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I recognize that.  I thought we could add a "west coast" time that people in the mountain and pacific time zones could propose.

I feel ya! A neighbor has a mannequin  sitting in a lawn chair on her front lawn. It has props and holds up signs, most reminding us the day of the week! It's both funny and needed.

Our Provincial Health Officer said today that large group activities will not be happening this summer, so I think that likely puts the lid on IMC. Not official yet, but certainly won't be surprising when it does get rescheduled. Finding it tough to stay motivated to train, but also not liking the silhouette I am seeing in the sunshine.... And in case anyone was wondering...swim cords workouts are NOT fun. Have a great weekend!

I feel ya! A neighbor has a mannequin  sitting in a lawn chair on her front lawn. It has props and holds up signs, most reminding us the day of the week! It's both funny and needed.

Oh my gosh, I just clicked on the live video of the shutdown protesters taking place right now in Harrisburg and I literally feel sick to my stomach.  People are standing in huge crowds shoulder to shoulder, maskless, listening to some clown on a loudspeaker, chanting along with all the negative things he is spouting.  Hundreds and hundreds lining the sidewalks, gathering in a huge mass in front of what I'd guess is the capitol building, I can't quite see.  The comments are also sickening.  These people do not represent me or my thoughts or feelings and are making PA look like a bunch of idiots.  I get the free speech and all, but I can only imagine how cases will spike after this madness.  Sickening and scary.

Future tip to the manatees:  if your state plans on holding protests, don't watch.

The Monday meetup URL is https://bit.ly/RacingManatee.

PW = manatee (all lower case)

I've put the link at the top of my training blog as well for future reference.  This should work for both the Monday at 11:30 eastern time slot and whatever other time that we pick that may be more west coast-friendly.

In addition to the study that Ann-Marie posted (still not sure that my Google Fit stuff is actually going to the study), I'm participating in a Duke study - CovIdentify.  Feel free to sign up. It's super easy.

Thanks for the meet up today! I'll see you again next Monday!

Thanks for the meet up today! I'll see you again next Monday!

Oh my gosh, I just clicked on the live video of the shutdown protesters taking place right now in Harrisburg and I literally feel sick to my stomach.  People are standing in huge crowds shoulder to shoulder, maskless, listening to some clown on a loudspeaker, chanting along with all the negative things he is spouting.  Hundreds and hundreds lining the sidewalks, gathering in a huge mass in front of what I'd guess is the capitol building, I can't quite see.  The comments are also sickening.  These people do not represent me or my thoughts or feelings and are making PA look like a bunch of idiots.  I get the free speech and all, but I can only imagine how cases will spike after this madness.  Sickening and scary.

Future tip to the manatees:  if your state plans on holding protests, don't watch.

Thank you all. I'll get my devices in order before ext week!

Checking in.  I have got behind on the Manatees forum and haven't posted here for a while but appreciate all the kudos and comments from the group on Strava and I have continued to post in Triathlon Talk on the workout threads (although I have been less active there too).

I have helped put in two gardens and two fences in the past few weeks and spend a ton of time trying to figure out these virtual and online races.  I am not loving the virtual races.  It doesn't appear that any of them use any type of grade adjustments, altitude adjustments, temperature adjustments, etc to level the playing field so they are kind of meaningless.  I saw a guy from the former coaching group that I was in do a 50 minute 40K for one of these virtual races. I could probably do that if I had a 2% downhill grade the whole but as I did a 1:17:00 40K when I did my outdoor TT Duathlon a month ago on washboard roads going over the biggest climbs you can find in my area.    The captain of my race team proposed that we all sign up for the 14-day trial of the Rouvy in-door bike app.  I was excited to see that the app would work with ANT+ on the iOS devices so I jumped in.  We did a 56-mile virtual team ride on the App on Saturday along with a Zoom call for the whole ride.  The team Captain is a Pro Triathlete and even though I know it wasn't a race it was inspiring to be able to keep up with him on the entire ride.  

I was inspired by the virtual team ride so I explored more into Rouvy and decided to set up a on-line race to use for the bike portion of one of virtual race which I signed up to see how things work.  I didn't know who would join me but was happy to see that we had 5 people registered for the 5:45 AM race on Tuesday before I went to bed on Monday.   We raced on the USAT Age Group National Championship Sprint course.  I was planning on doing the Olympic AG race this year which I am assuming won't happen now, but just in case I thought it would be good to know what the course looks like.  I placed 2nd in my first virtual race.  The on-line races are very addicting.  Since they are live and on an even playing field I could get into them.  I think the virtual races will be a no go for me though.