A Pink Pixie Princess - Complete!
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Ariel484
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BoooooooFor some reason I can't see the shot of Archie in his Harry Potter finery.It's just a big, gray blob.
I have had issues lately inserting photos here from Google Photos (which is where all of my older pics are stored). Flickr seems to work better.
EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!
Ariel484
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emilyindisney
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Archie Potter is adorable!!! 
Also- love that pattern on the t-shirt in your ink n burn box! Very colorful!
Also- love that pattern on the t-shirt in your ink n burn box! Very colorful!
Ariel484
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I just want to actually be able to do magic. That seems like a reasonable request, right? :Sad:I want my Patronus to be a puppy ...
THANKS!!! Best picture ever!Archie Potter is adorable!!!
Also- love that pattern on the t-shirt in your ink n burn box! Very colorful!
I love that pattern too! I thought they did a great job with it.
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Goodbye Money! INKnBURN: Pixels and the Ultimate Unicorn
Some more fun mail this week...a tech shirt and a tech tube from INKnBURN, both in the Pixels pattern. I love this - it reminds me of Tetris! And I'm super glad I love it because the club item for January is a Pixels pullover (surprised they used the same pattern for their regular release and for the club release...I'll be curious to see if they keep doing that in the future).
I also found this helpful graphic on different ways to wear the tech tube or a similar item from a different company, so I'm keeping this in my phone for future runs!
And now...the Ultimate Unicorn. I mentioned it in a reply to someone else, but I must confess to you all reading this...BB8 is gone. Please still be my friend.
I got one wear out of BB8 on Wednesday morning, and then I posted it up for trade on the Facebook page. Since the shirt is so rare (330 total in existence) I thought maybe I could get my ultimate unicorn out of it...and I DID. Via a 3-way trade.
The person who had my unicorn (call her person A) wanted a BB8 shirt, but in a size small. I had a medium that I was putting up for trade. Person A found Person B, who had a small BB8 that she wanted to trade for a medium.
So Person A sent my unicorn to me.
I send medium BB8 to Person B (after washing it and hanging it to dry, since I'd worn it once).
Person B sent her small BB8 to Person A.
This is the second 3-way trade I have done, and both times I have had to write them out like that because my little brain cannot comprehend such complex matters.
Today, my ultimate unicorn arrived...the Current Pullover!
The pullovers are super great for colder weather running - I wore another pullover today with temperatures in the mid-30s and no layers underneath, and it kept me warm. Very important for a NE Ohio runner.
Current is my favorite pattern INKnBURN has ever done - something about the colors and the sort of soothing pattern just really does it for me, I guess. Unfortunately it's a "classic" pattern from before I knew about the brand, and is super hard to find. I was lucky to get a camisole in the vault sale, but I've really been hoping for a pullover. In the year I have known about INKnBURN, I have never seen one for sale...I did see that one sold in my size on eBay a few weeks ago, but let's just say...it was WAY out of my budget. 
So I got the top I really wanted without having to pay ridiculous eBay fees - actually, I didn't have to pay anything extra at all, except for the cost to ship my BB8 top to its new owner. I insisted on paying the difference between the pullover and tech shirt costs to Person A (pullovers cost about $30 more than tech shirts), but she wouldn't take it.
Overall it was a great trade - two people get BB8 shirts they will enjoy and appreciate them WAY more than I will, and I have my Current pullover. Yay!
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Some more fun mail this week...a tech shirt and a tech tube from INKnBURN, both in the Pixels pattern. I love this - it reminds me of Tetris! And I'm super glad I love it because the club item for January is a Pixels pullover (surprised they used the same pattern for their regular release and for the club release...I'll be curious to see if they keep doing that in the future).
I also found this helpful graphic on different ways to wear the tech tube or a similar item from a different company, so I'm keeping this in my phone for future runs!
And now...the Ultimate Unicorn. I mentioned it in a reply to someone else, but I must confess to you all reading this...BB8 is gone.
Please still be my friend.I got one wear out of BB8 on Wednesday morning, and then I posted it up for trade on the Facebook page. Since the shirt is so rare (330 total in existence) I thought maybe I could get my ultimate unicorn out of it...and I DID. Via a 3-way trade.
The person who had my unicorn (call her person A) wanted a BB8 shirt, but in a size small. I had a medium that I was putting up for trade. Person A found Person B, who had a small BB8 that she wanted to trade for a medium.
So Person A sent my unicorn to me.
I send medium BB8 to Person B (after washing it and hanging it to dry, since I'd worn it once).
Person B sent her small BB8 to Person A.
This is the second 3-way trade I have done, and both times I have had to write them out like that because my little brain cannot comprehend such complex matters.
Today, my ultimate unicorn arrived...the Current Pullover!
