Manatees Roar into the 20s! CLOSED (Page 42)

Originally posted by fortissimo

Originally posted by alaskatri

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by JBacarellaI had a little bike debacle today, but also discovered a bike hack. I found a flat on my back tire. I pulled out my electric pump and it must have died in one of the floods. I decided to just blow it up with a CO2 cartridge. I blew it up, took the adapted off of the presta valve and it unscrewed with the adopter. I also found that the extra valves were also lost in one of the floods. I decided to reuse the old one, but it wouldn't stay screwed in. I normally have Loctite, but I may have lost that in a flood too. I remembered that loctite has sugar in it. I had a used GU in the trash from the night before. I used the residue from the GU as a thread sealer. It Worked!

Good thinking! And explains why Gu kills my stomach

Speaking of killing stomachs...

I'm sure that many of you have noticed that there is yet another change to the on course nutrition at Ironman events. Nope, not BASE bars at Chattanooga this year. We will be getting Quantum Energy Squares instead.  I received an offer to get their sample back of three bars for $1 so I went ahead and ordered them despite the fact that I have no plans to use them. Then again, one never plans to drop their nutrition (it happens) so I did want to know if it would work for me as a backup plan. 

The samples arrived last week so I got one out for my longer ride this weekend. 45 or so minute into the ride, I decided to try it. Crumbly, nutty to the point of a choking hazard when trying to breath while working out. Taste was ok. Sat like a rock in my stomach. 

I only looked at the nutrition after the fact. #1 ingredient is peanuts. 10 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber << not good for mid race.

How do I know that they are the official bars for the race? Did Ironman tell me or is it on the Chattanooga 70.3 website anywhere? Nope. Quantum emailed me and has the Ironman US Series -- 2020 Official Energy Bar logo on their website.

Hopefully everyone is aware of the change, and reads the labels before trying. Peanuts are a pretty serious allergy these days. I know because my son carries an epi-pen for it. Hopefully there are no hiccups/emergencies as a result of any allergic racers being unaware of the change.

Next North America race is O-Side so I looked at their nutrition. They have Quantum listed at their bars.

Just because it didn't work for me doesn't mean that it won't work for others.

Originally posted by alaskatri

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by alaskatri

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by amd723

Originally posted by JBacarellaI had a little bike debacle today, but also discovered a bike hack. I found a flat on my back tire. I pulled out my electric pump and it must have died in one of the floods. I decided to just blow it up with a CO2 cartridge. I blew it up, took the adapted off of the presta valve and it unscrewed with the adopter. I also found that the extra valves were also lost in one of the floods. I decided to reuse the old one, but it wouldn't stay screwed in. I normally have Loctite, but I may have lost that in a flood too. I remembered that loctite has sugar in it. I had a used GU in the trash from the night before. I used the residue from the GU as a thread sealer. It Worked!

Good thinking! And explains why Gu kills my stomach

Speaking of killing stomachs...

I'm sure that many of you have noticed that there is yet another change to the on course nutrition at Ironman events. Nope, not BASE bars at Chattanooga this year. We will be getting Quantum Energy Squares instead.  I received an offer to get their sample back of three bars for $1 so I went ahead and ordered them despite the fact that I have no plans to use them. Then again, one never plans to drop their nutrition (it happens) so I did want to know if it would work for me as a backup plan. 

The samples arrived last week so I got one out for my longer ride this weekend. 45 or so minute into the ride, I decided to try it. Crumbly, nutty to the point of a choking hazard when trying to breath while working out. Taste was ok. Sat like a rock in my stomach. 

I only looked at the nutrition after the fact. #1 ingredient is peanuts. 10 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber << not good for mid race.

How do I know that they are the official bars for the race? Did Ironman tell me or is it on the Chattanooga 70.3 website anywhere? Nope. Quantum emailed me and has the Ironman US Series -- 2020 Official Energy Bar logo on their website.

Hopefully everyone is aware of the change, and reads the labels before trying. Peanuts are a pretty serious allergy these days. I know because my son carries an epi-pen for it. Hopefully there are no hiccups/emergencies as a result of any allergic racers being unaware of the change.

