Donald's Defiant Dashers (AKA Triple D's/Duckies/The Ducks) Dashing into 2010

[liznboys]

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[jmasgat]

Hi Triple D's,

I went ahead and assigned a new member to your team--not having seen your latest roster. So you will be 19, which cribbage aside, is "Prime".

Please welcome Carissa/carissanboys.

Maura

 

[carissanboys]

Hello Ducks!

I was delighted to get assigned to this team since my good friend Liz is here!

Hello to the rest of you. It'll take me a while to get to know everyone.

I am new to the W.I.S.H. board. I registered to run the half-marathon at WDW next January and just started the C25K program in January. I'm currently on week 3 and going strong. I'm also planning on running a 5K later in the year (can't do one before August because my husband is deployed until at least July and we have no friends or family here to watch our boys) and a 10K at the end of October.

Here are my answers to the survey you all have been doing:

Real Name: Carissa

Age: 35

Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Family Stats: Married 10 years with three boys who I homeschool

Meaning of DIS Name: Like Liz, my name is pretty obvious. In fact, I think I copied her.

Races: None as of yet

Upcoming Races: Hoping to do a couple of 5Ks August - October including the Race for the Cure and the Blue Moon Wicked 10K at the end of October

Pets: A black and white cat named Oreo and a Russian Tortoise named Darwin

Hobbies/Interests: Reading, travel, football, cooking, letterboxing

Want to Know More About: Training for races

Favorite Disney Park: Epcot

Favorite Disney Dining Spots: Wolfgang Puck Express, Raglan Road, Sci Fi Drive In, Boma (breakfast)

Coolest Things You Ever Did: Lived and traveled in Australia for three years, rode a camel, hand fed kangaroos, held a koala, traveled to Alaska twice, white water rafting in Maine

 

[liznboys]

I saw that you were coming here on my iphone Carissa and I got on here as quickly as I could so I could post, "Don't I know you from somewhere??" LOL I'm such a dork, I crack myself up though.

Anyway, Welcome! For everyone else here, Carissa and I are friends "in real life", gosh, for 10 years now, right C?? We have a great team going here, if I do say so myself!

 

[carissanboys]

I saw that you were coming here on my iphone Carissa and I got on here as quickly as I could so I could post, "Don't I know you from somewhere??" LOL I'm such a dork, I crack myself up though.

Anyway, Welcome! For everyone else here, Carissa and I are friends "in real life", gosh, for 10 years now, right C?? We have a great team going here, if I do say so myself!

Yup - 10 years at some point this year. I think Sully was only a few months old when we met.

Liz has been my inspiration to start running and I'm looking forward to having all of the running veterans around for support. And to take this journey with any other newbies who might be around (hoping I'm not the only one).

 

[liznboys]

Yup - 10 years at some point this year. I think Sully was only a few months old when we met.

Liz has been my inspiration to start running and I'm looking forward to having all of the running veterans around for support. And to take this journey with any other newbies who might be around (hoping I'm not the only one).

I think we have a good variety of runners here, new and experienced and in between.

 

[marathonmommy]

Hello Ducks!

I was delighted to get assigned to this team since my good friend Liz is here!

Hello to the rest of you. It'll take me a while to get to know everyone.

I am new to the W.I.S.H. board. I registered to run the half-marathon at WDW next January and just started the C25K program in January. I'm currently on week 3 and going strong. I'm also planning on running a 5K later in the year (can't do one before August because my husband is deployed until at least July and we have no friends or family here to watch our boys) and a 10K at the end of October.

Here are my answers to the survey you all have been doing:

Real Name: Carissa

Age: 35

Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Family Stats: Married 10 years with three boys who I homeschool

Meaning of DIS Name: Like Liz, my name is pretty obvious. In fact, I think I copied her.

Races: None as of yet

Upcoming Races: Hoping to do a couple of 5Ks August - October including the Race for the Cure and the Blue Moon Wicked 10K at the end of October

Pets: A black and white cat named Oreo and a Russian Tortoise named Darwin

Hobbies/Interests: Reading, travel, football, cooking, letterboxing

Want to Know More About: Training for races

Favorite Disney Park: Epcot

Favorite Disney Dining Spots: Wolfgang Puck Express, Raglan Road, Sci Fi Drive In, Boma (breakfast)

Coolest Things You Ever Did: Lived and traveled in Australia for three years, rode a camel, hand fed kangaroos, held a koala, traveled to Alaska twice, white water rafting in Maine

I'm so glad to see you are on the ducks! I saw your request to be on the team, read part of your TR, and was going to suggest you join us! Love your style! Glad you were put with us! I am a newbie, too! Welcome!

Oh . . . and what is letterboxing?

 

[carissanboys]

I'm so glad to see you are on the ducks! I saw your request to be on the team, read part of your TR, and was going to suggest you join us! Love your style! Glad you were put with us! I am a newbie, too! Welcome!

Oh . . . and what is letterboxing?

Oh wow! I was wanted!

Here is a link to my blog and the article I wrote about letterboxing:

Letterboxing 101

If you're familiar with geocaching, it's a similar activity.

 

[marathonmommy]

Oh wow! I was wanted!

Here is a link to my blog and the article I wrote about letterboxing:

Letterboxing 101

If you're familiar with geocaching, it's a similar activity.

LOVE the concept. I checked and there are actually many boxes in my area! Who would've thunk it?!
I can't wait to check it out but will have to wait until the 2 foot + melts!
My DS5 just clicked on those dancers . . . they have little to do with my post.

 

[carissanboys]

LOVE the concept. I checked and there are actually many boxes in my area! Who would've thunk it?!
I can't wait to check it out but will have to wait until the 2 foot + melts!
My DS5 just clicked on those dancers . . . they have little to do with my post.

