Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod (Page 51)

x2, that's so cool.

Felicia, isn't it amazing what they will do for us, and us for them?

Well I'm finally starting to come out of my pity party and appreciate what I did on Saturday.  As I mentioned the other day I'm thinking I should become a card-carrying (paying) member of BT so I can benefit from the more detailed plans. My question, should I start with silver and see how it goes? I like that the gold plan starts with your current level but I'm wondering if the silver isn't sufficient.

Thoughts?

I would like to know, too. I have been thinking of paying for some level of membership as well. I'm getting weary of creating my training plans from week to week.

I was just looking at the silver level, OLY, family friendly plan.  It looks pretty good! Of course it also has 1150m of swimming in 25 minutes which is totally not happening in my world

I hope not, because I'm in the no-puke club, too. 

Well, provided I don't get struck by lightning or smote in some other fashion, I will confess that certain parts of my BT plan just don't get executed, for instance, the run distances.  Coming off my Achilles issue, I am in no position to be running 3, 4, 5 miles just yet, so I incorporated my own 5K plan to the mix, building it up slowly.  No, it doesn't show up on the plan, but I know what I am doing when.  And yeah, I totally agree that some of the swim distances per time limits don't get executed quite the way they lay it out, either!  I make sure I put in the distance even if I can't do it in the time they specify.

I prefer to bike, then run.  For me, my rides are higher quality when they don't follow a run and I feel my runs are at a decent quality after a bike ride.  Depends on the goal of the workout.  If I need to hammer out some sold intervals on the run, the quality of those won't be as good after a hard bike ride.  So in that case I would run first.

Yeah, that is really the key. I believe bricks have a time and a place but in most cases a quality run and a quality bike trumps all. 

Amen.

The time and place for bricks is

1) if you need the mental preparation of overcoming whatever it is your legs feel like running off the bike;

2) if there's really no other way to get a short bike and short run in on the same day except consecutively.

Worst. Day. Ever.

Okay, not ever. But if Worst Day Ever is a 10, today was a solid 9.

I realize that the vast majority of the world's population would give their eyeteeth for my 9. And for the things that were good today ... I'd give my eyeteeth for too, if I had to, like love, food, and shelter.

I can handle things like disasters and international crises pretty well. But today was just on a whole different plane, out of the blue, and involved a deeply personal betrayal. I don't use the word "betrayal" lightly. It means that you harmed and continue to put one or more of my most loved ones in serious jeopardy.

Not an easily solved set of spaghetti-like matters, and unfortunately, it does involve some very sensitive and possibly dangerous politics. And that's actually the least worst thing about it.

For the good news, I felt well enough to get in a short bike and run in today. I felt horrible afterward, but then again, I felt horribler before. On the whole, it was probably better than strangling people. Maybe.

Oh-sorry babe! 

YOU can't seem to catch a break. I suppose all I can say is that tomorrow will be better. I am glad that you got a bike and run in, even if you felt like crap. I think that always helps. (even if it doesn't help)

So sorry Yanti.  Will continue to keep you and your fam in my prayers! {{{{{{kiwipress}}}}}}

Tomorrow figuratively will be better. I will make it so. Actual tomorrow and a few days hence are looking to be even worse. That's okay.

Yeah, sometimes bikeyrunnyswimmyhikeyetc. are simply necessary soul food.

Much appreciations!

I like everything kiwi.

Ooooooh Kiwi! Yummmmmmm.

I have one word for you: Pavlova.

Ohhh, I had to look that up. For some reason I was thinking it would be a fruit that was > Kiwi and < a watermelon  maybe durian? 

Anyway, I was wrong and that looks amazing. 

It does usually have kiwifruit on it, although there are all kinds of Pavlova.

Now I'm drooling, which is excellent, because I really haven't wanted to eat anything all day, though I did have a couple of tortillas with black beans earlier.

Heh.  I thought this was a reference to ringing bells and drooling...

Well, drooling, anyway. And yes, I went there in my last post.

Well, now I'm drooling.

By the way, you guys had me laughing out loud before bed the other night with your rice conversation. 

But that was SERIOUS! Do you not understand Rice Crisis???