 2 corn fields so there was also no wind.  It was like being trapped in a oven being slowly baked alive. 

I think I made the smart choice and pulled the plug after the first loop of the run.  Could I have slogged through the second loop?  Yep.  Would it have been the smart choice?  No faching way.  There was no medical out there, people were weaving all over the place, there was a 30% DNF rate, and it was odd (and kind of eerie) to see almost EVERYONE walking.  All in all I'm really pleased with how the day went, and I'm happy that I stopped when I did.  This wasn't my 'A' race, and I'm fine with using this as just a long training day.  Goal #1 (no deathiness) held true and I'm good with that! 

The ironic thing of this is that if I HAD slogged through I most likely would have won my AG.  About 10 minutes up on the closest woman from the swim and 3 minutes up on the closest person on the bike.  Oh well, maybe next year...  IF they move the day of the race!! 

Hi Manatees!

My heart is breaking for Yanti - I wish we could all be there for her to give her hugs, love, and tie her down if needed to make sure she doesn't try to do anything Yanti-like. 

As for my race - I had a great time on the swim, even if my sighting was shyte and I ended up swimming an extra 150m or so.  The bike was fun and I was pretty pleased with my 3:03:xx ride, including 4 stops for stupid mechanical stuff.  But with an hour or so left on the bike it was so hot that my water bottles were warping from the heat which was causing them to droop and rub on my back wheel.  By the time I got onto the run course it was over 100F and it was hot enough that shoe prints were being left in the tar in the pavement.  There was NO shade on the run, and it was on a country road in between 2 corn fields so there was also no wind.  It was like being trapped in a oven being slowly baked alive. 

I think I made the smart choice and pulled the plug after the first loop of the run.  Could I have slogged through the second loop?  Yep.  Would it have been the smart choice?  No faching way.  There was no medical out there, people were weaving all over the place, there was a 30% DNF rate, and it was odd (and kind of eerie) to see almost EVERYONE walking.  All in all I'm really pleased with how the day went, and I'm happy that I stopped when I did.  This wasn't my 'A' race, and I'm fine with using this as just a long training day.  Goal #1 (no deathiness) held true and I'm good with that! 

The ironic thing of this is that if I HAD slogged through I most likely would have won my AG.  About 10 minutes up on the closest woman from the swim and 3 minutes up on the closest person on the bike.  Oh well, maybe next year...  IF they move the day of the race!! 

Hi Manatees!

My heart is breaking for Yanti - I wish we could all be there for her to give her hugs, love, and tie her down if needed to make sure she doesn't try to do anything Yanti-like. 

As for my race - I had a great time on the swim, even if my sighting was shyte and I ended up swimming an extra 150m or so.  The bike was fun and I was pretty pleased with my 3:03:xx ride, including 4 stops for stupid mechanical stuff.  But with an hour or so left on the bike it was so hot that my water bottles were warping from the heat which was causing them to droop and rub on my back wheel.  By the time I got onto the run course it was over 100F and it was hot enough that shoe prints were being left in the tar in the pavement.  There was NO shade on the run, and it was on a country road in between 2 corn fields so there was also no wind.  It was like being trapped in a oven being slowly baked alive. 

I think I made the smart choice and pulled the plug after the first loop of the run.  Could I have slogged through the second loop?  Yep.  Would it have been the smart choice?  No faching way.  There was no medical out there, people were weaving all over the place, there was a 30% DNF rate, and it was odd (and kind of eerie) to see almost EVERYONE walking.  All in all I'm really pleased with how the day went, and I'm happy that I stopped when I did.  This wasn't my 'A' race, and I'm fine with using this as just a long training day.  Goal #1 (no deathiness) held true and I'm good with that! 

The ironic thing of this is that if I HAD slogged through I most likely would have won my AG.  About 10 minutes up on the closest woman from the swim and 3 minutes up on the closest person on the bike.  Oh well, maybe next year...  IF they move the day of the race!!