Mad Manatees Mentor Group - VERY CLOSED!!! Sorry! (Page 73)

Thank you for the messages.  I am not dead.  There is no crisis.  I have just locked my log while I clean up my friends list.  I have friends on my list that I don't even remember.  How sad is that?   I am a pretty private person so I only allow friends into my blog. 

Just wanted to let you know so that no one worries.  I am still here. 

Thank goodness, you scared me. Although I do the same thing at times, so I admit I was only scared a little. I hope all is well!

TriAya - 2013-01-23 9:06 AM I still completely fail to comprehend how on Earth we get a pod of Manatees that never shuts up.

Not everyone is as loquacious as we are.     That's OK.      I too have my times when I retire into myself.     It's the INTP that I am, with the I and P off the scale.  And, at times, it is a bit overwhelming to keep up.

MadMathemagician - 2013-01-23 11:42 PM

TriAya - 2013-01-23 9:06 AM I still completely fail to comprehend how on Earth we get a pod of Manatees that never shuts up.

 

Not everyone is as loquacious as we are.     That's OK.      I too have my times when I retire into myself.     It's the INTP that I am, with the I and P off the scale.  And, at times, it is a bit overwhelming to keep up.

Azzi zam

ENTJ here ... "I'm really sorry you have to die." For those of you who know your Myers-Briggs type and haven't checked out Joe Butts's descriptions ... they're a scream: http://www.typelogic.com/

No. 

Thanks for checking in!

Probably not if you want to do well at the HIM ... I pretty much always say the same thing about races, if you want to just do them for fun and finish (and you have a reasonable hope of doing so without harm to yourself or others), then knock yourself out. But considering the newby-ishness, then ... no. The training and execution of a HIM is a pretty big investment and while you might be prepared to do the sprint under your ability, like as a last long training session (which isn't horrible either) there's always the risk of something happening.

<3 <3 <3

I was praying for you and your daughter today during my trainer ride. The J's (I often pray through the alphabet during long sessions) were for the Manatee Jo's.

I use to do that on swim laps, until I learned I have to pay attention to my technique

I thought about you so much in W Oz, especially at the zoo.

Here is something momentous from me ... honestly I can't even think of my phobia without getting phobic and panicky, and it was extremely hard both to do this and to post this ... but I am taking baby baby baby steps toward dealing with it (still too scared to seek help) ... here goes ... I never even caught what they were, I just snapped a pic and RAN!!! Some kind of nocturnal gecko (hence the red light).

I tried to take a pic of the fantail geckos (JEEZ it is hard to even type that word!) since they were really fascinating but I got so ookied out I just couldn't.

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tech-what???

I still need to watch all your videos and Chad's too.

Right now we all also need to get the heck off this page so I don't have to see those creatures anymore.

Awesome picture! I was thinking of quoting it on the next page...

Last night's bike class involved overhauling front hubs and doing the headsets (threadless AND threaded)

We overhauled both on this sweet ride:

That class seems like so much fun!!!!

THAT'S where my bike ended up!

You do. (Taking my linguist's hat off now.)

Oh, man. Tetherball is actually a sport I am good at. I was tetherball champion at my grade school. I would get on there, and no one could beat me. My mom and dad bought me my own tetherball set up to put in a reinforced hole in the ground in our back yard -- you know where they put the clothes line thingy in.

Siiighhhhh I wish I had an *interesting* accent. Shoot, I'd even take Kirsten's Canadian thing she's got going on. 

No. Thankfully. I have it on my computer. I think it's from a storm last spring, the one that caused us grief.

Kristen, I totally forgot to answer your question - Sorry about that. 

My .02 cents.  The 2 shorter 1500 meter swims would be better for your overall conditioning and training, but only if you break them up into sets.  I would do 1 long swim every other week, not every week.  

Break 1 1500 meter day into sets (6 x 250, or my favorite, a combination of 10 x 100 intervals and 2 x 250).  If you can't hold a challenging interval for the 10 x 100, start with 5 x 100, then a 250, then 5 x 100, then a 250.  

I would probably add this 1500 meter broken set in weekly - giving you a 3rd day per week, then would do 1 long swim on a 4th day every other week.  Does that makes sense?  

So your week might look like this:  

1st week:  Mon & Tues Masters... Thursday (1,500 meter broken set).  

2nd week: Mon & Tues Masters....Thursday (1,500 meter broken set) - Saturday (2,500 meter long swim)

Repeat and build each week until you reach your goal.   

Really curious to hear Yanti's advice on this one though...even if it totally disagrees with mine.    I am great at analyzing a swim stroke, but still building my knowledge of the body and the best way to build for the individual events of a tri.    

I'm still hacking a little, but feeling almost normal. I had to stop my running streak. :-( That made me very, very sad.

TJ -- I can't give you any swimming advice, but did you notice how your leg muscles flex when you push off the wall? It was awesome. Also, not to be catty, but you are 10,000 x better than the guy in the lane next you (in your first 200m video).

Joanne -- Sorry you are feeling a little down and out. Purging my friends' list makes me feel good, for some reason.

Jo -- I hope your hormones are beginning to level out again. Since I had a surprise visit from Aunt Flo, I'm feeling great. I don't remember the last time I had a hot flash.

I'm sure I've missed a hundred things. I'll just pick up where we are now.

BLESS YOUSE for getting us off that awful page ...

Anyway, here's another fantastic gem from BarryP (of 3-2-1 running fame):

Recovery Runs

also, for looking at training paces, the McMillan calculator (linked in Barry's post) is a very decent place to start.