Yanti & Lynn: Manatee Madness Mentor Group CLOSED (Page 46)

amd723 - 2012-02-06 3:34 PM

I did try shooing one of the gators that was kind of up on his legs, facing me and very, very close to the path.  For some reason, he didn't listen to me and after a few minutes of sizing each other up, I continued past him and he started to turn away from me.

Spending most of my life in Florida, i know that there are gators in just about every fresh water body of water.  I try not to think about that as I do my open water swims in the local lakes and I really try to do all my tri events in the ocean.  Still, when you see the gators in such quantity it is pretty amazing and more then a bit freaky.  Normally, in the winter they are completely inactive and you could step right over them without disturbing them (though I wouldn't recommend it).  However, like the rest of the country, we've had a very mild winter.  In fact, it was in the 80*s as I hiked the area, so the gators were more active then they should have been.  I'm hoping for a cold front for Saturday's race :0

kgore - 2012-02-06 10:13 PM

Yeah, but you know the American Crocodile lives in saltwater (along the coast of Florida especially), right?  Sorry, I couldn't help myself. By the way, one way to get a gator's attention (and make them go to a specific spot) is to make a noise and vibration nearby the gator (yet away from yourself)---such as tapping the bank of a lake with a stick or branch--or simply by throwing rocks onto a specific spot. They will think that the noise means there is food nearby.

Tapping a rock ledge with a broomstick was how I "station trained" the zoo's Dwarf Crocodile--according to many crocodilian experts (I'm not one of those yet...), Crocs and gators are incredibly intelligent---and yet they still will go for the tapping noises...

Okay, I am done giving zookeeper advice for now....back to our regularly scheduled tri-mentoring.

jimmyb - 2012-02-07 11:18 AM

Crocs and gators are incredibly intelligent---and yet they still will go for the tapping noises...

Tapping noises......such as the tapping of feet when jogging?

Asalzwed - 2012-02-06 12:33 PM

Excuse me? Did you say 16 gators? I must have misread...

My biggest concerns while running are-I dunno- I guess just dudes "Holla-ing" at us when we run by. Ohhhh and there was this super creepy mime this one time....

Either way, doesn't really compare to gators. You are badass. 

kgore - 2012-02-06 9:00 PM

My 10k went well, I nearly reached my goal too--I had wanted to make 1:10:00 or less--I came in at 1:10:35--  I'm pretty happy with it over all! This race was a new p.r. by 5 minutes. The race report is up--under the Super Bowl Sunday Run. 

Of course, today my calves and parts of my quads are SORE!!!! Luckily, I was moved to the carnivore section at work for the day (too many people away at a conference), so I did a lot of walking/bending/raking--and my legs remained mostly loosened up. I know that the use of my minimal shoes contributed to the soreness, I have only ran in them a few times. I knew I wanted to use them though, the energy and stamina difference is amazing....I ran more comfortably yesterday than I ever have before!

So my next event is a sprint tri on April 15 (my birthday I know how to celebrate!), so plenty of time to get better with my run, keep up on my bike miles, and acclimate to REALLY cold water! I cant wait.

wushunut - 2012-02-07 12:15 PM

Wow.  Maybe I'm not so happy living in Florida afterall. Gators and sharks! Oh my!

Yup.  I'm back from the dead.  Seems like I've been having trouble getting any sense of consistency in my workouts.  Life just gets in the way.  Kids getting sick, I or my wife having to work late, injuries, and other stuff just through me off.  Whine, whine, whine. 

Well, all of that changes today! (I hope).  I think part of it was me still being in the "offseason"  Today is Day 1 of my Oly training plan! (I started today as it works for my schedule better).  Plus I went out and got myself a bike trainer so no more real excuses for not training anymore.  Sleep? pssshh. overrated.

