MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--CLOSED!
BY: TriAya on 2010-12-21 10:17 AM

*WE ARE AVAILABLE TO MENTOR IMMEDIATELY, YUP, RIGHT THROUGH THE HOLIDAY MADNESS*

Welcome to Yanti and Lynn's Manatees! We're all mentors and 'mentees' but 'Manatees' sounds more fun!

You are welcome in this group no matter how preliminary or advanced your ability and goals are in triathlon or endurance sports. Just to establish our street (and pool?) cred, though, we’ve done a bunch of triathlons/multisport and distance running events, have lost a ton of weight during our journeys, and have manatee'd (mentored) for practically ever.

Yanti

Growing up in Indonesia, I swam with the national and my high school team. In the U.S, I coached/competed in martial arts at the world level, but became sedentary after an injury. Fast forward … a student suckered me into doing a charity marathon—before long I learned how to ride a bike and picked swimming back up! After 15 years in the States, I've now moved back to Indonesia, to the paradise island Bali, where I've started a triathlon club and will be taking Indonesian triathletes into official international competition for the first time in May.

I’ve been lucky enough to do races in many different countries. I’ve lost ~140 lbs since becoming active again. My personal training goals are modest as I'm coming off a devastating illness that affected my joints, but my focus this year is getting other people to their various starting and finish lines, whatever those may be.

Personal: I'm 34, delightfully single, have a black Lab who's smarter than I am and has trained my two insane cats to be that way, too.

Lynn

I've done 1 iron-distance aquabike, 2 half-irons, 3 marathons, 6 half-marathons and a few gazillion other tris. I've always been active, but having a family meant I neglected exercise at times. About 9 years ago I realized I couldn't wear any clothes in my closet anymore, so I joined a weight loss program, dropped 30 pounds and kept it off. It's really been a lifestyle change and the activity component is one among many parts to me staying healthy.

I did my first 5K 4 years ago only because I knew I could walk if I couldn't run it all. That's the way I approached my first 1/2 marathon as well--but I didn't walk in either, btw!

I started doing triathlon in 2008 after a friend died of breast cancer. I realized life could be short, so I did the BT beginner sprint tri program and then the triathlon, survived, and was hooked! I've researched and read as much as I can about tris and the swim, bike, run. I'd like to pass on anything that might be helpful to someone wanting to embrace the s/b/r lifestyle or any part of it.

Personal: I'm married, am 50 (yikes! ha ha) and have a teenage son who's a sophomore in high school, a dog, Augie, who's kinda nutty and 3 kitties (now 1 and two years old).

It's never too late to tri --- It's never too late to be who you might have been either. I look forward to sharing your journey with you.

Edited by TriAya 2010-12-22 10:04 PM

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: crews on 2010-12-22 1:44 PM

Ohhh, me me me, pick me.   Can I be a MAD MANATEE???  I have a half mary, 3 sprints and an oly on my wish list this year.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people think you cannot do.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: Airshooter on 2010-12-22 1:50 PM

Hi, I would like to join your group if there is room.

I have been into fitness always, I think. I really enjoy running which is where it all began in high school. I started biking a 20 years ago as a way to cross train due to some overuse injuries. Duathlons have been a part of my summers for the past 15 years in between the running events.

I have had this goal to do Tris for the last 10 years but have never been comfortable in the water. I consider myself a beginning swimmer that gets winded in 25 meters with a bad technique and usually end up in a back stroke just to make it that far. My kids are all off to college and I guess I have extra time on my hands and set a goal to do: sprint distance this year, olympic distance next year and Ironman when I turn 50.
Any advice is appreciated. This is going to be fun.

Thank you, Floyd

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: TriAya on 2010-12-22 1:52 PM



Carla dear, I suspect you are not quite 'mad' enough--but then I read your sig line and I know, as I have known for long, that mad manateehood is your destiny.

Welcome back to the pod. High flipper.
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Coach Y Tri Multisport
~ Ironman(R) Certified Coach, Founding Member
~ World Open Water Swimming Association Coach & Official
~ Triathlon Australia Professional Development Coach
~ American Swimming Coaches Association

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: Galwegian on 2010-12-22 1:56 PM

Hi there,

I think Manatee is quite apt for me until I learn to front crawl properly! You welcomed me to the site a couple of weeks ago but I'll recap.

I've got one sprint tri under my belt from September and I've got my eyes set on another one in April, a few weeks before my first baby's due. I'll just have to play it by ear after that; I've lightly pencilled in a few in August/September but we'll have to see.

