Manatees Roar into the 20s! CLOSED (Page 82)

Yeah, the Triangle Aquatics Center (TAC) in Cary is opened for club members only, limited to 25 total (this does not make sense because it's inside and the indoor legal limit is 10? but I heard 25) with social distancing. The club "members" include the swim teams and masters swim. 

The Ys in my area are opening their outdoor pools this weekend (indoor pools remain closed).  Mask use with outside of the water.

Durham city pools are not opening at all this year.

I have not heard anything about Raleigh city pools.

Yeah, that was sad news about ECU cutting athletics. Appalachian as well.

Our gym is opened with limited hours.  I used to try to swim over my lunch break on Tuesdays and Thursday since the was the best way to train without having it cut into time with my family.  I would have like to geo every day but there are aqua fitness and water aerobics in the pool about three times a day including the 5:30AM time in the morning, Mon/Wed/Friday at noon, and 5:30 PM every day.  The current limited hours are 6-9AM and 5-8PM and there are no classed untill further notice. 

We have been short-staffed at work for over a year.  When we were fully staffed leaving for a swim at lunch was not a problem, but when we lost two of the five people in our departments I started working through most lunches as well as staying late most evenings.  Well...thanks to the economy going through he floor with the Covid-19 shutdowns and being an oilfield supply company that took a double whammy with oil prices hit historic lows we had 30% of our company laid off two weeks ago.  They shut down the second shift so our facility is now locked up at 5:00 PM every night so I can't stay late.  So... Corvid-19 took care of the pool not being available at prime times do to aqua classes and oil prices took care of me staying late at the office every night, so I have been swimming at 5:00 PM every night for a week.  Previous to the past week I only had got one swim in since my last triathlon last September.  I have just been doing 15-20 minute power swims every night so I can still make it home by 6PM.  I will build though.  I could do about 30-35 minute swims over my hour lunch break I will get up to that again soon and try to find a way to get up to hour-long swims after that.  Everything on my race calendar right now is a duathlon, but after 8 months off from swimming, I am going to really try to make a habit stick over the next 5 weeks.

That video was weird. From FB discussions in my social bubble, most people seemed to zero in on the emphasis on hydration vests and are all going out to buy them now LOL. 

Agreed, it's not even the triathlon itself. It's the travel, hotel, etc. In fact, a small, local tri could work for me this year. A small local run could work as well.

Happy Monday! I will not be able to meet today but feel free to Zoom without me.

Manatee Meetup at 11:30 eastern (10:30 central, 9:30 mountain, 8:30 pacific, etc.)

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Password manatee (all lowercase)

No more using races as catered training events!

My ( City) pool opened this morning. Weird thing is they made the announcement that 6 of the 9 pools would open with changes, but didn’t say which pools are what changes ! Information was to call or email before going. So, I drove past my pool on my way to SBUX and when I saw people swimming, stopped and got the information. I have no idea how those swimming knew the it was opened! Rules are 1 per lane, 40 minute max swim if someone is waiting, first come first served, in through office for check-in, out from pool gate.  Same swim times for lap swimming, except they expanded the late morning time. So, I may get my controlled drowning on this morning!

if I’m not swimming I’ll check in!

I have another meeting but I hope you are all well! 

I just signed up for a membership to swim outdoors outside of the city - yes, Toronto is on a large lake that is indeed swimmable but there are some challenges with that. But a tri club about 45-mins outside of the city has an old quarry that has been re-purposed for tri swimming. I've used it periodically in the past. It's a great set up with 400 and 800m loops marked. And they have seriously updated it since I last went. Including a family membership and an area for kids to play. Which is awesome. I have been worried about my kids keeping up swimming (so far no pools are open here and beaches are still too cold) - i know it's a small thing but i have spent much time getting them going and to me it's a pretty important life skill - so i am happy we can have this. 

The water is still gonna be really cold but will plan to get there in the near future. But i gotta dig out my wetsuit first. Yikes! 

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I was able to book the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown for next May's Chattanooga 70.3.

Thanks for the reminders, I just booked there, too.

yep! you pay threw the nose to be close to transition. if you don't mind driving, there are much more reasonable hotels a bit farther out.

Yes, the hotel is even more $$$ than it would have been this year but it's walking distance to all the things.  We could literally not move the car at all of the weekend and I view that as a bonus. 

Kevin will move the car to haul is mtb to the trails by the VW plant but there are also mtb trails that are riding distance from the hotel -- he usually rides on those trails on race day so that he does not add to race day traffic.