I was actually wondering if more people have peanut allergies or gluten intollerence?  Anyway, should something bad happen to my nutrition, I'll search for on course options other than these Quantum bars.

I imagine more people have gluten intolerance, or at least a lot of people are getting away from gluten for what they perceive as an intolerance. But, for a lot of folks, the peanut allergy isn't really an intolerance. Rather, it creates anaphylaxis response and requires ER visit. I'd much rather have a stomach ache than that.

It doesn't seem like it should be an either/or choice.

Manatee Challenge Mar/Apr 2020

I have just completed updating NEW sheets for the Mar/Apr edition of the Manatee Challenge.  Be aware that there are NINE weeks in the two months of March and April.

1. Weight Loss sheet - I only added the necessary rows.  I did not delete or modify anyone's data.
2. Keep On Moving sheet - I added the necessary rows and deleted existing data.
3. Good Eats sheet - I added the necessary rows and deleted existing data.
4. Strength/Core/Yoga sheet - I added the necessary columns, but did not alter anybody's existing data.
5. Distance Traveled sheet - I didn't do anything to this one because I noticed some people had already input new dates and data.  (ETA:  I did not add the extra weeks to this sheet because some people had mentioned that they "only signed on for six weeks" with the previous challenge, and those folks already had dat in this sheet for Mar/Apr.)

I'm following the Covid19 and triathlon thread on Slowtwitch. It's pretty interesting. Ironman Taiwan 2020 was cancelled, the Paris half marathon was cancelled (cancellation announced 2/29, race was to be 3/1).  Tokyo marathon was pro only. 

How does that curse go?  May you live in interesting times.

Sorry about the prospect of no tourists, that stinks! I wish people would do what they should be doing anyway -wash your hands with soap and water!! Stay home when you are sick, cough into your elbow not your hand. When i have to be a work while still maybe contagious i always walk around with a clorox wipe in my hand to keep from infecting others. I wish my co-workers were that thoughtful rather than doing their best to spread the love! 

I have a 10k this weekend and a HM first weekend in April in NC, sure hope they don't get canceled! 

I heard on NPR (well, the Up First podcast), that some schools are their schedules to "make time for hand washing." What were they doing before? Do I even want to know?

Sorry to hear this, Robin, hoping the impact won't be as bad as feared.

SMH.  The levels of paranoia and lack of common sense seem to be rising together.  Someone (I think it was a former manatee) posted a picture on FB of Target completely empty of toilet paper with the Coronavirus scare.  TOILET PAPER.

Edited to add:  I hope Chatt 70.3 won't be impacted or cancelled.

I heard that we (athletes with spring/summer events) should watch what Boston does. Right now, BAA is saying that they have no current plans to cancel the race in April so keep on training!

One point to consider is that these events take a lot of medical resources so a cancellation would not necessarily be to protect athletes, it could be because the community needs to use resources differently.

I read the Boston Marathon as a barometer thing too - fingers crossed!

If all else fails, we'll all be riding gravel bikes. Alone.

Manatee Challenge Mar/Apr 2020

• Weight: 362.

Noticed something at the end of the workout today.  This workout shows 414 calories burned.  My usual after-workout DD XL coffee w/cream and caramel swirl is 420 calories.  I have literally been drinking away my workout points!  Needless to say, I skipped the coffee today.  That will now be relegated to a once-a-week treat/reward for toughing out an especially tough workout, something like completing two full laps of Oh Mama.

Nicely done! Yes, it is very easy to drink away your calories if you put anything but fake sweetener in it and if you do use fake sweetener that has its own problems! I usually drink black coffee with a splenda , but will treat myself from time to time to a cafe con leche. So good! I ask for 1/2 the sugar usually used bc if you ever watch it being prepared and see the amount that normally goes in you would go into a sugar coma!

