Mad Manatee Mentors v.2 thr.3 CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes considered) (Page 35)

Short Dad update: we have an appointment to see an oncologist tomorrow afternoon, so at that point we will hopefully have some answers.  Not knowing exactly what is going on is very hard on him, and me as well.

Short Dad update: we have an appointment to see an oncologist tomorrow afternoon, so at that point we will hopefully have some answers.  Not knowing exactly what is going on is very hard on him, and me as well.

I saw this and thought of Erin.  It's not a Zorb but...

http://insaneinflatable5k.com/

Asking for some prayer power, Manatees.  An associate of mine was in Las Vegas and last night was hit by a bus crossing the road.  She is in bad shape, brain bleed, multiple fractures, in a coma (induced?).  She is mom to an 18 month old.  Would really appreciate good thoughts sent her way.

Great to see thie weekend's efforts from so many Manatees.

Matt - Good to see you and Kim out taking advantage of the Austin offerings. Congrats on a great weekend.

Mary - Your choir must be the shiznit! How cool to have those kinds of opportunities.

Adrienne - Really nice to see you have a race that you are proud of. Never doubt yourself, you have way too much to offer for that to happen.

Stacey - Thank you for being there for friends. Nothing is more important in life than people and the love and friendship that we give and receive. Yet again you have proven that! And thanks for keeping us updated!

Yanti - Congratulations on your nuptuals! Unlike many others, your 4 marriages (3 or 5 or whatever) have been with the same person, and that is simply cool!

Ann-Marie - I hope your weekend away was full of healing and progression.

TJ - How goes everything with the calf?

Darren - I expect that you are getting the assistance you need to improve and get answers! 

Monica - Congrats on finding that MUP, it looks awesome. And at this point it looks like you have a more firm direction on the house, so the rest will come together, I'm sure. And if it doesn't, then it isn't meant to be. Either way, you are stronger having gone through it.

Janyne - It looks like your first road ride went pretty well, congrats. But I must say, your elf is up to some Manatee like shenanigans!

Randee - I expect that your race was awesome, just like you! 

Melanie - How is everything with the family? I hope things settle down for you and for dad.

Judi - I have to say, I looked through your logs this morning and noticed you've had 4 empty days in the past  2.5 months. You and Ben and Adrienne really do know how to keep after it. I really wish I could get to that type of consistency. You Rock!!!!

Sorry if I left anyone out, but work calls. Time to start my last day before I burn my last 4 vacay days this year. Enjoy the beginning of the week my friends.

Asking for some prayer power, Manatees.  An associate of mine was in Las Vegas and last night was hit by a bus crossing the road.  She is in bad shape, brain bleed, multiple fractures, in a coma (induced?).  She is mom to an 18 month old.  Would really appreciate good thoughts sent her way.

Chris, your comments had me thinking...you know, there is no reason you can't have the consistency that Ben, Judi or I have. 

I challenge you to doing something - anything, every day in Jan. To start the new year off right. If your cay is crazy and all you can fit in is 10 minutes of stretching, that's fine. But you have to do something, and log it, ever day. Whatdaya say? Who else is in?

Is this Jogo v2? I was brand new to the group when that was going on.

Chris, your comments had me thinking...you know, there is no reason you can't have the consistency that Ben, Judi or I have. 

I challenge you to doing something - anything, every day in Jan. To start the new year off right. If your cay is crazy and all you can fit in is 10 minutes of stretching, that's fine. But you have to do something, and log it, ever day. Whatdaya say? Who else is in?

Asking for some prayer power, Manatees.  An associate of mine was in Las Vegas and last night was hit by a bus crossing the road.  She is in bad shape, brain bleed, multiple fractures, in a coma (induced?).  She is mom to an 18 month old.  Would really appreciate good thoughts sent her way.

Asking for some prayer power, Manatees.  An associate of mine was in Las Vegas and last night was hit by a bus crossing the road.  She is in bad shape, brain bleed, multiple fractures, in a coma (induced?).  She is mom to an 18 month old.  Would really appreciate good thoughts sent her way.

Chris, your comments had me thinking...you know, there is no reason you can't have the consistency that Ben, Judi or I have. 

I challenge you to doing something - anything, every day in Jan. To start the new year off right. If your cay is crazy and all you can fit in is 10 minutes of stretching, that's fine. But you have to do something, and log it, ever day. Whatdaya say? Who else is in?

Asking for some prayer power, Manatees.  An associate of mine was in Las Vegas and last night was hit by a bus crossing the road.  She is in bad shape, brain bleed, multiple fractures, in a coma (induced?).  She is mom to an 18 month old.  Would really appreciate good thoughts sent her way.

ANY activity?  

Oh yes! I don't remember her exact rules but same concept. Perhaps we can just call it Jogo V2 and someone else can dig up the rules

Hey, hey, hey! Thank you ladies!

And thank you all. I was seriously starting to doubt myself as of late...even though I knew I was sick at Boston last year I couldn't help but think maybe it was just me. So it was nice to have you guys believing in me and I am glad I kept on pluggin' along

Anyway, very happy to have a shiny new marathon PR, off of a less than ideal training plan.

I am ecstatic about my execution of my plan. I have never ran a marathon and felt good about it. I am just so happy about the 2ish minute negative split. So happy!

What a crazy circus week (yes, stellarly crazy, way beyond just the usual insanity) ...

The media attention has been CRAZY. We were literally doing interviews until the moment we left Busselton this morning. TV radio newspapers and every online format as well. Most of all, we're super thrilled about the exposure for our work with disabled athletes and sponsorship opportunities.

Especially since the International Paralympics Committee just announced last month that blind males would NOT be in the categories for triathlon in Rio. (Blind females, yes). Bizarro. So one of my guys can't go but we WILL get him to one of the other major international parathlete competitions. Still. We've all worked so hard.

Yup, as Jo said poor Red Robber has probably seen his final day. I'll post pics of him soon. And Stace Face can confirm about the fleas! Eeyuck!

Kingsley and I are recovering. He's got massive infected blisters on his feet (as in, even ones wrapped AROUND his foot coming up through and around the toes!). Some of our stuff is actually even too gross to post pictures of . I have chafing so severe it did require medical attention but that's actually the least of it! Couple of broken ribs on one side, a bruised one on the other (takes talent to do both sides), most of my right side is now swollen and bruised (took a couple days to really color and swell up nicely), the elbow joint has fairly extensive soft tissue damage (but fortunately not fractured) with one of the wounds down to the bone and has been stitched. What I thought was just a knee scrape also has a good bit of flesh missing.

Actually things (and I) are so swollen up now that I gained FIVE KILOS yes 11 lb from my race weigh-in ... and that was with clothes, this time was naked, so it's probably even more.

However, perhaps the yuckiest of all was that I couldn't shower after Ironman until now. My sister nearly died helping me to get my clothes off. So happy to be clean now! (bit of gymnastics in the shower even with waterproof bandages on but so worth it).

I have no idea how NyNy and Hands-Marie managed one-armed! It's nuts!

I'm looking at about a four-to-six week recovery window for the elbow and ribs.

FYI the crash occurred because some azzhole had parked a motorbike at an aid station. As in, where the athletes have to ride alongside the tables to pick things up from the volunteers. So the guy cycling in front of me stopped suddenly, and so I did too, except the road rose up to greet me. Very very quickly and thoroughly it did!