Mad Manatees 2015.4 CLOSED (or Poptart/pet pic ticket) (Page 55)

Originally posted by StaceyKGo Racers and I'm glad to see improvement for those on the DL.Mary you and your family are in my prayers.I am so glad it's the weekend, if there had been one more day in this week I may have had a meltdown. Been horribly busy trying to do staffing for 5 schools for the new year a responsibility of my lazy as boss (who is leaving). We had our end of year/Christmas party this week and she insisted that she was well enough to attend and to do the farewells to the staff that were leaving even though she has been on "sick leave" since the start of November and didn't know that half of them were going. Anyway when she was done with the list she was supposed to sit down so that we could do a farewell to her but no she decided that it was appropriate for her to spent the next 10 plus minutes ranting about the Chairman of the Board (who was there) and how poorly done by she is and nothing is her fault. It was an extremely uncomfortable experience for everyone in the room. Unfortunately for her I think she did herself more damage than she did to the Chairman given the feedback I have had since it happened. Just one of many dramas this week. But thankfully everyone else has now gone on holidays until the middle of January so maybe I can go back to being the accountant

Originally posted by brigby1

Yeah, don't listen to me today. Although kind of surprised Yanti hasn't jumped right in with such an invitation in the first line!

Originally posted by fortissimo Yup, that's it! The first in the series is the run followed by the bike. My bike jacket is huge and not tight fitting at all so i think I'll just stick with the running jacket. I know the bike is only 10 miles, but i got some pretty nasty saddle sores while training for IM so I'm chicken to go without the tri shorts. I'll try the running tights on the bike tonight to see how it goes. Thanks, everyone!

Originally posted by StaceyK Go Racers and I'm glad to see improvement for those on the DL. Mary you and your family are in my prayers. I am so glad it's the weekend, if there had been one more day in this week I may have had a meltdown. Been horribly busy trying to do staffing for 5 schools for the new year a responsibility of my lazy as boss (who is leaving). We had our end of year/Christmas party this week and she insisted that she was well enough to attend and to do the farewells to the staff that were leaving even though she has been on "sick leave" since the start of November and didn't know that half of them were going. Anyway when she was done with the list she was supposed to sit down so that we could do a farewell to her but no she decided that it was appropriate for her to spent the next 10 plus minutes ranting about the Chairman of the Board (who was there) and how poorly done by she is and nothing is her fault. It was an extremely uncomfortable experience for everyone in the room. Unfortunately for her I think she did herself more damage than she did to the Chairman given the feedback I have had since it happened. Just one of many dramas this week. But thankfully everyone else has now gone on holidays until the middle of January so maybe I can go back to being the accountant

Originally posted by fortissimo Once again, thanks everyone for the advice! This is what I've decided: Shorts on the run, my compression socks, and tee under a long-sleeve running shirt that has a zipper. After the run I'm going to throw a pair of regular bike pants on that I've borrowed from a friend and my running jacket and a neck gator. I will also wear gloves and a hat for the run. Mary- thanks for the offer of the neck gator. Shhh.. but I stole DH's. Ben-Thanks for looking out for me!

Originally posted by popsracer

I've had a long, difficult week and a half and am finally up to getting back into things (well almost).  I've followed along here and there and first want to pass along my condolences to Mary.  My heart goes out to you.  Not a lot compares with loss of that magnitude.  I hope you are coping as well as possible.

My woes started last week when we cut a trip to Whistler short because I was having extreme pain in my side.  Ended up in the ER Saturday night with a possible kidney stone.  No stone though on the CT Scan so then they thought it was either a bowel obstruction or soft tissue mass (cancer) causing a constriction.  A trip to my oncologist in Seattle rules the worst case out (whew).  Visit to urologist today concludes kidney not draining due to old surgical/radiation scar tissue.  I go into the OR in the morning for a stent to open the kidney back up.  Also had blood pressure this week as high as 195/110 which was puzzling given my resting heart rate is in the mid 40's.  Started on some BP meds and it is coming back down.  A lot of that was probably due to all the pain.

Hopefully I can get back to some running next week.  The rest has certainly healed up any aches and pains in my legs.  And I've lost that last 5 pounds that have eluded me for months.  Hope you all have a good weekend. 

 

Originally posted by popsracer

I've had a long, difficult week and a half and am finally up to getting back into things (well almost).  I've followed along here and there and first want to pass along my condolences to Mary.  My heart goes out to you.  Not a lot compares with loss of that magnitude.  I hope you are coping as well as possible.