I am slowing working back through all the posts the I have missed.  I learned something new when I paced the Dallas Hot Chocolate 15K last month.  The pacing 101 guides that I was required to study indicated that GPS devices were usually off due to interference from trees, builds, etc. and that to be accurate in pacing you needed to get you split from the miles markers on the course and not from your GPS and that you should run about 3 seconds a mile ahead of your GPM on each mile to stay on track then adjust at the mile markers.  Sure enough, my GPM knocked off the first mile about 50 feet before I go to the mile marker.  As the race progressed the difference between the mile markers on the course and my GPM got wider and wider.  I wasn't sure if the course markers were exact of just "close enough"  so I wanted to wait for the next marker to see if they got back on track or not so I kept getting farther and farther behind for the race.  At the finish line my average pace was about 2 seconds faster than I was supposed to be but I have gone 0.2 miles long.  When I looked up the race results it had me listed as being 3 seconds behind my target pace and the 5K and 10K splits showed me being behind too.   The more experienced pacers were right on the money with their splits and total race paces and the other rookies like me showed to be equally spread out from their goal times.  So... if you have a USATF certified course then you probably always going to come in 0.1 long for every 5K that you run.  0.8 off on a 10K tells me that they didn't do any type of certified measurements of the course. Still, I am going to be a lot more forgiving of the measurements on courses from now on. How it is measured does make a difference in accuracy and what my GPS watch says is not as accurate as I once thought it was. 

On a side note, I only ran the correct course in one out of my four triathlons last year.  We missed turns on the run course in two of my races (they really need to have volunteers at those turn-a-rounds directing people) and  I missed a turn on the bike course in one race.  So....being navigationally challenged I know how frustrating it can be when you are trying to hit goal times and the course isn't what it needs to be for the goal.  

I love this...not that things went wrong, but that I am not the only one that struggles and that at the end of the day you just know that you did your best and enjoyed the experience.  I was miss directed at the Air Force Half Marathons in 2013 (year?) and we had one of the lead group of women (that I was pacing off of) turned onto the marathon course.  We ended up with 16.8 miles.  I haven't been held up by a train, but the Always a Cowboy 5K in Laramie, Wy in 2004 (year?) had a herd of Wild Mustangs cross in front of me.  Ya...I lost 20-25 seconds waiting for the herd to pass.  I am sure that there weren't any permits pull so it was not the mustangs' fault for not reading a memo.  They were in their right to be running that route on the race morning.

Interesting. I know that when they set up a certified course they use the most direct route from start to finish, so if you are not running the tangents correctly and or are weaving around people you will run longer than the course.  This is one of the reasons some people get frustrated when slower runners seed themselves faster than they should - they make people run around them and add distance (plus it can be dangerous.

Haven't had the opportunity to listen to this TED talk, but in general, I  don't think you can wear your heart out prematurely by exercise, in other words, Jim Fixx didn't have a heart attack bc he ran a lot, he had a heart attack bc he had heart disease and would have had it whether he ran or not.  If i'm not mistaken he had a family history of heart disease and he had a list of factors that led to the heart attack. That is not to say that if you have some underlying condition that the Dr says you shouldn't tax your heart above x amount that you should ignore that advice, but it is the condition that is the problem your exercise hasn't created it.  To address the "in general" part of my statement - I know there is some evidence that people who engage in years of ultra endurance events may injure their hearts, that there is a tipping point where the exercise is good for the heart becomes not anymore! But for most of us that isn't a worry (as I understand things at least) .

As far as wearing out your knees, I believe exercise is good for them too and that it is an old wive's tale that running wears them out. I am told that even when you have arthritis running is good for them. Actually, my right knee is so messed up that if you looked at my MRI you'd be shocked that i can even walk! Stage 4 arthritis, nothing to fix it but a knee replacement. If i hadn't had the MRI to tell me it was messed up i never would have known! Now that i do, i can tell the little aches and pains, but mainly i have no issues. So, basically I can never stop running or else i will have knee pain 

I don't have an answer for you but am curious about the make/model of your new watch.  Interesting that it can predict paces.  

I think this is a feature on most garmin watches (and maybe others) these days. I know my 935 has it. As i understand it does the prediction based off the VO2 max estimate it creates. It also needs a certain number of runs to sort of figure this out so it would not be unusual for the predictions to be inaccurate at first. That said, I have no idea how accurate they are once the watch thinks it knows you!