April "Fool"ing around with the Goofs

[laxdef69]

Attaboy Steve...Good thread name choice!

I did 3000 yards today in about an hour in the pool.

While the Vernal Equinox has come and gone, Spring hasn't sprung (at least in the Midwest).

Lets have a fantastic April - Dec, team...for what its worth, a (formerly) fat man in Chicago is proud of this team...we came VERY close to our total hours for February, but blew away the miles totals.

Nice job goofs...stay consistent...you are doing this for YOU not for your team...but your TEAM is pulling for you.

Mike.

 

[suzannews]

Happy April everyone!!

 

[princessrunner]

Well hallelujah Mike is here to cover my back!! We had conficker issues on Tuesday afternoon, beefing up security, major freak out, etcetera. They closed us all off from everything before noon. Yesterday, I spent doing my taxes... Then DH had issues about traveling this year... It has been a great 2 days to say the least.

Thank goodness I run!!! I got in all my miles over my downtime even through the cold icy winds and rain! I am still working out a plan for the LR this weekend and stressing over that.

MARCH MILES: 1770.52 (1178.27)
MARCH HOURS: 296:31:05 (247:02:53)

YTD TOTALS: 2908.15/491:22:14

Wow! That's a lot of miles everyone! Nice work team!!!!!!!!!

INACTIVE MEMBERS:
ArelysAdriana
Escape
Nukeman
UP_Disney

Joanne, you still have no miles posted for either February or March. PLEASE contact me if there is a problem posting them to the sheet.

Spreadsheet link: https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...gle.com/ccc?key=pDo_Y1OjfFxhlRUqeH5B_fQ&hl=en

 

[groovygirls]

Thanks- I'll try and work on this later today.

 

[laxdef69]

good morning Goofs!

Lisa: sorry to hear about your travails, but GREAT job staying focused on your workouts!

One side note, the "time" values on the monthly page of the spreadsheet is in hours, not minutes.

Going for my first walk/run after surgery...I'll let the goofs know how it goes!

Mike

 

[princessrunner]

Mike, sorry, I am such a Goof!

Joanne, if there is a problem, you can PM me the miles/minutes and I will get the sheet updated for you. If you did not get access, talk to Mike. And thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jmasgat]

Thursday is here. Waiting til pm to do my swim, since yesterday I weas there at 5:35 a.m. and the pool was already full! Did weights instead.

Had my talk with my boss yesterday. Shorthand version--good performance, you come off as rude because you think you have the answer and you say whats on your mind, you're too smart,yada yada yada. Sigh! So I have to be me, but not me. I'm too old for this. At least I held it together while we were talking.

Anyway, time to work.

Maura

 

[laxdef69]

Thursday is here. Waiting til pm to do my swim, since yesterday I weas there at 5:35 a.m. and the pool was already full! Did weights instead.

Had my talk with my boss yesterday. Shorthand version--good performance, you come off as rude because you think you have the answer and you say whats on your mind, you're too smart,yada yada yada. Sigh! So I have to be me, but not me. I'm too old for this. At least I held it together while we were talking.

Anyway, time to work.

Maura

Sounds like we have the same boss....Its a lousy work situation. I'm in a shootout right now with my boss and his boss, trying to convince them that the road they are on will not only not make money, but will lose us literally millions of dollars in actual money, as well as productivity...but they know better.

oh well...at least I'm on record as saying that their solution won't work...

Well, my first run suxored. I got in about 2 miles in 30 minutes, and my knee wouldn't handle more than about .10 miles at a time, so I would jog VERY slowly until it hurt, then walk till it didn't. I wonder if I'm unconsciously compensating for the injury and my gait is off.

beats me. Time for knee ice and coffee!

 

[twoWDWfools]

Morning Team! WTG on the totals!!

Maura - I had one of those bosses years ago. Told me I wasn't "friendly" enough. Never mind I had the highest productivity of all the other team leads. Nope, need to pal around with them more, go drinking. Oh and I was an outsider...one of them city folk... This was in FAR western Maryland and I'm from Chicago. No, I don't hunt deer from the side of the road and I have never heard of squirrel pot pie (not kidding) so yeah, guess I am 'city folk'.

Mike - Patrick favored the knee first couple times he went out after surgery. Would complain of pain in the other leg muscles because he was putting more stress on the good one. Give it time.

Lisa - sorry to hear about the travel conversations. Just tell him it's to make you healthier.

We leave for NY tomorrow on a 6.15a flight so not I'll get in my work out tonight. Would like to but still haven't packed - at all. Might go home, get stuff done then see if have time before needing to get to bed.

