Hakuna Matada - Spooky October

[Lynn G]

Good Morning Team!

Vicky - Forgot to post points - lost one pound by Friday (of course, I have gained it back after stuffing myself yesterday!) - I am always good on the vitamin, water and exercise - only did planks 3 days (does that mean I get 3 points, was not sure) I am not sure about the fruits and veggies, so I will pass on that point this week. That gives me a total of 4 points (or 7 if I get credit for 3 days of planks).

Kim - Have a great day Kim! Hope work is not too bad for you today!

Dave - Pretty much, yet, we have traded in walking shoes for biking shoes, Scott does not really like to walk (I think it reminds him too much that he can’t run anymore), and I cannot walk fast enough anymore - the pain in the knee makes it difficult - it does not hurt to ride. We did do the 5K at DL, and that is a possibility at WDW, but not this year, maybe next, who knows.

AFM - Nothing new to report since last night, looks like it will be a nice day so I think a bike ride is in order. We are taking the dogs camping I think tomorrow (they keep changing the weather report on us) for a couple of days, which means alot of short walks, but no major exercise.

Pixie dust to all who are in need!

Have a great day team!

 

[windwalker]

Well my training partner didn't show up this morning so my workout became: 2 mile warm up, 4 X 800m walk sprints with 400m recovery intervals. 5 miles total and an awesome workout.

Now it's time for a short nap while the dew dries up so I can attack the yard.

Dave

 

[rubato]

Good morning team.

Dave: Good job changing up your plans, and working with what you've got (or who you've got). I need to mow as well, but it's not gonna happen today.

Lynn: I hope you have a great trip. I'm quite jealous. Camping at WDW is my favorite way to visit. I love the campground, but we haven't camped since our 2nd trip. Frank says that the gas mileage we lose and the cost of camping add up to a moderate resort. He's probably right, but I still miss it.

Kim: I'm sure you'll have an amazing time. I think this is one of the nicest times of year to go to Florida or to cruise. I haven't been on vacation since January's trip either, but, for some reason, Frank doesn't see this as a problem.

Regina: Apparently, my hip adductors (outside of hip) are weak and causing my knees to turn in. Also, this is adding to my lack of arches, which is pulling on the tendons in my lower leg, causing too much strain on my calf muscles. Who could have known that one weak muscle and flat feet could cause all this problem?
Great idea to cook for everyone to insure your own healthy eating. It benefits everyone, right? Sorry about the phone. I am so cheap that I will hold on to a phone until it won't hold itself together anymore.

AFM: I RAN YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!! It felt so good. Of course, it was only for .5 miles of my 3.5 mile walk, but it was awesome. I am paying for it today. I went in for PT at 7:30 this morning, and my calf was tight. But, I felt the need to see how running went before my doctor's appt on Wednesday. Now, I can give him a report.

Baseball was a bit of a bummer. We got stomped on Saturday by a team that really isn't that much better than us. Then, on Sunday, we almost beat the #1 team. If we had just not made a few minor mistakes, that game would have been ours. Now, we only have 3 games left for the season, and we should win them all.

Today is a lazy non-school day (I can't believe I can finally say that). I just have to study for the big test on Thursday and shave the dog. I've already cleaned out the fridge, thrown dinner in the crockpot, gone to PT, walked 3.5 miles, and started all the laundry. I was bored being a stay at home mom, but I miss how clean my house was!

 

[Saylan]

Found the new thread but I have to go back and check up on things from the old one so just a quick fly-by for now!

Vicky: May I please be added to the Donald listing now that I know I'm going?

I tried speed work last night on the treadmill. I think Galloway is smoking some serious dope.

Take your goal time: 11:00/mile
Cut it in half for a half mile time: 5:30/800 metres-ish
Subtract 15 seconds: 5:15/800 metres-ish
Run that for two laps/800 metres-ish.

So on a treadmill that comes to 10.5... Fastest I've done is 5.5... No way no how buddy! I'm brave (maybe) but I'm not stupid.

