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 2016-11-23 1:14 PM in reply to: jmkizer |
Master  6595     Rio Rancho, NM |  Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à troisOriginally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!!! November 26-27 Happy Thanksgiving to all of the 'merican Manatees! Is anyone else racing?
I am super jealous of Monica!!!!! Go racers!!!!!!!! I am doing the Hobbler Gobbler 5k tomorrow. |
| 2016-11-23 1:31 PM in reply to: rrrunner |
Master 7712  Orlando | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by rrrunner Originally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!!! November 26-27 Happy Thanksgiving to all of the 'merican Manatees! Is anyone else racing?
I am super jealous of Monica!!!!! Go racers!!!!!!!! I am doing the Hobbler Gobbler 5k tomorrow. Go Racers Go! Happy t-giving ! |
| 2016-11-23 2:19 PM in reply to: jmkizer |
Master 6595 Rio Rancho, NM | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois So yesterday Justin, the RD from my last 3 ultra attempts, posted a picture on IG of he and Scott Jurek! From the race!!!!!!!!! Scott Jurek was there and I didn't know it!!!!!! |
| 2016-11-23 10:59 PM in reply to: 0 |
| Master 10208 Northern IL | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Managed to get the full ~3,000 yds in tonight at masters. Pulling off 1:28 on 1:40 for most of the 100's (it's stroke night, but didn't have a heavy stroke emphasis). That fast work from Sunday definitely helped out. Don't think I'm going to keep seeing such considerable jumps in speed though. Haven't felt the torso burn like this in awhile. Edited by brigby1 2016-11-23 11:04 PM |
| 2016-11-24 5:15 AM in reply to: brigby1 |
Expert 1694 Illinois | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Happy Thanksgiving Manatees! |
| 2016-11-24 6:06 AM in reply to: brigby1 |
Master 8247 Eugene, Oregon Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Congrats--You are keeping up with me! (I am trying to do the math--SCY to SCM.) The nice thing about usually training in a meter pool (even in Oregon, I usually train in SCM) is that when you do swim yards, you feel really fast. And that 10% shorter pool matters for fly! But I suspect you are well on your way to much faster times than I will ever see. Decided to have spaghetti for Thanksgiving dinner instead. Whatever--Thanksgiving solo doesn't count. Well, not solo. My little cat Tomoko is on the table dozing. She loves my laptop sleeve, with or without the laptop in it, for some reason, and will lie down wherever I put it. Big Boy prefers wet stinky swim towels, and puking hairballs onto my bed. Holding out for turkey on Saturday. Not family, but at least with friends. Happy Turkey Day to those Stateside! |
| 2016-11-24 6:09 AM in reply to: rrrunner |
Melon Presser 52116 | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by rrrunner Originally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!!! November 26-27 Happy Thanksgiving to all of the 'merican Manatees! Is anyone else racing?
I am super jealous of Monica!!!!! Go racers!!!!!!!! I am doing the Hobbler Gobbler 5k tomorrow. Western Australia State Interclub Triathlon Championships on Sunday. Just a sprintie GO FOXAY!!! GO NYNY!!! GO IRONTANGERINES!!! GO TEEJ!!! Go Manatee Me and Weird Mana-Hubbee (he's doing it too) |
| 2016-11-24 6:13 AM in reply to: IndoIronYanti |
Master 8247 Eugene, Oregon Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Have fun, racers! Just recalled--gulp--that although I am not actually racing this weekend, the reason I am not racing is because I am running day of race registration and T-shirt sales for the local Terry Fox run, which generally has over 20,000 people. That ought to count as racing, right?! |
| 2016-11-24 6:32 AM in reply to: jmkizer |
Champion 14677 Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!!! November 26-27 Happy Thanksgiving to all of the 'merican Manatees! Is anyone else racing?
