Mad Manatees Mentor Group - VERY CLOSED!!! Sorry! (Page 64)

4agoodlife - 2013-01-18 11:13 PM

rrrunner - 2013-01-18 7:00 AMI did 3000 yards in an hour and 10 minutes this morning. Bam! Take that Oceanside swim cut off!

Woot woot! You kick cut off booty!

x2 for sure. You are going to make the Oceanside cutoff eat your wake.

TriAya - 2013-01-18 7:03 AM

4agoodlife - 2013-01-18 10:57 PM Two hour's sleep (DH coughed all night and I feel bad that he is sick, but ugh!!!) and my inlaws get here for their four week visit today...which means I need to clean up house. So I'm thinking happy thoughts and making LOTS of coffee. And going to use the computer to read what's going on because my eyes are too tired to see my phone.

Oh, wow. I mean, on the scale of quality problems--that actually really is awful!

I can't deal with sleeping snorers and coughers--I snuff them out. And in-laws?!?! AAAAAAAARGH ... actually, I've always had fantastic SO parents (except for the Naked Family), but four weeks. Yikes. You need a {MELON PRESS} and that coffee, pronto.

PLEASE!?!?!?!

haha! I almost got violent with him around 2am. When my son came in about 3:30 and sandwiched me between them, I lasted 45min. Went to his bed until DH woke me up to say goodbye. Sigh.

My in-laws are pretty easy...it becomes more a personal space issue than personality.

Naked Family??? I've never known anyone with one of those. Interesting.

^^^^Funny and so glad it's you and not me.

We get along pretty well. The two kids are a good buffer during the day when DH is at work. Last year was 8 weeks....we've adjusted.

Color AND weather??? Taking cheer reports to new heights!

Bam indeed! I love it! 

4agoodlife - 2013-01-18 11:51 PM

TriAya - 2013-01-18 7:03 AM

4agoodlife - 2013-01-18 10:57 PM Two hour's sleep (DH coughed all night and I feel bad that he is sick, but ugh!!!) and my inlaws get here for their four week visit today...which means I need to clean up house. So I'm thinking happy thoughts and making LOTS of coffee. And going to use the computer to read what's going on because my eyes are too tired to see my phone.

Oh, wow. I mean, on the scale of quality problems--that actually really is awful!

I can't deal with sleeping snorers and coughers--I snuff them out. And in-laws?!?! AAAAAAAARGH ... actually, I've always had fantastic SO parents (except for the Naked Family), but four weeks. Yikes. You need a {MELON PRESS} and that coffee, pronto.

PLEASE!?!?!?!

haha! I almost got violent with him around 2am. When my son came in about 3:30 and sandwiched me between them, I lasted 45min. Went to his bed until DH woke me up to say goodbye. Sigh.

My in-laws are pretty easy...it becomes more a personal space issue than personality.

Naked Family??? I've never known anyone with one of those. Interesting.

 

 

So, err ... I may have kept one of my better students around (little did we know "around" would be two years!) ... he had a Naked Family. They'd just wander around naked and expected me to do the same. Hell to the no. His mom was a beautician (actually taught it at a community college as well) and would wax the boys (hubby and two sons). She offered to wax me, too. I let her do my eyebrows.

Yeah. Not walking around naked with a 40-year-old dad, my 19-year-old boyfriend and his 16-year-old brother around. NO. WAY. His dad was inappropriate anyway. Not awful or threatening inappropriate ... just totally tasteless. I wound up, some time later, matching his dad on a dating site. SHUDDER ...

Soooo (hard to believe, I know), I have a couple of tri-related questions.

When I started this tri "experiment" in Oct, I didn't want to spend money on anything new....you know, just in case. I've been wearing DH's old tri shorts (not uncomfortable) but they're becoming a bit threadbare, and an embarrassing moment could be just around the corner. Followed some of the men's vs women's conversation a few days ago. I'm not against getting another pair of men's shorts (I'm long from hip to knee), but will I give up any padding comfort?