The pullovers are super great for colder weather running - I wore another pullover today with temperatures in the mid-30s and no layers underneath, and it kept me warm. Very important for a NE Ohio runner.
Current is my favorite pattern INKnBURN has ever done - something about the colors and the sort of soothing pattern just really does it for me, I guess. Unfortunately it's a "classic" pattern from before I knew about the brand, and is super hard to find. I was lucky to get a camisole in the vault sale, but I've really been hoping for a pullover. In the year I have known about INKnBURN, I have never seen one for sale...I did see that one sold in my size on eBay a few weeks ago, but let's just say...it was WAY out of my budget. So I got the top I really wanted without having to pay ridiculous eBay fees - actually, I didn't have to pay anything extra at all, except for the cost to ship my BB8 top to its new owner. I insisted on paying the difference between the pullover and tech shirt costs to Person A (pullovers cost about $30 more than tech shirts), but she wouldn't take it.
Overall it was a great trade - two people get BB8 shirts they will enjoy and appreciate them WAY more than I will, and I have my Current pullover. Yay!
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Ariel484
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BACK 2 Good - Week 4 Update
Monday: lifting today! I woke up with my leg feeling tight as usual, but here I am at about lunchtime and it feels much, much better. Minimal pain lately. Except for a different kind of pain I forgot to mention on Sunday. My legs were sore - not from the burning nerve pain, but (I think) from my fartlek-ing adventure on Saturday! I can feel it in both of my hamstrings and a little bit in my calves (the muscles, not the nerves). I must've been tensing up my shoulders too, because I'm even feeling the soreness there - clearly I was super focused on how my foot/leg was feeling and didn't pay attention to relaxing my shoulders. On one hand it's sort of refreshing to feel like I actually got a workout in and pushed myself for the first time in weeks (if that makes any sense), and to know that this pain is NOT from the disc/nerve stuff. On the other hand...BOO to being sore from my 1.45-mile jaunt that was mostly walking! 
It's funny because Dr. Spine recommended the fartleks to "help keep my conditioning" and I wanted to laugh and be like... "bro, I haven't run since mid-December. Pretty sure any conditioning I had is gone!" So it's a little sad to see that I was right about that. It's just bizarre to me to feel like this when a little over a year ago I was comfortably finishing Dopey...that's probably the best shape I’ve ever been in. If only I'd known then what I know now...
But whatever...that was the first time I "really" tried to run in quite awhile, so I guess it shouldn't be that surprising that I'm a little sore afterward. And it will be a LONG time before I do any type of serious speedwork when I actually do start back up again, so whatever.
Two big events today:
1. Normally I wear boots to work (either flat ones or one with a 2.5-inch heel), and since this injury started I have been wearing my Brooks Adrenalines to work (the pair that I have that are designated for cross-training activities). Today I decided to try wearing my flat boots instead - first time in a month coming to work not in my Brooks - and it took a little getting used to, but eventually it felt fine! I call that progress.
2. I have been trying to keep track of dates for runDisney events I potentially want to sign up for over the next year or so (not just registration dates, but also 11-month dates so I can rent DVC points) and decided that I needed to ask Dr. Spine point-blank if what I have in mind is even doable with what I have going on. My next follow-up isn't until March 9 (the day AFTER AP registration for Wine & Dine), and I'm impatient...so I sent him an email. In it I laid out the schedule I'm hoping for (first event being Wine & Dine) and told him a little about the Saturday fartlek-ing and how I felt like I had to drag my leg along. To my great surprise, he wrote back within 2 hours - seriously impressed by that. Anyway...his response (which was brief, but exactly what I needed to know): "I see no problem with sign up. The greatest 'unknown' is the recovery of endurance. You clearly have some functional deficit of S1 nerve that largely affects your calf muscle. Slow build up should have you ready to race by November." So WOOHOO for getting Dr. Spine’s blessing to register!
And ever the planner...I already have my schedule planned out for pretty much the rest of 2016 and the beginning of 2017.
Once I start *really* running again, I'll talk more about that here.
Tuesday: 25-minute walk on the treadmill...I varied the speed a bit and ended up with 1.35 miles. It was sort of weird/interesting to feel the pain move around my calf...it started lower and closer to my heel, then it was up more behind my knee, and then it was almost gone. Or maybe I just think that’s interesting because the walk itself was boring.
I'm thinking I’ll stick to 25 minutes on Thursday (walking only) and Saturday (with 8-10 fartleks), then do 28 minutes for each walk next week, and then 30 the week after. I said that was my goal a few weeks ago, to get to walking 30 minutes 3 times per week, so I'm happy that I'm almost there! Hopefully after that I'll be closer to being able to run again...if not, I'll just stick to 30 minutes of walking until I can.
