Mad Manatee Mentors, Part 2! CLOSED (Page 37)

Ive tried everything except riding the thing  

New gear for maybe IM Melbourne.....at least to be worn on the trainer!

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Stace Face ... every time I think of you and your big slobbery dogs and dog hair, it makes me smile. You know that sort of house protection only attracts me

I might have 1000 or so words you could fudge around for the management/leadership discussion. What's academic honesty between friends? Whoops, this is now on the Internet so it will never die ...

I *really* wanted to get a Swimsmooth 1-on-1 video analysis and coaching session when I was in Perth, but those things are impossible to get!

Without Leadership, nothing gets started. Without Management, nothing keeps going. Brevity is my long suit.

Congrats on re-prioritizing properly though. Enjoy!!!

Congrats Jo!

Excellent news!

Congrats Salty! 

Ack!  Sorry that the race wasn't so awesome.  Sucks to go out their in the weather and tough it out only for a not so great course. At least now you know.  :-/

But did you get the Irish coffee?

Congrats Kate!

How many more weeks until graduation?  ;-)

Manatees to cheer you on! Woo hoo!

Congratulations Chris!

CONGRATULATIONS JANYNE

Did they ever get that timing mess sorted out for you?

Congrats to all racing manatee's this past week....

I'm pretty excited...I have a new swim lesson client (paying) that I start working with tonight.  She wrote me stating she can doggie paddle and has a medium fear of the water.  She wants to conquer this fear "BECAUSE I LOVE BEING OUTDOORS AND WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN WATER SPORTS."

I love working with new swimmers and seeing the joy on their faces when things click!  I find it very rewarding to share my love of the water with someone and watch them develop into proficient swimmers.

Have a great week Manatee's. 

Snerk!!! Ah Jo, you will get there. You will.

I hear you on warming up, though. I'm a superstar the first 100 in the water, then I'm dying until about 1K as well. One reason I do long warmups! (I think they're long, but I goggle at the length of some of the warmups in stock swim workouts--and understandable if you're doing sprints or a really, really hard main set, but 800 WU for a total 2500m workout?!)

Okay while I'm on the subject, and henceforth 'til IMNZ I plead taper madness for all the inappropriate stuff I say (I'll find a new excuse after post-IM depression, etc.) ...

I really can't believe Don Fink includes 800 worth of drills in his swim workouts, regardless of the workout! So yes, a 2500yd workout, with a 300 WU/CD AND 800 of drills?! I can see that as ONE workout in a swim-focused, really-needing-to-improve swimming training cycle, but honestly I think it's folly to recommend everybody, from the Just Finish to Competitive folks, do 800 of drills per workout.

Then again, he also really recommends that you just go to Masters.

And he has a ton of other good stuff in there, and I've used Be Iron Fit plans as the framework for every IM training I've done (which, so far, is six ... )

Wooo, I really need to get in the habit of getting on BT and the manatee thread more on the weekends; so many neat things happen to the gang and I want to comment but some of the things are 6 pages ago!!  So I'll try to do a quickie (cuz we know manatees like quickies) run down: awesome swim, Jo; great races, Chris, Speedy Salty, Kate, Jen (will read RRs next);  Jen got hailed on (nasty ouchie!); soccer studs Tom and MadMath were keeping their calves and quads going; Chris saw manatees (sooo jealous!! I *heart* manatees!  My parents have been to that power plant to see them, too);  Stacey got new bike shoes and hopefully got rid of hot foot (yay!!).  Jo - those beach pics make me soo envious!  I'm sure I missed someone, so my apologies.  We're a busy bunch!

My hockey team won our game Sat (YAY!) and my training/race went well Sunday.  Salty - I didn't 'race' the race because I was to do a total of 5 miles for my HM plan and didn't want to go too fast and get hurt.  I have a strong paranoia/fear of getting hurt during these mileage increases which would really pizz me off.  The March race will be a whole 'nother story!  I'm definitely gonna race that one and try for a PR, and coincidently/awesomely a 5K race falls on that date as part of my plan.  It flurried the majority of the race which I loved, so pretty!  Although it was hella windy and cold and the snow stung a few times, but it was a fair trade-off IMO. No race report yet as the results haven't been posted yet and I don't know my time since I did pre and post miles which left me without my own tracked time.  I mostly stuck to my plan although I accidently negative splitted each mile, mainly because I was feeling good.  Still tried to keep myself reeled in, though.  No pink girl but there were 2 girls with red feather beelie boppers...I'll save them for the RR!

CONGRATULATIONS MELBO!

Negative splatting is just about the only good kind of splatting

Beelie boppers, huh? I am *sure* it was sparkly beelie boppers that got my sister and I exited stage left out of Disneyland. Can't possibly have been our behavior.

Congrats, Skrat!

Nice land. Or water, as it were. I gotta hand it to you--I have NO CLUE how to teach someone who doesn't have at least something that very vaguely resembles front crawl. Doggypaddle MIGHT ... but not really.

Refining people's strokes is easy. Teaching someone a stroke from skratch ... not easy.

Nope.  The timing company finally responded to me via Facebook (did not respond to email), stating, "your results will be in there in the morning."  Still nothing. 

http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=478273

Race report! 

PR.  4 hours which well exceeds my goal for the race.  Timing chip malfunction being sorted out. Loved the race!  Loved the course!  Thankful that it was a Saturday race 'cause it got icky out Saturday afternoon and snowed on Saturday night. Not big snow, mind you, but enough to throw Myrtle Beach into a tizzy.

Race report awaiting timing info...

Well done on the six-mile training PR, Foxy!

Ah HA! I caught another one of you. That's another coupon for me to Souplantation

I lived in Loma Linda for seven years. 'Nuff said ... actually I was involved with two SDA churches (one we started, y'know with real music 'n' all, and we started an additional service at the other church that had contemporary worship music), tutored students at Loma Linda Allied Health, did rounds, volunteering, ER work, you name it I did it at Loma Linda University Medical Center.

The fellow I got a legal separation from is SDA--his dad was a preacher/missionary based in Lebanon but went all over the Muslim world and was a scholar of Islam. His mom was a nurse and nurse manager forever.

So we ate vegetarian. Sometimes he and I, the black sheep carnivores, would eat meat if we went out for a special meal. I do remember I drew the line when we were watching a cooking show where the lady was making cashew cheese and the stuff that was going into it was worse than regular cheese!

I remain at heart a Seventh-day Adventist, but really, mah soul belongs to the Lawd and that's just that. (but it always seems to me Saturday is the Sabbath, which makes me very popular with Jewish boys).

I have nothing but good things to say about the Adventists. Sure, there's weird people and bad apples in every kind of community, including religious ones, but man ... I was *loved* and taught how to *love* by example. Also, as far as Adventist missions go, it's evangelism by providing healing and teaching (health/medicine and education, very very very strong points), which is pretty much how I figure Jesus did it.

Also, y'all ordain women .

Okay, I'll get off the pulpit now. It's just a part of my being and past, and of many dear friends for life, that I cherish.

So what's your story?

Oh that's great. So it was probably nice and cool for the race. It's never fun waiting for a race to start in the cold but it's sooo nice to run in cooler weather.

How was your blister/orthotics business?