Manatees - 2018 Edition Now CLOSED (Page 58)

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by cdban66

Hello all, I hope all is well and that the racers and riders had a great weekend. We have returned back to reality and it is not nearly as much fun as vacation time.  Shocker, right?  Hopefully the next couple of days afford me some time to check in on everyone and see how things are going.

Welcome back Chris. It looked like you had a great time. I am an advocate for a slow return to work after holidays. My preference is that for every week off you had you get a half day - so two weeks off means your first two days back are half days. My theory is you have to ease yourself back into the stupidity

I like this idea. 

I don't know what the official rain tally is, but i'm pretty sure i'm growing mold. On me!  We may have a few days of partial sun, then the weekend is back to lots of rain

Here too. After about 24-hours of no rain, we had flooding in Raleigh overnight complete with sinkholes.

The next week is not looking a lot drier. :-(

Ditto here, too.  It only rained part of the day Sunday and we saw the sun for the first time in about a week.  Yesterday was rain-free until the evening, now today is back to rain, rain, rain.  At the moment it looks like Wed, Thur, Fri have some sun in the picture but the weekend + early next week is soggy again.  Hang in there, better weather is surely coming!

Sinkholes are scary! We had some open up at one of the big retirement communities north of here. 

Thread re: workouts not uploading to BT

https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=551306

Feel free to chime in!

Both.

I just popped in to our thread to see if anyone else was experiencing problems so thanks for adding this, Janyne!  I did make mention of the issue on that thread.

Interesting.  Do you use the HR on both bike and run or just bike?

Yeah, well, apparently the site's users are the monitoring tool that BT employs.

I know that they get mad when I say something *should* work. Honestly, though, if they want people to stay on the site and use the logging tools, they need to make that happen. The less it works, the fewer people they will have.

I use it for both. Honestly, it doesn't bother me on the bike. The issues that I have with it are for the run but my power meter doesn't help me there ;-)

And yes, I know running power meters exist but I'm not sure they allow you to ditch your chest strap.

i have tried to use HR stuff before and end up just ignoring it! And the strap is annoying as @#$% .  But, this morning i was discussing my soon to be (hopefully Garmin will ship as expected) PM with the guy who runs the vision quest cycling workouts and he mentioned that he uses power, heart rate and cadence as his metrics when riding. The power and heart rate being the more important ones. We had a discussion about it and i am now questioning whether i need to add heart rate while on the bike. I refuse to use it on my runs!!! Of course, i could just go out and swim, bike, and run; but then I wouldn't have to spend all the $$   

Funny you should ask... I just ordered one!  Decided to take advantage of clever training's' sale and generous return policy and try it out to see if i like it.

Yup, me!  I am a full convert.  The chest strap caused a horrible rash (yes I kept it clean, yes I washed it, blah blah blah it's my sensitive skin, trust me) so I needed some other solution.  The Scosche arm band is great!  I have the 'old' version but just ordered the 'new' version (which is on backorder or delayed shipment or something).  Ordered the new one only because of improved features such as battery life indicator plus waterproofness up to 3 meters.

 I am happy to read that you are a fan of the Scoshe! I considered the newer version, but it looks like there is no time frame for when the product will be available and i want to get started with this new newfangled   heart rate thing this weekend . Also since i don't plan on using it while swimming, I decided I could save a few dollars and go with the less cool one!