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I picked up a Garmin Edge 500 off of Craigslist.  It's smaller than I thought it would be!  I need to get it set up on my bike along with the cadence sensor.  Looking forward to seeing all the data after that.

I haven't looked at the cadence sensor yet, but hopefully I can keep the magnets that are already on my bike for my Cateye.

I'm so glad that you are doing well!  I think that creative goals are awesome and I'll do my best to keep up with you on social media.

Cool!  Smaller=less weight - always a good thing!  Sounds like you're going to have lots of data to play around with too.  The pedals on my "crappo" bike are too far from the frame to be able to use a cadence sensor even though my bike computer is set up to track it.  Looking forward getting a nicer bike so I can have more numbers to geek out over.

I've found getting to people's training logs is really easy when I paste somebody else's Pod list on my dashboard.  Then I can just click back and forth.  Or if they have Pod list on their dashboard too, I can jump from theirs to the next person.  It's much easier than trying to from person here, to log back, back to here, to another log ,etc.  I don't think you have a Pod list on your dashboard but can't remember.

Hi, Emily.  To answer your questions:

1.  Yes, just hit "Reply" to the last post to start a new question.  If you want to quote any of the previous post (like above), hit "Quote".  You can always delete out some of the text if you don't want to quote the whole thing, and if you're responding to just one part of it, it helps to mark that part of the quote in bold.  I'm sure there are directions around here somewhere.  Maybe one of the more experienced Manatees can point you in the right direction (notice I didn't say "older"! )

2.  To see people's training logs, left click on their user name.  You'll get the option to see their training log, as well a profile, race log, and a couple other things.  You can also copy Chris's or Janyne's Manatee list from their training log and put it on your own training log "dashboard".  From there, you can just click on whoever's you want to see and you'll get sent right there.

3.  That group ride sounds like a good option, and one that's set up for relative beginners.  30km in 2 hours is a fairly easy pace, especially if the route is relatively flat.  If you have a bike computer, you can always check yourself to see if you really can go that far.  I'm guessing you'd be fine.  Check with the group organizer to confirm that it's a no-drop ride; my guess is that it is given how they'll work with you on learning to shift, etc.

4.  As for fitting in workouts, this is supposed to be fun.  Several other Manatees have struggled with this too (recently, Stacey and Darren).  It's pretty common among endurance athletes to bump up against this now and then.  If you have to choose between doing a workout and sleeping, I always opt for sleeping, but that's just me.  My rationale is that if I don't sleep, I don't have time to recover and I also don't the mental or physical strength to get through a workout.  Sounds like there's a lot on your plate right now so I'd say go for fitting in what you can and try to let it go at that.

I don't have a pod list, but know who does and use theirs instead.  Where I'm coming from with the "cumbersome" is that I've been on several boards in the past where the training logs are the heart of the sites. They have a Facebook like feed setup and all your friend's workouts and other posts come up in something like that. Very nice for seeing what everyone is doing today. Much faster and easier to catch up. What this site does do well is in the ability to look over one persons rather easily. In like 2 minutes I can get a pretty good idea of what's going on with someone over the past couple months or so using the calendar and the quick view feature to scan through a number of workouts. Most of the time though, I'd like to do the former. And think most others would as well.

Garmin and Training Peaks make life easier with automatic syncing.

See DC Rainmaker's post on the subject for details.

In the comments he alluded to other sites building the same functionality, ie Strava, RunKeeper, etc. That could make things interesting.

Garmin and Training Peaks make life easier with automatic syncing.

See DC Rainmaker's post on the subject for details.

Yeah, it will be nice.  One thing I wasn't clear about from the article was: does it work for a basic account?

The US Open hasn't even started and I'm already sick of it.  All the stations are doing special weather stuff for Pinehurst.  "Here's the Pinehurst forecast for the 2nd practice round."  ARG! 

I'll let you know this afternoon ;-)

I just signed up for a 5k whose name i really identify with - Suck it up Buttercup!  Now if I could just find one named "This isn't Namby Pamby Land" I'd be a happy camper!  It's these little things that make me smile 

I just signed up for a 5k whose name i really identify with - Suck it up Buttercup!  Now if I could just find one named "This isn't Namby Pamby Land" I'd be a happy camper!  It's these little things that make me smile 

I just signed up for a 5k whose name i really identify with - Suck it up Buttercup!  Now if I could just find one named "This isn't Namby Pamby Land" I'd be a happy camper!  It's these little things that make me smile 

Yeah, it will be nice.  One thing I wasn't clear about from the article was: does it work for a basic account?

Yeah, the companion piece is worth a read as well.

Hee hee.  Fun name!  Love it when organizers get creative with race names.  I did an adventure race awhile back called the Bearable (at Bear Creek Lake Park) and then recently did the Wild Goose Chase.  We have another race around here called the Undy 5000.  They usually have race shorts instead of a shirt and it's a fundraiser for colo-rectal cancer awareness.