In the meantime I'll form a training plan and get started...  Catch you soon

Niall

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: TriAya on 2010-12-22 1:59 PM



Oh hi again Floyd! yeah, it would be great to have you. Manatees, they look funny but they sure can swim.

here's a good swimming thread for you to ponder, with good resources on it, to hold you over for swim work until after the new year when you get coaching ... [blast, i can't link it, you'll have to cut and paste]

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=3109364;sb=post_latest_... />
it was written by gary hall, sr ... u.s. olympic swimmer extraordinaire as is also his son, gary hall jr.

gary sr. also posts here on BT
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Coach Y Tri Multisport
~ Ironman(R) Certified Coach, Founding Member
~ World Open Water Swimming Association Coach & Official
~ Triathlon Australia Professional Development Coach
~ American Swimming Coaches Association

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: A Little Madness on 2010-12-22 2:00 PM

Hi Yanti and Lynn,

I'd love to be a Manatee. I'm already a little mad(ness). I've been around awhile but have yet to enter a tri.

I have some anxiety issues around the bike (speed, riding in traffic, going downhill) that I tell myself are really minor and I'm working on! I losing weight slowly and have probably 40 lbs. to go. A couple seasons back I could do all the distances, but I've regressed since then.

I'm starting back on the couch to 5k in the New Year. I use the exercise bike here at home. And I've located a Master's group for swimming. There's an indoor tri in March I want to do--actually the swim is in the pool, the bike on trainers, but the run is outdoors. I believe I'll be ready for that. Then during the summer I want to complete a regular sprint.

I don't have a background in anything. I'm your basic overweight middle-aged nonathlete. I did join a softball team last summer and had a wonderful time. I irregularly play some really basic tennis. I'm working on consistency with yoga and strength training.

Especially after the softball, which was all new to me, I really feel this is my year for a tri and would love to be a member of your group.
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Mary
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A little Madness in the Spring is wholesome.--Emily Dickinson
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In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing dai

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: TriAya on 2010-12-22 2:01 PM



lovely to have you, niall! galway if i remember?

by the way, the training plans here on BT are great and customizable--ask if you want to know more about some of the paid plans.
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Coach Y Tri Multisport
~ Ironman(R) Certified Coach, Founding Member
~ World Open Water Swimming Association Coach & Official
~ Triathlon Australia Professional Development Coach
~ American Swimming Coaches Association

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: TriAya on 2010-12-22 2:08 PM



well clearly you have the perfect name for this group then

great job working on your bike issues. also, slow steady weight loss is the way to go. honestly, i'd almost say the slower the better. just personally i've found it much more lasting that way and also ... you don't get weird skin issues like you can if you lose a lot of weight fast.

indoor tri sounds great

i've been doing a lot of research lately on masters athletes and fitness (basically age 30-35 and up)--inspired by this amazing ironman champ who came to speak for our little tri club--and while yoga and strength training may not contribute directly to tri speed per se, the flexibility, stability, muscle mass retention, bone density retention you are likely to get will keep you in so much better fitness-health-youthishness (ha) overall, and that certainly will have an effect on any exercise, activity, sport, etc. you do.

we do. dagnabbit i keep forgetting i'm in my mid-30s, i think i got stuck at 19 or so.
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Coach Y Tri Multisport
~ Ironman(R) Certified Coach, Founding Member
~ World Open Water Swimming Association Coach & Official
~ Triathlon Australia Professional Development Coach
~ American Swimming Coaches Association

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: crews on 2010-12-22 2:43 PM



YaY!  Thanks!  So, a little about me...hmmmm let's see.  I'm 33, been married for 8 years and have a 6 year old son, 2 dogs and a cat. 

I added tris to my bucket list on my 30th birthday.  The next year I did 3 sprints, the year after that I only did one, but last year I knocked down a full mary and a hand full of metric century rides.  Swimming I can do, but to do laps will drive me batty.  I do some open water swimming during the summer, but I've found a tri training group in town and hope to much more ows in the spring.

My plan this year is to do at least 3 tris  -2 sprints and an oly-  along with a half mary.  I have lots of weight that is available for loss, but it just won't leave.  I'm going to work a little harder this next year on speed, so I'm hoping the extra efforts will increase fitness using some of the extra poundage as fuel.

Looking foward to another year of multi-sporting!
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people think you cannot do.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

RE: MAD MANATEE Mentor Group (TriAya & lmscozz)--OPEN
BY: tri_ryan on 2010-12-22 3:21 PM

Can I join?

I am going on my 4th year of triathlons.  The last couple of years I stuck with Olympics and did a half-ironman last year.  This year's race schedule I have a half-ironman, sprint tri and IM Wisconsin.

I am 33 years old and married with no kids yet.  My wife is full time in school right now so I have the time to train.  I am on the bigger side and working to drop at least 20 pounds before Ironman Wisconsin because being big and doing all those hills will take a lot away from my run.