I decided to Vicky's approach of 8.5 (I dropped it to 8.0 just because I'm no where near Vicky's speed) for .25 and then walk/jog for 0.25. FYI 8.0 is a BIG adjustment for me but I liked the feeling and I felt 0.25 was perfect for me. I'm not sure how fast to 'job' so I dropped to my walk speed of 3.5 for half of the lap and went up to 4.5 (an easy jog) for the other half. Did I do it right, Vicky?

I'd love to say how that worked out but when I sped up for the second lap at 8.0, about .15 miles in my machine shut down. I looked over to DBF who was also running and his was shut off just as he'd been speeding up to 10. We tried unplugging and re-plugging, looking for fuse boxes everywhere, nada! Apparently, we blew out the fuse in the gym. The ony things still working was the TV and A/C which seemed to be on separate breakers.

I convinced DBF to do a lap around our LARGE neighbourhood to get some running in since we only got about 6-8 minutes in before the fuse blew. I tried some of those fartlek thingies where you run all out from one lamp post to another slowing every other one, and that was fun, but our sidewalks are being redone so yay sand! Plus, it was a bit nippy out there at 7 pm for my running skirt and racerback. Lesson learned on that one.

I'm not sure yet how DBF and I will handle training together in the future since we both want to do speedwork but alternating "ok you speed up now, and I'll slow down" doesn't sound like fun!

 

[es45]

Happy Monday, all,

Just a quick check-in to say hello. I ran 6.5 on Saturday and felt great until I noticed my pace. Need to get faster. Like Saylan, I ran fartleks yesterday (boy do my kids love that word ) Today is a rest day.

Mike: Sorry to read about your cousin. Thinking of you and your family during such a sad time.

Training question: Anyone out there stop following a run/walk method and just go to straight running? Wondering how to taper off the walk part without causing injury.

 

[windwalker]

Tandy have you thought about just walking at least till you are stronger? walking works 95% of your body parts and it will strengthen your core as well as your legs and upper body. If you look at good race walkers they look much more muscular than other endurance athletes.

Making the switch from runner to walker was difficult for me but now I really enjoy walking. I work harder now than I ever did as a runner. One of the things that gives me hope is that I'm closer in speed to a good walker than I was to a good runner when I ran.

Anyway to each his/her own. We are all brother and sister athletes. The important thing is that we move, be it walk, run, on foot or on a bike.

Dave

 

[rubato]

Dave: Yes, I have. The problem I'm having is that I am really impatient. I love walking, but just can't seem to sustain my pace without wanting to pick it up a bit. I definitely find walking more draining and tiring because I'm out there longer. But, I love running so much.

Saylan: Are you sure you need to be running at 10.5 mph? I can barely do that for more than 30 seconds and I run at 8.5 or 9 mph all the time. You could get seriously hurt. I guess your TM just couldn't handle it either, huh? I hope you and your bf can work something out.

Elizabeth: My son laughs at fartlek too. I don't know how to taper off walking except to say do it slowly. When I was training my 11 year old son for his 10k, he started out with a 2/1 interval and ended up with a 4/1. We just took added 30 seconds to his running part each week until he got to where he wanted to be, while also adding distance.

AFM: I just got called in to my son's school. He is being bullied by this kid and I just feel so bad for him. I remember how horrible middle school was for me, and was really hoping he would have a better time of it. As of right now, it's only one kid, but he's threated to kill my son! Of course, the counselor brought the bully in after we left and he denied everything. Now, the counselor wants to have my son and the bully in to his office together tomorrow. Why do that? It's just going to make it worse. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!

 

[RunRookie]

I just got called in to my son's school. He is being bullied by this kid and I just feel so bad for him. I remember how horrible middle school was for me, and was really hoping he would have a better time of it. As of right now, it's only one kid, but he's threated to kill my son! Of course, the counselor brought the bully in after we left and he denied everything. Now, the counselor wants to have my son and the bully in to his office together tomorrow. Why do that? It's just going to make it worse. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!

