Manatee Mentors 2014 v.2 thread2 CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 61)

Wow, we've been a talky pod this Monday morning!!

Mary:  Nice shoes!! I loved my Hokas when I was wearing them 1.5-2 years ago.  They were the only shoe that let me run without pain while I was dealing with a case of capsilitis.  But then they went and changed them and they stopped fitting me the way I like  Now, I'm a big fan of Zoot running shoes.

Stacey: I hate meetings like that!!  On the plus side, you have finished day 1 of your Oly training plan.  Who cares if it called for a swim and you biked; you worked out, so yay!!

Chris:  How's Anne enjoying training?  

Yanti:  WTF???!!!  How does one do that much damage to one's teeth while swimming?? Did you swim into something?  Did someone smack you with a board on the back of the head??

Janyne:  How does your shoulder feel?  Thanks for the pro tip on skirts.  Now, do you have any tips for putting on shirts and blow drying hair??

On a completely random note, about 2 months ago I stopped getting email notifications of postings to the forum.  Don't know why.  Today, I got 1 notification.  Of course, there were about 10 posts, but at least I got one!!!  I guess BT is slowly forgiving me for whatever wrong I did to hurt its feelings!!   

Yanti, I'm trying to figure out how the heck you did so much damage to your teeth .  Did you run into the pool wall or were you pretending to be a great white and chomped on a kayak?

The only discomfort is where the skin was scraped off (maybe the size of two Eisenhower silver dollars). I haven't "tested" it. I'm beeing a good patient and also the thought of it dislocating again...

Regarding shirts - tee shirt style is best.  Easy to put on and handles the sling well.

Glad you are behaving and not in too much discomfort.  Interesting on the t-shirt.  Are you able to raise your arm?  I won't be allowed to for a few weeks, so that kind of stymies me as most my shirts have to be put on that way!!

yeah, good job 

I am not supposed to raise my arm. I can put it straight in front of me (for t-shirt: bad arm out, shove it in, pull it over your head). Deodorant is more difficult than the shirt.

I am not to put my arm behind my back either. I wear the sling except when showering or changing cloths.

Actually, aside from the bill, the worst thing is trying to schedule about 12 hours of dental work into an already overstuffed schedule (as you saw) that also fits short-notice into my dentist's schedule. It also involves changing a bunch of flights--sometimes flying into a place around midnight and flying back out very early next morning. And I've got one more Jakarta lay-over to schedule in ... need to do another fire and hire. Fortunately it's all lined up, but I gotta talk to the people and sign the paperwork.

You see, there was this piglet ...

Nah, I'm just special. Verrry special. Actually, it's all Sheila's (Taormina) fault. Water horrors usually are. I can't wait to tell her about this one ... I was trying to count my strokes as instructed (in backstroke, which I hate and suck at the way most nonswimmers hate and suck at swimming) AND sprint AND focus on the upcoming backstroke-to-breaststroke turn (which is a beast anyway and different than any other turn in swimming) ... between all that, my special powers, and that we have no lane ropes (never mind color-sectioned), backstroke flags, or black lines on the bottom ... smoosh.

Aside from the $$$ and the scheduling aggravation, honestly, I'd still rather have what I got. Shoulders are core and anything core that gets fached just messes with EVERYTHING. Suckage. I've also trained nearly right up to an IM (two, actually) and then not been able to go at all. Serious suckage.

More gingerly healing {MELON PRESS}

Hey, so what's deodorant? :P

Da-yum people!!! Enough of the crashiness mkay? Who's going to be left to represent us at races if everyone keeps breaking stuff?!

Between racing/training and spending most of Saturday and Sunday communicating with my AUSA i feel like there wasn't much of a weekend in there! Good thing this is a short week!

I don't know, 2 bike crashes and 1 swim crash (really Yanti, did you have to go an one-up the bike crashers??) I'm in pretty tough competition, but I still think I get to claim the stupidest injury award with locking up my neck muscles while DRYING MY HAIR.  

You and me!!  And you twice this next weekend - you're hard-core, woman.

So, Yanti, I am not sure how I missed reading about your sister's accident.  Glad it wasn't worse and I hope her knee if feeling better.  And now I hope your teef are feeling better.  

My race yesterday went well for me.  Unfortunately a friend hit a car (yes, you read that correctly).  She is relatively new to cycling, not-closed course, wrong gear up a hill, weaving.  The car should have given way, but they both ended up trying to be in the same place at the same time.  She is fine, just some brusing and road rash.  She got back on, finished the bike, then went out on the run, despite being obviously shaken.  She is hard core.  She finishes, and I ask the announcers where first aid is.  "Uh, should be up by the white tents.  I saw a St. John's Ambulance guy walking around".  Go up to the white tents, don't see anything.  Spot the race director and ask him.  "Oh, they left on me.  Sorry."  Ummmmmm, what?  There are still Olympic athletes out on the course, and you have no first aid?  WTF.  No offer of a "I've got a first aid kit, hold on", or anything.  There were other issues as well; I will not do another race with this company.  It's unfortunate because 1. they used to put on good races and 2. Cultus lake is a beautiful venue.

ETA:  Race Report

I was shocked when I read about all of the issues listed in your RR. Unbelievable! Albuquerque has a large filming industry so the film set medics are often the ones hired to be at races. At the kids race Saturday (after the adult race so it was warmer) there was a boy who passed out. The medics were at the start/finish so they got to him quickly.

Shortly after I asked, I heard the announcers calling for first aid/an ambulance to the finish line 'immediately'.  Then I saw the RD on his phone, presumably to 911.  It think it was a spectator, not an athlete, but still.

Not at all! It was a conversation I'd been wanting to have with you all. It's hard to have a plan and doesn't make much sense to have a coach if I don't know what my goals are. I told DH over the weekend, I'm still kicking around the idea of IMAZ but am afraid of the commitment.

I am racing (running) regardless of injury.  In fact, I'll race a HM 4 days before surgery.  At least that's the current plan.  To hell with injuries!!!

Hey, I'm still racing this weekend! And next! No way I'm missing the Monkey Zone just 'cause of some busted teeth. Besides, they'll be fixed (enough) by then.

The 10K swim lake is really something. Other than being gobsmackingly gorgeous as most caldera lakes are ... it's enormous, the biggest in the world (Toba is actually a supervolcano) at ~ 60mi x 20mi and 500m deep.

Lot of distinct languages and cultures around (those are just normal houses!), including on the island in the middle.

Although Toba's still active, it last exploded about 75,000 years ago. It's hypothesized that the ensuing ice age (and darkness) killed all but about 15,000 early humans, from which we are all descended.

Man-atees ... we're all the same, really

That does take talent!!

Your friend is tough!!  The RD is an idiot!

Wow, that is gorgeous!!

All of a sudden I don't feel so "special" anymore not sure whether those are tears of laughter or sorrow, though ... AAAAH {TANGEMELONS SNUGGLES} to the fellow gimpies.

After your post I looked in to this. There is a trainer near home. She doesn't have a web site but I plan to email her.