Manatee Monkey Mentors SHUT (Poptart or pet pic bribes considered) (Page 73)

What a craptastic few days!  I hope that this week is better and that Bruce is doing well.

Nicely done!  You'll be so glad that you have this familiarity with the course on race day.  What a confidence builder!

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk

Originally posted by rrrunner

Originally posted by cdban66

TJ - Congratulations on both fronts, training and mom related!

thanks! I'm excitedly nervous about both situations

CONGRATS!!! PHEW 4 days off......and it's back to "work" today Congrats Salty! Give it all you've got at Club Nationals!! Monica - so exciting to be off on your new adventure! Kate you have the best job The mission frog is saying "HI! TAKE MY PICTURE!" Yanti - you rok! Stacey - urgh - everything seems to happen at once, doesn't it? Well now it's over with and this week should be nice and quiet Kirsten - FINAL COUNTDOWN BABY! alrighty all - get to work! 4 days to go until the weekend!

I may have changed my blog title....

sorry you had such a yucky weekend! Tell Bruce to stop eating rocks

Originally posted by bcraht

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk

Originally posted by rrrunner

Originally posted by cdban66

TJ - Congratulations on both fronts, training and mom related!

thanks! I'm excitedly nervous about both situations

CONGRATS!!! PHEW 4 days off......and it's back to "work" today Congrats Salty! Give it all you've got at Club Nationals!! Monica - so exciting to be off on your new adventure! Kate you have the best job The mission frog is saying "HI! TAKE MY PICTURE!" Yanti - you rok! Stacey - urgh - everything seems to happen at once, doesn't it? Well now it's over with and this week should be nice and quiet Kirsten - FINAL COUNTDOWN BABY! alrighty all - get to work! 4 days to go until the weekend!

I may have changed my blog title....

Heeeyyyy!!!!

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Stacey, sorry you had a less than stellar weekend  The things we go through for our furry friends

Hope everyone else had a good weekend.

I posted in Kingsley's RR thread but I can't even begin to imagine swimming a 10k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't find Salty's USATF meet on USN

I start with my new coach tomorrow! We swim Tuesday night and on Thursday I've signed on to be a test subject on the Computrainer. The email says that after the test I'll receive a document that outlines my Functional Threshold Heart Rate and associated training zones, my FTP and info on my pedal stroke efficiency. I am trying to prepare myself to be humiliated by said information and plan to use it as a baseline for improvement.

And, of course, I have 15 weeks to build from the 1.1 miles I did this morning to my HM in October

Day two of nutrition challenge is nearly finished...So far, I am enjoying it, I have good energy, and as I am eating a lot, craving sugar and bread is not an issue. I am dealing with a slight headache from giving up caffeine (again), but overall, I am quite happy. Tomorrow will be the big test--how to eat the right stuff and at the right times while at work....and I have to get up earlier to cook up my breakfast--no eating it on the go anymore! I cooked up a load of chicken breasts today to last the week, and will hook up salmon tonight-yum!

Do keep in mind that these are tools for improvement. The end result is speed, not HR or power. Good luck! 

Will check back in later. Thought I would show you my new  $2 swim friend. J made him for me after his coaching last week. Needs some tape still, but used today and helped right away. (I know, I know. All you fishy people are rolling your eyes and asking what took me so long )

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It looks like a stick she throws to get one of the dogs to do her laps?

Heh.

Kingsley was very sad he couldn't access your log to leave an inspire. *hint*

Not a clue.

<goes to stand in non-fishy corner>

Matt

Pics or it didn't happen!!!  (OK, grief complete).

Awesome!!!

At least let us know what you got!!  Don't leave us hanging...

Matt

<mmmmmmmmm…. bikes….. drool>

OK, so a wacky weekend (plus a day) this one past.

Went to the beach, so I put the bike on the rack and locked it up for the trip - and left the key at home.    Then had to watch salt spray get driven over the bluff and soak it during the hurricane…  At least the storm waited until after the local Independence Day celebration (in Plymouth - "America's Home Town" - we celebrate on the night of the 3rd with fires the size of houses along the beach (no exaggeration) and fireworks… such a great night).

Went surfing in the day-after-waves (always a family fave - sunny, surfy… awesome) and managed a mild concussion.  Worth it, though!

Next morning Kim pops her head back in the bedroom after getting up early and says, "Oh, we're racing today."  We'd seen a sign for a local 4 miler along the beach on our longer run the day prior (not a good way to taper, as it happens) and thought it would be fun - but we were both dead tired Saturday night and decided not to run it (not to mention said thwacking of my head with a surfboard).

Until, that is, we decided to run it!  Ha!  Kim was first woman and I managed 3rd overall - I love a small field.    Mostly, though, I love local races.  SO much fun!

Then last night I was swimming happily along while the 3 kids were a couple lanes over at team practice (perhaps slightly less happily doing drills) when they pull us all out of the pool - for a tornado!  What the heck?!?

OK - maybe this wouldn't be a whacky weekend for some of you (no day-glo weddings or such), but was fun for us - and we even got a race in!  

Matt

And she drops a hint then disappears...  is it to check shoulder or hip rotation?  Inquiring minds want to know!

JJ Congrats on the new bike!

Glad your wacky weekend was more pleasant than Stacey's crazy weekend. Glad you had fun! I like spur of the moment races, especially if I can finish well!

When we went to Moab in April DH forgot the key to unlock the bike rack from the trailer hitch... so he cut it