With that kind of threat, you could involve the police. Were there other youth who were witness to the threat? The school ought to suspend a kid for making such a violent threat if it is confirmed. I have a no tolerance attitude about bullyin

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g, racism, and other insensitivites and I make e principals at my kids' schools fully aware of that, and that I will involve whoever I feel is necessary (including the press) to see that my children are respected and protected from that kind of abuse.

I will be praying for this situation tomorrow. I have been there and it totally sucks.

 

[rubato]

With that kind of threat, you could involve the police. Were there other youth who were witness to the threat? The school ought to suspend a kid for making such a violent threat if it is confirmed. I have a no tolerance attitude about bullyin

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g, racism, and other insensitivites and I make e principals at my kids' schools fully aware of that, and that I will involve whoever I feel is necessary (including the press) to see that my children are respected and protected from that kind of abuse.

I will be praying for this situation tomorrow. I have been there and it totally sucks.

Thanks Rick. No, no one else heard it. It's kind of his word against my son's right now. But, I'm pretty sure the school is taking it seriously. Of course, not as seriously as I am. I am going to give it about a week and see how it plays out. If it gets worse, stays the same, or the kid just flat out denies it and the school does nothing, I'll take it to the next level. I don't want to make it worse for my son, but I can't just let it go either.
I tend to have your same viewpoint about anything violent or racist. But, I will give the school the benefit of the doubt for a little while. At least now I know why my child's been vomiting in PE. He is so stressed, he's getting sick. Poor baby (he'd die if he heard me say that ).

 

[windwalker]

Tandy I was the skinny little picked on kid when I was in school so I can identify with what he's going through. For my part when I was old enough I joined the army and volunteered for every kick butt school I could get. This was during the Vietnam war so there was plenty of opportunity for that. Then after a tour of duty wearing the torch of a Pathfinder I switched to the Air Force when my job moved and became combat controller.

Moving right along.

I saw that Mike completed his first marathon. There is nothing like it. Vicky posted a thing on facebook:

At 20 miles I thought I was going to die.

At 22 miles I knew I was going to die.

At 24 miles I knew I was dead.

At 26.2 miles I knew I was to tough to kill.

Mike we are proud of you brother, wellcome to the club. You are now officially changed forever.

Dave

 

[bunnyfoo]

Hi everyone! I'm a little bit late with my post but it was a busy day at work but I have more time to catch up!

Dave - Will get the front page updated! I cut and pasted the team stuff from a file that Margie gave me a while ago. But now that I look at the team roster, I see a lot of people haven't posted in a while. My birthday is the day before your's and I'm moving up an age category too What are you and Sally doing to celebrate? Awesome find on all the work stuff for Sally!

Tandy - That's awful What is wrong with kids - a death threat?! I got bullied when I was in grade school by one or two kids but I stood up to them and they backed off. But that was before kids started carrying weapons to school. I don't have any experience with that kind of bullying but I hope you're able to get everything sorted out. Big for you and Harrison! And definitely look into the police option like Rick suggested.

Elizabeth - When I first started running, I would do intervals of something like 2R/5W for an hour. I would work on a set interval for a week at a time and then I'd increase the run interval. So the next week would be 3R/4W for an hour, then 4R/3W, 5R/2W ...etc. I did that until I was able to do a 10R/1W. Once I knew I could do that, I moved from time onto distance and started running 3 miles using the 10/1 intervals. Once I was comfortable with the distance, I worked on increasing the interval to 15/1. On my 3 miler, the 15/1 interval worked out to one walking break so one day, I pushed and skipped the walking break. Then I worked on getting comfortable running 3 miles continuously. On bigger distances, I'd go back to the 10/1 intervals and slowly decrease the walking breaks as I got more comfortable with the distance and the amount of time I could continuously run. I worked my way up to 8 miles continuous at one point but always do 10/1 for races. I also worked on mileage based intervals too ... Sorry for the long answer!

Saylan - I don't know much about the Galloway method. I know he links some of his run/walk intervals to pace but that's about it. Your numbers make me Can you tell I'm not good at math?

