Mad Manatee Mentors CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 6)

A bunch of us are Facebook friends too.  It's another great way to keep up with what's going on with each other.  (We like to keep tabs on each other, if you couldn't already tell.)  Not sure the best way to join that fun.  Janyne, maybe you have an idea?

Thanks for the welcome.

Lk. Sam HM is becoming a BT meet tradition.  This will be the third year.  One of the highlights of the year.

"Natural State" evidently being dirty! Nice. It is in the Gallery.

I am a believer in frequency and would try to squeeze one more day in per week if that is possible.  That would better support enough weekly mileage to push out a longer run.  I think you certainly could do it on three and a long run of 10 but I would see that more as a minimum to get you through.

I also think that the long run is a little overrated in training and I try to focus on the cummulative workload each week.  Again, consistency and frequency are what will give you a solid base and IMO will yield the best results. 

So many of my nearest and dearest plus a couple dozen of the Best People Ever live in the Seattle area. I'm going to have to invade one of these days.

I am SO happy you're here.

Where does the link for the bike gallery pull from?

My workplace denies me access to it.  They must consider this bike porn.

Great book. Just finished it yesterday. As for your sister... I think it's genetic

Thanks.  A Yanti invasion to one of our parties would be the highlight of the decade.

It's a google photo album. I think it is shared to anyone with the link, but I really haven't tested. I know I have trouble with pics here as well at times. I had to jump through a hoop or two to see Matt's bike. I keep the use of the word "porn" to a minimun, just to keep out of work filters. I'm convinced that if an HR person checked the web browser histories here, well we'd have way less employees.

ETA: I should transfer it to a BT album. Hmmmm, that may happen during my 13 hour workday tomorrow.

You do have awesome young 'uns who are badazzes just like their folks Every pic I see of them I think how much Mak looks and is like you and Taylor looks and is like JJ.

I remember one time driving down toward Payson with a co-worker. We were going through the canyon right at sunset and it was stunning. Bright red like Moab gets. (Wish I could have enjoyed it with DH instead of my co-worker )

They are awesome awesome kids. I think the first words out of Mak's mouth when we saw them a few days ago were that she is riding her bike without training wheels.

A lot of folks here use their iphones to browse through the day to avoid HR detection of excessive internet usage.  I am a bit of a dinosaur though with my old flip phone so I take my chances... 

Pardon me for injecting a little sombreness into the merree madness, but this is actually like big beams of disco lights in the current darknesses here:

I am fiercely proud of Indonesia's responders to the Air Asia search and recovery effort -- I said in the erstwhile Manatees thread that the director of search and rescue is a family friend. He hasn't slept in three days and might not for another three. His leadership and support for his crew have been incredible. The Navy rescuers and recoverers as well as divers were dispatched from Bangka-Belitung (the closest province and islands), and they happen to be the same folks who helped organize and provided security and safety during the Sungailiat Triathlon (in the same location) that Kingsley and I attended as sponsored athletes and had a combined first honeymoon/second wedding at.

My friend and her family whose cousins were on board are understandably in shock and grief, and they are very quiet but acknowledging condolences. I will sit with them (that's what you do here) when I return to Jakarta next week.

I'm stalkin' Steve. I figure any race I do with him guarantees me a certain amount of safety. He killed a HUGE spider for me on the shuttle bus after the race last year.

I suppose Darren's Mojo is like a leprechaun Peter Pan's shadow... we have to figure out a way to pin it down so he can grab it!

Mr. Rogers' (the only way a child raised in the US can refer to him) quote was used extensively here after Boston.

Think of us sitting with you (virtually) as you sit with them...

{{{HUGS}}} for you and your friends, huge kudos to your friend for selflessly helping with the search and recovery.  As tragic as the outcome was, it's good the wreckage was found and at very least the families of the lost aren't wondering forever what became of their loved ones.

Welcome to all the shiny, new manatees!  It's great to have you!

TJ - I seem to recall you mentioning linking TrainingPeaks to something to transfer workout data...was it via Garmin Connect or Strava?...anyone can feel free to answer.  I'm beginning to get my schedule/plan set up with my coach and I'm of course looking for the easiest (read: laziest) way to get my workouts into TP.  So yeah, in other news, it's starting to 'get real', which is exciting and scary all at once!

Ummmm... I have Garmin Connect posting to TP, Strava and BT. I've not tried getting Strava to post to TP. Oh, and I have IG connected to Strava because everyone needs to see my workout pix right?

My GC connects to Strava, TP and BT too.  I think I set it up in TP to pull from GC, and the set the others up the same way.  In essence, GC is the talker and all the other programs listen.  Maybe I need to change my nickname to GC.    And Strava clearly needs another letter so we can turn that into an acronym too.

Every bit of news about this tragedy has brought you to mind.  I'm sitting with you and your friend and sending you all peace and light.  (((Hugs)))

ACK!  I can't believe I missed the beginnings of the new thread!!  Sigh.  Please let me in!!

NAME: Blueyedbikergirl/Monica/Tangemelons (you all can thank Yantilicious for that one)/Hey You

STORY: Man... how long do you have?  Oh, you want to actually DO something today?  Fine, I'll give you the cliffnotes version... I grew up as a gymnast competing locally, nationally and internationally.  I retired from gymnastics a month before the Olympic selection meet and I still kind of kick myself for that one, but my dad had me practicing basketball the same day I told my gymnastics coach I was done.  I'm a provincial champion in gymnastics, basketball and beach volleyball, and then got married and got fat.  Got divorced, found the gym and BT.  Found a guy on BT and moved to the UK, then to Chicago and now to Austin where I'm hoping we'll be for more than 2 years as moving countries SUCKS, but we're in the midst of house-buying chaos so there's at least one more move before we're done for a while.  The ongoing saga is well documented in the BT blog, so if you're completely bored one day, feel free to start playing along.   

FAMILY STATUS: Married to a fellow BT'er - Tony/the hubby/whatever else I feel like calling him and we have 2 cats: Felix and Priscilla who are also knows at the Cute Little Furry Jerks, or the Weirdos.  IF we get this d*mn house we're planning on adding to the family by adopting a pup from one of the animal shelters in town... and I may or may not have already found one that I want to add to the family!   

CURRENT TRAINING: Following the competitive Be Iron Fit plan again.  Though I really, really, REALLY need to get more consistent with training!  

THIS YEAR'S RACES/EVENTS: IMTX and I'm sure other stuff.  I just have no idea at this point what that "other stuff" is going to be...  

BODY COMPOSITION: WAY more fluffy than I'd like, but working on it.  I have realized that I'm never going to be a size 2 (I like food and booze too much for that), but I'm learning to be happy with the body that I have and loving everything that it does for me every day.