Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 44)

Yanti - I'd be willing to help feed (yeah, small pun, sorry :P) your Pop Tart addiction!

Jen - hopefully baby will recover from her ear infection quickly.  Poor dear.

Must find that peach beer.  Sounds sooo good!  I wonder if it gets as far north as PA?  Anyone know the distribution range?

No, lady, you have enough on your plate right now! Wow. Your niceness never fails to astound me. I'm not sure why, though, since you're always that nice.

Besides, I have it on rumor authority there might be Pop Tart mailings in the works.

Just get sweet little Baby E better, and yourself some sleep!

It's entirely possible!  I live in Virginia.  I found it at Whole Foods - they tend to have a pretty good selection of beer and are open to requests.

Stop snooping miss Yanti! 

I forgot to mention: I had to go to REI this morning.  I got a 2nd degree burn on my hand from the oven grate yesterday and they have great burn jel with lidocaine in it.  I also bought myself a new pair of toe socks.  They weren't very expensive and they make me feel better.  Plus they are super thin, so they fit in my Vibrams really well.

One of the news stations posted this ... so beautiful I can't stop staring at it.

I now have ELEVEN good friends in the Seattle area ... you know as soon as it hits 12 I've gotta go. I just gotta.

lol...small advantage to having the day off.  We had to make a small run to REI and Whole Foods before the doctor appointment this morning.  

Sunscreen, lady!  Super important!  Enjoy that lovely weather in Seattle!!!

You let me know and I will be on it.  You've helped me more than you know through the years through all your inspires and talks.  It's the least I can do to send you some Pop Tarts.  

See, I just complain about the rain stuff so no one else moves here.

If you could just see a liiiiitttle bit to the left in that photo, you would see my work. Also, if you look straight out in the midground, that is where I live, in West Seattle. 

You know 11 people here!?! Any of them runners? I always need more running friends. We need to find you a 12

Third little baby found and on it's way to be re-united with momma!    She was moving them from a neighbors hedge to our yard.  My partner had a good look around but didn't see anymore, so hopefully that is all!  Poor wee little bubba.

Ohh yeah! I forgot to comment on the kittens! OMG soooo cute!!!! We have three cats already, which in my opinion, borders on crazy-cat-lady but it really made me want a kitten. NO MORE KITTEN PICTURES! 

I can't help it. I can smell hints of Pop Tarts from 6000 miles away.

How Cow, I now know why this group is called the MAD Manatees.  I can't keep up, sounds like you all are having such fun.  I think it's just going to be easier posting inspires to each of you personally .  Thanks God Yanti made that nice handy-dandy list for us!

I had a 100 mile weekend, swam almost two miles, ran a little more than 10 miles, biked a little more than 88 miles.  Today's a definite rest day, my legs are toast after yesterdays sufferfest through windy Kansas.

Hopefully tonight I'll get a chance to read the last few days of posts, I know there's entertainment value in here!

Cheers!

Oh my, can't beleive you rode in that wind yesterday.  It was 30 - 40mph here and we laughed at the idea of riding!  You're amazing!

Yes, Chris. After classes and commencement are over, I will have one major assessment report to complete, and then I am done. I hope it doesn't take me too far into June to get everything done.

Then in the fall, I will be full time teaching and only a little admin (department chair).

The town 8 miles to the north of us got hit the other weekend -- there is still some roof and sign damage. The county correctional facility sustained the most damage, so the 60 or so inmates (!!! That's like 1 percent of our county's population!) have been farmed out to other counties while they repair the tornado damage and do some other building improvements they can't do while inmates are there.

(This is off subject completely, but something like 36 of those inmates are "INS detainees." That really bothered me. We do have a pretty high immigrant population in our county. I guess I was happy thinking that we were just leaving everyone alone and letting them live their lives the best they could. Silly me.)

cdban66 - 2012-04-23 12:11 PM

rrrunner - 2012-04-22 6:36 PM

Congrats to both Kirk and Allen!  Welcome to Triathletism Allen!

As for my race... I love being here and seeing all of the teams.  I got to talk with one of the support staff for a team from Hamburg!  They sure came a long way for this.

I had my race report completely filled out and it disappeared . I'll put it back in there when I feel like re-hashing it again! In a nutshell, the race got to me about an hour and a half later than expected, I started out feeling really good so I didn't pace myself as I should have.  I had some stomach issues, possibly GI, possibly a huge stitch in my side, then got past that but didn't recover on the time, then finished it off with a tight calf.  Overall ok but I missed my goal by 4 minutes (wanted to be sub 1 hour).

Don't think I'll get my planned swim in today.  Still fried from my 3:00 AM run...

TJ, great job on your race. That has to be an awesome sight, the lights of Vegas at 3:00 am as you are heading into town. How cool is that! Sorry that you had some stomach cramping issues. I would think that just getting out at that hour of the morning would have my body complaining in all sorts of ways. Good job getting through it all

Bad luck on missing your goal TJ, and the pain issues, but good on ya for running at 2am. Bet the lights looked great.

100 mile weekend  + wind factor = 10,000 calorie weekend

or thereabouts.

Way to kick azz!

Yeah, wow.

Just found out my final position now that the provisional results are available.

I came 423rd out of 444.

In my age group i came 45th out of 45.

My original goal was to finish a triathlon. period. My hope was that i would not come last.

As i have moved along my journey, i have come to enjoy what i have chosen to do, even though i know that i am not naturally built for it. I have also raised my expectations due to my competitive gremlin sneaking out of it's box, and so whilst i am pleased that i completed my challenge, i was a bit disapointed to see my overall position and to find that i was last in class.

I know that i have only been at this for 31/2 months and that i have already come a long way, but i am about to kick it up a level. I want you all to get behind me and push/encourage and generally nudge me further along this path that i have chosen. I don't have long before my next race and i am aiming to be further up the results page when i bring you my next race report.

Rant over and things now off my chest.

So how are your Mondays going? It's still raining here (about 10 days in a row), went out to celebrate the wifes birthday and it tipped it down.

From here it looks like you blew your goal AND your hope outta sight that's an American way of saying Well Done!

If it makes you feel any better, I've been both DFL and now DNF at races and they weren't anywhere near my first.

Patience and Consistency, Hardened Frog. Qualities you do indeed have in abundance which override your need for any kind of natural talent.

Thanks Carla, I can't believe I did it either.  I would have felt better going in with FRESH legs but I had a tough swim and 10 mile run the day before.  We got to about mile 25 on the way out, my friend Pete says, "well, we can head back now, you'll have a solid 50 miler in the books or we can keep going...."

In my mind with IMKS 70.3 coming up I knew it was HTFU time.

That's a lot of beer and poptarts!  That's amazing, Reece, great work!