I've seen the BL contestants run faster than I do on the TM and I always wonder how they do it without flying off. My PT told me that he's set the TM to go really fast and flown off so it does happen. I would rather see you start at 6.5-7 and then work your way up to 10.5. If you're okay running at 8 for 400 meters (0.25 m), that's awesome I also walk about 3.5 for 0.25 miles and then start running again. You and DBF are too fast for your own good if you guys blew the fuse Glad you were able to go outside and continue with the workout! Good job! Look into arm sleeves ... they're awesome for 10C weather! You can roll them down when you get hot.

Lynn - Good job on the weight loss! The South Africa trip is your second ABD trip? Can you request to be put into an adults only group? I forgot to ask you - what happened to your other fruit trees this summer? Was it too hot/dry for them?

Kim - There are a lot of challenges to going paperless that the higher ups don't think about. We tried doing that for a bit in our group but one problem we ran into (aside from the labour intensive scanning) was that we didn't have enough hard drive space for all the scans we now had to store. And the lack of admin support doesn't help either...

Regina - That's an awesome loss!! Congrats!! I've run by smokers many times - yuck! Did you eat before you went running? Someone told me that you should wait an hour after eating before exercising. And here I thought that only applied to swimming The cramps could also be a shortage of electrolytes - I had the same thing happen to me back when I did the 30K in August. It was going well, then I had cramps and kind of lost steam. Before my long runs (and the day before too), I make sure I have a glass or two of an electrolyte drink. I started using one called Ultima which has a bunch of minerals - potassium, magnesium, calcium and no sugar. I've read that sugar can causing cramping too.

I read the iPhone 5 is suppose to be announced sometime soon. Does your cell phone company provide loaner phones or something like that?

Safe travels on Thursday

Mike - Sorry to hear about your cousin That's very sad. How are you feeling after Sunday? Have you recovered or are you walking funny Have you seen this Youtube video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-hCuYjvw2I

Love the guy looking up at the stairs and the woman trying to cross the street!

AFM - I didn't quite make my 12 miler on the weekend. I tweaked my ankle (again... yeah again ) so it's feeling a bit peculiar today. My physio is coming over tomorrow to have a look at it. I hope he doesn't have to acupuncture it - I'm sure he doesn't want to either So now I'm kind of rethinking Marine Corps ... I'm afraid if I go and run it, I'll make my ankle worse which means I'll end up walking Disney. And there's nothing wrong with that except I want to run both races. Plus I feel like I'm really undertrained for MCM. *sigh*

Oh I went to the baking show and watched Cake Boss - Buddy Valastro give a talk. For those of you who know who he is or watch his show. Did you know he's only 34-years-old. I thought he was 45 Oops! But he did say that he's been working full time at his bakery since he was 17 and a lot of days he'd be there for 15-20 hours. I guess the long hours and sugar (I read that it's an anti-oxidant) aren't great for the aging process. I ate a few sweets while I was there - it was my cheat day. I didn't actually eat that much but I felt really sick afterward. I guess maybe I had been doing better with cutting out the sugar than I originally thought.

I worked out tonight and did more upper body exercises on account of the cranky ankle. I did do a few lunges and straight leg deadlift exercises and those seemed ok. I'm going to try and get out tomorrow morning for a run before work. I want to see how the ankle is doing so I can give my physio a better update.

Have a great night everyone!

 

[Hockeychic]

Hey gang just popping in to say hi.

Called yesterday to set up ME for my January trip super excited.

Dave: Did you decide where you and Sally are staying?

We have a long weekend coming up, can't wait. It is our Thanksgiving and the weekend is looking awesome!!!!

 

[Hockeychic]

Just subbing

 

[windwalker]

Kimmer, Sally and I are staying at the Old Key West resort. We are arriving on Wed afternoon before the race and departing thursday morning after the race weekend. We are doing the DR Ohana supper on Thursday, team breakfast at Kona Toast on Friday morning, DR after race rat killing at 9 Dragons on Sunday and The German Buffet on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday suppers are as yet undecided.

This mornings workout was great, I just went for an hour, didn't try to track pace or distance but I felt good and fast.

