Manatees - 2019 Edition - Practice Maximum Enthusiasm - CLOSED (Page 78)

I am working the calendar at the moment to see how feasible that will be.

Awesome!

Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

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Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

Ah, great races!  Enjoy beautiful Lake Placid, Jim, I'm crying over the fact that I'm not there this year to cheer you on and to enjoy one of my favorite places on earth.  You'll have a great race, I know it!

Kirsten, wow, it seems like you just did a big race!  Super woman!!  I know you'll have a great race, too.

Racing Manatees!!!

July 27-28
Jim - Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday (2519)
Kirsten - Ironman 70.3 Canada on Sunday (2179)

Is anyone else racing?

Kirsten - Good race yesterday! I enjoyed stalking you. I hope that you are pleased with the effort!

Jim - I stalked you all day and I wondered if you were feeling unwell. The race did not seem to unfold in the typical Jim fashion.  Good on you for sticking it out as long as you did and then pulling the plug when that became necessary.  Recover well.

Congrats, Kirsten, it seemed you had a good race!

I hope Jim is able to check in soon, I was very sad to see he needed to end his race early.

x2!

Kirsten - Good race yesterday! I enjoyed stalking you. I hope that you are pleased with the effort!

Jim - I stalked you all day and I wondered if you were feeling unwell. The race did not seem to unfold in the typical Jim fashion.  Good on you for sticking it out as long as you did and then pulling the plug when that became necessary.  Recover well.

Hi everyone!  Thanks for the well wishes.  I had a terrible race, but a good day.  I could not get into a rhythm on the swim: I was still taking breast stroke breaks at the first turn (~700m).  It was the first time ever in a race where I considered quitting on the swim.  I struggled to get my head right to be able to push through.  Eventually I did, but by then, it was the worst swim of my life.  Best best at Mt. Tremblant to worst a month later!  Lollygagged through T1 because of it.  Got on the bike and just didn't feel like I wanted to play triathlon today.  I had an okay bike, meaning I mostly held my watts where I wanted them, but just wasn't really into competing.  So I decided partway through that if I was going to have a crap race, I might as well have a fun day.  So I looked at the scenery (beautiful), cheered other athletes (also beautiful ).  Bike course changed again this year (I have done the full once and the half twice and never done the same course) and it was tough.  1200m of climb (~3600ft).  Had several struggles on the run, sore/tight hamstrings, wheezing (I may be developing exercise induced asthma, has happened a few times now); there was A LOT of self talk on this one!  I considered pulling the plug on every discipline, but pushed through.  There were distance signs up along the run and when I got to 19km, I thought, okay 2 to go.  Get 'er done.  There's 20km, keep going.  Then all of a sudden there was another 20km sign.  Huh.  Musta hallucinated that last one.  Then a gal beside me said "there's still a km to go?" in a defeated voice and started to walk.  I realized that I had NOT hallucinated and the previous signs were for the full distance.  Okay, still one to go.  "Yep, just one.  Let's go, you got this.  Tell your legs to shut up.  5 more minutes.  You can do it."  And then she passed me .  Icing on the cake of making the best of the day.  Smiled crossing the finish line. 

Hope Jim is okay--sorry to hear he had to pull the plug. 

Hi everyone!  Thanks for the well wishes.  I had a terrible race, but a good day.  I could not get into a rhythm on the swim: I was still taking breast stroke breaks at the first turn (~700m).  It was the first time ever in a race where I considered quitting on the swim.  I struggled to get my head right to be able to push through.  Eventually I did, but by then, it was the worst swim of my life.  Best best at Mt. Tremblant to worst a month later!  Lollygagged through T1 because of it.  Got on the bike and just didn't feel like I wanted to play triathlon today.  I had an okay bike, meaning I mostly held my watts where I wanted them, but just wasn't really into competing.  So I decided partway through that if I was going to have a crap race, I might as well have a fun day.  So I looked at the scenery (beautiful), cheered other athletes (also beautiful ).  Bike course changed again this year (I have done the full once and the half twice and never done the same course) and it was tough.  1200m of climb (~3600ft).  Had several struggles on the run, sore/tight hamstrings, wheezing (I may be developing exercise induced asthma, has happened a few times now); there was A LOT of self talk on this one!  I considered pulling the plug on every discipline, but pushed through.  There were distance signs up along the run and when I got to 19km, I thought, okay 2 to go.  Get 'er done.  There's 20km, keep going.  Then all of a sudden there was another 20km sign.  Huh.  Musta hallucinated that last one.  Then a gal beside me said "there's still a km to go?" in a defeated voice and started to walk.  I realized that I had NOT hallucinated and the previous signs were for the full distance.  Okay, still one to go.  "Yep, just one.  Let's go, you got this.  Tell your legs to shut up.  5 more minutes.  You can do it."  And then she passed me .  Icing on the cake of making the best of the day.  Smiled crossing the finish line. 

Hope Jim is okay--sorry to hear he had to pull the plug.