Today I wore my heeled boots to work, and it went pretty well! I am forgetting about the pain a LOT!
My evening went sort of downhill though - a workaround to get Princess bibs was posted on Facebook, and our of morbid curiosity I looked to see if there was one with my name - sure enough, there IS a GSC bib for me.
It was a little sickening to see, because 1.) It seems like there SHOULD NOT be a bib for me since I deferred, so now I'm a little nervous that it didn't go through or something (I have a confirmation email, but still…), and 2.) Looking at the corrals from last year, this is among the best corral placement I would have gotten at a runDisney race (C or D for the half, so most likely A for the 10K). So I'm pretty disappointed that I won't be able to use that great corral placement since the time I used for Proof is going to be too old to use for Wine & Dine or any 2017 races. 
Lately I haven't been thinking about this year's Princess races very much, but just like I said last week, as more information comes out for this year it's hitting me all over again that I don’t get to go. I know it's the right decision, but I'm still bummed about it (how many times have I said that recently? Ugh, I'm so boring and annoying 
). I'm looking forward to the next 2.5 weeks going by quickly so I can move on from this...in the meantime, I'm trying to focus on my recovery and runDisney plans for the end of this year and next year! "Keep moving forward!"
Wednesday: lifting! In this crazy outfit! I feel like this combination worked better in my head (the reds and oranges are a perfect match), but whatever!
Feeling better about things than yesterday. Lifting went pretty well. As usual I did my first round of back exercises for the day before heading into the locker room to shower and change...I find that when I do the stretch where I sit in a chair and touch the floor, it hurts the most in my foot, less in my calf. So that is kind of weird.
Thursday: 25-minute walk on the treadmill...I upped the speed just a tiny bit and tacked on another 30 seconds or so to make it to an even 1.4 miles. It wasn't perfect, but I could definitely feel an improvement compared to how Tuesday's walk felt. And as I got ready to go to sleep last night, it occurred to me that lately I have been getting into and out of bed with ease - just a week or so ago I'd be bracing myself every time because it was next to impossible to get into/out of bed, or to roll over and change positions, without feeling some burning pain in my calf/upper leg. Somehow I have failed to notice that that has just gone away. I think I'm limping less too...
It's hard not to start thinking that I could possibly get back to running again SOON. I forget if I mentioned it earlier but a week or two ago I found an 8-week 5K training plan on Higdon's website that I would like to use to get ready for the Never Land 5K...and it's due to start in mid-March. So that has been my target date for hopefully starting to run again, and with how I'm feeling this week, the possibility that I could be running earlier than that has been creeping into my head. I'm trying hard to temper my excitement - because you just never know what'll happen - but it's hard. Part of me feels like I should wait to run until I see Dr. Spine again next month, but part of me wants to get going already!!
Also, waivers and corrals are out for Princess weekend - there's still a waiver for me for GSC and it has me in Corral D for the half. UGHHHH. I called runDisney and the guy I talked to couldn't explain why there was a waiver for me, but also said he couldn't find a GSC registration for me in the system for this year. He said since I have the confirmation email that it should be okay...but again, he didn't seem to know why I still had a bib number. They're supposed to email me with follow-up soon...riiiiight. It's just making me a little nervous.
Friday: lifting! Today's triumph was that I could do deadlifts today - the motion of bending over with straight legs has been impossible for me, but today I could do it without feeling like I'd re-injured myself or something. Progress.
Saturday: It's Fartlek Saturday! I doubled up on the tech tubes since temperatures were in the mid-30s with some wind...with all the walking I definitely need to dress a little heavier than I would for a run.
This went very well. It was easier for me to walk at a faster pace compared to last weekend, and today I did 9 fartleks. They didn't hurt, but I did feel like my calf and foot were pretty stiff. I still had the "dragging my leg along" feeling, but I think it has improved compared to last week.
So same time for the walking this week compared to last week, but I did make it a little further.
The feeling of my calf still not working correctly is discouraging, but this definitely went better than last weekend. Hope to continue to see improvement!
Sunday: LAZINESS
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Monday: lifting today! I woke up with my leg feeling tight as usual, but here I am at about lunchtime and it feels much, much better. Minimal pain lately.
