Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois (Page 81)

Originally posted by StaceyK Yanit and I had a good race on the weekend. We didn't come last this year there were at least 4 people slower than us I am so over 2016 - I just want it to be finished now. A friend of mine died of Friday and it has really knocked me about, especially today for some reason. He was a wonderful man, a great mentor and it just frickin sucks!!!!

Originally posted by StaceyK Yanit and I had a good race on the weekend. We didn't come last this year there were at least 4 people slower than us I am so over 2016 - I just want it to be finished now. A friend of mine died of Friday and it has really knocked me about, especially today for some reason. He was a wonderful man, a great mentor and it just frickin sucks!!!!

Originally posted by amd723

I'm so sorry for your loss.

It's amazing the number of people who are over 2016.  I hope 2017 is better for all!

Originally posted by StaceyK I guess what's really dumb is to think that the number at the end of the date will change the way I feel - like some magic little stroke of the pen. I guess a bit like New Years resolutions. I guess if you can start a great new habit on 01/01/2017 you can start it just as well on 12/12/2016 or any other day if the motivation is enough. (I guess I'm doing a lot of guessing )

Originally posted by brigby1

I've felt like that too, however, this year I've had that little feeling growing and hoping it does do something. A little bit ago was someone I knew a long time ago, that swim team kid the first night back to masters, and just last week a grade school teacher from way back when.

Originally posted by StaceyK I guess what's really dumb is to think that the number at the end of the date will change the way I feel - like some magic little stroke of the pen. I guess a bit like New Years resolutions. I guess if you can start a great new habit on 01/01/2017 you can start it just as well on 12/12/2016 or any other day if the motivation is enough. (I guess I'm doing a lot of guessing )

Originally posted by Hot Runner

Yanti!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T RUN IN CROCS!! If my track kids show up to practice in Crocs or flip-flops, I make them run barefoot (we train on grass). I tell them if it is good enough for the young Kenyan runners, it is good enough for you. Seriously, those things are a safety hazard. Better yet, don't run, period. Didn't you get in enough mileage last week?

Or am I just not tough enough to be an Ironwoman? In my mind, a week after an IM, I might be starting to think about going for a leisurely walk. Or maybe not. (However, given my actual job and life, I would probably be told the next day to teach a bunch of kids how to triple-jump.)

Have fun with the fly swim. How long is it? (Yep, it's amazing, but for those who don't know, fly is easier in the ocean, at least in my case. There's way more buoyancy.)

His marathon PR is 2:23:57, which Sasha Pachev ran in 2006 at the St. George Marathon, wearing lightweight racing flats.

He also has a Crocs PR of 2:31:52, which he ran in 2010 at the Utah Valley Marathon. Wearing rubber clogs.

Pachev, 41, lives in Orem, Utah, and first discovered Crocs as a running shoe in 2008, when he and several of his children were heading out for a run together one morning. (He and his wife have eight kids, ranging in age from 19 months to 15 years, with a ninth due in September.) The Pachevs are a running family, and dad tracks the youngsters' PRs.

As any parent with small children knows, no matter how fast you are on the roads, there are few ways to speed up getting out the door in the morning. "If you're taking seven kids for a run and they don't know how to tie their shoelaces, and you're in a hurry to get your day started, that could be a challenge," Pachev says.

But his children taught him the Crocs shortcut. "I said, 'Guys, put on real shoes.' " They told him they were fine in Crocs. So he let them go, and they ran better than ever.

Soon the dad tried it and was shocked to find he liked the feel of the Crocs, and they stayed on his feet.

Pachev isn't the only runner who has found comfort in clogs. Ray McClanahan, a Portland, Oregon-based podiatrist, has been putting people in Crocs for years to cure foot problems, including plantar fasciitis.

But for Pachev, who does almost all of his 80 miles per week in Crocs, the motivation is financial. "Probably the No. 1 driver for it is that they're $20 a pair," he says. "That makes it very economical. They last 2,000 miles."

