Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod (Page 42)

Dammit.

But the Dutch boys are debuting their unique (truly and that's saying a lot in the party world) VJ show tonight. It's only a BIT past midnight. (When they start ... )

I'll see how things go after 8am swim tomorrow.

Edit: today. In three and a half hours.

Well, as long as you said 'V' J I suppose it's alright?!?! Have fun with that swim.............at a minimum please don't drown. 

Well, it's entirely possible to drown in 3" of water, but in my case, unlikely. I also have a whopper headache coming on, so maybe not.

Kirsten, you got this!  You have plenty of time to be ready for your HIM.  Your volume looks great.  It is so normal to have periods of fatigue.  Life happens and some days we are unable to follow the training plan to the book.  I can't tell you how many times I have missed training due to illness, kids, work, lack of motivation, fatigue, ect.....  I wish I could say, I am perfectly trained for this weekends HIM, but truthfully I know I needed more bike time.  Aww heck, I probably needed more of everything, LOL.   It is what it is.  I know I'll finish and you will too.  7 weeks will give you time to ramp up your bike.  If you can try to get in just a few long bike rides, you'll be fine.

As far as the swim, I did not worry about pacing off anyone.  I swam my own pace and concentrated on sighting, breathing, and staying calm.  It was my best swim evah.

So, leave the bike at home and enjoy the weekend.  

Alright Manatees, I'm leaving for Kansas tomorrow!  Gulp!  I'm in wave 6 (yeah!!), so I will be starting my race at 6:46am Sunday morning.  Dayum, that's early.  

Heh.  Thanks all.  STFD.  I may have that tattoo'ed somewhere.

I am feeling somewhat more settled today.  The weather has been such crap, I suffer when I don't get enough sunlight.  I don't usually use it this late in the spring, but I turned on my S.A.D light this AM, and I think it helped.  I just HATE it when my body says "oh no you can't" when my mind says "put on your big girl panties and deal".  I have to say, i have gotten much better at listening to my body over the past few years, but I don't always love what it is saying.  Somehow, I don't think I am alone in that!

I am going for a nice easy run today, and I'll likely get on the trainer tonight and see how I feel.  If for no other reason than I haven't even tried out my new fit yet!!

Good luck to the racers this weekend!! 

ETA: Oh, yeah, maybe some retail therapy helped too.  I bought myself a wetsuit today

GO CLAIRE GO

We will be following you! The early Manatee gets the best seaweed! ... uh ... something like that.

I'm so excited for you Claire! I hope you have so much fun! Is your sister racing as well? 

6:46am YUCK! I hate early. I guess it's good though since it's gonna be hot! 

Go Claire!!!!!!!

It's almost like we're racing together, except I'll be in the state on the opposite side of Colorado, and I'm going on Saturday, and my race is slightly shorter (ok half!)

Can't wait to track (stalk) you.

For those of you who were getting Jo's intermediate times, how'd you do that?

ironmanlive.com

Click on the race (Kansas 70.3) and then enter Claire's number. Whatever splits they have for her will come up.

So some random Salty-thoughts (yum):

The marathon I am doing is going to be a little quirky. We need headlamps for the first 3 miles, then we ditch the headlamps and it is a crushed rock surface. All the reviews say normal shoes/racing flats are fine so that is what I am going to do but they recommend some gaiters. I just bought some but have yet to try them out. 

I'm going 100% technology free  (including headphones.) Taking the headlamp off and negotiating a possible water bottle refill might get a little fussy with headphones.

It is a tiny marathon (capped at 400 participants) and the aid stations will be a little sketchy. There will be some manned water stations and some unmanned  where you are responsible for filling up your own bottle.

For this I am thinking of just running with a disposable and then ditch it when I am done and use the sporadic manned stations after that. I dunno... 

I can keep gels or whatever I am going to use on my race belt so that is no issue. 

Anyway, I guess I am not asking anyone anything specific but maybe read through this and see if there are any red flags. 

aaand ...

GO TJ GO !!!!

I think that is what I was using but I was just getting S/B/R times. Kirsten and Felicia (i think) were getting 5k times and such.

GO TJ! Man, I wish y'all were just a little closer to MY state so I could come and cheer you on!

Claire,

I'll be at packet pickup right about 1:00 tomorrow (friday).  Will you be there at that time?

GO PEANUTBUTTER GO!

Go carefully, but by all means go.

GO MANATEE RACERS GO!!!!

That's about as eye stunngingly clashing as I think I can do...

Salty- Sounds like a plan to me.

Yeah, that's where I was getting the splits.

Yeah-that's pretty bad, Kirk. My poor eyes can't un-see that horrible clash of color. 

You have a month to sort it out, right? Well, then you'll have plenty of time to try out the gaiters.

How sketchy/far apart on the manned ones are we talking about? What's your approximate fluid intake at race pace? I assume you're working on gels only and plain water?

Yup, one month...plus I will have time in Mammoth on trails with the gaiters and I plan on running a bit of the actual course just to make the shoes vs racing flats call.

The liquids part is going to be more tricky. "The Aid stations with water, Gatorade, and cups are provided every three miles or so (some are self-serve)" so, it sounds like the cups will be there. I mean, yeah, crappy to have to stop and pour but better than slogging around a bunch of water with me.

In terms of how much water I need at race pace, THAT is tough. For my last half I took in about 20 oz water and probably 12 oz Gatorade. I was just being opportunistic, really. I could have gone with much less. During my training runs I do about 16 oz water and that's it, or honestly sometimes nothing at all. (I know, shame on me)

But this marathon is in July and could be warm...So my answer is I don't know? I guess I could ballpark and say about 24 oz water and a gel or two would suffice. 

GO GET'M MANATEES!!!!!!

 sounds like your plan would easily accommodate getting that amount of fluids.  If you're not use to the heat, be careful it's easy to get it wrong -either too much or too little water.  I'll wish for a hot summer for Seattle, so you can practice your nutrition