Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod (Page 8)

With my vast experience of one pool  based sprint, my first Q would be 'what water temp are you expecting?'

Good luck and have lots of fun on your 'first'

pig picking? i live in the the wrong country.

enjoy your race and love the dog piccie

Wear it!!!   That and drafting the swim are the only legal "cheating" allowed.   I bring a stool/bucket to sit on when I strip mine off.  Pull cord for zipper, get the arms off and down to your waist in the run into T1, take a seat, pull the rest off, pop on the bike shoes, put on the helmet and sunglasses, hop on the bike and go!  

The racing shirt sounds ace.

Of course the Salty pic has the word 'ale' in it, she wouldn't bother to post a pic without it.

Go Manatees, you marvellous bunch of extraordinary people.

Thank goodness I don't have a strange shaped head!  I lost my best friend to breast cancer--she was the most amazingly selfless person I have ever known. 

Jo, sorry my previous posts have been so frivolous, i post as i read so i didn't get to yours til now. i used to be a cop and in the UK that arsehole would be locked up as soon as the complaint was made, assuming he didn't run like the chicken he must be if he's picking on a woman.

Sadly this doesn't help you and the stress you must be under. I wish i was closer and able to help more directly. For now, i will add my prayers to those of those of the others and hope this monster is taken into custody on a long term basis, very soon.

x100000 

GOOD LUCK, BE SAFE, AND HAVE FUN!  

Oh Jo!  How awful and scary!  Please let us know if there is anything that we can do to help.  Just say the word.

Of course you are in my thoughts and prayers.

{{hugs}}

I would wear the wetsuit.  The times I've worn my wetsuit, I did not have a problem getting it off.  Once I get out of the water, I start to unzip and take my wetsuit off to the waist and run to T1.  Once in T1, I take the rest of the wetsuit off.  Once the wetsuit is around my ankles, I step on my wetsuit to "yank" my feet out of the legs of the wetsuit.  I hope that makes sense.  Make sure to put body glide on your neck and around your ankles to prevent chaffing.  Also it seemed like I was able to take the wetsuit off easier when I put the body glide around my ankles.  I'm a slow swimmer, so I did go faster in the wetsuit and I felt more secure.  Let us know how it goes.  

Jo, I will be praying for the safety of your family.  I know the mama bear feeling.  I would do (almost) anything for my kids and it is so difficult to let them make their own decisions sometimes.

Kirk, I would wear the suit. But I am NOT a strong swimmer and will take any help I can get.  I did a race in August in Denver last year where the water was about 70 and I did not get too hot. As metioned above I stripped it to the waist running to my spot and then finished peeling it off with no problems. With a 750m swim I'm sure I gained more time using it then I lost peeling it off.

Yes ma'am.  I already have it packed in the car for the morning in fact.

Holy Cow!  That is terrifying.  I think I'll send Artemis to a convent.  I am sure your daughter will make the right decisions.  You are doing what you can to protect her and your family.  This guy sounds like an evil bully - stay safe, prayers and thoughts are with you...

Hah! I was 5 minutes late to official packet pick-up time! Luckily they were running behind...

Weird--no shirt for this race, instead they gave us a tech-fabric 'beanie' hat and one of those bags with the rope handles--kinda like a backpack but more flimsy looking. Definitely the most odd swag I have gotten so far. Oh, and my swim cap is bright. neon. pink. and so is my race bib! Wow.  I am SOOOO not a pink kinda Kate....At least they won't lose me in the water, right? Oh well, I am going to have a great time tomorrow!

Oooh, I like the beanies.  My head gets too hot in the summer in a hat.  But I agree with your other 2 points: those backpacks are useless, and pink is wrong.  Good luck and have fun!!

Ewwwwww and yaaaaaaaaaay beer!  If I had a beer the night before a run, I would run even slower than I do now...

OK pod members, need some help.  I am racing on Monday as you know.  Wasn't going to go too hard, mostly wanted the swim race practice.  I am scheduled to do another sprint next Saturday--signed up to do it with a friend.  It is a pool swim, I would have been racing first.  I was going to do the swim, wait for her, then do the bike and run together.  Point being I was not going to go hard at all, just would be fun to do with a friend.  I am also possibly doing a charity half marathon in June.  So now my friend has injured her ankle and can't do the race.  And I skipped my long run today so that I wasn't too fatigued for Monday. 

Soooooo, question.  Do I do both races easy?  Do I do 'race' the race on Monday and do the one on Saturday easy.  Do I race Monday and skip Saturday?  Do I do my long run tomorrow and go easy on Monday?  hellllllllllp!

All right racing manatees It's Game Day!!!

Kirsten- I'm probably not in the right place asa it's an hour before my race but go out and kill them both is my advice.

Salty-  What do you mean 'found' beer?  There is no way you should let your supply get that low...

GO KATE SALTY AND KRISTEN!!!