Dave

 

[bunnyfoo]

Also, my cell phone has died. I knew it was on the fritz but I have been trying to hold out until I see the new Iphone 5 and when it goes on sale because DH and I would like to try an Iphone and are going to upgrade our phones at the same time. The last week or so it has been shutting off on me randomly and will not hold a charge, and even dies when it says the battery is full. I have been trying to turn it on all day today and it won’t turn on. Why couldn’t it hang in there just a little longer?

Regina - You've probably already heard the announcement today but Apple announced that it's releasing the iPhone 4S on October 14th.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...-5-iphone-4s-announced-with-a5-processor.html

 

[Piglet24]

Hi Team!

Lynn- Hope you had a great time camping! Well, there is obviously much I have to learn about all things Disney! I knew people decorated their rooms, their doors, etc., but it never occurred to me they decorated the campground too. Some day I would like to try camping at WDW and see how I like it. I think carrying your own water is a good idea and the more I think about it the more I think it is in my best interest to do so. I am also more of a sipper. I have a fuel belt and it works fine, I just like having the extra space that my fuel belt takes up. I’m sorry you didn’t feel well during your ride and that the Octoberfest wasn’t exciting. I hope you’re feeling better.

Dave- That was an issue at Wine and Dine last year. We were some of the slower folks and I swear we waited in line to get our bags for what seemed like at least an hour. There were people sick all around us and there were people vomiting and not doing very well. It was awful. I had to sit down because I was so exhausted and just did not have the energy to stand stack-to-stack with people like sardines. When we finally did get out of the bag check area, lines for food/beverages were so long and it was so late all I wanted to do was go back to the hotel. Hopefully they at least fixed the issue with everyone being backed up at the bag check area. Hopefully they will continue to improve each year! I would like to go back for Wine and Dine next year, but that is because I love the Food and Wine Festival and MNSSHP. Glad you had a great workout yesterday and today!!

Kim- Yay for vacation! Where are you cruising to and for how long? It sounds like it is long overdue!

Tandy- Darn those weak muscles!! So are you working to strengthen your hip adductors? Lol, I just hope the family will like what I cook! We have been eating a lot more veggies the last couple weeks and include 2, sometimes 3, at every dinner. They are also usually just steamed. If I were really good, I’d include a full serving or 2 at lunch also, but I figure baby steps and this is a good start for us. Yay you got to run!! That is awesome! Hope your appointment tomorrow goes well! Bummer the baseball didn’t go as well as you hoped it would. I am so sorry to hear your son is being bullied! That is awful and it makes me angry to even read that your son has to deal with that. It is unacceptable.

Saylan- I’m glad you enjoyed doing fartleks. I like fartleks as well. I can’t believe you guys blew the power on the TM’s. LOL, you must have been working hard! Good luck with your speedwork. I can’t really comment on Galloway because I haven’t used Galloway’s plans.

Elizabeth- When I was first building to running, I did a 6 week running plan of run/walk intervals I found in an article in a magazine. It steadily built up the intervals each week (2/3, 3/2...5/2...etc.)The last interval they did was 9run/1walk for 30 min (3 times) for one week (4 workouts each week) and after that it was run for 30 min straight. So I think if you can do that for whatever mileage you’ve been doing then you should be good to go to straight running for that same mileage.

Vicky- Thanks! Yes, I had eaten but it had been a few hours. I never eat and run right away because I have a sensitive tummy and have learned that my tummy does not like it when I do that. As I think about it more, it probably was a shortage of electrolytes. I’m getting to the point in my runs where I’m going to need more fuel to keep me going. So I’m going to get some gels and give those a try and see if they help. I plan to use them for my marathon training anyway. It’s about that time so I may as well get started on it. Oh, that’s a good idea on the electrolyte drinks before a run. I hadn’t thought about that. I’ll give it a try also. Where do you get Ultima? Do you like it? Yes I saw they announced the Iphone 4S today and it will go on sale here on October 14. Yay! So the rumors were true! No loaner phones, but DH loaned me his phone while he is at work so I have a phone in case of emergency and he and my parents can reach me. We also ordered a new battery for my phone and are hoping that should fix the problem also. How did you tweak your ankle? I am so sorry you are having these issues. That’s terrible. Do you work on strengthening that area when you work out? I hope your run went ok today.

