Yanti & Salty Straight-Up Ridiculous Manatees Part 5 - FULL (Page 48)

Wow, great job, can't wait for RR!

I have two pace booty submissions!!! My first submission is my friend Shang (Godzirra) he ran the 10K with me this weekend. Major props to him. I couldn't imagine hauling that much muscle 6+ miles. He finishes saying, "If-gasp-I-gasp-want-gasp to do any longer distance-gasp- I'm-gasp- going to have to- gasp- change- gasp- my body composition"

My second is my sister in law!!! Yes, that's a unicycle. She can juggle while doing it, too. It's so funny because my brothers group of friends and I are all the type of people that have a general athletic ability and can usually jump in and try something and be decently good at it but this unicycle has us all stumped. Meanwhile she (who is NOT athletic) jumps right on and does circles around us. Good stuff!

Asalzwed - 2012-09-24 11:46 AM

I have two pace booty submissions!!! My first submission is my friend Shang (Godzirra) he ran the 10K with me this weekend. Major props to him. I couldn't imagine hauling that much muscle 6+ miles. He finishes saying, "If-gasp-I-gasp-want-gasp to do any longer distance-gasp- I'm-gasp- going to have to- gasp- change- gasp- my body composition"

My second is my sister in law!!! Yes, that's a unicycle. She can juggle while doing it, too. It's so funny because my brothers group of friends and I are all the type of people that have a general athletic ability and can usually jump in and try something and be decently good at it but this unicycle has us all stumped. Meanwhile she (who is NOT athletic) jumps right on and does circles around us. Good stuff!

 

Very nice! I've never tried a unicycle, but I'm still pretty sure I know how the attempt would turn out.

Asalzwed - 2012-09-25 12:46 AM

I have two pace booty submissions!!! My first submission is my friend Shang (Godzirra) he ran the 10K with me this weekend. Major props to him. I couldn't imagine hauling that much muscle 6+ miles. He finishes saying, "If-gasp-I-gasp-want-gasp to do any longer distance-gasp- I'm-gasp- going to have to- gasp- change- gasp- my body composition"

My second is my sister in law!!! Yes, that's a unicycle. She can juggle while doing it, too. It's so funny because my brothers group of friends and I are all the type of people that have a general athletic ability and can usually jump in and try something and be decently good at it but this unicycle has us all stumped. Meanwhile she (who is NOT athletic) jumps right on and does circles around us. Good stuff!

 

You can tell Quadzirra and any of your relatives that I'd just love to sink my chompers into those cheeks. MMMMMMMMM!

Race Report:

http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=462044&posts=1&start=1

I posted 3 photos in the RR, 1 is my pre-race where you will see beer labels (bonus for the HW)

Hehe, just come on over-up to Seattle. I'm sure they'd let you! 

I am totally a random and drive-by biter. Not hard ... just yummy little nibbles. YUM!

Well, stay away from mine today. They hurt like a mofo. Racing + a 1 year old bday party + a long run with big hills. 

Oh, c'mon. Pressure point therapy?

Well, alright. I'm willing to try anything at least once. 

Felicia, I forgot to comment on your HM "nutrition" (I hate using that term, but it IS appropriate.)

I love, love, love that you used real food. I don't think you need to second guess that at all. I am sure it wasn't easy to choke down without water but in a lot of cases the gels they have are not as effective (or easy to swallow) without water, so you probably had an advantage. 

Someone in tri talk had posted about potatoes as race food and I loved that idea. In fact, it made me crave mashed potatoes all weekend so I made a HUGE batch of them last night.

I guess you will want to figure out a way to carry them better as your bike jersey didn't work out but I still really like the idea. 

My race belt has little loops for gels. I bet you could make the sandwiches work ...

Also!!! I saw this last night and was dying to share it with you guys. We have talked a little about running form and how changing it generally is not a great idea. This has some really great sources and at a minimum, gives you all something to think about:

"Form doesn't matter.

Overpronation doesn't cause injury. Even if it did, you're out of luck: motion control shoes don't control motion. Pronation and the mechanisms of running injuries.

Elite runners get injured. Barefoot runners get injured. Cushioned-boot-wearing runners get injured.

What correlates with injury? Too much, too soon. Higher mileage. Maybe a history of injury. I read a study the other day that claimed a correlation between hamstring inflexibility and injury.

So what if your form is "bad" at 7 min/km pace? I bet if you got in shape to race 5 km in 15 minutes, your form would look more like that of other runners at that pace. Or maybe it wouldn't. Famous coach Alberto Salazar modified elite Dathan Ritzenhein's form to try to match that of 5 km world record holder Kenenisa Bekele. Ritz has had injuries in the past, and the form monkeying resulted in more injury. Did it make him faster? Who knows; he's signed up for the Chicago Marathon in a couple weeks and did well in the Philadelphia Half Marathon. See The Perfect Stride.

If you prefer lighter weight shoes, why run in clunkers? Shoe salesmen are not pushing evidence based recommendations. Or, if those clunkers are better for your ITBS (did I read that right?), there's no shame in sticking with what works!

Heck, some people run backwards. They must be one giant injury. Or what about dancing, basketball, any repetitive action that the body wasn't "designed" or "evolved" to do? The body seems pretty adaptable, if you give it time and don't do too much, too soon."

Hey man, sounds like he is just working with what he's got. Sounds like it would make a most excellent top knot! 

It's too bad you can't give it a little tug, you know, just to let him know you noticed. 

I don't suppose there's a sketch artist in the courtroom, is there?  Get him to make a photocopy for you

HAHAHAHA!

The whole sketch artist crap always makes me laugh. I saved the sketches from Lindsey Lohans courtroom appearances because I thought it was so funny. 

Yeah but what an awesome job.  If only I had talent...

Ah, courtrooms.  One can find the most interesting people there.

Yeah, like 2/3 of the Manatees. For various reasons 

OK, McManatees. I have been contemplating this "situation" for a few days now and thought I'd get your thoughts ...

Whether or not to pay for/go to Masters for the month of October

1) For the first week of October Masters would be the 1st and 2nd (Monday & Tuesday) due to pool closures

2) I have my OLY "A" race on the 7th

3) I will be on vaca the second week of October so not going to Masters that week

4) I have no training plan in place the 2nd-4th weeks of October because I thought I would enjoy/could use some "down time" before starting my HIM plan

5) Down time could include but is not limited to not getting up at 5:30am to be at Masters

6) The last week of October my plan includes swimming on the 29th & 31st

So essentially I have 4 planned swims for the month but may or may not swim during my off weeks if it is available.

Pod-thoughts?

OMG beer burgas!?!?! I need some! 

I thought that too, but they look like they make  it hard to drink

Does your masters group meet twice a week?  So you would definitely go to four of the eight planned swims?  

Even though you have only four swims scheduled, you could attend six masters swims, right? (taking out the week that you will be gone and on vacation).

I would still do it for six swims; I probably wouldn't do it for four. Since the swims are M T and your Oly is that weekend,  I don't think the swim would interfere much with your taper. Maybe not push it as hard as you could on the Tuesday session?

But I say all this because I think swimming is relaxing and helps me recover from whatever ails me.

Is my math right? I'm not feeling that hot or thinking too clearly.