Go Racers! Have a GREAT race, Monica. I hope the conditions are perfect for you. |
| 2016-11-24 9:16 AM in reply to: ceilidh |
Member 2098 Simsbury, Connecticut | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Happy Thanksgiving podmates! |
| 2016-11-24 9:03 PM in reply to: mtnbikerchk |
Veteran 1900 Southampton, Ontario | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois good luck to all those racing and happy turkey day. Things have been super busy around here with packing and running back and forth looking at houses. Our current place is officially sold and we have found a new place - home inspection is this weekend. I think maybe then things will be back to normal for at least December and hopefully I can get back to working on the trainer and treadmill. |
| 2016-11-25 12:22 AM in reply to: cdban66 |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by cdban66 So I went back and checked - 5 discussions about this since July and we have changed a total of about 5 words, and this includes removing ands and its. They spent nearly an hour on this discussion on Wednesday night and basically removed 4 words that were in brackets. Originally posted by StaceyK Oh Lord - Kill me now. for the 4th time this year I am listening to the Board of Directors discuss the wording of the company's Vision and Mission statement Oh Stacey, I feel for you. As a member of our Church Council, I am ready to dig out my eyes with a spoon for the same reason. We have had a six month long discussion about this same type of thing. I just keep counting down (3 months to go!) I can't begin to imagine the pain of watching this sort of thing from the employee point of view. UGH!!! |
| 2016-11-25 12:25 AM in reply to: ceilidh |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by ceilidh So glad to hear that you are home. Howdy all. We are getting back to normal(ish) around here. We are home after the evacuation and trying to get the smoke smell out of the house and gathering are belongings back. One storage shed cleared out, the other mostly cleared. (we had to have two because they closed the roads and our friends who came to help took our belongings to their homes... on either side of the fire. To go to our nearest town (16 miles away) turned into a 55 mile trip. We were allowed to open up for business this weekend so we are hoping to recover a bit of the financial loss from the fires. Jim had his rotator cuff surgery yesterday and that went really, really well. He chose to get it done while our deductible was met. So.. onward with cleaning and getting life back in order. and maybe even doing some real training. Though it has been hard with all the smoke. It has been heavy even in my gym near Asheville. There are so. many. fires! Happy Thanksgiving Eve! From experience the smoke smell goes eventually but each time it rains it will come back again for some totally inexpiable reason. |
| 2016-11-25 12:29 AM in reply to: IndoIronYanti |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by IndoIronYanti Good luck everyone, enjoy yourselves. Originally posted by rrrunner Originally posted by jmkizer Racing Manatees!!! November 26-27 Happy Thanksgiving to all of the 'merican Manatees! Is anyone else racing?
I am super jealous of Monica!!!!! Go racers!!!!!!!! I am doing the Hobbler Gobbler 5k tomorrow. Western Australia State Interclub Triathlon Championships on Sunday. Just a sprintie GO FOXAY!!! GO NYNY!!! GO IRONTANGERINES!!! GO TEEJ!!! Go Manatee Me and Weird Mana-Hubbee (he's doing it too) |
| 2016-11-25 8:50 AM in reply to: StaceyK |
Veteran 1100 Dayton | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois So my mom and I went to do the 5k yesterday morning. We hadn't registered ahead of time, and were planning to register on site. Once we got there, we found out that on-site registration was $40! We both decided we would rather keep our $40. I don't think I've seen a 5k cost that much, even being on-site. I was ok with paying $35, but something about that jump to $40 seemed like too much. |
| 2016-11-25 9:55 AM in reply to: ponderingfox |
Master 7712 Orlando | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by ponderingfox So my mom and I went to do the 5k yesterday morning. We hadn't registered ahead of time, and were planning to register on site. Once we got there, we found out that on-site registration was $40! We both decided we would rather keep our $40. I don't think I've seen a 5k cost that much, even being on-site. I was ok with paying $35, but something about that jump to $40 seemed like too much. i agree with your mom and you! It's crazy how expensive 5ks can be!! |
| 2016-11-25 2:25 PM in reply to: amd723 |
Royal(PITA) 14270 West Chester, Ohio | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by amd723 Originally posted by ponderingfox So my mom and I went to do the 5k yesterday morning. We hadn't registered ahead of time, and were planning to register on site. Once we got there, we found out that on-site registration was $40! We both decided we would rather keep our $40. I don't think I've seen a 5k cost that much, even being on-site. I was ok with paying $35, but something about that jump to $40 seemed like too much. i agree with your mom and you! It's crazy how expensive 5ks can be!! I think anything over $30 for a 5k is way too much. Heck, per mile that's more than some people make in an hour!! |
| 2016-11-25 2:25 PM in reply to: amd723 |
Royal(PITA) 14270 West Chester, Ohio | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by amd723 Originally posted by ponderingfox So my mom and I went to do the 5k yesterday morning. We hadn't registered ahead of time, and were planning to register on site. Once we got there, we found out that on-site registration was $40! We both decided we would rather keep our $40. I don't think I've seen a 5k cost that much, even being on-site. I was ok with paying $35, but something about that jump to $40 seemed like too much. i agree with your mom and you! It's crazy how expensive 5ks can be!! I think anything over $30 for a 5k is way too much. Heck, per mile that's more than some people make in an hour!! |
| 2016-11-25 5:18 PM in reply to: QueenZipp |
