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Originally posted by IndoIronYanti

Cray-cray in the Yanti multiverse too (hi, McManatee!) ... even more so than usual.

Remember the Canadian beer fridge Molson's ads? The highlight long one in Indonesia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1iXYTwuuLxs

I met Morgan because he was sitting next to us in a cafe in my dinky little neighborhood in Bali. So Kingsley and I decided to take a 3rd honeymoon (of 3rd wedding) in the remote island of Gili Air. Once here, K and I thought about swimming to Lombok (nearby but dangerous currents/eddies/conditions), especially as part of recon for our forthcoming Lombok to Bali Strait swim.

No one's ever swum from Gili Air to Lombok before. However, Morgan recommended us the best boat captain on Gili (who also happens to work for him), who will be our witness/guide/spotter/support boat on an attempted double crossing tomorrow! It's only 1.5km there and same back, but you can't swim in a straight line. Anyway, we paddled it today--Kingsley went all the way over (I went 3/4), landed, and came back! and it's looking pretty good. If we make it, we'll be looking to make this a yearly proper race.

A lot of other stuff has gone down too--both glorious and horrifying , unfortunately, but for now ... we're gonna try to set us a coupla world records tomorrow.

Originally posted by JJ- Hey guys I know I haven't been around much lately. A few days ago a cyclist was hit by a car 1.5 miles from my house. Our local police chief is defending the driver stating it was unknown just how close to the white line the cyclist was riding and that the driver never saw him. He also said he wants to make sure everyone understands that the motorist did not hit the bike. It was the cyclist that was hit.............. Here in the video you can clearly see the truck swerve over onto the shoulder as he was hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvs3xrO9_gw&feature=youtu.beI hope this goes viral. I'm tired of getting buzzed by cars in this town. Mark suffered 4-5 broken ribs, a broken scapula and a 60-70 % collapsed lung and has a gash on the back of his head, with staples.

Originally posted by IndoIronYanti

No one's ever swum from Gili Air to Lombok before. However, Morgan recommended us the best boat captain on Gili (who also happens to work for him), who will be our witness/guide/spotter/support boat on an attempted double crossing tomorrow! It's only 1.5km there and same back, but you can't swim in a straight line. Anyway, we paddled it today--Kingsley went all the way over (I went 3/4), landed, and came back! and it's looking pretty good. If we make it, we'll be looking to make this a yearly proper race.

A lot of other stuff has gone down too--both glorious and horrifying , unfortunately, but for now ... we're gonna try to set us a coupla world records tomorrow.

Originally posted by mcmanusclan5

Hi Yanti  I'm just visiting you here in Cra-ville, as it seems more your baseline than an exception!  Good luck on the world records (how many times do you get to wish someone that?  Talk about cra-cra).  

Tom - great race!  In shorter distances (sprint/Oly), I usually negative split by a little but most of my open PRs are from a very slight positive split (and collapsing at the line).  Same in the couple HIM's I've done (although could just be from lack of conditioning!).  I actually have to watch the first mile off the bike, as I can end up going waaaay too fast - mostly because it feels slower than it is coming off the bike (and so I push harder than I should if I'm not careful).  

Salty - cool pics!  Will you get the data?  Also, to the above, do you know why the received wisdom is that a negative split is somehow preferred?  I would think whatever gets you across the line in the shortest time…  Just curious.

Matt

Originally posted by amd723

Of course you are going to try to set a couple of world records tomorrow, what else would you do on a Saturday?!!  Good luck and be safe!

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk WELCOME TO FRIDAY!!!! Emily - glad you're back Jonathan - New bikes are so much fun! MATT - WOO HOO SWEDEN here we come! Mary you are like the official Manatee cheerleader!! How's the leg/foot? Darren - happy belated hippobathday to you! Adrienne - were the shoes taped up because of sensors or is that some new super model they don't want us to see? Erin - sounds like a fun little trip - well, except for the accident. That's awesome Jason was able to help. Please tell me you guys have seen the new Weird Al video? I can't stop humming it!! (pardon the short commercial - totally worth it) http://www.vevo.com/watch/USRV81400343?syndicationid=bb8a16ab-1279-... HOORAY FRIDAY! I'm racing my first OLY on Sunday! EEK! Who else is racing?!

Originally posted by JJ- Hey guys I know I haven't been around much lately. A few days ago a cyclist was hit by a car 1.5 miles from my house. Our local police chief is defending the driver stating it was unknown just how close to the white line the cyclist was riding and that the driver never saw him. He also said he wants to make sure everyone understands that the motorist did not hit the bike. It was the cyclist that was hit.............. Here in the video you can clearly see the truck swerve over onto the shoulder as he was hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvs3xrO9_gw&feature=youtu.beI hope this goes viral. I'm tired of getting buzzed by cars in this town. Mark suffered 4-5 broken ribs, a broken scapula and a 60-70 % collapsed lung and has a gash on the back of his head, with staples.

Originally posted by IndoIronYanti

Cray-cray in the Yanti multiverse too (hi, McManatee!) ... even more so than usual.

