Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois (Page 67)

Originally posted by StaceyK Physically I am feeling much better, the cough and the stuffy head have gone and my balance is much better, but I still have issues with my left ear, hopefully it will clear in the next day or so. Emotionally I'm feeling a bit battered. We lost our old girl Elle yesterday. Stupid dog had swallowed a honkey nut (very large nut from a gum tree) and it ruptured her bowel, unfortunately there was no way to save her. She was a quiet stabilising matriarch in our house that used to be a surrogate mum to all our pups. We will miss her dearly.

Originally posted by StaceyK Physically I am feeling much better, the cough and the stuffy head have gone and my balance is much better, but I still have issues with my left ear, hopefully it will clear in the next day or so. Emotionally I'm feeling a bit battered. We lost our old girl Elle yesterday. Stupid dog had swallowed a honkey nut (very large nut from a gum tree) and it ruptured her bowel, unfortunately there was no way to save her. She was a quiet stabilising matriarch in our house that used to be a surrogate mum to all our pups. We will miss her dearly.

Originally posted by jmkizer

It sounds like Robin NC was evacuated from her home in Lake Lure.  Please keep her in your thoughts.

Originally posted by amd723

This is scary stuff.  It seems many parts of western carolina is on fire and not rain in sight! UGH.

Originally posted by Hot Runner Wondering if poor Sophie DNF'd. She is shown on the finisher's list (along with about 80 others) with no final time, only time for swim and bike. That can't just be all the remaining people on the course--a couple are finishing every minute at this point. Tracker still shows her at 27 km on the run, though it seems to have passed the predicted finish time. Does it mean you have handed in your timing chip if you're on the finisher's list when you're not finished? Or just the tracker going wacko as usual? If DNF, I can only imagine the depths of despair that must have involved--to have to drop out when you were en route to a KQ and know you'd probably done it to yourself...... Maybe that is worse than biking an extra lap at Worlds!

Originally posted by Hot Runner Appears to be a tracker issue. Just checked on someone else I know who is in the race (in my AG); running about 5 minutes ahead of Sophie at the last checkpoint. Neither have shown any "progress" for over an hour. The latter athlete is much more experiences and races in the tropics all the time, doubt both would DNF. Tracker is screwed up. Will have to check at the bike shop tomorrow--she works there and will probably text someone--if the tracker doesn't come back to life. Curse the tracker! Stupid, but when I qualified for Worlds, I actually didn't know for about three hours. Yanti may well have known before I did. The live results weren't working at the finish, and I couldn't get the tracker to update my own result! I had flopped around for over an hour, gotten a massage, taken a shower, had lunch, and was sprawled out in a papa-san chair on the hotel room balcony by the time I finally found out I'd "finished" and won my AG. At Worlds, I couldn't get the tracker to work either, and actually didn't know I'd even officially finished until my coach e-mailed that I had (rather than DQ or DNF). Kept thinking they had given me the finisher's swag in error and someone was going to demand I give it back for doing Loop 2 first.

Originally posted by brigby1

30F this morning. Still shorts weather. Longer socks & sleeves, but still shorts.

Originally posted by ceilidh With the help of fabulous friends, we were able to get a lot of our belongings out. We are now refugee status at a local hotel/ inn. The cats are unhappy and scared, but we are good.

Originally posted by StaceyK Physically I am feeling much better, the cough and the stuffy head have gone and my balance is much better, but I still have issues with my left ear, hopefully it will clear in the next day or so. Emotionally I'm feeling a bit battered. We lost our old girl Elle yesterday. Stupid dog had swallowed a honkey nut (very large nut from a gum tree) and it ruptured her bowel, unfortunately there was no way to save her. She was a quiet stabilising matriarch in our house that used to be a surrogate mum to all our pups. We will miss her dearly.

Originally posted by brigby1

30F this morning. Still shorts weather. Longer socks & sleeves, but still shorts.

Originally posted by Hot Runner Appears to be a tracker issue. Just checked on someone else I know who is in the race (in my AG); running about 5 minutes ahead of Sophie at the last checkpoint. Neither have shown any "progress" for over an hour. The latter athlete is much more experiences and races in the tropics all the time, doubt both would DNF. Tracker is screwed up. Will have to check at the bike shop tomorrow--she works there and will probably text someone--if the tracker doesn't come back to life. Curse the tracker! Stupid, but when I qualified for Worlds, I actually didn't know for about three hours. Yanti may well have known before I did. The live results weren't working at the finish, and I couldn't get the tracker to update my own result! I had flopped around for over an hour, gotten a massage, taken a shower, had lunch, and was sprawled out in a papa-san chair on the hotel room balcony by the time I finally found out I'd "finished" and won my AG. At Worlds, I couldn't get the tracker to work either, and actually didn't know I'd even officially finished until my coach e-mailed that I had (rather than DQ or DNF). Kept thinking they had given me the finisher's swag in error and someone was going to demand I give it back for doing Loop 2 first.

Originally posted by amd723

We had a cold front come through too - it was 58* when I started my run this morning  I almost had to break out my gloves!!