Manatees Dooo Eeeet!!! (Page 7)

Loving my new home and neighborhood! It took me a few months, but I finally figured out how to connect to the greenway system (8-10 miles of paved greenway alongside a creek) right in my neighborhood. I didn't even know how close it was when I decided to move here! A nice surprise. 

Also, little things like actually having a garage, a coat closet, a utility closet and room for storage makes me so happy. I knew I was cramped in my previous situation, but having just that little bit more space is so nice. And the fenced in back yard is CLUTCH for the weiner

I suspect that Chris intended for all of them to have today's date. Chris, could you please confirm?

Jason, you need to work the system a bit.  The leader board only tracks swim, bike, run activities.  Mark you walks as runs to have the time count toward he leaderboard (leave them alone in BT and Garmin and elsewhere if you like). If you mark them as "runs" in Strava, it will "count" on the leader board.

Good stuff!

All dates have been update to reflect Friday, 01/15 as the start date, although now that I think about it, I might have some sheets doing 5 week calculations while others are doing 6 week. I'll have to get back on it and make sure it is all good. Either way, please take a moment to make your decisions and get your name on the sheet if you are participating. I'll be reviewing on Thursday, those that are doing the weight challenge can get weighed in on Friday to start and we will be off to the races. Virtually. Sor of racing, but not really LOL.

Thanks!  I feel like making posters!

JOGO 2021 Begins January 15

I checked mine this morning. Thanks for the reminder!

I found something in late September in Kentucky, the Bourbon Country Burn. A few of my local gravel gruppeto are considering it, but it is probably not going to happen. So, my late summer is open. Late summer by Fl. standards. My arm could be twisted to tow the camper and stay for a bit of MTB in the WNC area as well.

Start date. Get goals in place, starting weight, etc. First week ends on 01/22 when we update the sheets and Janyne gives me a hard time for picking an easy goal 

And she should!

Definitely keep a WNC trip in mind!

haha! I still think that you need an elevation goal.  And no, 10 feet/week is not sufficient.

I am moving away from a concrete weight loss one (i am up about 10lbs since i had my second kid but it's still not an unhealthy weight for me) and focusing more on process goal of increasing fruits/veg. This I feel is better for me - as i keep reading about how this is positive overall for health, fuelling, etc. 

I really liked how Laura Vanderkam frames process goals. https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/12/celebrate-your-good-habits/

And i have also really enjoyed following the Nutrition Tea for some gut checks about health and diet culture https://www.instagram.com/thenutritiontea/ 

Jen and Karen, I am with you this year, which is a change for me. In the past I would set a numeric weight goal and hit it without too much trouble, but the next thing you know, the challenge is over and the weight is back on. So, the process has become more important. For you it is about your intake, for me, that is all about movement. If I am moving more, riding the bike and generally being more active, my weight drops and my emotional well being improves. So, I am setting that as my short term goal for the next month and a half. 4 rides/5hours on the bike per week. At the end of JoGo this year, I have promised myself that I will take an honest assessment. At that point, I will adjust some goals and see how events look and make more decisions on the direction for the year. Or maybe for the next month, if that is how it breaks down. I hope to set the base to be a little more able to choose events/rides on the fly. If something comes up, I don't want a lack of fitness to be the deciding factor. 

And then another part of this is the age/weight/food intake part. I have ALWAYS eaten too much of the wrong foods. Home office life has increased that. And that plays a part in all this as well. So another piece of this is to keep tabs on the food, not necessarily remove things from my diet, but assess what I feel like. How do I feel after adding more fruits? How do I feel with less red meat? It is all a bit intangible, but my effort will be to get more in tune to the cause and effect of it all. Both from a body standpoint and an emotional/mental standpoint.

Personally, I am keeping my fingers crossed that he doesn't start to bike or swim! 

LOL, he does swim but I don't so he gets no credit! Biking's a bit more of a challenge

So with you Chris, i definitely struggle when i feel like there is deprivation. So for me it's about changing my mentality about making room for the nutritious stuff and making sure that no food is actually off limits helps me a lot. 

Let's do this ... 

On a sillier front - i definitely have a 'fancy' cyclist problem at my house. My husband has a Tacx Neo trainer and i have Saris Hammer - we are definitely fortunate to have two smart trainers and we use the same tablet to run Zwift and if i am not careful, it picks up the Tacx sensors instead of the Saris - and it is 3 of them on that main page of Zwift. I did it last night where I changed one sensor thinking the others automatically did but the other two didn't and then erg mode wasn't working properly so i had to stop, re-pair the sensor and start again. 

anybody else got 'fancy' problems?