Mad Manatees Mentor Group - VERY CLOSED!!! Sorry! (Page 74)

Thank you for the muscle comment, I totally needed that! And the guy in the next lane? Yeah... no extra charge for that entertainment...

Say 'Eh?' when you say that!

Ahhh a woman after my own ... heart. You dig up the BEST stuff.

Eh? Tuke. Robert Pickton (wait, was that the correct one?)

Touque.  And ouch....

Oh yeah, that whole French thing. I'm a terrible Canadian.

Glad to hear it. With your mad skills I'd rather have you running for the US of A!

Please everyone, read this. HUGE emphasis on taking the ego out of recovery runs!

Recovery runs are so, so important. I know sometimes they sound a little counterproductive but it's amazing how much better I feel after I do one following a tough workout. 

I really emphasize putting zero concern on pace and just enjoying being out there. I often stop and take pictures, run some errands, whatever. Lately some of my coworkers have been wanting to take up running so I go with them and chalk it up as recovery. It's perfect.

You are not doing so badly.  You know what a toque is.  Many don't...

It helps that I spent A LOT of time in Canada playing hockey. I think the best part was no matter what time the game was, there was ALWAYS a case of beer in the locker room afterwards. Is that Canadian law or something?

When are you coming down again?

Hahaha, good point! 

Yes.  It is beer o'clock after any hockey game. 

Nothing scheduled right now.  SO and dogs are down there just about every other weekend right now, so I may tag along at some point.

You should. Seriously, you could join me on your bike on one of my 20-milers. My sister did it with me in SD. You'd just have to ride slow. 

*But apparently you get the bonus of heckling me, so that's a plus.

What???? How did I miss this? 30-40 beers AND tetherball in boots? FANTassTIC!

Tastes of beer, not full beers lol, this girl can no longer drink into the double digits. College on the other hand is another story.

I did come incredibly close to getting hit by a car on our way home. So it wasn't all pretty ...

Oh, speaking of beer...

For Christmas I bought my DH a membership in a beer of the month club. Each shipment is 12 beers, two different beers from each of two different micro-brews. He received his first shipment last night. It had two types of beer from a small brewery in Omaha that we liked and haven't had since we moved to NM. That was a nice surprise. The other was a micro brewery in Milwaukee. My DH is from Wisconsin and he joked about there being micro's in Milwaukee, the land of the quantity over quality when it comes to beer.

Ooooh you should tell me the name. It can be a post (pre???) Nationals treat

I'll check the name of the specific beers they sent but the brewery is Lucky Bucket.

Jo,

I've been thinking about this for a few days and I was not sure how to put this or what to share here.  (guys, feel free to move along)

A few years ago I had a nutrition + sadness thing (not depression, I've been there too and this wasn't that).  The thing is, it came on post-hysterectomy.  I had a total abdominal hysterectomy when I was 38.  I'm not entirely convinced that it was 100% necessary but I came to that realization afterward.  I thought the doctor (aka Dr. Evil) knew what the h*ll she was doing but no.  I was exercising more and eating less and gaining weight like there was not tomorrow.  I went to a nutritionist and she helped some but referred me to a counsellor/shrink who helped some but what helped the most was getting a new ob/gyn.  She put me on estrodiol and that really helped a lot.  She said that we should taper the hormones at a more normal timing and that 38 was too young to be without them.

The Beer of the Month thing is a great gift!  All the folks I've given it to have really enjoyed the new varieties from around the country and world.  Although one month featured beer from Lancaster Brewing Company, which is very local to us (and the people I gave the gift to), so not so unique, those!  It got a good laugh, though.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of our local micro-brews showed up in there. He's pretty excited about the gift.  All month he kept talking about when his beer gets here. DS1 was pretty excited too, especially when he saw the Lucky Bucket in there.

BTW if anyone is even a wee bit curious about Mary Cain's 3K High-school Record:

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/250136-2013-UW-Indoor-Preview/video/682534-Mary-Cain-3k-High-School-Record

The girl rabbiting the pack in the beginning is from my running club (as you can see, lots of watch checking to keep Mary on pace)

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.

Ok I know I'm pages behind but damn I go to bed and you guys add 5 pages on me. Lucky it's a no training day today so I have time to catch up and not be too late for work.

Michael - you are going to have to start adding definitions when you use big words (so that I can know what they mean and add them to my vocab). So please provide a definition of loquacious.

If you want to hit the trail then doooo eeeeet!

Thought I'd add this for a little fun. I've been a Manatee for 2 seasons now. Regularly when I see the emails (I stay updated through email to my phone) I think of this song. It's from a cartoon my boys use to watch when they were little.