Manatee Mentors 2014--CLOSED (begging & bribes MAY work) (Page 76)

GO SALTY!!!

Get better Monica and Darren.

We are off to the vet this morning for puppies, I'll let you know how we go.

Sartorial Choices???? Man, you've got some high faluttin' friends.

I think she'll say orange.

GOOOOOO SALTY!!!!!!!!

Heal up folks, I hope you are feeling better soon.

Edited by cdban66 2014-03-07 6:23 PM

10 puppies! I'm gonna be a busy girl for a few weeks.





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Awwww!!!!!

So cute!

That picture made my day

Woah, PRed the race!

Congrats!!!! And, of course... We told d you so!!!!!

Edited by rrrunner 2014-03-08 3:17 PM

Thanks for the faith everyone!! And Chris, I had a Graf[t] beer. It was a duel effort between a local brewery and new Belgium. It's a IPL and has a small bit of apple must (unfermented apple juice)

And those puppies, omg Stacy!!!

Hi, All. Yanti kindly gave in to my begging and let me join the party at this late date. So glad to be here!! Here's a bit of info about me:

Name: Mary (laffinrock=laughing rock=merry stone; you get the picture. Just don't take me for granite.)

I'm taking another shot at doing my first tri this year. As a kid, I spent my time running, biking, and playing in the water even though I didn't really know how to swim. As I got older, those activities got replaced by music (played oboe, sang in several choirs) and other stuff. I took swimming lessons about 12 years ago. I didn't do much swimming after that until recently, even though I know how good it is for my body and soul. I've always enjoyed being active, doing stuff like hiking with the dogs and working in my garden. My DH did some tris a few years ago and a friend has done a couple. Every time I watched, I kept thinking, "I could do that." In June 2011, I finally decided to do one, trained for 10 days and hurt my back. (Back bend over exercise ball to ease tightness in SI area, then couldn't sit/stand/walk for a couple weeks and significant pain until very recently.) Between chronic pain, depression, and some major family drama, it's been a rough couple years. Now, 2 hip surgeries later (3/2012 and 7/2013) and a near-miss with back surgery, I've found a chiropractor who has me feeling strong and confident enough to tackle my goal again.

I have a wonderful partner, Alex; we've been together for 16 years. We have 3 fur kids: 2 border collies and a cat. One of the BCs, Shanti, is my avatar as well as my inspiration. She has bad hips (2 surgeries before she was a year) but is the funniest, most playful, and smartest dog I've ever met. She has been gimpy lately but doesn't let that stop her one bit. She just bounces around and lets me know that she has 3 perfectly good legs so throw the toy already! Her wonderful lack of self-pity and pure joy make me laugh even on my darkest days.

I've mostly been swimming and doing core strengthening exercises, with the occasional 2-3 mile hilly walk with the dogs. Going to start adding in the bike this week, then walking. Not sure I'll get to running this year; if not this year, then maybe next year. I'll just to play it by ear and see what my 45 year-old body will tolerate.

Don't have any races scheduled yet but am shooting for a sprint later this summer. Maybe the Rattlesnake (Aurora), Boulder Sundown, or Fort Collins. I think I can handle an open-water swim, but my DH keeps suggesting I go with a pool swim. Not sure yet which way I'll go. No races last year. Before surgery last July, I had a hard time even walking around for 15 min., could swim 800 yds. but only with a pull buoy and biking was completely out of the question.

I'm 5'7" and 140 lbs. I'm really lucky to have never had much difficulty with weight or flexibility but am seriously lacking in strength and endurance. I'm mostly interested in increasing strength and endurance; if I lost some weight, I wouldn't mind - that would just be an added bonus.

Looking forward to spending time with everybody here!

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