Manatee Mentors 2016 - Part deux (Page 69)

Originally posted by amd723

mine too!! 

Originally posted by JBacarella okay, that's legit. Just make sure you have new brake pads, because I don't think they will be new when you are done.

Originally posted by Jet Black



Well I'm more scared of that last downhill than I am of the climbing!! Afraid I might die on the descents!!!

Originally posted by marysia83



I love your optimism

Originally posted by StaceyK I hope all you northern hemisphere manatees enjoyed your longest day of the year because as of today we are stealing back our sunlight. I am sorry for you but really all I have to say is WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO cause I am over the dark and the cold, although in reality neither will be gone for another 2 or 3 months, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel

Originally posted by Hot Runner Yep--having a hard time going to sleep here when it is still light out. It just seems wrong. (My parents go to bed and get up early so I kind of have to go along with that or get awakened with not enough sleep.) Plus MY couch is on the other side of the Pacific! Plus we are planning a road trip to Canada in July (and IM 70.3 Calgary), where it will be light even later. Don't think I could live in Alaska--I would sleep all winter and never get any during the summer.

Originally posted by StaceyK

Wow Sean that looks amazing!
The ascents would be enough to stop me considering it, but I'm with you in that the downhills would scare me to death. I have seen the speed that some of the guys get up to on the small hills around here. I was driving behind a guy on a bike the other day, I was doing 80kph (50 miles) which was the speed limit and he was pulling away from me.

Originally posted by popsracer

I didn't realize that was today.  These long days are exhausting.  It seems like as long as there is daylight we are busy doing something especially if the sun is shining.  I miss my couch. 

Originally posted by popsracer

I didn't realize that was today.  These long days are exhausting.  It seems like as long as there is daylight we are busy doing something especially if the sun is shining.  I miss my couch. 

Originally posted by Atlantia I'm glad I'm not the only one! On the one hand, I hate driving to work and then back in the dark, losing all my sunlight sitting at my desk. But there really is so much pressure in the summer to "use it or lose it."

Originally posted by Jet Black

So I just signed up to do the Tour of Utah Ultimate Challenge with a couple of my cycling club mates. We get to ride the stage 6 course early in the day before the pros do. We'll be there for 4 days so we'll also do some rides of our own. Can't wait. This is going to hurt though!!

Originally posted by StaceyK

Wow Sean that looks amazing!
The ascents would be enough to stop me considering it, but I'm with you in that the downhills would scare me to death. I have seen the speed that some of the guys get up to on the small hills around here. I was driving behind a guy on a bike the other day, I was doing 80kph (50 miles) which was the speed limit and he was pulling away from me.

Originally posted by CRFTX2001 Also mine! The first half doesn't look too bad, but the last 40 or so miles look torturous.

Originally posted by blueyedbikergirl

Also mine! The first half doesn't look too bad, but the last 40 or so miles look torturous.

I look at that and my thoughts went from OMG - BRAKES, to OUUUUCH, to holy SH*TBALLS - BRAKES!!! Back to OUUUUUUUUUUUCH

 

Originally posted by msteiner

When I was in high school and played basketball as much as possible, I would mark the Summer Solstice on my calendar and make sure I was off that day.  I made it a point to play as much that day as possible.  

Because of that tradition, I keep up with it, but I don't celebrate it like I used to.

Originally posted by DaveL I think I did pretty well on my summer solstice day. I was up early so biked down to the lake at sunrise for a swim, I ran at lunch and I finished the day at sunset at the lake again on my mountain bike.

Originally posted by msteiner

Yep.  I'd take a day like that.

Originally posted by johnthecat

So I've been pretty quiet for a while. Mainly too busy with vacation, work and family to post much. Work is finally starting to slow down a bit so hopefully I can keep up a bit better.

Since our neighborhood Master Swim program never came together this year we unofficially started our own "program". Basically we said whoever wants to swim at 5am, just show up and we all just do our own thing, while have at least a bit of group support/peer pressure to actually do something. We officially started last week and I've managed to go twice last week. (Was out of town two days) and so far made it every morning this week (technically Tuesday and Thursdays weren't mentioned), but figured pool opens at 5 either way, might as well swim by myself if need to be. Attendance has been lacking so far (2-3) people max, but we are trying to get the word out to more people and it is quite early in the morning (yeah yeah I know Sean, not dedicated enough blah blah )

I have a Sprint coming up Sunday. This was my very first Tri last year and I hope I will improve on my times, though it's supposed to be hot and humid.

Running is still my biggest challenge. Not picking up as much speed as I'd like to. My neurologist says nerves take a long time to fully recover, maybe I'm just too impatient as everything "feels" like it should be back to normal and I should be faster. Oh well we will see over time.

Other struggle I have right now is weight. I'd like to shed 10-20 pounds, but scale is not moving at all. I know my diet sucks (Way too much candy and stuff at work), but even when upping volume and/or intensity it doesn't seem to make a difference right now. Never really had that problem in the past so not quite sure how to tackle that one.

Originally posted by DaveL



I think I did pretty well on my summer solstice day. I was up early so biked down to the lake at sunrise for a swim, I ran at lunch and I finished the day at sunset at the lake again on my mountain bike.

Originally posted by DaveL I think I did pretty well on my summer solstice day. I was up early so biked down to the lake at sunrise for a swim, I ran at lunch and I finished the day at sunset at the lake again on my mountain bike.

Originally posted by StaceyK

Glad you are back at it and getting your swimming in despite others not showing up.

With the weight loss you pretty much hit the nail on the head about what you have to do - sort your diet. I'm sure that you do know this, maybe you just don't want to (and maybe I'm talking to myself here as much as you ). The sad fact is that as we get older exercise alone doesn't cut it anymore, we can't eat like we did as twenty year olds without consequences. Drop the "candy and stuff" and the scales will move, maybe not as quickly as they have before but they will move.