Except for a different kind of pain I forgot to mention on Sunday. My legs were sore - not from the burning nerve pain, but (I think) from my fartlek-ing adventure on Saturday! I can feel it in both of my hamstrings and a little bit in my calves (the muscles, not the nerves). I must've been tensing up my shoulders too, because I'm even feeling the soreness there - clearly I was super focused on how my foot/leg was feeling and didn't pay attention to relaxing my shoulders. On one hand it's sort of refreshing to feel like I actually got a workout in and pushed myself for the first time in weeks (if that makes any sense), and to know that this pain is NOT from the disc/nerve stuff. On the other hand...BOO to being sore from my 1.45-mile jaunt that was mostly walking! It's funny because Dr. Spine recommended the fartleks to "help keep my conditioning" and I wanted to laugh and be like... "bro, I haven't run since mid-December. Pretty sure any conditioning I had is gone!" So it's a little sad to see that I was right about that. It's just bizarre to me to feel like this when a little over a year ago I was comfortably finishing Dopey...that's probably the best shape I’ve ever been in. If only I'd known then what I know now...But whatever...that was the first time I "really" tried to run in quite awhile, so I guess it shouldn't be that surprising that I'm a little sore afterward. And it will be a LONG time before I do any type of serious speedwork when I actually do start back up again, so whatever.
Two big events today:
1. Normally I wear boots to work (either flat ones or one with a 2.5-inch heel), and since this injury started I have been wearing my Brooks Adrenalines to work (the pair that I have that are designated for cross-training activities). Today I decided to try wearing my flat boots instead - first time in a month coming to work not in my Brooks - and it took a little getting used to, but eventually it felt fine! I call that progress.
2. I have been trying to keep track of dates for runDisney events I potentially want to sign up for over the next year or so (not just registration dates, but also 11-month dates so I can rent DVC points) and decided that I needed to ask Dr. Spine point-blank if what I have in mind is even doable with what I have going on. My next follow-up isn't until March 9 (the day AFTER AP registration for Wine & Dine), and I'm impatient...so I sent him an email. In it I laid out the schedule I'm hoping for (first event being Wine & Dine) and told him a little about the Saturday fartlek-ing and how I felt like I had to drag my leg along. To my great surprise, he wrote back within 2 hours - seriously impressed by that. Anyway...his response (which was brief, but exactly what I needed to know): "I see no problem with sign up. The greatest 'unknown' is the recovery of endurance. You clearly have some functional deficit of S1 nerve that largely affects your calf muscle. Slow build up should have you ready to race by November."
So WOOHOO for getting Dr. Spine’s blessing to register!And ever the planner...I already have my schedule planned out for pretty much the rest of 2016 and the beginning of 2017.
Once I start *really* running again, I'll talk more about that here.Tuesday: 25-minute walk on the treadmill...I varied the speed a bit and ended up with 1.35 miles. It was sort of weird/interesting to feel the pain move around my calf...it started lower and closer to my heel, then it was up more behind my knee, and then it was almost gone. Or maybe I just think that’s interesting because the walk itself was boring.
I'm thinking I’ll stick to 25 minutes on Thursday (walking only) and Saturday (with 8-10 fartleks), then do 28 minutes for each walk next week, and then 30 the week after. I said that was my goal a few weeks ago, to get to walking 30 minutes 3 times per week, so I'm happy that I'm almost there! Hopefully after that I'll be closer to being able to run again...if not, I'll just stick to 30 minutes of walking until I can.Today I wore my heeled boots to work, and it went pretty well! I am forgetting about the pain a LOT!
My evening went sort of downhill though - a workaround to get Princess bibs was posted on Facebook, and our of morbid curiosity I looked to see if there was one with my name - sure enough, there IS a GSC bib for me.
It was a little sickening to see, because 1.) It seems like there SHOULD NOT be a bib for me since I deferred, so now I'm a little nervous that it didn't go through or something (I have a confirmation email, but still…), and 2.) Looking at the corrals from last year, this is among the best corral placement I would have gotten at a runDisney race (C or D for the half, so most likely A for the 10K). So I'm pretty disappointed that I won't be able to use that great corral placement since the time I used for Proof is going to be too old to use for Wine & Dine or any 2017 races. Lately I haven't been thinking about this year's Princess races very much, but just like I said last week, as more information comes out for this year it's hitting me all over again that I don’t get to go. I know it's the right decision, but I'm still bummed about it (how many times have I said that recently? Ugh, I'm so boring and annoying ). I'm looking forward to the next 2.5 weeks going by quickly so I can move on from this...in the meantime, I'm trying to focus on my recovery and runDisney plans for the end of this year and next year! "Keep moving forward!" Wednesday: lifting! In this crazy outfit! I feel like this combination worked better in my head (the reds and oranges are a perfect match), but whatever!
Feeling better about things than yesterday. Lifting went pretty well. As usual I did my first round of back exercises for the day before heading into the locker room to shower and change...I find that when I do the stretch where I sit in a chair and touch the floor, it hurts the most in my foot, less in my calf. So that is kind of weird.
Thursday: 25-minute walk on the treadmill...I upped the speed just a tiny bit and tacked on another 30 seconds or so to make it to an even 1.4 miles. It wasn't perfect, but I could definitely feel an improvement compared to how Tuesday's walk felt.
