Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod (Page 58)

Jo - those are some hot new wheels, yeah!!  Enjoy!

Kirsten - nice execution of your race, congrats!

Jen - tough news about your wrist, hopefully they won't have to do surgery.

Kate - super job blowing away your 1000M PR, I'm so jealous!!

Salty - wow, that is quite the cast of characters you had the privilege to hear speak. Heady stuff for sure!

Felicia - are you a magnet for storms?  Just askin' Glad they didn't amount to more than what they did, that is scary enough in a house let alone an RV!  Loved hearing about your joy in finding and running hills.

Reece - how did the sprint go?

Hope I didn't miss anyone...my sincerest apologies if I did!

Oh, Badger Jen Moose. {MELON PRESS}

I hear ya about two forward, one back. What I can't imagine is going through all that with a little 'un on board. You are an amazing woman.

Thank you. I really appreciate that.

It's tough.  I'm lucky that my husband is pretty awesome and E loves him.  Although she is going through a mommy phase right now.  On the one hand, I love that she wants me, but on the other, sometimes it would be nice if she let daddy put her to sleep.

Ugh, so sorry to hear that!

I guess it might just be a change of focus until your wrist heals up. 

Yeah, I'm hoping I can at least still run if I have wrist surgery.  Questions for the doc tomorrow.

I'M BACK!, well, pending X-Rays on Wednesday....hope I didn't mess anything up yesterday.  O.K. not fully back but I HTFU'd yesterday and did that sprint.

It was the Kansas City Corporate challenge Tri, I was 27th overall out of 252 men.

Swim 500 m:  8:20 (20th OA, 1:32/100 pace)

Bike 9 miles:  25:12 (24th OA, 21.4 mph)

Run 2.4 miles:  18:14 (63rd OA, 7:36 pace)

Total time was 54:39, T1 sucked, T2 just OK

The course is short but quite hilly.

Shoulder feels fine today so I'm very optimistic about my ortho appt. Wednesday.  I'm wondering how the doc will respond when I tell her I did a sprint tri, swam and ran with no sling etc.  She's really cute so if my X-rays check out I'll ask her if she wants to go to lunch with a BADAZZZ!  Ha Ha

Well you had better hope that x-ray checks out because I am certain she won't want to go to lunch with a DUMBazz! 

Nice work , but sheeesh...I sure hope you truly are better and aren't setting yourself up for more injury down the road. 

Holy crap, that is FAAAAAAST ... top 10% and you're gimped!

CONGRATULATIONS PEANUTBUTTER

Hopefully you didn't bust anything either, but if you're not feeling it by now, probably not.

Funny but true...

I hope that the surgeon has good news for you about running.

I'm glad that you are feeling so much better!

Have you all finished reading A Life Without Limits?

I finally finished it. I have mixed feelings on it. While I am glad she wrote the book as I think it was well written in contrast to some other books I have read that were written by athletes; her obsession with winning was a little off-putting. I dunno...I guess you need to have that special competitive spirit if you want to be a world champion but I felt a lot of her actions and the things she wrote were a little contradictory. 

Maybe it was just me. 

I haven't finished the book yet. But as I read it I wonder if not having that "gotta win" mindset is why I'll always be a BOP/MOPer. Like Chrissie I was never good at sports as a kid. Unlike Chrissie I did NOT find an amazing athletic ability in my 30's (or 40's for that matter).

She has lived a very unique life (not unlike our Yanti).

Nah, I know that feeling. This just didn't happen to be one of those books. It was just "meh" 

I'm about half way through it.  So far so good, I've enjoyed it so far  I don't read much (other than Vince Flynn) so I have nothing to compare it to.  I'm just a big fan of hers so I'm biased I guess.

Nice Bike!! What is the next one you are getting?

Congrats on everyone that raced this weekend!

And good luck on all the medical visits tomorrow!

I did not get much training (any) done this weekend and am ok with that, mostly...  at least that is what I'm telling myself.  I just can't do the work and train right now I am too exhausted at the end of my shift and still can't sleep worth a d@mn so I'm not going to train during my work week unless something changes or I feel like it, heck I'm on a bike at work anyways...  So 2 a days at least on my days off  and I only work 2 of the next 7 so I'm good for the sprint on the 8th.  The bike I had hoped for disappeared over the weekend so back to saving and waiting...

Way to go TJ!  Hard work pays off and ALL victories count

Went to my first Pilates session yesterday lunchtime, the trainer was so excited that I'm not a broken person - she says she only ever sees people who need fixing, very unusual to get an 'athlete (made me blush)' who just wants to improve core fitness for her sport!  I enjoyed the one on one and she wrote a very extensive program which i start next week on friday lunchtimes.

and then last night back to squad.

Here's the workout people!

FINS
200M FREESTYLE
200M (50M BACKSTROKE, 50M FRONT SCULL)
200M (50M BREAST STROKE. 50M UNDERWATER CATCH UP)

8X50M (12.5M FLY, 37.5M FISTS)

NO FINS
9X200M (3 SETS OF THE BELOW)
200M FREESTYLE
200M PULL AND BAND
200M PULL BREATHING EVERY 5

4X25M SPRINTS (so cool Coach Johnny says I'm really motoring along now!)

100M COOLDOWN

3KM DONE - all improvements are down to that fabulous book Swim Speed Secrets - LOVE IT! Oh and of course Coach Johnny shouting on the pool deck....

Feeling pretty proud of myself tonight.  Originally was going to go for an OWS with a group, but had to pick up all the critters from their respective 'sitters', so knew I wouldn't have time to get there.  Took my swimsuit to work to swim at lunch, but just couldn't get motivated.  Usually try to go before lunch before it gets busy, but didn't feel like it.  Told myself I would go this evening, but even with that, was humming and hawing.  I was feeling a bit disappointed with my race swim again and having "I can't do it" thoughts.  Decided I needed a plan, so went to the NTC Masters website to find one there (I wasn't interested in doing the 6x500 in my plan here...)  Found one that looked interesting and chose it.

Get to the pool and get started.  Warm up fine, no worries.  Feeling smooth.  Start with a whack of 50's (some with drills, some easy, some fast) on :20 rest.  After a few, during my rests, I was feeling like I couldn't get my breath.  Almost like I had asthma, my chest felt like it wouldn't expand properly.  Was going to rest until it passed, then I thought, if I don't push myself, I am never going to get better.  So I just froggin' went for it on the :20.  And you know what?  I was fine.  I did not struggle with my breathing on any of the repeats, only the rests.  Interesting.  Finished feeling good, and even doing the last, fast, 50 at :57.  Pretty darn good after 2000m.  Yay!

Sounds like it was a good swim day all around for the Manatees