Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 41)

Yaaaaaaay! Glad to hear it! I am even more happy that you thought of me while drinking your beer!!! Mmmmmm I will now be on a quest to find that beer! 

CONGRATULATIONS KIRK!!!!

That is a damned fast swim, like a true Manatee, and then you biked like ... a slim land Manatee with legs!

Smokin' fast, sir. Well done.

it's 8.45 pm here in the in britannia. Got to be up at 5am. cant even find that on my clock.

Outstanding stuff sir. i will try to live up to the standard you have set, although without the fast time. Hopefully i will be in before 5.55 though! i am aiming for 2.00. mmm we'll see.

First off, 50% chance of rain also means 50% of no rain, right?  Let's hope for that.

This is what I have in my notes:

• 44, heavy drizzle/light rain, 10-15 mph winds
• capris over tri shorts, LS performance T, running vest

Since this is racing and not training -- and be cause you are not a girlie man/frog, I would skip the capris and just have tri shorts.  Do you have a running or cycling vest that you could pull on over a long sleeved T?  (Yes, I know Salty will say, "What's with the vest?!" but I'm not Salty.)

Kirk - super job on your race, can't wait for all the deets!

Chris - I'm still totally jealous of your day of 'smoking'

Adrienne - those. shoes. ROCK!!!  I love the customization of AD KNOWS, the take off of Bo Knows.  Way cool!

Yanti - what can I say, you lead the most mysterious and fascinating life and have the best attitude ever!

Allen - those conditions sound, well, brrrr!  I hope the good advice the others gave helps and you stay warm and have a great race!  Hope the hail stays away.  There's no gear for that, except maybe hockey equipment, and that's not really aero

I had a very fun day working a local road bike race in the morning/early afternoon, then coming home to take a nice 25 mile bike ride with my neighbor.  He surprised me by asking me yesterday if I wanted to ride.  I was a bit nervous, just not knowing what to expect, but I think we both had a good time.  I'm thankful we were riding the direction we were when the speeding, crazy, BMW-driving guy came flying down the small, windy, (rolling) hilly, country-ish road near our house and almost wiped out.  He was easily going 60 in a 25 and the car rocked side to side a few times when he took the corner too fast and when he saw us.  He nearly rolled the thing.  I think we freaked him out a little even though we were headed the other direction.  If we were going the other way, he probably wouldn't have seen us and we'd both been dead.

The wind really picked up strong about 2/3 into the ride, rolling in before the cold front and rain.  Man, that made for a not-so-pleasant return seeing as we were head into it most of the time.  But hey, it was still a great ride (we went to one of my fav riding destinations, the winery - no, we  didn't stop or partake )

Oh yes!  I have a Pearl Izumi headband that covers the ears and has tiny holes on the sides that you can slip sunglasses in -- not that Allen will probably need sunglasses tomorrow but it's a nice feature for longer rides in cooler weather.

Oh, and remember to bring something dry to change into. That will make a huge difference in how comfortable/uncomfortable you will be.

Sounds fun!  Enjoy!

"Waterproof" also means sweat a lot -- so you are still wet, just from the inside and not the outside. 

Congratulations!

I love it! I second the vest. It's my core that gets cold -- this would be awesome!

I know you're not Salty cos your human. Oh and what's a capris? I dont own a vest so i am going to have to go with standard T under long sleeve T and ultra lightweight jacket for the bike to keep my arms a little warmer on the bike then down to T for run. Tri shorts for the legs.

Allen, May the weather gods smile at you tomorrow and have a nice warm, dry race! If they don't though, enjoy it all the same--it will still be fun!

I just (okay maybe an hour ago or so) finished a 6 mile run--made my goal of 1:10...Not bad considering its HOT! 88+ degrees today and yesterday...I am NOT ready for summer yet...though on the bright side, this means more water in the lake, and said water will also be warmer. Tomorrow, it will be time to hit the pool for some drill-y swim stuff.

Kirk, fantastic job!  Sounds like a great race.  Hope you had a blast.

Yanti, aren't you a writer?  You must get a LOT of your material from your life. 

I had a fantastic day today!  Got up and went for a short run before work.  Beautiful morning, sun shining.  My legs felt like cement for first half of run, but loosened up for second half.  Went to work where I had a great day.  All our patients were nice (no biting dogs or naughty cats), got to work with some good friends, the day went quickly because it was very busy.  Had a 2 hour bike ride to do this evening and thank goodness it was still nice out--cloudy, but not raining. 

I have been nervous about going out on a long ride because the last time I did I got a flat.  I wasn't about to waste the nice weather though.  I headed off to a big park about 10km away that has a 5km trail along the perimeter.  Sometimes I will do a few laps there.  Got there, and decided to go on to the Golden Ears Bridge, about 10km further on, then went over the bridge and turned around.  I just kept telling myself if I have a flat, I will just deal with it.  Never had one.  Phew!  Anyway, got in 41km and built some confidence.  Felt great!

But the best part of my day?  My little baby Elektra (she is 3, but she is the baby of the family) got her Agility Trail Champion of Canada today!  (She had to 'pass' 15 different courses in 4 different disciplines--it took about 20 months).  My partner gets some credit too of course.  Well I guess most of the credit, since she did all the training.  But I picked her out of the litter!  I'm so proud of them.

Hope everyone else had a great day too!  Can't wait to read the race reports.

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Go Allen!!  Hope you stay warm!

Salty- Those are fantastic shoes, and the brewery that makes Son of a Peach is RJ Rockers so you can keep an eye out.

Yanti-Why were you hiding out from the cops?  Mostly just curious...

Thanks all for the well wishes and inspires, we ended up getting third in every event for the relay but ended up 4th so no podium but we were close and I think my friend is going to try a sprint tri with me this summer!  Here is the race report http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=436334&posts=1&start=1 

I will say that although I was close to puking by the end, mostly because I decided to hammer it home, I think I would have been good for the run had I trained for it mentally speaking.  I had a lot of fun on both the swim and bike.  At one point right after having the 2x caffine espresso love GU my coworker who was in the support van drove past me and I screamed at him... so he turned around and said I had waaay too much energy for mile 43 and should be peddaling harder.  Which I did.

Catching up on house work today but will be looking for the UK contingent of the pod to sound off on his race.