Hakuna Matata, Get fit in June!

[deekaypee]

Some more Team housekeeping (now if only my apartment were this organized!):

Please welcome back, Hockeychic: Kim. She misses you, having graciously agreed to leave your team and help start up the Rebels. Now she returns! I know you've missed her.

 

[jship210]

How do I join a team? I'd love to have a team of people to chat with/help motivate as I get ready for the Disney Half in 2010!

I was told I had to send Debra & Connie $$$$$ Lots of it.....


Only Kidding of course, Welcome.


Jack

 

[deekaypee]

I was told I had to send Debra & Connie $$$$$ Lots of it.....


Only Kidding of course, Welcome.


Jack

Now Jack, you know it's drinks I want. Lots of drinks. While recovering in January...

 

[Hockeychic]

Hey gang I am back!!!!!!

I wasn't much help to the Rebels, they are a great group of people there but I just wasn't around very much to get to know everyone. SO here I am back with my original peeps!!!!!

Connie, how do you want milage?

Will check back when I don't have office people looking over my shoulder to see what I am doing on the internet when I should be working...

 

[jship210]

Now Jack, you know it's drinks I want. Lots of drinks. While recovering in January...

Then how do we recover from recovering ?

I'm in!

 

[disneyfan97]

I was told I had to send Debra & Connie $$$$$ Lots of it.....


Only Kidding of course, Welcome.


Jack

Now Jack, you know it's drinks I want. Lots of drinks. While recovering in January...

Now this I could probably handle -- and will need some myself!

Thank you to everyone for the warm welcome!

I got in a short run last night on the treadmill. I am not a fan, but it was raining/stormy, so what can ya do?

Our run was cancelled this morning because of a lot of severe weather in the area. I'm hoping they can reschedule it for tomorrow morning - I hate to miss a group run! Otherwise, I'll be on the treadmill again tonight!

 

[Hockeychic]

Hey there.

Where can I get e clippie for this team???

 

[bunnyfoo]

Hi team! Not much planned for tonight except training at the gym...

Teresa -

Kim - Welcome back!! To get the clippie, right click on someone else's and copy the link from the properties. I can't seem them at work because they're blocked, otherwise I'd give you the link.

Sue - Haven't flown WJ before, is the service better than A/C? I like A/C because they have the 6:30AM flight out of Toronto and the 8PM coming back from Orlando.

Denise - Yikes! That's expensive!

Have a great night everyone!

 

[Steffwalks]

Hey Hakuna Matata!

How is everyone this evening???

Kim - Just PM the miles and minutes. You can do it weekly or monthly whichever you prefer! Welcome back!

Jack - I think you need to put a tracer on the large $$$$ contribution. I haven't gotten it yet! Of course, I may have misunderstood and you are letting me in on that recovery stuff!

Sue! Congratulations on your anniversary! I hope you have a wonderful celebration.

Theresa! Another Texan! Kewl! There are some great races in Dallas. I hope to be doing a couple next year! Can't wait to meet you!

Denise, sorry about the old relic kicking the bucket. I bet you find enormous savings with a new model, though!

Margie- We are thinking of you and your DD. Continued prayers for your familY?

Lynn - Welcome home, we missed you!

See ya- Connie

 

[windwalker]

Welcome back Kimmer, more princesses to hug in january, life is good.

Today was a rest day for me with the 12 hr shift, tomorrow it's back to Buff Bear Project.

Happy Panda

 

[windwalker]

What a frog flippin awefull night. We had the storms that Scott and Lynn had. We actually had flooding in the streets. I have a choc lab that is terrified of storms and last night's were very hard on her. I woke about midnight to the reek of a dog with the runs. I was up a good portion of the night cleaning the carpet in the bedroom. UGH!

I'm up now at 4am and getting ready to head off to the gym and get in a Buff Bear workout. Then I'll come back home and take a long nap before work.

For those that don't know Kim, Hockychic, she is an absolutely wonderful princess who lives in Canada. Bunnyfoo, Kim and Erica did a half together a few weeks ago and Kim hosted us for a long weekend.

Have a super day y'all.

Happy Panda

 

[Hockeychic]

Good morning team!!!!! Feels good to be home.'

Thank you all for the welcome back!!!!!.

I have flown westjet just in April and found the service awesome but the planes are smaller then southwest or the air canada planes. I flew AC for the princess marathon in March and actually didn't like them as much as the other 2 I mentioned. Everything was great but the crew was very "stuffy". Actually withthe trouble air canada is in right now I am not sure I would book this far out with them.

