Manatee Mentors 2015.2 CLOSED (Poptarts? Pet pics?) (Page 88)

Race smarty, then party! Great group again this week. Must be THAT time of year.  

I know Kate got her race on this morning. Hoping TJ took on hers. Melanie probably isn't wining early in the day, or is she?

Ann-Marie

Just watching the news this morning...hoping all the midwest Manatees are safe!  Man the storms look terrible!

My race went really well this morning!  I got 12th OA, and 2nd AG (not counting any top three finisher).  Had a good swim, had a really good bike where I averaged 20.8 mph, and had a decent run (my 310XT is not in the picture anymore, so I won't know the run splits).  I took four minutes off of my time from last year.

Pretty pumped that I was able to ride and run so well!

Soooo... did everyone disappear today, or do we have a new thread or something?

I was wondering the same thing--Mothers day maybe?

Something is wrong if the manatees aren't out living it up on the weekends, especially one with a holiday in it!

That's great.  Nothing better than putting together solid efforts in all three legs.

I'd guess Mothers day.

Made the ultimate sacrifice by getting up at 6:00 this morning to get my brick done so as not to interfere with the day.  It was really tough to get up that early.  Totally a foreign thing for me.  But I had the roads to myself which was awesome.  It was windy so was a little slower than I wanted but dialed it back a notch from last week and ran really well off the bike. 

YAAAAAAY RACERS

Heal up well, Hands-Marie.

Congratulations Foxay!!!

Hope everyone who still has a mom / knows a mom / is a mom (human or other animal childs) had a good Mother's Day.

I had a good day, considering. Got to support all the Indonesians (over SEVENTY at this event alone ... seven years ago we had TWO triathletes), meet up with lots of old friends and some BTers, visit Vietnam (which I've never been to), do some pro stalking.

Was in not good (OK, terrible) shape for this event healthwise, weightwise, trainingwise, stresswise, blah blah, so it turned out to be a very nice long training day. Easy swim, easy bike (derailleur & hanger were damaged in transit, so only had the top half of the big ring, ouch!) -- stopped for some seat-post mechanicals myself and then about 20min to help a guy change a complicated flat -- last 20km of bike wasn't marshalled anymore so I was dodging and weaving third world traffic and very slow.

Temp on the run at road level (all on asphalt next to major roadway, none in shade) was between 40-45C (104-113F) at 85% humidity. Everybody was death crawling, I went as fast as I could without overheating but that was about 5.5km/hr maybe 18:00/mile?

Carnage from mechanicals (most of road was OK quality but is a main highway so had a lot of detritus on it) and heat was massive, so I was a very happy DFL (DNF since past the cutoff, but they let me finish -- chief technical official is a good friend of mine so he, the timing crew, and all the finish area volunteers waited for me with big cheers into the finish and kept a shirt, towel and medal, that was so very sweet of them!).

Tom, what problem are you trying to solve?  Swim data upload? Running watch?  Do you also have a 500 for the bike?

Regarding the 310XT, you might try storing it in some rice to remove the water from under the screen.  Then stop using it in the pool.

I was looking at the finishing times for the race, and the swim didn't seem right to me.  It was a time trial start, and it looks like they gave everyone's start times based on the first swimmer.  So I emailed one of the main race people.  He was gracious, and recognized that there was a mistake.  He's going to fix it later today.  Woohoo! Not sure if that means I'll get that extra minute, but it would be nice.

It really sounds like you made the best of it -- making it a training day and supporting your fellow racers.  I must say, those temperatures are not selling me on the event ;-)  Congrats on finishing, albeit unofficially.

How are you feeling today? How'd Kingsley do?  Did the athlete that you helped with the flat end up finishing?

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk WOW great day for Tom - congrats. Yanti - not so much :/ {{hugs}} AND it's Monday. Mondays blow. MY AC isn't working (first world problems) and it may hit 90 today. I'm working from home waiting for the garage repair guy (AC Repair is Wednesday). I have to get the AC fixed FOR THE DOG! Anyway what's on tap this week? Moderately light training week for me. Duathlon next sunday. My legs have been sluggish and I can't get my pedals to turn over fast enough - coach is looking ahead to the bigger races so this weekend will be interesting!! but again, it's only Monday. Happy belated mothers day!! back to work!

90 in CT?!  It hasn't been 90 in Raleigh yet this year (tomorrow though...)

Of course you need to have the A/C fixed for the dog.  Duh! 

Well, two problems that are connected.  1) There is water inside the screen (and unit) that seems to have affected the internals. 2) It's not connecting to anything Ant+.  So my peripherals don't work with it, and I can't sync it to the computer.  Which makes it pretty much useless for getting data off of it.

I did a hard reset for the unit, as well as having it in the sun to try to evaporate the water out of it.  So far it hasn't connected to anything Ant+ yet.

If it can't take water, that makes it a poor triathlon watch. But I could still use it as a running watch.