And as I got ready to go to sleep last night, it occurred to me that lately I have been getting into and out of bed with ease - just a week or so ago I'd be bracing myself every time because it was next to impossible to get into/out of bed, or to roll over and change positions, without feeling some burning pain in my calf/upper leg. Somehow I have failed to notice that that has just gone away. I think I'm limping less too...It's hard not to start thinking that I could possibly get back to running again SOON. I forget if I mentioned it earlier but a week or two ago I found an 8-week 5K training plan on Higdon's website that I would like to use to get ready for the Never Land 5K...and it's due to start in mid-March. So that has been my target date for hopefully starting to run again, and with how I'm feeling this week, the possibility that I could be running earlier than that has been creeping into my head. I'm trying hard to temper my excitement - because you just never know what'll happen - but it's hard. Part of me feels like I should wait to run until I see Dr. Spine again next month, but part of me wants to get going already!!
Also, waivers and corrals are out for Princess weekend - there's still a waiver for me for GSC and it has me in Corral D for the half. UGHHHH. I called runDisney and the guy I talked to couldn't explain why there was a waiver for me, but also said he couldn't find a GSC registration for me in the system for this year. He said since I have the confirmation email that it should be okay...but again, he didn't seem to know why I still had a bib number. They're supposed to email me with follow-up soon...riiiiight. It's just making me a little nervous.
Friday: lifting! Today's triumph was that I could do deadlifts today - the motion of bending over with straight legs has been impossible for me, but today I could do it without feeling like I'd re-injured myself or something. Progress.
Saturday: It's Fartlek Saturday! I doubled up on the tech tubes since temperatures were in the mid-30s with some wind...with all the walking I definitely need to dress a little heavier than I would for a run.
This went very well. It was easier for me to walk at a faster pace compared to last weekend, and today I did 9 fartleks. They didn't hurt, but I did feel like my calf and foot were pretty stiff. I still had the "dragging my leg along" feeling, but I think it has improved compared to last week.
So same time for the walking this week compared to last week, but I did make it a little further.
The feeling of my calf still not working correctly is discouraging, but this definitely went better than last weekend. Hope to continue to see improvement!
Sunday: LAZINESS
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pxefig
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I am so happy you are feeling stronger (note, I said stronger, not better- which now that I'm typing this sounds so totally discouraging but really I intend it to not- just acknowledging that any progress is a fantastic marker but knowing the job isn't done,. See, this is why I rarely post! ) Glad you found your unicorn- for how long you've been searching, on behalf of the resistance, I'm glad BB-8 was able to serve you well. As far as seeing Force Awakens without seeing any of the other Star Wars- I saw it with my sister in law who had never seen any Star Wars EVER and she still really enjoyed it. At this point, the Force and Jedis and Vader are so imbued in our culture that you aren't going to get lost on that stuff. Having an emotional attachment to the older characters isn't a requirement, but does add to the experience.
Connor can now identify Archie in a line up, and since he is 4, I'm going to have that fall under the category of adorable instead of stalkerish. Seriously, my kids are insane . We have 3 mini schnauzers and 1 Great Dane and these kids go insane when they see someone else walking their dog.
) Glad you found your unicorn- for how long you've been searching, on behalf of the resistance, I'm glad BB-8 was able to serve you well. As far as seeing Force Awakens without seeing any of the other Star Wars- I saw it with my sister in law who had never seen any Star Wars EVER and she still really enjoyed it. At this point, the Force and Jedis and Vader are so imbued in our culture that you aren't going to get lost on that stuff. Having an emotional attachment to the older characters isn't a requirement, but does add to the experience. Connor can now identify Archie in a line up, and since he is 4, I'm going to have that fall under the category of adorable instead of stalkerish. Seriously, my kids are insane . We have 3 mini schnauzers and 1 Great Dane and these kids go insane when they see someone else walking their dog.
Ariel484
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No, I know what you mean. Not discouraging.I am so happy you are feeling stronger (note, I said stronger, not better- which now that I'm typing this sounds so totally discouraging but really I intend it to not- just acknowledging that any progress is a fantastic marker but knowing the job isn't done,. See, this is why I rarely post!
Actually I think it's quite appropriate because my big goals this year are to become stronger and healthier, and I think I am on my way!Seriously, I don't think anything but BB8 would have gotten me that pullover! Thank you, BB8!
I'm sure we'll see The Force Awakens at some point...actually I think we have a movie theater giftcard, so that may be a good use for it!
It's adorable! I approve!
margitmouse
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I don't know how you do that thing where you are able to split up a long post... So I hope I can remember all the things I wanted to respond to....!