I don't have a road bike yet...about three weeks out. Also followed the saddle conversation, and I know fit/comfort can make or break T.I.T.S. Did any of you "try out" saddles at LBS before buying? Is that something they do, or do I have to go in knowing what I want?

Sorry, I'm kind of a leech on here...sucking up knowledge. I'll add insights when I have more experience. For now I will be a great cheerleader

Here:

ETA: that didn't work how I planned

ETA2: That's better

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That is exactly who you are supposed to be, and we love a Manatee leech.

I really don't think there is a difference generally between men's and women's tri short padding. I primarily wear men's shorts as I said before. If you like the level of padding in your old shorts, you'll want to pick a brand/style that has a similar level of padding, that's all.

Good LBSs have loaner saddles that you can try out for a week or two. Also, some saddle manufacturers have a very generous return policy.

Have you had a bike fitting yet?

I have heard of a few LBS's that do a saddle loaner type of program. Test it for a while, bring it back, try the next one, etc. Mine doesn't. If you can get that sort of thing, jump on it. Some do it for a price. I am the last person to ask, since my used bike came with a San Marco that fits me to a "T" (can you say lucky!!!!) If I have to buy another bike, I'll do it differently, but that is a live and learn kinda thing. Go into the purchase armed with as much knowledge and understanding that you can.

Without passing on her entire post, my teammate did this big write-up on getting your ferritin checked. I can go ahead and pass on what she said, but before I do that Is this something that truly is necessary?

I pretty much never go to the doctor. 

No.

Also, serum ferritin isn't, by itself, that useful a number.

I assume you know your diet's got good iron happening? (preferably not together with calcium or caffeine) Menstruation is regular and hasn't changed?

Periformis and hamstring? Maybe some psoas?

http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/piriformis-smr

http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/hamstring-smr

Pigeon stretch for psoas- http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/169-- as well as warrior and a few others (http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/yoga-international-magazine/asana-articles/the-elusive-psoas/)

Well, here is part of her post: 

So basically, check your goddamn ferritin, especially if you're:

• Female

• Vegetarian

• Female and vegetarian (gl;hf)

I would recommend getting it checked once before every season or, if you don't race seasonally, right before you begin training for any given big goal race. Even if you're male and eat lots of delicious beef, I think it's important to get it checked out once in a while. Even if you take iron supplements, get it checked out.

I am only 50% of those things and love my red meat sooo I'm probably fine. I was anemic a looonnng time ago and have no idea if that is relevant information.  My periods are kind of all over the board these days. In fact I just started and am mother-effing exhausted so I think it's setting me up to actually believe anything I read on the internets. 

Ta-da!!! No HIM.

Did I miss something? No HIM?

I do know about issues of long-distance runners (particularly female) and iron deficiency, but you're probably not going to keel over and die tomorrow even if you were. Fortunately, it's easily reversible.

If you started having low energy and not being able to bust out workouts that normally are easy, yes, it's a major red flag and probably the first thing to look at (for a female distance runner) along with hemoglobin levels.

If you eat red meat a couple times a week (as I said preferably without caffeine and calcium, and preferably with a Vit C source), and you otherwise also eat iron-rich foods, you're fine. Until you're not. Then worry about it.

P.S. Have your periods always been all over the map or just lately?

Decided I didn't want to maintain HIM training for 7 additional weeks

Uhhh, well I can't say that in the past I tracked it ALL that carefully (for obvious reasons ) but in the last year or so I felt it was becoming really inconsistent so I actually did start tracking it and yes, indeed it has become a little random. Def. not on a consistent cycle. Like I said, I can't absolutely confirm this is true because I wasn't tracking it.

Wise woman! Signing up for races is so cool anyway ... and Oly will still be a good challenge.

Do you recall what kind of anemia you had before / cause?

Huh ... I'm sorry, I guess i haven't been paying attention. That's good though. I think an Oly is a great distance anyway. 

Are you seeeeerrrrrrious??? Of course I don't! But it happened after I had mono in college.