Other: I do have a 500 for the bike.  So I suppose in the short-term I could run with that, and then change the workout type once it gets into Garmin Connect. But I would like to have something I could use in the pool.  I was just about to sell the 310XT to fund a 910XT. But probably better I didn't sell a unit with problems.  But if I can get it fixed, I can still sell it on Craigslist with caveats.

that's great, congratulations!

Get a bag of rice, put it in a tupperware type container, put the 310XT in the container.  Close the container and leave it alone for a day or two.  If it comes back to life, do a hard reset and see how it goes. 

Please let us know if this brings the watch back to life or not.

Good, the 500 will work with any power meter that you end up getting.

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk WOW great day for Tom - congrats. Yanti - not so much :/ {{hugs}} AND it's Monday. Mondays blow. MY AC isn't working (first world problems) and it may hit 90 today. I'm working from home waiting for the garage repair guy (AC Repair is Wednesday). I have to get the AC fixed FOR THE DOG! Anyway what's on tap this week? Moderately light training week for me. Duathlon next sunday. My legs have been sluggish and I can't get my pedals to turn over fast enough - coach is looking ahead to the bigger races so this weekend will be interesting!! but again, it's only Monday. Happy belated mothers day!! back to work!

90 in CT?!  It hasn't been 90 in Raleigh yet this year (tomorrow though...)

Of course you need to have the A/C fixed for the dog.  Duh! 

I wish I could say it hasn't been 90 in Orlando, but my pants would catch on fire!  We had a couple days of spring like weather before jumping right back to summer weather.  It's going to be a long 6+ months!!   

The thing is that the watch works.  It catches a GPS signal and records a workout.  It just doesn't pick up the podometer, HR, or sync to a computer later.

But I can put it in some rice and see if the Ant+ chip comes back to life.

Master reset (brings you to setup menu)  and resetting up the devices does not work?

Correct.

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk WOW great day for Tom - congrats. Yanti - not so much :/ {{hugs}} AND it's Monday. Mondays blow. MY AC isn't working (first world problems) and it may hit 90 today. I'm working from home waiting for the garage repair guy (AC Repair is Wednesday). I have to get the AC fixed FOR THE DOG! Anyway what's on tap this week? Moderately light training week for me. Duathlon next sunday. My legs have been sluggish and I can't get my pedals to turn over fast enough - coach is looking ahead to the bigger races so this weekend will be interesting!! but again, it's only Monday. Happy belated mothers day!! back to work!

+1 for Tom!!  Way to go!!

Yanti, that run sounds completely miserable!!  Good on you for helping out a fellow racer and actually finishing, Ms. Lanterne Rouge!

My race on Wednesday has been cancelled due to a bunch of rain and several  inches of snow(!) over the weekend.  The RD said we'd be running with 5 lbs. of mud caked to our shoes due to all the moisture.  Can't say I'm overly disappointed.  I was kind of dreading the hard hills and I'm hurting a fair bit right now.

After thinking it over, I don't think my body can handle stepping up immediately to 3 double workouts a week.  This week, I'll do one B/S/B and see how it goes.  DH will have the car on Sunday so I'll take advantage of the good weather and ride to and from the rec center for my swim.  After this month, I'll have my Mondays free and I'll be able to go back to training 6 days a week for 8 weeks before the race.  Hopefully that'll be enough.

Originally posted by laffinrock

Originally posted by mtnbikerchk WOW great day for Tom - congrats. Yanti - not so much :/ {{hugs}} AND it's Monday. Mondays blow. MY AC isn't working (first world problems) and it may hit 90 today. I'm working from home waiting for the garage repair guy (AC Repair is Wednesday). I have to get the AC fixed FOR THE DOG! Anyway what's on tap this week? Moderately light training week for me. Duathlon next sunday. My legs have been sluggish and I can't get my pedals to turn over fast enough - coach is looking ahead to the bigger races so this weekend will be interesting!! but again, it's only Monday. Happy belated mothers day!! back to work!

+1 for Tom!!  Way to go!!

Yanti, that run sounds completely miserable!!  Good on you for helping out a fellow racer and actually finishing, Ms. Lanterne Rouge!

My race on Wednesday has been cancelled due to a bunch of rain and several  inches of snow(!) over the weekend.  The RD said we'd be running with 5 lbs. of mud caked to our shoes due to all the moisture.  Can't say I'm overly disappointed.  I was kind of dreading the hard hills and I'm hurting a fair bit right now.

After thinking it over, I don't think my body can handle stepping up immediately to 3 double workouts a week.  This week, I'll do one B/S/B and see how it goes.  DH will have the car on Sunday so I'll take advantage of the good weather and ride to and from the rec center for my swim.  After this month, I'll have my Mondays free and I'll be able to go back to training 6 days a week for 8 weeks before the race.  Hopefully that'll be enough.

Springtime in the Rockies . Talked to my mother yesterday and she was having to cover her garden. 

I did the ABQ Brew Dash with DH and DS1 and some friends on Saturday and had a blast.  DH and I cruised at his pace then had beer with the others.  It was nice to get the legs moving in such a casual event.  DS1 busted out a mile in under 10 min so he was pretty stoked about that.

DS2 couldn't get away to call me yesterday but he did post of FB