Master 8247 Eugene, Oregon Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Wow--that is a lot! Last year I was cleaning out some old file boxes and came across an extra registration form for the last race I entered when I lived in Hawaii in 1994. It was $20 day of race registration for a half-marathon. And prices in Hawaii are generally a bit higher than on the Mainland. Imagine! I always think longer races are a better deal, for some reason. But I'm not sure it actually works out that way if you figure price per mile, or per hour. Maybe....A few years ago I was trying to persuade a friend to join me in a full IM as a relay (I was going to swim and run, and she was going to do the bike). She was all up for it, but then balked at paying her share of the $375 entry fee. I tried to argue that it was just a bit over $20 per hour, but she wasn't convinced! Anyway, as a team we hopefully would not have needed the full 17 hours. I guess since I have to travel to almost all my races, longer does work out to be more economical when you also factor in fixed costs like air tickets, bike fees, hotel, etc. I feel ridiculous about going to Singapore for the weekend to do a race which should take less than 35 minutes (spring aquathlon)....but that is the only race I can get to until Apri,l and can justify it as a sanity break and chance to stock up on stuff I can't buy here. Seriously, I will be spending at least $400 on a 35 minute race. |
| 2016-11-25 7:13 PM in reply to: Hot Runner |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois It's often $40-$50 for a 5k here and a mini sprint tri will cost you around $65, a sprint $90 and an Oly $130ish. Everything in Australia is much more expensive than the US, but our minimum wage is around $17 per hour. Even so if you earn minimum wage you would struggle financially because housing is so expensive, the average house price in the city I live in is over $500,000 and if you are renting you would generally be paying around $1,500 a month. |
| 2016-11-25 8:48 PM in reply to: StaceyK |
Master 8247 Eugene, Oregon Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois In the US as well, I'd venture that in most places (at least an urban existence that's not some sort of rural "live off the grid" deal) you can't survive on a minimum wage if that is the only source of income, without government benefits/subsidies, a second job, and/or some sort of "off-the-books" income or barter arrangements. Noticed the high prices for food and housing when I was at Worlds. They seemed similar to Hawaii or Singapore. The only good deal is that I can fly to/from Singapore really cheaply from here. It is usually $75, sometimes as little as $50, for a round-trip ticket on Tiger or Jetstar, and bike fees are really reasonable. Crazy--it is actually only about 2-3X the amount I pay to get a taxi to/from the airport, or the vet or bike shop at the other end of the city. It all goes south when I have to get Rover somewhere within Singapore, though. Taxis that will take him basically run $60 to $75 a pop, anywhere in the city center area. So for the tri I will spend more $ for taxi than airfare, and (if I can't ride to the race start) probably more than a night's lodging. |
| 2016-11-25 10:04 PM in reply to: ponderingfox |
Champion 14677 Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by ponderingfox So my mom and I went to do the 5k yesterday morning. We hadn't registered ahead of time, and were planning to register on site. Once we got there, we found out that on-site registration was $40! We both decided we would rather keep our $40. I don't think I've seen a 5k cost that much, even being on-site. I was ok with paying $35, but something about that jump to $40 seemed like too much. That is a chunk of money and unless it was mostly going to a great cause, I would run a 5 k together, get a nice brunch and save more than 40 bucks!
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| 2016-11-26 9:40 PM in reply to: ponderingfox |
Expert 2811 | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Originally posted by ponderingfox So my mom and I went to do the 5k yesterday morning. We hadn't registered ahead of time, and were planning to register on site. Once we got there, we found out that on-site registration was $40! We both decided we would rather keep our $40. I don't think I've seen a 5k cost that much, even being on-site. I was ok with paying $35, but something about that jump to $40 seemed like too much. I agree. I thought about doing the Turkey Trot in Cleveland Thursday morning, and was shocked when I saw the price was $40.00. I was too exhausted to run and things were a little up in the air at that time. We have had another rough week. My wife has been in a colitis flare for almost two years and in about a week and a half ago, it became severe. We went to Cleveland Clinic in the Spring after being referred by her GI. We met with a GI MD and surgeon then. They attempted the last medical treatment to get the disease under control. They tried another biologic that costs $16,000.00 per infusion. It failed and she became dangerously ill. She emailed the GI and surgeon last Thursday. On Friday the Surgeon called and told her to be in Cleveland on Tuesday and they would do a complete colectomy on Wednesday. We have been in Cleveland since Monday night and everything went as scheduled. The surgery went about twice as long as expected because her large intestine was so infected. Fortunately, they could do it all laparoscopicly. She is still in the hospital and we are hoping for discharge tomorrow. She is doing well after the surgery and everything is healing correctly. We have a new Thanksgiving tradition of Thanksgiving Sushi. Our younger kids came down with us. Fortunately Michigan State had an away game, so the older girls could join us for the entire weekend. I am looking forward to getting home tomorrow and having life return to yet another new normal. I'm kind of tired of 2016. |
| 2016-11-26 11:49 PM in reply to: JBacarella |
Master 8247 Eugene, Oregon Bronze member | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois So sorry to hear there are more hard times with your family. I think you are due for a really good year in 2017! I haven't had family crises quite to that degree but will admit, there have been a few years of my life when about the best I could say on December 31 was thank goodness it was over. Hope your wife recovers well and everyone can enjoy Christmas together. |
| 2016-11-27 3:37 PM in reply to: Hot Runner |
Veteran 1100 Dayton | Subject: RE: Manatee Mentors 2016 - Manatee à trois Ladies and gentleman, I will have a new bike to add to the bike gallery soon. Should have a blue on white 2014 Cervelo P2 arriving this week, I hope. |
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