I am so impressed with your dr! To give you excercised to strengthen your back! Woohoo! And in general seems very supportive, very glad for you to have that experience. I had to go to PT to get excercises...... And to top it off, you DO them! What an example, do the work, get the results
The other thing was your bib... I confess to looking up my bib for goofy... Yep, mine was there too even though I had deferred. I think we just have to look. I think we get so excited about these races, plus there is so much build up from these sites, it's really really hard to make the decision not to do a race even when we know it's the right decision. As with you, I knew it was the right decision, but I still felt like I wanted to be a part of, to see what corral i would have been in. I wish I had something wise and witty to say... Really all I can say is you are not alone in all those contradictory feelings you are having, you are not alone in wondering where you would have started. I am sad that you are injured and had to defer... But selfishly, -yes that happens in my world!-
I am pretty excited that I might actually get to meet you on my coast to coast quest next year. And there are others here that are too!!
You might recognize me by my InB!!! Lol!
Oh, btw, someone I bought a skirt from has offered to loan me a BB8 for Star Wars weekend! I'm so excited I could spin!!!
Keep us updated! It is great to travel along with your progress
I am so impressed with your dr! To give you excercised to strengthen your back! Woohoo! And in general seems very supportive, very glad for you to have that experience. I had to go to PT to get excercises...... And to top it off, you DO them! What an example, do the work, get the results
The other thing was your bib... I confess to looking up my bib for goofy... Yep, mine was there too even though I had deferred. I think we just have to look. I think we get so excited about these races, plus there is so much build up from these sites, it's really really hard to make the decision not to do a race even when we know it's the right decision. As with you, I knew it was the right decision, but I still felt like I wanted to be a part of, to see what corral i would have been in. I wish I had something wise and witty to say... Really all I can say is you are not alone in all those contradictory feelings you are having, you are not alone in wondering where you would have started. I am sad that you are injured and had to defer... But selfishly, -yes that happens in my world!-
I am pretty excited that I might actually get to meet you on my coast to coast quest next year. And there are others here that are too!!
You might recognize me by my InB!!! Lol!
Oh, btw, someone I bought a skirt from has offered to loan me a BB8 for Star Wars weekend! I'm so excited I could spin!!!
Keep us updated! It is great to travel along with your progress
margitmouse
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I took this at the beach today where I did my first run-like movement since November !!!. It made me think of the colors of your unicorn shirt!
It also made me think Of how much we all, on these boards, love to run. How much we struggle when we can't and the utter joy when we take those first steps back and feel our hearts pounding, our breath moving, our spirits soaring. I would never have guessed I would reach a point in my life where I missed running. 3 years ago, I would have bet against it! But here we are my friend, temporarily sidelined, but it will happen. We will run again, and in the not too distant future it seems,
.... and when you do go back, it looks like you'll be the best dressed runner on the block!!
[/GALLERY]I took this at the beach today where I did my first run-like movement since November !!!. It made me think of the colors of your unicorn shirt!
It also made me think Of how much we all, on these boards, love to run. How much we struggle when we can't and the utter joy when we take those first steps back and feel our hearts pounding, our breath moving, our spirits soaring. I would never have guessed I would reach a point in my life where I missed running. 3 years ago, I would have bet against it! But here we are my friend, temporarily sidelined, but it will happen. We will run again, and in the not too distant future it seems,
.... and when you do go back, it looks like you'll be the best dressed runner on the block!!
ZellyB
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- Sep 18, 2010
So glad you got your current pullover!! That trade stuff is crazy. 
It really is beautiful. I bought my first item off the ISO this past week. I added myself for the Fish Tank and got tagged for one within just a few hours. I was the only one in that size, so it is mine and should be on its way to me today. It might have triggered a buying spree for me. 
Congratulations on improvements. Yay! I think the fact that you are feeling less pain and you are just sort of coming to those realizations slowly (if that makes sense) is a good sign. Your body is healing but unfortunately that never happens as quickly as we'd like. So glad your doctor is encouraging to you though and WOW on his response time. That's awesome. Slow and steady and you'll be back to running in no time.
So sorry about the waivers and corral placements sort of opening the wound again. I know you don't get to enjoy the corral placement you earned, but congratulations from me anyway on the great work that landed you there. You'll get back there again, I feel certain of that. I can totally understand the anxiety about seeing your bib number and waiver though when you deferred. I'm sure your email confirmation will avoid any problems, but I'd be nervous about it too. runDisney can be a bit frustrating that way.
Keep it up!! You're doing great.
It really is beautiful. I bought my first item off the ISO this past week. I added myself for the Fish Tank and got tagged for one within just a few hours. I was the only one in that size, so it is mine and should be on its way to me today. It might have triggered a buying spree for me. Congratulations on improvements. Yay! I think the fact that you are feeling less pain and you are just sort of coming to those realizations slowly (if that makes sense) is a good sign. Your body is healing but unfortunately that never happens as quickly as we'd like. So glad your doctor is encouraging to you though and WOW on his response time. That's awesome. Slow and steady and you'll be back to running in no time.