AFM, I ran 4 miles on the TM today in my vibrams. It went really well. No major issues. I saw a neat thing when I was driving back from taking DH dinner at work. He works 2 min (literally) from our housing and right before the entrance into our housing there were 2 deer just hanging out by the road. I was surprised to see them because we are right next to the water and I don’t think they should be out of the forest area back behind us. Luckily we are at the end of the road. It was already dark and raining so I didn’t see them until I was maybe 5-10 feet from them. One of them ran into the property and then ran back out after it thought I wasn’t paying attention to it anymore. I thought it was very cool. Of course Sydney saw them and went crazy. That’s about all the excitement I’ve had today.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!!

 

[windwalker]

Regina, I'm not a fan of lines at all. I don't do a bag check at all. In all the pics you see of me I'm wearing thin running pants and usually have a windbreaker light jacket tied around my waist and a small belt pack with wallet and cell phone. That way I can travel around after the races and be warm if it's chilly when I cool down from the race.

Today is group training walk with my race walker brothers. We haven't all been together for a few weeks so it will be a fun morning. We do 6.5 miles on a challenging route of hilly woods, parks and riverside. My best time for this route is 1:16 but I'm taking it easy today, I've had to hard workouts in a row so don't need to push to awefully hard today.

Have a magical wednesday y'all.

Dave

 

[Hockeychic]

Good morning all!!!!

Dave we are also arriving Wed, flight comes in early AM. Hope we will see you more then we did last year.

Regina, we are cruising out of Miami, going to Half Moon Cay which is a private Island, St Thomas, Turks and Caicos and San Juan. Have done this itn. before one of my favorites, I love the eastern caribbean.

Just finished my AM workout and I think I retweaked whatever it is that is making my thigh tighten up. It is pretty sore right now. Stopping trainning now is not a option...lol I vow to do into Marathon weekend trainned...never tried that before However, I might change up the cross trainning and go from high impact land stuff hit the pool twice a week.

Have a super Wednesday all. 12 more work days till vaca not that I am counting

 

[Villains_Rock]

Hello Team!! So I am really going to try to post more. Not that my training is ramping up and we are less than 3 months out of WDW Marathon weekend I figured I might as well get myself prepared!

Mike - Once again congrats on your recent marathon. Like I said on FB...can't wait for that report! You always write to make me feels as if I am right along in the race! Also..I was looking for a spring race and I saw you will be running the Illinois Marathon? I used to live in Springfield and my DH has never been there. I might have to see if he would be interested in going. I figured after the race he and I could shoot down to Springfield and visit a friend or two then fly home from there! We'll see though...long race weekends means unpaid days away from work and lots of money.

Regina - So did you run the W&D this year? I will prob never do it again after getting so sick after last years race. Funny though...I am typing this as I sit here wearing my W&D race shirt.

Lynn - Scott had asked me to see if Jordan can help him sell a motorcycle...he said he will ask around, however people usually like to see what they are going to buy and test ride etc. He doesn't have very many connections outside of the midwest, but if anything comes up we will let you guys know. Also...we will be buying bikes soon! The guy at the shop said that since I have the endurance runner base that he recommends a road bike because he thinks I will want to do lots of charity and group ride if not duathalons/tris. It's very exciting, but makes me nervous to think of all that!

Vicky - So I think we may want to stick with the Chef Micky's for that Sunday. Still not sure if we will head over to Epcot or stay at MK for the night though. MK has extra magic hours that night and I loooove the castle at night, but that's Jordan's least favorite park (because they don't serve beer) so we'll see. Oh and I found some knee high green socks on amazon for $7. They are asics...I think they are intended for volleyball, but they look like a normal running sock to me at the bottom. I may get them...I may not....

OK folks! Off to the gym to ride the stationary bike for a bit and do some core. Catch ya on the flip side!

 

[Villains_Rock]

OH!!! And I want in on this weight loss challenge thing!!!! Is it too late??