Manatees - 2019 Edition - Practice Maximum Enthusiasm - CLOSED (Page 6)

I vote for Option A. I have had good luck buying shoes in multiples with no breakdown of the foam that I can detect. And I have princess feet.  PS> I buy multiple shoes at one time for just that reason. I find the perfect shoe, and BOOM, the discontinue or modify it.

Hey y'all. Just got finished with Piggy's, it was a wet fest. We bailed on a couple of pieces, it was just too much mud. 32.5 miles worth of a 40 miler. I'm good with that. Here's how wet it was, at one of the water crossings, I was nearly up to the top bar on my 29'r. The guy on the fat tire bike behind us went down and actually was under water for a moment. Fully submerged.

The real reason for my post is to clear up the Jogo Challenge a bit. I think we'll roll it out after we close up the group. I do have a link to the preliminary Google Spreadsheet for the challenge in my logs. If you have any feedback on it, hit me up and we'll adjust whatever we can. 

I believe that I have the roster up-to-date with our current members. If you see any errors or omissions, please let me know. I heard back from Mary Stone in Colorado and she is not going to "officially" join this year because of the limitation in her screen time. She asks that we please keep her in the loop regarding RAGNAR. I have not heard back from either Laura B or Justin. Of course, we may pick up a few additional new members.

I'll also be updating our Strava group to reflect our current active members. New David is already in our group. I'll post a reminder so that everyone can easily follow him.

Amazing hill!

Lisa!! David has some Silver Comet Trail something in his Strava!

Wow, that's a lot of water!  If the water was that high on your size bike, I would have drowned for sure! Can't believe the area was still so wet. Or maybe you got more rain then we've had lately. Or maybe I've just blocked out the amount of rain we've had   Great job!

That's some hill! Glad you and the turtles had such a great day!

We got popped with about 5 inches last week and the way the water table works is that a bunch of stuff funnels south through the preserve. The pic on FB is from that crossing, which is at the north end of the preserve. Most people walked through and portaged their bikes. I'll be rebuilding a bottom bracket soon, I'm sure. Oh yeah, there is a 9 foot gator that is generally sitting there. Lucky for me, I'm slow, so he was either scared or full by the time I got there. 

Cool, looks like a Strava Club of folks who frequent the trail. I'll definitely be back on the trail in a few months, but likely won't ride all the way to Alabama again for a long, long time

YIKES! That's quite a water crossing!

I think that we should start the JoGo challenge next Monday if folks are good with that. I know that Stacey has some special requirements on when it is acceptable to start a challenge:

Regarding closing the group, I don't have any thoughts on the timing. I just wanted to update the roster and the Strava group while I had time. Stuff may hit the fan at work soon...

Whoa, that looks like a lot of time going uphill! Great job on getting it done! 

Currently we are set to begin on 1/14/2019. If anyone wants to take a look at it, we have 4 separate challenges, one weight based, one eating based, one based on moving and a fourth based on distance traveled. So anyone can do one or more of the challenges if they so desire. We may be able to come up with a prize for winning each challenge. I may be able to get my hands on a 2019 Piggy's Revenge tech shirt or some other cool swag like beer bottle openers or coozies or some such awesomeness. So feel free to start planning your next 6 or 7 weeks of training!

JoGo Manatee Challenge

Yes indeed, I second or third this! Great job on the work and congrats on some quality time with Team Turtle.

Chris - nice work at Piggy's Revenge, those water crossings sound EPIC!   And seriously deep if they were threatening to swallow your bike.  Congrats on not getting stuck in the mud forever and ever and avoiding the ginormous gator, yikes!

Stacey - those were indeed some EPIC downhills, my knees were whining just looking at the elevation graph!  Congratulations to you and Team Turtle!

Jim - what a cool gift your daughter gave you!  I really would be curious to see if daughter #2's pre-strength training usage recommendation has any impact.

I had a hockey-filled weekend: a win Saturday (we really needed that, OK, I really needed that mentally) and a loss Sunday that is still eating at me.  We blew a 4-1 lead to lose 6-4.  Granted my own team accidentally put 2 of them in on me but that's beside the point.  But hey, we stopped at PF Chang's on the way home and had some good food and laughs so that made it better.  Our poor waitress...I thought of you guys when I said to my friends, "Bless her little heart" with the full Southern meaning behind it.  Ahh, she tried so hard, maybe too hard, but I wonder if waiting tables is the wrong career choice for her.

Nice gift!  I'll be interested to see if it makes for a more effective strength workout -if you ever follow your daughter's advice that is! 

Buy however many you need and can afford. And, as the next few months go along, test a few others here and there where you can. This will get you through the year(ish) and will help you be prepared for when you run out

i believe that would be an EPIC hill!

Glad you had a win! Focus on that. Poor waitress, I feel her pain. It was definitely not the career choice for me, either