Have a great day!

 

[ksoehrlein]

Maura, sorry to hear that you're "too smart" for your job. When I was younger, I thought you could never be too smart (like too thin or too rich), but it seems that's not the case in the real world.

Liz, your story sounds a bit like mine. I grew up in Central New Jersey and am now in the deep South. Thankfully none of my coworkers ever ate squirrel -- at least, not to my knowledge!

Lisa. I'm glad your runs gave you some stress relief. Good luck in your negotiations with your DH. Travel is expensive, but the mental health benefits (and physical health benefits is you're traveling for races!) are priceless IMO. Can you cut something else out of your budget as a way to compromise? After our cruise last month, we decided to eat out less often and start putting that money toward our travel budget instead.

Mike, hang in there with your knee. I hope to see reports of pain-free runs in the near future!

As for me, I did a little "speed" work yesterday and averaged under 10:25 pace. That's actually pretty good for me, so I was pleased. The bad news is that when I stopped to have some water after 1.25 miles, I realized I was on the verge of an asthma attack . I've only had one prior attack (in 1994), but DH has had exercise- and allergy-induced asthma since childhood, so I recognized the symptoms and decided to call off the rest of the workout. (Sorry for the low mileage day.) It took about 45 minutes before my lungs and trachea no longer felt like they were on fire. I've had a long talk with my body and hope it's on board with my plan that we are to try and go another 15 years before the next flare up!

 

[mla1977]

Hello Goofs! I'm glad this title was picked. It was my fave.

I hope everyone it feeling okay.

Maura, good luck with the work situation. I've been told that I'm the "nice" team leader at work. I guess the new people just don't really know me yet. Or maybe I'm just sarcastic and mean behind closed doors, as it should be.

I plan on getting out of here early enough to get a run outside. I really want to be a morning trainer. That requires me and DBF getting to bed earlier. The last time that I was really a morning exerciser was when I was a swimmer in college.

I did manage to convince my BFF that she will be running the Princess half with me next year. I told her that I was registering her in May so she needed to train. I think we'll have so much fun together.

I'll try to check in later when I complete my run.

 

[ksoehrlein]

Liz, your story sounds a bit like mine. I grew up in Central New Jersey and am now in the deep South. Thankfully none of my coworkers ever ate squirrel -- at least, not to my knowledge!

Argh! I take it all back, Liz. I just learned that one of my colleagues thinks squirrel "isn't too bad," but she drew the line at eating snake when one was caught and killed at a family reunion!

 

[twoWDWfools]

Argh! I take it all back, Liz. I just learned that one of my colleagues thinks squirrel "isn't too bad," but she drew the line at eating snake when one was caught and killed at a family reunion!

See, that conversation would never take place in Chicago or Jersey....

 

[princessrunner]

Okay we don't even have those conversations in Maine....

When I lived in GA, I did try alligator and some kind of snake but I did not like either. Never eaten a squirril, road killed a ton but never ate one. The dogs seem to enjoy them though...

Yesterday I got in 3 miles and was due for hill repeats but when I got home, DS7 wanted to go for a bike ride. I would like to give those miles to Shan. So, Shan, you have 3.44 miles in 34:04 yesterday and, for the record, you had a great time!! Needless to say I skipped the hill repeats after the bike.

All packed and ready to go to Mass tonight. DH wants to stay home and make money being all stressed out over the economy. I want some time out of Dodge. I am looking forward to the CMM trip just for that reason alone...and that I can be done with marathon training. I am going to have to have a supreme exprience in Nashville to justify this much time again. Maybe if I had nothing else to do in my life, it would be more fun but right now I am stressing just getting the steps in so I don't hurt too bad afterward. Yeah, who am I kidding...the 6:30 a.m. flight the next morning is going to entail supurlatives on my part. But at least I have Patrick to keep me entertained during the race.

Have a great day Goofs and keep those miles rolling in!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jmasgat]

Lisa Please don't stress--it ruins all the benefit of why we run in the first place! I do understand your comments about the time commitment, though. It is one of the reasons I haven't signed up for the marathon (yet).

Got in my swim yesterday and bike this morning. Now just waiting for the Dell guy to show up and fix my PC-finally. Our internal computer resources are mostly external, so between trying to explain a problem to someone half a world away (India, New Zealand), having them totally misinterpret and route to the wrong place, finally tell them "It's not slow--it's dead!" and talk to a couple more people, I have a repair person coming "sometime between 9:30-5:30" to swap out a boatload of parts.

Oatmeal is eaten...back to work.

