Mad Manatee Mentors CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 62)

Originally posted by msteiner

Hope all the racers killed it last weekend.

Finished stage 3 of ToS this morning.  It's gonna be a long week.

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Two sick littles, one on the upswing and one going south. I need to open all the windows for some fresh air. They think watching Hook and playing Skip-Bo will help them feel better. Hmmmm...fingers crossed as I test their theory.

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Two sick littles, one on the upswing and one going south. I need to open all the windows for some fresh air. They think watching Hook and playing Skip-Bo will help them feel better. Hmmmm...fingers crossed as I test their theory.

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Two sick littles, one on the upswing and one going south. I need to open all the windows for some fresh air. They think watching Hook and playing Skip-Bo will help them feel better. Hmmmm...fingers crossed as I test their theory.

Originally posted by melbo55

Hey, manatees!  Weekend wrap-up, Reader's Digest style! 

Sat: 5" of wet, heavy snow.  Shoveling our house and Dad's. 6 mile run.  Lunch with Dad.  Ice hockey (playing).  We won!  

Sun: Doing mountains of wash.  Lunch with Dad.  Biking on the drainer while watching NHL All-Star game. 

Today: Woke up to more snow, at least it was only 3" and it was light and fluffy.  More snow expected later today/tonight which could get dicey with the wind/drifting, but nothing like NYC and areas east of me.  I haven't looked at the map, but I'd expect Randee is going to get blasted.  Dad gets his platelets rechecked - he was critically low on Thurs and needed a platelet transfusion (no chemo given, obviously).

Also, I'm down to hardly any temporary filling in my problem bicuspid. 3 pieces fell out over 4 days, so I'm on a very careful diet of soft foods that I can eat with only the left side of my mouth.

Originally posted by melbo55

Hey, manatees!  Weekend wrap-up, Reader's Digest style! 

Sat: 5" of wet, heavy snow.  Shoveling our house and Dad's. 6 mile run.  Lunch with Dad.  Ice hockey (playing).  We won!  

Sun: Doing mountains of wash.  Lunch with Dad.  Biking on the drainer while watching NHL All-Star game. 

Today: Woke up to more snow, at least it was only 3" and it was light and fluffy.  More snow expected later today/tonight which could get dicey with the wind/drifting, but nothing like NYC and areas east of me.  I haven't looked at the map, but I'd expect Randee is going to get blasted.  Dad gets his platelets rechecked - he was critically low on Thurs and needed a platelet transfusion (no chemo given, obviously).

Also, I'm down to hardly any temporary filling in my problem bicuspid. 3 pieces fell out over 4 days, so I'm on a very careful diet of soft foods that I can eat with only the left side of my mouth.

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Ah man, positive thoughts on the not so good stuff and congrats on the hockey game! 

Originally posted by jobaxas Happy Straya Day to those over in Straya! Traditional Australia Day swim for me - was a little nervous as I haven't been swim training and last year I struggled with my broken wrist injury. Anyway conditions were hideous, cold windy choppy and filthy water. Never got any space, the waves behind were swimming all over us today - maybe they left less of a gap not sure. BUT all of those distractions meant i never freaked out! Loved it, I finally feel like the fitness is coming back. Been running lots too. Just got to win the stare down with my bike….

Originally posted by Asalzwed

We made it to the summit. It was an incredible amount of work carrying my board and gear whilst hiking in snowboard boots (NOT ideal) but my run down was EPIC. You can see my track down the glacier and into the snow field. 

 

And here are Rainier, Adams and Hood, respectively from the crater's rim

 

 

Originally posted by melbo55

Hey, manatees!  Weekend wrap-up, Reader's Digest style! 

Sat: 5" of wet, heavy snow.  Shoveling our house and Dad's. 6 mile run.  Lunch with Dad.  Ice hockey (playing).  We won!  

Sun: Doing mountains of wash.  Lunch with Dad.  Biking on the drainer while watching NHL All-Star game. 

Today: Woke up to more snow, at least it was only 3" and it was light and fluffy.  More snow expected later today/tonight which could get dicey with the wind/drifting, but nothing like NYC and areas east of me.  I haven't looked at the map, but I'd expect Randee is going to get blasted.  Dad gets his platelets rechecked - he was critically low on Thurs and needed a platelet transfusion (no chemo given, obviously).