Hopefully my with my training getting more consistent my participation as a manatee will get more consistent! Short swim and bike today.  Did my swim at lunch (24minutes) and 45 min bike later today.

ukweeble - 2012-02-02 12:44 PM Did i mention i am also sipping a cold beer right now as a celebration to getting back on a healthy track???

jimmyb - 2012-02-05 3:36 AM

I ran out of Blueberry poptarts

 

Actually I felt like despite working hard I just could not get my heart rate up.  Seems weird but I was pedaling at an effort consistent with long rides but my heart rate simply was not going up.  I was around 112 bpm and breaking a decent sweat.  This happens sometimes.  My resting heart rate is in low 50's.  My usual HR on trainer is in 120's.  When I bike at same perceived intensity outside I'm in the 130-140 range.  Could it be that I'm just too comfortable on my trainer?  Any thoughts?  Should I be pushing harder?  It takes a very hard effort to get my HR to 140's on the trainer.

blackledge - 2012-02-08 3:51 AM I just had to pop in and say "hi" to my two fav ladies.  Sorry for the interruption...you may now return to your regularly scheduled mentoring.

kgore - 2012-02-07 12:00 PM

My 10k went well, I nearly reached my goal too--I had wanted to make 1:10:00 or less--I came in at 1:10:35--  I'm pretty happy with it over all! This race was a new p.r. by 5 minutes. The race report is up--under the Super Bowl Sunday Run. 

Of course, today my calves and parts of my quads are SORE!!!! Luckily, I was moved to the carnivore section at work for the day (too many people away at a conference), so I did a lot of walking/bending/raking--and my legs remained mostly loosened up. I know that the use of my minimal shoes contributed to the soreness, I have only ran in them a few times. I knew I wanted to use them though, the energy and stamina difference is amazing....I ran more comfortably yesterday than I ever have before!

So my next event is a sprint tri on April 15 (my birthday I know how to celebrate!), so plenty of time to get better with my run, keep up on my bike miles, and acclimate to REALLY cold water! I cant wait.

wushunut - 2012-02-08 3:15 AM

Wow.  Maybe I'm not so happy living in Florida afterall. Gators and sharks! Oh my!

Yup.  I'm back from the dead.  Seems like I've been having trouble getting any sense of consistency in my workouts.  Life just gets in the way.  Kids getting sick, I or my wife having to work late, injuries, and other stuff just through me off.  Whine, whine, whine. 

Well, all of that changes today! (I hope).  I think part of it was me still being in the "offseason"  Today is Day 1 of my Oly training plan! (I started today as it works for my schedule better).  Plus I went out and got myself a bike trainer so no more real excuses for not training anymore.  Sleep? pssshh. overrated.

Hopefully my with my training getting more consistent my participation as a manatee will get more consistent! Short swim and bike today.  Did my swim at lunch (24minutes) and 45 min bike later today.

blackledge - 2012-02-07 1:51 PM I just had to pop in and say "hi" to my two fav ladies.  Sorry for the interruption...you may now return to your regularly scheduled mentoring.

crews - 2012-02-08 4:47 AM That.bike.is.awesome.

wushunut - 2012-02-07 3:34 PM

Oooh... Nice bike!  And it's red too!

I'm insanely jealous.  I was at the local tri shop today picking out my new torture dev... err trainer and drooling over the nice tri bikes they had on display there.

I think I should've bought a tri bike instead of the road bike after all.  In my year of owning my bike I've done two, TWO, group rides. 

I just seem to like riding solo better.  (Cue Jason Derulo)

TriAya - 2012-02-07 2:45 PM

So it's probably time to check in myself ... (to an institution, really, but the Manatees will do nicely )

As Salty alluded earlier, I am in the midst of Worst Case Scenario training for Ironman Melbourne (March 25) but the good news is that I'm still definitely going to give it a shot. Just getting to stay upright and suck air every day is a huge gift, so no matter what happens in March--what an opportunity and what a party! Just happy to be there!

I did do a practice HIM last weekend (it was on my training plan) just to see if I was realistically anywhere in the ballpark of being able to finish, and it went very well. It's still going to be extremely tight, training and time-wise, but this should help a bit:

My new tri bike! I'm so excited. I've never owned a new bike and never thought I could afford a decent tri bike, but ... the tri gods conspired otherwise. Did my first ride on it today and it is LIKE BUTTER!

The Melbourne bike course is fairly flat and will possibly be quite windy on the return of an out-and-back, so aero is definitely favored.