Remember the Canadian beer fridge Molson's ads? The highlight long one in Indonesia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1iXYTwuuLxs

I met Morgan because he was sitting next to us in a cafe in my dinky little neighborhood in Bali. So Kingsley and I decided to take a 3rd honeymoon (of 3rd wedding) in the remote island of Gili Air. Once here, K and I thought about swimming to Lombok (nearby but dangerous currents/eddies/conditions), especially as part of recon for our forthcoming Lombok to Bali Strait swim.

No one's ever swum from Gili Air to Lombok before. However, Morgan recommended us the best boat captain on Gili (who also happens to work for him), who will be our witness/guide/spotter/support boat on an attempted double crossing tomorrow! It's only 1.5km there and same back, but you can't swim in a straight line. Anyway, we paddled it today--Kingsley went all the way over (I went 3/4), landed, and came back! and it's looking pretty good. If we make it, we'll be looking to make this a yearly proper race.

A lot of other stuff has gone down too--both glorious and horrifying , unfortunately, but for now ... we're gonna try to set us a coupla world records tomorrow.

Originally posted by JJ- Hey guys I know I haven't been around much lately. A few days ago a cyclist was hit by a car 1.5 miles from my house. Our local police chief is defending the driver stating it was unknown just how close to the white line the cyclist was riding and that the driver never saw him. He also said he wants to make sure everyone understands that the motorist did not hit the bike. It was the cyclist that was hit.............. Here in the video you can clearly see the truck swerve over onto the shoulder as he was hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvs3xrO9_gw&feature=youtu.beI hope this goes viral. I'm tired of getting buzzed by cars in this town. Mark suffered 4-5 broken ribs, a broken scapula and a 60-70 % collapsed lung and has a gash on the back of his head, with staples.

Originally posted by jmkizer

Well said!

Originally posted by jmkizer

Dude!  He was on the shoulder and the pickup left his lane to enter the shoulder to sideswipe him!

I would say that it doesn't matter how far the cyclist was from the white line (he was to the left of the white line).  If the cyclist was hit, it was an unsafe pass if nothing else.  After viewing the video, not only was it an unsafe pass, it was more like reckless endangerment.  The driver clearly saw the cyclist (and didn't like the fact that he was there).

"The overtaking of a bicycle by a motor vehicle is governed by general traffic laws and must be done to the left and at a safe distance."   (http://www.bikelaw.com/2014/06/18/texas-bicycle-laws/)

"a person operating a bicycle on a roadway who is moving slower than the other traffic on the roadway shall ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway" (http://www.biketexas.org/es/infrastructure/texas-bicycle-laws)

Originally posted by rrrunner

Some recent pix of my training with coach. The one on the trail is taked of me over Coach's shoulder. The other is our bike test, for the new Manatees I'm the one in the black tank with the blue headband

Originally posted by jmkizer

Nice photos!  Cool looking bike path :-)

Originally posted by jmkizer

Nice photos!  Cool looking bike path :-)

Originally posted by amd723

I know a number of manatees follow each other on twitter and facebook (do you follow on facebook?!) and wonder if any of you have heard from Monica.  I assume she is settling in nicely at her new job and in her new town.

Originally posted by JJ- Hey guys I know I haven't been around much lately. A few days ago a cyclist was hit by a car 1.5 miles from my house. Our local police chief is defending the driver stating it was unknown just how close to the white line the cyclist was riding and that the driver never saw him. He also said he wants to make sure everyone understands that the motorist did not hit the bike. It was the cyclist that was hit.............. Here in the video you can clearly see the truck swerve over onto the shoulder as he was hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvs3xrO9_gw&feature=youtu.beI hope this goes viral. I'm tired of getting buzzed by cars in this town. Mark suffered 4-5 broken ribs, a broken scapula and a 60-70 % collapsed lung and has a gash on the back of his head, with staples.

Originally posted by JJ- She hasn't posted much lately that I've seen. Hang on lemme go stalk her

Originally posted by amd723

I know a number of manatees follow each other on twitter and facebook (do you follow on facebook?!) and wonder if any of you have heard from Monica.  I assume she is settling in nicely at her new job and in her new town.

Originally posted by mcmanusclan5

I am actually nauseated watching that (and can't get his survival moans out of my head).  Ugh ugh ugh!

A soccer mom (she actually had a soccer sticker on her Range Rover, so that's real, not a dig) tried to run me off the road yesterday.  I was as close to the curb as I could get without striking my pedal, and was going uphill (sloooooowly).  She was apparently pissed that anyone would be out on her road, honked and missed my head with her mirror by about 4 inches.  I gave her the customary Mass-hole salute after that and almost caught up with her and her adult male passenger on the next downhill… She was trying hard to avoid that, as I suspect she didn't mean to come THAT close - just to send a little message (like that's OK, right?).

People can really suck, sometimes.

I'm glad that dude is OK, more or less, although it should NEVER have happened.  (and I selfishly hope that Austin drivers are within the LA bubble and cut some slack - or I'll be on a trainer for the next few years)

Matt

Originally posted by cdban66

I like that snippet.  I'll have to remember it.