Manatee Mentors 2016 - Closed (Page 34)

This is Kingsley, Yanti's human. I am just saying hello. She talks incessantly about you. I just stalk sometimes

I'm glad that the new group seems good. Casual can be good.  It doesn't have to mean *easy.*I don't think that we'll have to remind you to bring dry gear in the future :-(  I hate that shivery feeling.  On the plus side, 1.5 more hours a week to play rather than commute! Woo hoo!

Hands, you plan to share your winnings with us, right?  Remember all of the support that we've provided to you! 

"One of the three winning Powerball tickets was purchased in Central Florida, according to CNN"

Congrats!

Kingsley!  You should just post your bio and be a Real Manatee! :-D

I was just over in Strava.  We are a busy bunch!

As a reminder, be sure to follow each other.  The easiest way to do that is to go to the Manatee group (https://www.strava.com/clubs/manatees) and click each individual in the Athletes list and then click Follow in the upper right of their profiles.

Yes.  Both Connor and I are set up so that people have to Request to Follow.  I also have a few privacy blocks set up so that my home address and work address are kind of obscured on the maps.  Ben mentioned that adding surrounding addresses can further obscure it.

Just to be clear, Strava is not at all a requirement of the group.  I find it to be a nice way to see who is and isn't being active.  I can see that maybe Sean isn't talking much here because he's been on his bike all the time, etc. or notice that Robin K is killing it in the pool (again).  The talk and the workout details and such are all here so if you don't Strava with us, it's all good.

Whereas I'm just biding time with elliptical usage. Not something I've put on Strava.

Also know that you can filter between groups and those you follow on the Activity Feed (drop down list selects what group) and also under each of the Groups you are a part of (Recent Activity). I follow people there as part of the groups that I haven't specifically selected to Follow.

Had I won the jackpot I planned on being very generous!  Alas, I won a big $4 and that was with a pool of running friends!  So, I get to buy 2 more tickets. This time I'm sure I'll (we'll) win!!

I have never used a forum so I have no idea how any of this works but here is my bio.

*****

NAME: Kingsley

STORY: I was a competitive swimmer for 19 years until October 2000. Then I got fat then skinny... for a few years before taking up open water swimming. That led to meeting Yanti and her infecting me with the triathlon virus.

FAMILY STATUS: Married to Yanti

CURRENT TRAINING: Barely training at all. I need to get my motivation and self discipline sorted out.

THIS YEAR'S RACES/EVENTS: An Olympic late January at Busselton Australia, the 20km Rottnest channel swim in February, an Olympic at Sungailiat Indonesia in late April, 70.3 Vietnam and maybe IM Malaysia in November.

GOALS/OBJECTIVES/DESIRES: I have a good idea about how to train for swimming but know nothing about cycling or running so the chance to learn something is good.

WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD MANATEE: I have a reasonably extensive sporting background and I'm happy to share my experience with others about training if only as an example of how *not* to train.

Don't let her fool you, this is all a smoke screen. She'll disappear to a cabin in NC shortly 

Welcome to the Pod!  20k swim, barely training at all.  Sounds about right

Did you get a plan sorted out for them?

Most of these types of apps and such have pretty good privacy features. It may take a bit of hunting to get the settings sorted out on some of them.  BT is pretty good about privacy, Strava has some nice settings that you can take advantage of as well. Like Ben and Janyne said, you can hide some of where you are with a little planning.  I follow a couple of pros on Strava as well, because it is kinda cool to see what they are posting.  I figure if these are the workouts they post, I can only imagine what they aren't sharing.

Who me?

Glad to see that they are so excited about starting to run! Or at least getting the gear