My woes started last week when we cut a trip to Whistler short because I was having extreme pain in my side.  Ended up in the ER Saturday night with a possible kidney stone.  No stone though on the CT Scan so then they thought it was either a bowel obstruction or soft tissue mass (cancer) causing a constriction.  A trip to my oncologist in Seattle rules the worst case out (whew).  Visit to urologist today concludes kidney not draining due to old surgical/radiation scar tissue.  I go into the OR in the morning for a stent to open the kidney back up.  Also had blood pressure this week as high as 195/110 which was puzzling given my resting heart rate is in the mid 40's.  Started on some BP meds and it is coming back down.  A lot of that was probably due to all the pain.

Hopefully I can get back to some running next week.  The rest has certainly healed up any aches and pains in my legs.  And I've lost that last 5 pounds that have eluded me for months.  Hope you all have a good weekend. 

 

Originally posted by jmkizer

I swear, in some races picking the wardrobe is half the battle!

Originally posted by popsracer

I've had a long, difficult week and a half and am finally up to getting back into things (well almost).  I've followed along here and there and first want to pass along my condolences to Mary.  My heart goes out to you.  Not a lot compares with loss of that magnitude.  I hope you are coping as well as possible.

My woes started last week when we cut a trip to Whistler short because I was having extreme pain in my side.  Ended up in the ER Saturday night with a possible kidney stone.  No stone though on the CT Scan so then they thought it was either a bowel obstruction or soft tissue mass (cancer) causing a constriction.  A trip to my oncologist in Seattle rules the worst case out (whew).  Visit to urologist today concludes kidney not draining due to old surgical/radiation scar tissue.  I go into the OR in the morning for a stent to open the kidney back up.  Also had blood pressure this week as high as 195/110 which was puzzling given my resting heart rate is in the mid 40's.  Started on some BP meds and it is coming back down.  A lot of that was probably due to all the pain.

Hopefully I can get back to some running next week.  The rest has certainly healed up any aches and pains in my legs.  And I've lost that last 5 pounds that have eluded me for months.  Hope you all have a good weekend. 

 

Originally posted by laffinrock

Steve, sending lots of healing thoughts and hoping for a quick recovery.  Any surgery is no fun.

Stacey, what a way to go out.  Sounds like the lazy boss did herself no favors and showed how ill-fitted she was for the job!  Glad the drama is settling down.

Robin, hope you had fun at your race.  That series is always interesting weather-wise.  DH did one of those races where there was a fresh 12" of snow.  Everybody's times sucked and the bike leg was completely ridiculous.  At least everybody was handicapped equally.

I ran 6 miles yesterday, my longest run in over a year.  It went well, despite the first half being all uphill and into a sustained 20 mph wind.  The last half was sure easier.  I start back to work tomorrow and am a little nervous about how it'll go.  The new glasses do help and I've been able to enjoy reading again. Yay!!!  I'll just have to see how that translate to work.  Luckily, I've been monitoring my email while I've been out so I won't have 8 jillion emails to go through.

Alex made Tabasco ginger bread yesterday.  It sounds weird but boy, is it delicious!!  Probably too delicious. We were going to take it to a holiday party, but then didn't feel like going.  Now we're stuck with it and have to eat it all ourselves.  It's been pure torture.

Originally posted by Atlantia Mary, six miles is great...and into a headwind for half of it. Woo-eee. And you're going to share the recipe for the Tabasco gingerbread.....when?

Originally posted by StaceyK Jazz sends everyone a Mastiff sized melon press and hopes you all have a better day than you did yesterday (sorry it's a bit out of focus).

Originally posted by StaceyK Jazz sends everyone a Mastiff sized melon press and hopes you all have a better day than you did yesterday (sorry it's a bit out of focus).

Originally posted by jmkizer

Trainer question.  Kevin had and old Cyclops Fluid 2 and it was starting to leak, etc.  He wanted a new trainer and decided on a Kickr Snap.  I am not up on all of the smart trainer stuff (nor is he) so could use some pointers.  What kind of setup are you Trainer Road/Zwift types using?  If you want to just do a 75 minute ride with intervals, are you using a canned workout in Trainer Road or something else?  Are you using a iPad or phone or something else with your setup?  Mounting your viewing device how?

Also, the Garmin speed/cadence sensor is working fine on Kevin's Fenix3 watch but seems to drop out on the Wahoo phone app. So I'm assuiming that the Garmin sensor to Garmin watch is fine because it's 100% ANT+ but something with the Bluetooth to the phone.  Does the Kickr get the cadence from the ANT+ and then rebroadcast it as Bluetooth? 

ETA: I pinged Darren, Sean and MR Matt about this.  I think the Ben is following along so he may have something to add as well.