Yanti & Salty RidiculoSnarky Almost Intelligent-Charming Manatees PART 4 - Full (Page 76)

i am on week 14 of a 22 week plan (of course I started on week 7 ). 4 hrs is my longest ride and the plan has me doing a 4 hr ride the 3 weekends before the race.  So, I'd be missing 1 of 4, 4 hr rides.

You're right, no way in hell I'd be able to fit a 4hr ride into the middle of the week.  I may be able to do more time on the trainer for the already scheduled mid-week rides, but it will be hard.

Yeah, don't think I can add any more mid-week rides, so guess i'll just up the weekend rides around the miss.

I'm out of town that whole weekend, so moving the ride to Saturday won't help.  I can't blow off the weekend trip because it is a family obligation, so I just have to figure out how to limit the damage of missing the workout.

I haven't really set a defined goal for the race, but i'm thinking a just sub 3 hr ride would be about right.

That's weird. I can get into G+ with Chrome on my Mac.  Maybe it's a setting or cookie issue.

Thanks all for the support.  And yeah I did ride easy ... proof:

http://app.strava.com/rides/19968560

143 watts = about 60% of my healthy ftp, maybe 65% after my medical issues.  Just don't tell my concerned family about the 50mph descents

Edit: and yeah I can ride sub 6 hours on 143 watts.  Good position on my bike

Ohh uhhhh we weren't talking about you 

Freakin' nice work!! 

Snerk. You replied in the wrong mentor group.

It's cool, I've talked about you in there

I use Spotify at work sometimes.  Mostly I listen to podcasts (Two Gomers right now, as a matter of fact) but if I am editing web pages for something, I use Spotify for background.

Basically, I set up some favorites and I let it shuffle through that list. 

I have one playlist that someone in a previous mentor group suggested.  He wanted for all of us to set up a playlist of our favorite workout songs.  I entered my spin songs in there.  I don't think that anyone else in the mentor group ever bothered.  Oh well. 

So anyway, I use it but normally less than once a week.

I was talking to myself and you were eavesdropping.

I know, you just followed Spiglet. I would too. It's just funny and random when he posts in here and then you posted in there.

I do what I want!

If he can come in mine I can go in his!

*Don't read into that

I read the words, but really don't have the ability to comprehend what you mean. (= self deprecation, in case Salty needed a translation).

You rock, Spiglet.

{MELON PRESS}

Oh hey. So. IMWA ... just how rough is the road surface?

Oh that is a good idea!!!! I was kind of thinking of something along the lines of that but it would of course depend on people's actual use of Spotify.

I am a Pandora user as well but Spotify is amazing for sharing music. 

I am trying to fit a bunch of Pop Tarts (a slightly bunch less than I received, but still) into a suitcase. I even bought a new suitcase for them!

It was all going really well until I remembered I'd also bought myself five new pairs of running shoes.

They were $25 apiece. It pays to live in a country that manufactures a lot of the top-brand sporting shoes.

Pop Tart/Running shoe commingle. 

And 5! Yowza, I'm jealous. 

Portions are chip seal but not all of it.  You won't need a mountain bike.  But it helps to adjust your position during the race and sit up when you have a tailwind.  The course is 100% flat and your neck and arms WILL hate you if you don't give them a little recovery.

Win some lose some. There were many times in the U.S. I simply couldn't find shoes that fit, period. I just ran out hundreds of miles in whatever I had, tried to do shorter runs in almost-but-not-really fitting shoes, and hoped and prayed that asics wouldn't totally eff up that year's lines like they did the year before.

I was thinking about it today. When I was young, it was really easy to find shoes that fit. It was after I'd been morbidly obese and pretty inactive for years that, even when I lost the weight, my feet stayed horrifyingly pronative, big, and flat.

And now that I've been active for a while, have been barefoot or at the most in thongs for over three years and all the soft-sand running I did for about a year ... it's a huge blessing to be able to have my pick of shoes, and here of all places where I can afford all I want!

P.S. I even have a pair of shiny RED Mizunos and PURPLE New Balance!

So much love to you, Erica ... and as always, prayers every single day. Many of us will make it a point to check in on you often.