Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois (Page 4)

In important tech news I will no longer have to use the blue jean runner guy emoji!

I was thinking a description like this:

Leave intervals included, a little description of how things went, as best I understood how to describe. DIdn't know on the later parts, other than yes, did it. 

Another:

Originally posted by marysia83

Originally posted by melbo55

Originally posted by marysia83 As some of you know, I will be in Washington from Saturday 8/6 to Wednesday 8/10 (with arrival and departure in Baltimore). Let me know if anyone is close and have time to meet for a quick coffee, beer, lunch, or just to say hi I believe I'm meeting with Laura on Sunday morning, and Melanie and Janyne are racing that weekend (no worries, I will come for this conference next year!). If you've ever been to Washington and have some places and things to recommend, please tell me. Or the places/things that are completely not worth anyone's time. I am also looking for bike/run trail and bike rental place. And plan to swim at YMCA (since I have their membership). I hope to have fun )))) (between some not always exciting conferences and lectures...)

I love DC!  So many neat things to see and do, so many wonderful restaurants and eateries.  

Things to see: naturally, the monuments and memorials.  They are very emotionally moving and beautifully done and make me very proud to live in this country.  

If you have time to utilize it, I think you can buy a ticket with one of the tourist bus lines and they'll take you on a tour around town explaining historical areas, monuments, places of interest, etc. and I think some let you get  off at various points to look around, then reboard a different bus with the same line when it comes by later.

The Smithsonian Institutes are great also but require more time and you won't see them all.  Maybe pick one or two to try to see.

There's the National Zoo, too, but I haven't been there for quite a few years and can't fairly critique it.

Food:  too many places to mention that are good, but if you have the inclination, check out the Ethiopian restaurant called Etete. I've eaten at that one and had very good food, although I'm sure there are other good ones. DC has one of the largest, if not THE largest Ethiopian population outside of Ethiopia, or so I was told when I was there.

Good pizza and Italian food: Pi Pizzeria.  Wow, so good and it's in a cool old haberdasherie.

Hank's Oyster Bar has yummy oysters and other eats.

I need to stop, I'm drooling!

Thank you!!!! We will have a bus tour included with our registration, so at least the monuments and some most important spots will be covered. I have also looked at few very interesting places in Baltimore and maybe check them out, since I will be there Saturday morning anyway. It looks like there is a lot of things I could do with my kids, so I will leave those for next year (the conference provides childcare and am planning to take mine sweethearts next year. Especially since my son is a huge fan of Abraham Lincoln). I will definitely check out the dinning places. Thank you!!!! How far do you leave from there?

Eh, about 2.5 hours from DC, about 1.5 from Baltimore.  I'd totally drive down to meet you if I didn't have my hockey tournament this weekend!

Ha ha, good!

Darren is on the move.  He is approaching Cormondreche, Switzerland as he is going around Lac de Neuchatel.  The tracker is guestimating his arrival at check point 2 in 24 hours.

Well, the thing is, my lane does recovery time between sets (not on 1:00 or on 2:00 or whatever, more like)  I'll try to be better at adding that into my logs.  I'd be happy to share the Garmin files, such that they are.  I'm not sure that they will tell us anything that we don't already know, though.  I'm told that my technique is pretty good but that hasn't translated into anything in terms of speed improvements.  Maybe I need to get together a set of swim specific strength stuff to work on? 

Randee, could you take the lead on this?  Maybe Karen or Jen could help if we want to do the Terry Fox runs?  I guess the main things that we need right now is a charity and a target event.  I suppose we could do "for Steve" shirts and put them on Cafepress or something.  Take a post "race" photo with it and post it on social media.  Dunno.

Haha!  Love it!

Good idea!  I added them to the first post in this thread.

Better late than never, I'm Judi.  My current situation is "retired" from multipart because of perpetual injuries and work sucking my will to live.  I have done mostly sprint and olympic distance races since 2008. Prior to all the injuries I loved running 10K and HM distance.  Did one full marathon which most of the long time Manatees remember as a complete disaster.  I'm married, have two daughters known as Thing One and Miss Thing....they are in their 20's but the names have stuck.  I have three fur baby cats, Mocha the old man is a tuxedo kitty.  Snickers is my calico and Mishka is a little dilute tortie we just adopted in June.  

Hi Everyone! 

Mini bio: I I am Jen, living in Toronto, Canada - married with a 3-year old daughter and a 12-year old chocolate lab.  Got into running through my local running shop in 2005. Loved it. Started with 10k and worked to the marathon. Had no idea what the legs of a tri were when i met my now husband in a marathon training group. I couldn't swim but saw him do Ironman Canada in 2007 and figured i could give it a go. Two problems: no bike and I couldn't swim. At all. The bike was easy to remedy but I took swim lessons and just kept going and going until i could do a try a tri. It was total panic. Anyway, keeping at it i've been able to get to the HIM distance (4 now complete) and an IM 2012. I am still thrilled nearly 4 years later. 

Life is super busy at the moment - we're planning a huge home reno so although i love tri i am not really racing this year.  I am still training - swimming with a tri club and trying to stay consistent and a relative level of fitness. 

We did have a lane that operated like what you described. Think the first one that had leave intervals was about 1:50-1:55/100, and then anyone slower would be in the one lane with recovery times, doing the best they could figure with the swim time. So with that, keep track of what you know. I would have put the 200's down as 2:30 R20, for example (I did hit all of them right at 2:30). The 100's would have been 1:15-1:16 R15. The 100's descending maybe like 1:18 to 1:12 R15 (it's about). A key note there is that I actually did start a little slower than the average and ended up a bit faster with some in between (even though it wasn't perfect) as opposed to the even pacing of the other 100's set. I'm putting my trust in the coach for the set design (she does want us to get faster), and then working with her in how to execute it. Making sure I understand how to do so.

While doing this, keep in mind that tracking this information is more for your benefit than it is for the rest of us to follow along. A lot of people at masters didn't really track things by writing them down as such (or at all), but they knew what they should be doing in the set, so they were aware of the execution part. It's this awareness that you want to have. If I was getting stuck at say 1:14 or higher, I'd take a look at why. Maybe just tired that day, or maybe I started doing something funny with the increased effort. I would also know there is something going on if was swimming the 200's at say 2:38 instead of 2:30.

Think this is more of an environmental/cultural/mentality thing that can help lead to more & better learning.

I appreciate that.  I suspect that I need more help than writing things down.  I do track things with the watch and if it says hard/moderate/easy or descending or whatever, act accordingly.

Swimming isn't necessarily complicated, but there are dozens upon dozens of little touches that can add in to make a big difference.

I'm with you there!!!!!!!