So sorry about the waivers and corral placements sort of opening the wound again.
I know you don't get to enjoy the corral placement you earned, but congratulations from me anyway on the great work that landed you there. You'll get back there again, I feel certain of that. I can totally understand the anxiety about seeing your bib number and waiver though when you deferred. I'm sure your email confirmation will avoid any problems, but I'd be nervous about it too. runDisney can be a bit frustrating that way. Keep it up!! You're doing great.
SarahDisney
So ... Yeah
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2014
So ... now that I get INKnBURN emails ... I saw the Pixels pattern. And I loved it. And as soon as I saw I thought of you - I was hoping you would get it because it's such a fun and interesting pattern!
I. LOVE. THAT. UNICORN. That current pattern is amazing. Dude, I would wear that every day. Like seriously, I think that's my favorite InB pattern that I've ever seen, especially for the pullover.
Yay for getting Dr. Spine's blessing to run in November! I know you've had some issues with Wine & Dine in the past, and I think it would be a really cool redemption for it to be your first half marathon after your injury. It'll replace some of those iffy memories with an amazing one!
I'm glad to hear that you're improving, and I hope you can continue to improve every week. I'm certainly no expert, but to me it sounds like you're on a good path to be ready to go for the Neverland 5K!
I. LOVE. THAT. UNICORN. That current pattern is amazing. Dude, I would wear that every day. Like seriously, I think that's my favorite InB pattern that I've ever seen, especially for the pullover.
Yay for getting Dr. Spine's blessing to run in November! I know you've had some issues with Wine & Dine in the past, and I think it would be a really cool redemption for it to be your first half marathon after your injury. It'll replace some of those iffy memories with an amazing one!
I'm glad to hear that you're improving, and I hope you can continue to improve every week. I'm certainly no expert, but to me it sounds like you're on a good path to be ready to go for the Neverland 5K!
Ariel484
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2011
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Yeah, I have to admit, I was a little skeptical when I saw what the exercises were (the first one essentially being "lie on your stomach") because they didn't seem like much...but they are definitely working! I definitely got lucky that I got assigned to him when I made my appointment.I am so impressed with your dr! To give you excercised to strengthen your back! Woohoo! And in general seems very supportive, very glad for you to have that experience. I had to go to PT to get excercises...... And to top it off, you DO them! What an example, do the work, get the results
Admittedly I have been falling off the wagon when it comes to actually doing the exercises though...
I'm REALLY good about it on work days, but at home, not so much. I guess it's easier for me to want to get away from my desk to do them than it is to motivate myself to get up off the couch at home! 
I'm sort of taking it as a good sign though - I think it's just not on my mind as much because things aren't bothering me like they were a week or two ago.Yeah, part of me wishes I hadn't looked, but part of me just HAD to know.
Not just for corral placement, but I was also thinking that it would be extra confirmation that the deferral went through. Did they charge your credit card yet for your Goofy deferral?Yeah it looks like there are lots of plans around for 2017 races! Which ones are you planning on?
Haha, same here! If you've learned nothing else from this thread, you have learned that I have quite the collection...looks like you are on your way too!You might recognize me by my InB!!! Lol!
Yay!! That's awesome! There has been a lot of BB8-related activity on the Facebook group!
Thanks for following along, and for the supportive comments. I appreciate it!Keep us updated! It is great to travel along with your progress
Ahhh, how exciting! Congrats on doing a "run-like movement"!! And that is SO pretty!!
So true!! I'm totally with you, I never thought I would miss it when I couldn't run, but I totally do. I'm so looking forward to that first run back...I know it'll be awful (because I feel like I have lost any and all conditioning I had by now) but awesome!!
I'd like to think I'll be the best-dressed runner on the block!
AHH, I didn't know you were in the Facebook group too! You're right, totally crazy - the pieces people are putting up for trade to get BB8s are nuts! I am SO happy with my trade...now I just need to get that pattern in the short-sleeved and long-sleeved versions (I didn't know the long-sleeved shirt existed until a couple of days ago...something else to pine for!).So glad you got your current pullover!! That trade stuff is crazy.
Woohoo!! All the cool kids have Fish Tanks! I'm trying to hold back on buying stuff on the Facebook page, because I got tagged for a LOT of things about a month ago...but there have been so many great things for sale lately! I think that'll continue to happen, especially with the club stuff happening in addition to InB releasing their regular items - people (myself included) are going to start needed to make extra room, both in closets and in the budget!I bought my first item off the ISO this past week. I added myself for the Fish Tank and got tagged for one within just a few hours. I was the only one in that size, so it is mine and should be on its way to me today. It might have triggered a buying spree for me.
