More Manatee Mayhem - 2017 Edition - Closed (Page 9)

Welcome back, Jim! I'm glad that you found us :-D

How is Michelle doing these days?  Continuing to recover well?

Regarding races, when is the Sunrise Side Tri this year?  Are you doing Alcatraz or taking a pass on it due to an abundance of gradating Bacarellas?

I'm the guy who forgets why he went to the pantry in the first place. 

Jim, it's great to hear that Michelle is doing better.

I've heard that Alcatraz is great and crazy and scary and quite spendy for an event of that distance.

What law schools is eldest looking at?  Anything in my area? ;-)

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INFO FOR NEW AND RETURNING MANATEES

If you haven't figured it out, we talk a lot. :-)  Fasten your seatbelts!  Also, we tend to be an inspiring bunch (as in, we use the "inspire" feature of the site a lot).  If you are not familiar with inspires, note that you can reply to them by clicking Reply.  This pops out a new window for you to type your response so that the original poster can see it. Please try acknowledge inspires, at least occasionally!  They can really help us to get to know each other.

Most of us use the training log on the site (It's required: "Keeping up your training log here on BT and opening it to other group members is mandatory.").  This makes it a lot easier for us to help each other when training questions come up.   Here's a few shorts article on training logs:  http://running.competitor.com/2013/12/training/why-you-should-keep-... http://www.active.com/triathlon/articles/10-reasons-to-keep-a-train... If you're not going to log or blog or whatever here on BT, please put a link to your training log in your BT Dashboard.

If you list your upcoming races and events on your training log  -- by adding to My Races or listing them in Dashboard.

We have a Bike Gallery as well.  Post a picture of your racing steed and draw Chris' attention to it.  He'll get you added.

We have a Strava group.  Let Chris or Janyne know and we can add you.

We also have a TrainerRoad group that Darren manages for us.  (Darren has said that he will be joining us but I have not seen him around this thread yet.)

Oh, we're on Twitter too.  Janyne manages a Twitter list -- Order of the Racing Manatee

Please be active!  Inactive Manatees make us sad!

@Janyne - looks like you're in for a mell of a hess tonight and tomorrow.  Might be one of those years where VA and NC get the most snow.  We're just supposed to get 1-2 inches...enough to create a commute disaster but nothing to worry about. 

That's what they say.  They do not have a good history of being able to predict snow accumulation with any kind of accuracy.  Right now they are saying 3-6 inches and "maybe more" starting on Friday night and ending sometime on Saturday.  That should make Saturday's run somewhat interesting. 

We do have a winter storm watch in effect for that time.

Oh noooooooo! I just realized I double-booked myself over top of my favorite early season sprint!  I signed up for the Flying Pig HIM in Cincinnati before they posted the day, and when I check yesterday I realized there was a conflict.

Oh well, I might have picked the HIM anyway, but it stinks there is a conflict.  I love that little race.  It's great to see all the locals again after winter hibernation.

Sounds good.  I've also run a 7:00 pace before in sprints.  Would love to crack into the next level.

ACK!  So many races, so little time!

Is Flyihng Pig a half ironman or a half marathon?

Ditto for me.

I contacted Darren about the TrainerRoad situation.  I'm not much help since I don't have a subscription :-/

Originally posted by Rileyvb91 I love the freezing cold of winter, I think I should get ready for my first OWS of the year Really it's nice training after dealing with being sick way too much and boy I gotta whip myself back in shape!

I'm glad that you're back to training!

The Daniels plan doesn't advocate lots of hard running - it has very strict limits on how much to do at faster paces, like 10% of mileage at tempo, 8% at VO2 max and 5% "speed" in a given week - the rest is all slow running.  And like Sean mentioned, the first six weeks are just about all slow miles minus some strides.

Agree with Ben above, maybe the more general year-long plans would be better.  You could also just scale down the other ones and keep to the limits I just listed.

Originally posted by Rileyvb91

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by Rileyvb91 I love the freezing cold of winter, I think I should get ready for my first OWS of the year Really it's nice training after dealing with being sick way too much and boy I gotta whip myself back in shape!

I'm glad that you're back to training!

Some nasty flu has been going around, got thoroughly knocked down for awhile o.0

I am so glad I work out of the house - it keeps me away from like 80% of those nasty illnesses that people drag into the workplace.  I just get the kid stuff from my daughter.

Yeah, those percentages are important, and shows where this does take some more reading comprehension to work with these. Don't think it's a lot though. Just more than simply plugging something in or having every single day spelled out for you. Some parts are detailed, but others are more guidelines you have to put together. So it's really great for flexibility. For one I was following before, I calculated around to a minimum of ~50 mpw in order to do all 3 hard workouts as written. And what this means is more for 50 to be fairly normal. Think I saw Sean had done 50 in 3 of the last 4 weeks. This is where the initial 6 weeks of easy would come in. Near the end of this month is when he might start to get going on Phase 2, where the harder work starts in. You're not really building to 50+ in those 6 weeks, you're making sure that 50 is normal. Someone like Adrienne may be able to build back up in that time frame, but she also runs like 3,000 miles a year which averages over 50 per week for the entire year. That's peak miles for the rest of us.

And do keep in mind that not making that mileage doesn't mean to scrap the plan entirely. Just to adjust things to make it work within the guidelines. So here would be dropping off entire hard workouts and/or shortening them up to more appropriate amounts. Do note that doesn't say to slow the pace down on them.

Originally posted by Rileyvb91

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

Originally posted by Rileyvb91

Originally posted by jmkizer

Originally posted by Rileyvb91 I love the freezing cold of winter, I think I should get ready for my first OWS of the year Really it's nice training after dealing with being sick way too much and boy I gotta whip myself back in shape!

I'm glad that you're back to training!

Some nasty flu has been going around, got thoroughly knocked down for awhile o.0

I am so glad I work out of the house - it keeps me away from like 80% of those nasty illnesses that people drag into the workplace.  I just get the kid stuff from my daughter.

My girlfriend caught it from one of her daycare kids, parents really love bringing their sick kids in for some reason o.0 I always say get outside in the cold, your body will thank you by not getting terribly sick haha!

It's not the cold you get sick from, but that others are staying indoors and therefore closer in proximity to each other thereby increasing the transfer potential.

I also didn't used to get sick until my sister had kids.