Maura

 

[lenshanem]

When I lived in GA, I did try alligator and some kind of snake but I did not like either.

Yesterday I got in 3 miles and was due for hill repeats but when I got home, DS7 wanted to go for a bike ride. I would like to give those miles to Shan. So, Shan, you have 3.44 miles in 34:04 yesterday and, for the record, you had a great time!! Needless to say I skipped the hill repeats after the bike.

All packed and ready to go to Mass tonight.

Lisa, I have lived in Georgia all my life and never eaten alligator or snake!

Thanks for the miles! I greatly appreciate it, I'll go add them in a sec.

Hope you have a nice trip.


Mike, sorry about your walk/run. Hope the next one goes easier on your knee.


We're off to Hilton Head this weekend for spring break so you might not hear from me for a week. A little bit of family drama going down with some that are going with us, so I'm hoping everything will be OK. And to think I was just worried about the weather! Regardless, we're going and we might just end up with a bigger unit than we really need. It will hurt to lose those DVC points, though!

I plan on running on vacation. I'm a little scared. I ran around my daughter's gym this week just to get a feel and it seemed to go OK. I think I'm just gonna try to do a few two mile runs... I've gotten the bug since DH's marathon. I had all my programs pulled out yesterday trying to dream about some races I want to do. I would really like to do the Virginia Half and the WDW Full. Now, if I can talk DH into these that is another story. I really feel like I need a goal. I know I have the Peachtree planned, but it is just not the same???

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

 

[ksoehrlein]

Happy Friday, Goofs! Not much to report here. I did a half hour on the Wii Fit yesterday, which doesn't sound too strenuous, but those push-up/side-plank combos are TOUGH! I had a good hip stretch with the Wii Fit yoga as well and think I'll be up for another attempt at a run tonight during DS's pre-game baseball practice at the "good" ball field.

 

[Creativebeth]

April is starting out pretty well......I am at least getting used to getting up in the morning! It's not so hard every day.......but I did skip the early work-out this morning. I was dead tired yesterday with the 5:00am run on the TM and then 60 min pump class in the evening. And on top of that, my work days are long and busy. I am burning the candle at both ends right now. So this morning I stayed in bed (resting and awake!)

Beth

 

[SAHDad]

April started with an April Fool's joke on my run. I was running a bit late, and my run was going to end just before the Y closed. I was doing my last mile (which typically starts slightly slower than my 10k pace, but gets progressively faster), and with less than a quarter of a mile to go, the treadmill flashes a "System Re-Initialization" and comes to a dead stop. It doesn't slow down, it stops. After bouncing off the panel, I go a quick restart and burn through that final quarter even faster than normal.

Got in my runs for yesterday and today as well - I lost a lot of fitness in a week and a half or so, because what had been a cruising pace still feels uncomfortably fast, but my foot doesn't hurt anymore. I have to keep reminding myself not to push hard for the next week and try to regain it, since I have a marathon on the 11th.

On a final note, I've got a couple of weeks before deciding if I am going to do my first "real" ultra. I've done a couple of "baby" ultras (50ks), but this is a timed, 8-hour event, where you run the same loop course again and again and again and again and again and again (etc). It's not too pricey, it's something I want to do, and it wouldn't (probably) do any harm to my other races. And, as an additional plus - I could double the mileage.

 

[airtime247]

I wish I could take credit for the name but I believe it was Patrick's suggestion. Well, I could use his idea and claim ownership of it and get praise from the big-wigs but then we'd be talking about a boss I once had!

This has been a pretty brutal week for me. In addition to WDW trip & Easter planning and a sick wife & daughter, work has been overwhelming and I've been working a lot of late hours from home. The only exercise I've done in the last few days was a little over a 2 mile run last night. I just sank from exhaustion and couldn't do any more.

I'm finishing up everything tonight and should be able to start fresh next week. I really need to catch up on sleep as I've only been getting around 5 hours per night which isn't nearly enough for my normal activity level.

The stress has also been contributing to my eating habits and I'm starting to go in the opposite direction of the great progress I've made the last several weeks. Why doesn't celery work as comfort food?

Time to get back on track tonight! I'm pretty zapped today so I think I will do the exercise bike for an hour tonight while catching a show and then call it an early night.

I did register for the Big Sur Half Marathon in Monterey, CA coming in November. It will be my fourth Half this year and looks to be one of the more beautiful and scenic courses I've run. I've heard great things about it and am really excited.

Our March numbers are a little higher now that I updated my last two days.

Finally, no strange food for me (I'm a Californian!) The only unusual things I try are on cruise ships and at Food & Wine at Epcot!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

-steve