Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 395)

Give us a selfie, you hottie!

Pretzels --the peanut butter filled one was the biggest answer

Dried fruits

Gummy bears and other gummy candy....

Those were the biggest answers from people who didn't rely on the shot blocks and gu.  A lot of people seem to take the standard approach with gatorade/ gu / carb pro or other fancy pants nutritional shyte that I haven't tried.

I saw your thread in TT but I feel "safer" answering in here. Given I am N=1 but as I was training for O'side I got down to the lowest I've been since HS. I felt great during training and the race. I didn't try to lose, it happened naturally. I am now back to my pre O'side fluff and not happy about it.

Nice try. Sure you can. Go to full site. TaDa!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by rrrunner

Originally posted by melbo55

Originally posted by amd723 I am in paradise! I have a 2 day seminar starting tomorrow on lido beach ( just north of where Chris lives). Hotel is right in the gulf and has 2 pools and a tiki bar. Got here about 3, checked in and immediately put on my suit and jumped in the gulf for a little OWS. The life guards are flying flags indicating the sting rays are out, so had to do the sting ray shuffle. I didn't see. My, but others said they were all around. Just got puffed and powdered after the swim and am about to head to the tiki bar for happy hour. It's a tough life, but I do what I can,

Life is good!   Enjoy, and yes, I am TOTALLY jealous!

Add me to the green team. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!! And don't be telling us tomorrow how bored you are at the seminar

It will be boring until I slip out to go to the water . After the seminar there is a cocktail party ( dress is shorts, t- shirts and flip flops) and then I will be taken out to dinner by some of the outside attorneys the agency uses from time to time. Before it begins tomorrow and Friday, I will go for a run on and around the beach. Don't be haters

Not hatin' just soooooper jealous! 

Have a blast... and a drink for us! 

Ha! I have the same problem with selfies. I always make my kids take them.

ETA: cool pic!

A mere 45 minutes to my house. I know that beach.

BTW, which tiki bar are you at? 

and I would maybe like a little more of that competitive spirit. Wanna share? 

There is no off season for me.  It is the combination of working out ~15 per week and eating properly that keep me free from having to take pharmaceuticals in general and psychotropics in particular.   I no longer have to take meds for hypertension.  Also the PTSD demons are keep at bay.   I'm 55 years old.  This life style lets me live my life as if I were a younger man.     It's very satisfying that I can once again do the things that I once did in my teens, twenties, and thirties.   It might take a bit longer to recovery from certain excesses but that is inconsequential.    I see maintaining this life style for the duration, whatever that may be.  

It also let's me keep up with my younger girl friend, without a need for little blue pills.     Bless all young women who have daddy issues. 

Enjoy the running, the bridge to Sarasota is a popular route.

OK, now it makes sense, I finished the Life's A Beach Tri there. Enjoy!

Only coach I've had is with masters, and not sure that fully counts as much since it's it's not really specific to me or an event. I'll have some rather vague concepts of how I want to work things going out a number of months. Basically just deciding which discipline is primary, secondary, and third over some periods of time. It's not really a hard schedule. Very open to changing or mixing it up if something comes up and can't train one as well as I'd like, or if things are getting stale. When I get close to or into a the more focused part I'll look more into how I'll progress through it. Mostly working the schedule and getting a rough idea of the size and intensity of the work to do, how I'm going to build those up. And adjusting as needed as I progress to it. I don't have specific workouts picked out more than a week ahead very often, just the vague notion of threshold work, big ride, hilly riding, for examples. Somewhat often I won't actually actually be certain of the workout specifics until I'm about to do it.

In the logs, I think around June you might be able to pick up some of this building up on the bike workouts. And then again in August as I moved things around to put in some more solid work into the bigger rides. Things that would be useful for pushing an HIM and specifically for one with a number of good sized hills.

work has gotten in the way today - was supposed to have a meeting at 10.30 (budgets and forecasts deep joy) rescheduled to 12 (who organises a meeting at 12?) then didn't happen until 1.30 and ran into another meeting - 2 and a half hours of numbers.

So no lunchtime run.  But lots of praise for my work which is nice.

I'm now exhausted and any meeting of that kind guess who comes out with further work to do - yep that will be me!

So i will just bike tonight and can the run.

I'm enjoying working out this week.

OK Elesa, you got me to thinking about goals and such last night. A little recap is in order, as it puts things into perspective for me.

In the spring, there was much discussion in the Utopian thread about biking, intervals, improvements, etc. It made me analyze my bike training. I am not a plan following, metric measuring kind of guy, but I knew the bike was an area I could make improvements through disciplined training. Combine that with the fact that I like to ride and it was a natural fit. I added in intervals, rode more in group, especially a better group, got a Strava account (don't laugh, it helped) and generally focused on the bike. It worked, as I am feeling stronger on the bike. Last winter, I focused on running more, in an effort to improve my run speed. The weather works in my favor for this and it starts my day with a smile. My plan was simple, run more and you'll run faster. For the most part, it worked. I knocked 13 minutes off my HM PR, and felt all around better when running.

So, what shall I do this winter becomes the question. What type of focus? The easy and obvious answer is swim. Mine resembles drowning avoidance while moving forward. The more obvious answer lies in the joy I find. I truly enjoy the bike and the run. Having typed this out and reread it a couple of times, I think I know what I need to do.

Thanks a bunch for giving me the opportunity to work this all out in my head.

Cool! Enjoyment is the biggest key.

TJ - I'll be keeping pics of the tear down and build in my Google+ account. I'll point you to it when I get it up and rolling. Yesterday I spent nearly an hour working the handlebars off. Rusty bolts and such made it a challenge. Talking with DD2 the entire time about her new job made it a joy.

Kirsten - Thanks for the reminder on Fig Newtons. I have used them on the bike in the past and they work great for me. 

Judi - Fig Newtons and Honey are my go to nutrition choices that are a bit more solid or real. You had asked a while ago and I don't think I ever gave you an answer.

I hope everyone enjoys whatever the day has in store for you, the weekend is almost here!

Gratitude challenge!!!!
Inspired by Salty's no nonsense attitude with me that really helped me look for the "bright spots" in my runs--even though I am not that thrilled with most of them.....Also by Yanti's occasional "things that went well today" post and the most amazing book ("One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp for anyone interested)

Here's the challenge:  Find ONE thing every day that you are thankful for.  Post it in your log. That is it!

Oh, I am so in on this. 

Oh, I am so in on this.