Letterboxing is great for getting outside and finding new places. Many are in areas with hiking trails and I'm looking forward to doing runs in those kinds of places.

Oh - you must leave near where I used to live. Aren't you getting more snow tomorrow?

 

[SamSam]

A big welcome to new team members. Glad to have you aboard, Triple D's rock! Sounds like several of us are going to be doing the Food and Wine Half....YES!!!!

I don't know for sure if we're tracking hours/minutes yet, but just in case, here are my hours for the week ending 02/07/10:
200 minutes 17.5 miles

My rib is slowly healing, so I've been using an eliptical machine and a stationary bike for my workouts. Anything else makes the rest of my day miserable. I recently joined a new gym with some great sounding classes, so I'm really looking forward to participating in them when I'm able.

 

[marathonmommy]

Letterboxing is great for getting outside and finding new places. Many are in areas with hiking trails and I'm looking forward to doing runs in those kinds of places.

Oh - you must leave near where I used to live. Aren't you getting more snow tomorrow?

Yep . . . not sure what time it's coming, but they say it is! Hope I still remember about letterboxing by the time we thaw out! We are not used to snow around here, so it paralyzes the area!

 

[ryley26]

If were tracking miles
50 miles running 8.50 hours and around another 80 biking at 9 hours. Were getting ready for the same storm everyone else is getting. The weather is a pain. The street are never plowed at 5:00 am so running is an adventure.

Welcome to all the new member this is a great group. Rich

 

[ahoff]

Good Morning, Ducks! Welcome to the new members! I have enjoyed reading all the questionaires. The letterboxing sounds kind of neat. I have still not done any running yet, have done some walking, and a lot of biking. I still plan on doing the virtual Valentines runs we are doing, but just the 5K. That is if the streets are clear, we are predicted to having more snow tonight. I am looking forward to a snow day tomorrow.

Rich, you are racking up the miles again! I only have biking miles to report, 150 in 9 1/2 hours

I hope everyone has a good week! Stay warm!

Augie

 

[carissanboys]

Good morning, everyone! Thanks for the welcome.

I have decided to do the Virtual 5K on Valentine's Day. I'd like some advice from you all on what my strategy should be. Like I mentioned before, I'm currently on week 3 of the C25K program. The longest distance I've done so far is 2 miles and my speed is pretty slow (I run on the treadmill). I'm hoping to try and increase my speed this week and see how it goes.

I will have finished week 3 by Sunday. But, I'm not sure how I should try to do the 5K. Any suggestions on what kinds of intervals I should aim for? I'm barely able to run for 3 minutes at a time right now.

 

[liznboys]

Carissa~ Check out this site:
http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/walk_breaks.html

See the ratios they have listed there for the run/walk? Maybe that would work for you. So if you normally run at a 15 min per mile pace, you would do the run for 30 seconds and walk for 45 seconds plan. You could modify that to your liking and change it as needed during the 5K. Maybe double the time sometimes to 1 min run/1.5 min walk. Or slow it down to 30 sec/1.5 min or 1 min/3min. You want to do a pace that will get you to 3.1 miles feeling good (I would not worry about time).

 

[liznboys]

Happy Tuesday Ducks!

Well I am getting irritated at my lack of running... My 10 yr old is still home sick, my 3 yr old is still fighting off his cold. So I can't head out with the jogger and I can't use the junky treadmill in the garage because my 3 yr old is an energetic/curious kiddo and I would have to get off the treadmill every other minute to see what he's up to. I know they will get better, and I'll be able to go out with the jogger at some point again. But I really, really want, no, NEED, my inside treadmill working again. So I'm going to talk to dh and see if we can't go ahead and get it repaired....fingers crossed.

I'm signed up for the Virtual VDay race, the 10K, however I may have to drop down to the 5K. I'll just decide that morning. I mean I've only run twice in the past 4 weeks!!! That's awful! So even if I only do the 5K, I know it's going to be a SLOW time for me. Oh well.

My main goal right now though is to train well for the 10K I'm planning on for May 15th. I want to do it in about 65 minutes and use that time as proof for the WDW Half so I can be in a better corral. (forgive me if I already told you all that, and if I repeat myself in the future on stuff...I have a fuzzy memory sometimes!)

 

[carissanboys]

Carissa~ Check out this site:
http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/walk_breaks.html

See the ratios they have listed there for the run/walk? Maybe that would work for you. So if you normally run at a 15 min per mile pace, you would do the run for 30 seconds and walk for 45 seconds plan. You could modify that to your liking and change it as needed during the 5K. Maybe double the time sometimes to 1 min run/1.5 min walk. Or slow it down to 30 sec/1.5 min or 1 min/3min. You want to do a pace that will get you to 3.1 miles feeling good (I would not worry about time).

Thanks! I will go check that out. I used to have Jeff's book, but I've lost it somewhere over the years. That sounds very doable for me. I did do under a 15 minute mile today, but that was working HARD. I couldn't keep it up for 3 miles.

I know I shouldn't worry about time, but having to post it for everyone here to see... It's going to be VERY slow.

You definitely need your treadmill working! Hoping you're able to get it fixed soon.

 

[liznboys]

Don't worry about your time, I mean you JUST started running. My time would have been super slow had I done a 5K at just 3 weeks into the C25K! My time for this race is going to be slow (for me) too...

 

[solar]

Hi Carissa - welcome to the Ducks

Liz - hope you're able to get your indoor treadmill repaired soon
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I did an 8 mile run today - my longest yet! It was a nice confidence booster, as the Princess 1/2 is getting close!

I track miles elsewhere, so I probably won't report monthly/etc here if that's okay.