A computer programmer who grew up in Moscow during the Soviet era, Pachev started running at age 11. Athletic footwear was scarce, and he was used to wearing his shoes until there were holes in the bottoms. The conventional wisdom of running only 500 miles in a pair of sneakers seemed unlikely. "You've got Abebe Bikila running barefoot and winning the Olympics in 1960," he says. "So this idea of running in a nontraditional shoe was never strange to me."

What he didn't anticipate was the mental edge he'd gain in races. "There's the shock factor on the competition," he says. "They look at you and go, 'Who's this idiot wearing Crocs?' You're with them two-thirds of the way through, and the thought is in their minds: 'This guy should not be with me.' If that thought crosses your mind, you've lost the race."

Originally posted by Jet Black hey all. checkin in. Stacey, so sorry for your loss. Lots of running going on at my casa right now. I'm doing a big running block this winter and trying to do more standalone running races to get more competitive at the IM branded events (just 70.3 for the foreseeable future). Also, my wife has taken up running and I've been running with her a lot lately which we've both really enjoyed. She had joined a running group to prepare for the Houston marathon in January but they did too much intensity and she was continually hurt. I took over her training about 2.5 months ago and put her on the barryp plan of tons of endurance miles. She's doing great and is going to crush the marathon. I hope everyone is having a great holiday season! We had #texascold weather for a few days last week but it's already back to warm and humid. I ran in pants and two long sleeve shirts plus hat/gloves on Saturday morning, then ran in only shorts and shoes on Sunday morning. lol Texas

Originally posted by brigby1

I've felt like that too, however, this year I've had that little feeling growing and hoping it does do something. A little bit ago was someone I knew a long time ago, that swim team kid the first night back to masters, and just last week a grade school teacher from way back when.

Originally posted by brigby1

Wow, it got up to 14 today!

Originally posted by melbo55

So sorry to hear about your friend, Stacey.  (((hugs)))

Originally posted by jmkizer

#ChicagoHeatWave

Originally posted by jmkizer

Oh no!  I'm so sorry to hear this, Ben!

Originally posted by brigby1

Yeah, will see as things progress for Kinetic. DC noted that it was all in the programming, so could easily change at any time. Another reason I've held off. First time out for them, so bound to be something to work out. I wouldn't necessarily get it just yet, but wouldn't write them off either because of the nature of the complaint being quite fixable.

I don't think you'd want instant resistance changes either, just watching out for them being really slow. I've ridden a computrainer a couple times and that was fine. I forget which of the others had some earlier gripes with that. It may have been adjusted by now too.

Originally posted by mcmanusclan5

Thanks for the thoughts.  Tough part is that my requirements are a bit squishy.  On the one hand, I'm looking for a smart trainer to make rides a bit more enjoyable (Zwift and such). 

On the other, for just grinding out training, my PM and a plan have been working just fine on the dumb trainer - the upgrade there would be a better plan or a bike focus (which I am considering after the couple races Kim and I recently signed up for), not a smarter machine.  Not sure if I'm going to jump back into tri quite so hard as before, but I'm feeling the pull, so want to be ready AND be able to have some fun.

So, the smart trainer things is, I suppose, more about having fun on at least some of my indoor rides.  Hard training is enjoyable, even with just the PM on the dumb system, but not what I'd term "fun."

#firstworldproblems

Matt

Originally posted by Hot Runner

#Saigon Cold Front. It is supposed to be 73 this morning. The last time it got into the 60's, the government (I am serious here) issued a "cold weather advisory". I believe lowest ever recorded temperature here was 58. Supposedly that was during the war years and people "froze to death". Not sure if that is urban legend, or maybe it was also wet and the combo of that and illness, poor nutrition, no housing, wartime stress, etc. did them in.

Originally posted by cdban66

For those that are unaware, we are back.

Originally posted by jmkizer

I missed all of you yesterday!