I think you are right! I am thinking about it at a lot less for sure - it only really hurts when I bend or squat down to get on the floor or pick up something, which is a HUGE improvement from what it was.
I am so impressed that my doctor responded to my email! Right after I sent it I was just like "...Shannon, you are a crazy person, why did you do that?" But he made me feel better about it! And his response was super re-assuring, so I'm glad I asked.
You're right - that's a good way to think about it. I should be happy that I earned that placement, even if I don't get to use it.So sorry about the waivers and corral placements sort of opening the wound again.
Yeah, I REALLY wish the bib number hadn't been there - it would be nice to know for sure that I'm not totally losing my GSC registration fee. I'll feel better when they charge my card, and 100% better when they send me the early registration link for next year. I TOTALLY agree that rD can be frustrating. I think they are going through some growing pains with adding all of these new races, and they have made some changes I don't like (chief among them not displaying capacity percentages for deferrals and registrations).
Thanks Gisele. I appreciate it!
I love it too! I showed it to Mr. A and was like "what does this make you think of?" I was SO SURE he'd say "Tetris" because that was the first thing that popped into my head, and he goes "that is one ugly shirt!"
WHAT?! And I go "well, you're going to have to get used to it because I'm buying it!" 
I LOVE IT TOO. I want to own all of the Current things!!
I know! I was SO happy to get that email from Dr. S! I felt SO silly emailing him, mostly because I didn't want it to seem like I'm not taking the recovery seriously, because I definitely am...it's just freaking Disney making us plan all of these things so far out in advance!!
You know, I hadn't thought about that with Wine & Dine, but that is a great point.
You are totally right that it's the perfect redemption race for me! Me too! I appreciate your input with your PT background.
Neverland 5K is definitely my main goal right now...I would love it be in good enough shape to full enjoy that race!SAME. I hope I can actually make that schedule happen!Just dropping in to say I love to see your races updated in your signature!!
margitmouse
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2009
@Ariel484 Ok, not even attempting the quoting thing!! Lol!
It took a while for rD to charge me for the deferral, maybe even after the event?? Not positive, but I think I got a notification from them when they did.
I am still laughing at your exchange with Mr A about the shirt!!! Men! Their taste is all in their mouth
It took a while for rD to charge me for the deferral, maybe even after the event?? Not positive, but I think I got a notification from them when they did.
I am still laughing at your exchange with Mr A about the shirt!!! Men! Their taste is all in their mouth
pxefig
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
Man, I totally get the train wreck scenario of wanting to keep up with the thread of a race you aren't doing. My big blow up was Princess last year, when the Worst Thing So Far happened and I couldn't go. Yeah, I drunkenly posted about it (and soberly edited the post later because I really don't like my life on the interwebs) but God help me if I didn't torture myself reading everyone's comments afterwards. On the one hand, you get a fellowship with the people in the thread and you wonder how their worries and training plans panned out in the end. And on the other hand there is glorious torture in indulging yourself in what you don't get.
I'm glad BB-8 could get your unicorn. Once might even say the Force was with you ...
And yay for Wine and Dine. In theory, it is the runDisney race I love the most-best course, night race so no 2 am wake up, great after party. In actuality I ran it in the Whine and Drown of 2014 and deferred in 2015 (which seeing how that turned out isn't that bad) but God help me I feel like that race is cursed. My precious Avengers race is the weekend after so it always feels like a sacrifice for my family to have the back to back races. I soooooo want a GOOD Wine and Dine to know that it's all worth it! But yay for getting the approval to get that as your goal.
I'm glad BB-8 could get your unicorn. Once might even say the Force was with you ...
And yay for Wine and Dine. In theory, it is the runDisney race I love the most-best course, night race so no 2 am wake up, great after party. In actuality I ran it in the Whine and Drown of 2014 and deferred in 2015 (which seeing how that turned out isn't that bad) but God help me I feel like that race is cursed. My precious Avengers race is the weekend after so it always feels like a sacrifice for my family to have the back to back races. I soooooo want a GOOD Wine and Dine to know that it's all worth it! But yay for getting the approval to get that as your goal.
roxymama
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
I'm really hoping you all have a good Wine & Dine in 2016 as well. Selfishly because I want to show pictures and recaps to my husband to try to talk him into it for 2017. I already knows he likes the Food & Wine Fest...it's the convincing him to go run the half with me that would be the harder part.
Fist bump on the fartleks. Getting to 6:40 pace
And I maybe was looking at the Ink n Burn website for their green plaid designs for my Shamrock race coming up...maybe.
Fist bump on the fartleks. Getting to 6:40 pace
And I maybe was looking at the Ink n Burn website for their green plaid designs for my Shamrock race coming up...maybe.
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