Also, I'm down to hardly any temporary filling in my problem bicuspid. 3 pieces fell out over 4 days, so I'm on a very careful diet of soft foods that I can eat with only the left side of my mouth.

Originally posted by Asalzwed

We made it to the summit. It was an incredible amount of work carrying my board and gear whilst hiking in snowboard boots (NOT ideal) but my run down was EPIC. You can see my track down the glacier and into the snow field. 

And here are Rainier, Adams and Hood, respectively from the crater's rim

 

Originally posted by Asalzwed

We made it to the summit. It was an incredible amount of work carrying my board and gear whilst hiking in snowboard boots (NOT ideal) but my run down was EPIC. You can see my track down the glacier and into the snow field. 

And here are Rainier, Adams and Hood, respectively from the crater's rim

 

Originally posted by popsracer

As the east gets all the snow, we have had a heat wave for this time of year.  It was 61 degrees and sunny on my run yesterday.  Had two good runs this weekend.  12 miler on Saturday and a hill climb on Saturday.  1,000 feet of elevation gain in two miles.  While the climb is just a painful slog I focused on form going back down.  I find that this is the only situation that gains from a departure of my normal, natural stride.  My tendency is to take long gliding strides but that seems to generate a lot of braking and my speed is nowhere near what I think it should be.  I've experimented with taking much shorter strides with a very high cadence.  I'm finding this to be much faster and also safer as I'm not putting as much pressure on each footfall.

Here is the sunset from my backyard.  It was amazing. 

Originally posted by popsracer

As the east gets all the snow, we have had a heat wave for this time of year.  It was 61 degrees and sunny on my run yesterday.  Had two good runs this weekend.  12 miler on Saturday and a hill climb on Saturday.  1,000 feet of elevation gain in two miles.  While the climb is just a painful slog I focused on form going back down.  I find that this is the only situation that gains from a departure of my normal, natural stride.  My tendency is to take long gliding strides but that seems to generate a lot of braking and my speed is nowhere near what I think it should be.  I've experimented with taking much shorter strides with a very high cadence.  I'm finding this to be much faster and also safer as I'm not putting as much pressure on each footfall.

Here is the sunset from my backyard.  It was amazing. 

Originally posted by IndoIronYanti

CONGRATULATIONS SALTY!!!

Stunning photos and achievement. And carrying all that crap too!

Originally posted by popsracer

Stunning photos.  What an awesome day that must have been.  Glad to hear you made it safely.

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Yeah...there were some sketchy things. Luckily the snow pack was low because there was pretty high avy danger for wet slides. I saw plenty of evidence, especially on my ride down. Our travel was just about exclusively out of avalanche terrain (up on the ridges and whatnot) but there were some short periods of my descent where I was a little exposed.

I took a really wide route out near the glacier where I saw a pretty big exposed crevasse. I also saw a HUGE avy fissure. A guy was walking, solo, right over it and downhill of it! I yelled at him and he shrugged me off. Seriously, WTF? I don't even think he knew what it was or what it meant. 

My adrenaline was definitely pumping and as fun as the ride down was, I was glad to not be in any kind of danger anymore. 

Originally posted by Asalzwed

Ok. One more thing from my trip and I will stop blabbing about it.

Before climbed Mt. Adams last year we were in the parking lot getting our gear ready. Two girls came down who had just reached the summit. We chatted with them for a bit about how their trip was and what our plans were etc. Anyway, they put away their gear changed their shoes etc. (hiking/mountaineering boots suck.) They ended up driving off and leaving their boots sitting in the parking lot. With some semi-creepy instagram stalking we ended up tracking the girls down and I mailed them their shoes back. It turns out the girl is this crazy multi-PCT thu hiker who has also traveled across the US hopping trains. 

Anyway, we follow each-other on instagram or whatever but aren't exactly friends or anything. 

On the way up, we run into the two same girls! I didn't realize it at first and we were chatting and I was just staring at her. But the odds of that actually happening? So I didn't say anything as it was just a passing thought. Anyway she sees one of my photos on instagram and was like, ""do you think it was those same three women that we saw at Mt. Adams?" and then we were like- no! It couldn't have been! But it turns out it was!"

How crazy is that??? We don't even live in the same state.