Manatees Roar into the 20s! CLOSED (Page 50)

Here, the tri season is pretty short, there's only so much runway for warm enough water to swim in ... we will see, though. 

At noon today my student tell me they just got an email that effective immediately all in-person activities at the College are cancelled. I got an email 10min later.  Nice.

The Y near me closed as of tomorrow, bought myself a set of swim cords.  So far my small trail race is on May 9 (I'm expecting them to cancel), but my aquabike was cancelled today. Race is June 6, gov't today banned all gatherings of more than 50 people up to at least May 30.  Not complaining, completely understand and it is the right call. I'm feeling bad for members of my team who have plans for their first HIM this year . We are going to put on a fun team race if everyone is cancelled, which will be fun and medals will be beer .

Stay positive and stay healthy everyone.

I've received some guidance from Endurance Nation.  I'll share it here but it's really supposed to be for EN members.

Here's the the guidance PDF from Endurance Nation.

For swimming 75% of your total swim time should be cardio and 25% strength.

• swim cord exercises (youtube)
• stretch cord exercises (triathlete mag)
• strength for swimming (greenlight - trx and swim cord)

Summary:

Your Next Race Was / Might Be Before June 1 - If the status of your upcoming race is still unclear, then you absolutely need to make sure thatyou have subscribed to all potential places for race directors updates - this includes email and social media as well. Train as planned. The PDF lists many different scenarios.  It's likely that one or more applies to any given situation.

Have any of you received guidance from your coaches or training groups?

Thanks Janyne. My running program is shut down until further notice. Advice for keeping base miles for HM and M people was given. Tridot is supposedly coming out with swim cord and or other exercises to do in lieu of swimming. Thankfully, as of this morning my pool is still open with no immediate plans to close. Outdoor pools for the win! 

In other swimming news, Roka is having a sale on its sim pants and I get another discount bc of my tri-team, so I bought a pair. If Janyne hadn't asked about them recently it would never have crossed my mind that I needed a pair, so thanks Janyne  

Atlanta Tri Club has obviously cancelled all in-person trainings, but today they started a 100-day challenge. The head coach filmed himself doing the no-equipment challenge (mostly strength stuff, today it was pushups), posted to Facebook and asked members to chime in on the comments when they completed it, how they did, etc. I appreciate the creativity in trying to keep members engaged in these times. 

Swim questions:

1. If your (small) gym was still open, would you go to swim laps? Having a huge internal dilemma right now.
2. Can I simply use regular resistance bands, or do I need to order specially-designated dryland/swim cords?

I don't think that swimming is the problem.  I think that it's getting from your car to the pool and back but especially the locker room that is the problem.  As a stronger swimmer with a September event, I think that I'd consider doubling down on the ride/run but that's just me.

I think that any resistance band will work. In fact, I think that I may do at least as much of the TRX stuff as the cords stuff since it's mostly swim-specific strength that this seems to accomplish.

Nice!  I love that!

OK, I'm hoping that it's no 100 days. Sadly, not totally unrealistic.

As of yesterday PA joined the shutdown club.  All non-essential businesses are closed of course including rec centers, entertainment venues, restaurants only open for take out/delivery, etc. etc.  but also hair salons and barbershops.  Coincidentally, I have a haircut scheduled this week.  I guess I will just be a shaggy dog until the ban is lifted.  I'm picturing me looking like Rip Van Winkle, sans beard.  LOL!  I have doubts that I'll be able to get it cut any time soon. 

Thanks for the swim cord links, Janyne.  They will be helpful.

The rumor is that NC is shutting "everything" down today. I don't know what that means and it's only a rumor.

I got my hair cut last week figuring that once we hit community spread in a big way, that would be out (and I don't trust Kevin to cut my hair).

Thanks for checking in!

Florida goes on a 30 day bar and nightclub shut down at 5pm today with restaurants having to limit capacity to 50% . Individual cities and counties may be more restrictive. These executive orders mean that i am a bit busy trying to get all the deputies up to date on the latest as we enforce the EOs. This is very similar to what happens during a hurricane except it's a lot longer duration!

NC is also doing that starting tonight. And I was finally told to work from home.  And we finally told the students that dorms will not be open again this semester.

I have been taught my whole life to keep a food storage.  About 10 years ago we had a really bad ice storm that knocked the entire city out of power for 3-8 days.  The shelf of the store was empty in 24 hours and people were freaking out.  Being a guy I hate shoping so when I was single I would only got to the store every 3-4 weeks to stock up for another month.  The idea of people not being able to make it 3-8 days without supplied from the store shocked me.  We are well stocked now.  We are getting a dozen eggs a day from the chickens, we have a meet locker full of chicken, turkey, gooses, and duck that we raised and processed last fall, we had one of our goat's kid last week so we are getting goat milk, and the second should kid any day.  We have flour, sugar, baking powder, whole grains, etc.  We should be able to hold out for a few months.  II have been camping before so I know that their are other options is we run out of TP and wet wipes.

I am not currently signed up for any races.  Three that are on my race calendar are postponed or on hold.  One had the registration Deadline on Saturday and another had its registration deadline this Friday.  I was waiting until the last minute to register.  I cost me a little more but signing up for one race that I ended up not being able to attend costs more than doing last-minute registration for 5-10 races so it looks like waiting this year worked to my advantage.  I am setting new training goals because I am assuming that at least half of the races will not get rescheduled or take place.  I have my own TT course that I have used several times in training and may do a bunch on TT's on my homemade course in place of races over the coming weeks and months.

May I offer a break in the crazy news and show a pic of my new bike? 

She needs a name, but for now, meet Miss Argon. She's a matte black and so pretty. So mysterious. So stealth. Cheers to a bright spot in this weird, crazy time we're in.