Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Mentor Group - FULL POD (Page 46)

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!

Man, I have to go back and forth between metric and imperial allll day long. Now I need to learn the pop tart to beer to energy conversions. 

Well, the good news is that there are approximately 200 calories in both a pop tart and an average pint of beer.  So, all you have to know is how many calories you burn per hour, on average, and you are set.  I, for instance, average 2 poptarts, or 2 pints, or 1 pop tart and 1 pint per hour.  Simple!

For me, this is like them posting cute pictures of kittens and puppies when my house is at pet capacity. 

I am also intrigued about this volleyball/road trip 

Ahh yessss, right you are! I'd like to see this written out as a proof though. You know, for full credit. 

C'mon. Chicks with headlamps are hot (I have proof ... somewhere). Nice ride!

Into typhoid relapse (common to have a 2nd, "somewhat" milder relapse 2 weeks out). Kinda wanna die. Clinging fiercely to that this is actually a sign I'm getting better. Yuck, couldn't the sign be, like, the arrival of Pop Tarts or something?

Take baby to doctor, find out baby has ear infection.  Just put her down for a nap, so we'll be going out to get antibiotics once she wakes up and eats.  At least I have an answer and she should be feeling better in a day or two.

I did manage to find the Son of a Peach beer, so I think I'll be having one tonight.  I'm going to need it by the end of the day!

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.

I'm so sorry. Those are miserable. My first and second had them one after another. I hadn't had one in forever (if ever), so when my first one was acting so nasty about them, I wasn't very sympathetic. Then I got one. Oh my land. The worst thing ever. I was a very sympathetic mommy after that.

The first two ended up with tubes. Strangely, my third child hasn't had even one ear infection, ever.

Oh, Allen. I can so relate to this. I was the same way.  At my first tri: Goal One: "I just want to finish." Goal Two: "I don't want to be last," and Goal Three: "I want to finish in under two hours."

I did all of those -- but I was last in my age group and beat only maybe 10 people overall. That wasn't good enough. I didn't even realize I was so competitive until that happened.

Everyone has a beginning. We are at the beginning of this journey. It's okay to want better and to expect more of ourselves.

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.

ukweeble - 2012-04-23 1:01 PM 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.
Whats DFL?

Dead Froggin' Last

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.

Well then, I suppose it's time I admit my weakness. Cereal. Any type. I can hardly ever hold myself to just one bowl. I do the, "Oh I didn't put enough milk in. Oh oops, too much milk, now I need more cereal" thing over and over and have gone through an entire box more than once. If I am out of milk, I have put water in my cereal. 

Running has fueled the fire of this addiction, too. 

Thank goodness I have found fiber one. It *naturally limits me to one bowl, tastes pretty good and has great carb/protein/fiber ratios. 

Rest up captain Kirk (I know, so forking original, eh?) You deserve it! Also, yes, sloooowly ramp up that running. 

I thought you said alligators at first, not agitators. Either way, I am trying to think of what noise gators makes. If I knew, I'd be making it right about now. 

Thanks to your post, I decided to try a bowl of cereal -- AND I HELD IT DOWN!!!

I am so excited.

Sadly, cereal is almost as expensive as Pop Tarts here. Many of the boxes are even only 100g ... that'd be practically a single serve box in the U.S.!

Good morning! It is going to be nearly 90 here today (sorry for you people on the East coast, whoever is getting the snow).

It was 50 when I went out for a short run this morning. My plan is a 45 minute bike ride later this afternoon, and then a swim with the boys after dinner.

I made the mistake of not eating something right after my run. I didn't eat anything before, because I basically jumped out of bed, put on some clothes, and ran. But when I got back, it was time to get the little boys up and ready for school. Out the door I went with them -- both of them with something to eat on the way (I'm a bad mom -- they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school); drop both of them off. Then decide to stop by the grocery store because I'm craving a bagel with Nutella. As I'm standing in line to buy my breakfast, and thinking, "Why am I having to stand in line at our grocery store at 8:03 a.m.??, a wave of nausea comes over me. "Crap," I think. "I should have eaten something before this errand."

I make it through the line, and the drive back home, pop a yummy bagel in the toaster (half for me, half for number one son) spread on the Nutella, sip my coffee, and instant relief.

Okay, well, maybe not instant, but within 20 minutes, I felt better. My stomach is still a tad angry with me.

And Yanti, if you say you can't even get Nutella in Bali, I am getting your address and sending you a care package of yummy deliciousness.

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.