Off to get ready for work.

Any hockey fans out there????? GO PENS GO!!!!!

 

[Sunshineminnie]

Hi there everyone! So, so, so glad to be a part of your team. Thanks so much for all of the warm welcomes!

I thought that I'd try to fill you all in on how I got to you. It will be long, so please bear with me. I'll break it down in to little parts for you too.

I have always been a "sports" person, but pretty much an antirunner. Hated running..... I just saw a marathoning bumper sticker the other day that said it all "My sport is your sport's punishment!". I had to laugh because it was so true! I could play sports for hours and hours, but get me to run just to run? Anything more than a minute was pure torture!

Than along comes kids and life and work and not so much me time anymore. I have managed to stay on a volleyball team, but once a week doesn't really do it. I didn't have to work to hard a staying in shape because I was a portrait photographer, moving props, stepping up on platforms, changing sets, running around, I really never sat. I also had little kids so ran after them all day too.

Then one day, a photographer that worked for me, decided to walk a trail half marathon in Colorado. She loved it. Hmmmmmm, walking is fun.... maybe I'll try too!

So, several months later I gather up a bunch of fun ladies and headed for my first small half marathon. And as they say, got bitten by the bug! How fun! What a feel good day with everyone cheering and being so supportive, and I was just walking! The race was an out and back so we turned before the full marathoners. A few miles from the finish, a full marathoner came flying by us, smiled really big and said "way to go ladies!" Cracked me up, here he is running twice as far and finishing way before us, and he was cheering us on!

I decided I liked this well enough and signed up for my first full marathon!

 

[Scott H]

Kewl Story.

I am taking a personal day off today, use or loose deal, already had three work calls and emails LOL.... Oh well.

Got a run in this morn, barn cleaning and some other chores on the agenda. No rain forcast for teh early part of the day. ANtelope were out in the common area this morn.

 

[disneyfan97]

We finally got rid of all those storms! Though it sounds like the just moved on to everyone else's area.

I had a group run this morning (to make up for yesterday's missed run) and it was the first time to use my Garmin. I loved it!!! I can't wait to get out on my runs and see the true distance and head off in a new direction from my house!

Gearing up for my longest personal distance yet on Sunday...5 miles! Yikes!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

[MaryJ]

Hi team

Weather was still looking iffy this morning, so I headed to the gym. Worked with PT for half an hour doing upper body workout, then hit the TM. Gotta say it felt really good!

SunshineMinnie...when I did the half marathon in Indy in May, my original plan was to just walk it, since I had done the WDW half doing a walk/run. I couldn't do it! It was just impossible for me to only walk! And I was never a runner, just like you. In fact, when I was in my 20's, I thought I might give it a try since my neighbor kept singing its praises (her hubby went to college on a track scholarship). My first thought was..."Why would ANYONE want to do this?" Fast forward 20+ years and here I am actually trying to build up my running time! And now, walking makes my back hurt. Go figure! So, I guess what I'm saying is "Never say never!"

 

[funwalker]

Hi TEAM!

Lynn, did you make it home okay…sounded like a bit of time to get from California to Colorado! Glad the food was good…

New Team Members Teresa & Kim

Connie Sara had a difficult day today-it looks like it will be a slow recovery. It hard to watch those you love in great pain, but know we will get through it.

Hummmmmmm we too a finally getting a no rain day. A warm 79 degrees and a beautiful sunny day.

Not used to being in side all day and missing my little Hagen.

Have a great weekend - Anne, Connie, Dave & Erica, Denise & Mark, Scott & Lynn, Diane, Eva, Jack, Jennifer, Jen, Jessica, Kathy, Kim, MaryJ, Maroo, Nichole, Sue, Teresa, and Vicky!

 

[Hockeychic]

Hey team!!!!

Good morning. Didn't have a good night.....watching the hockey game with friends so a few wings, and a few smirnoff ice....well lets just say I will be working this off today.

Weather has finally turned nice here so will be getting out for a long walk tonight. I must prefer to do them on Sat nights so it keeps my Sunday as a full rest day.

Have a great day all.

 

[Sunshineminnie]

So.... I walked/ran my first Marathon. Although I hit the wall at mile 21, I managed to push through it and finished my first marathon. Woo Hoo! What a great day. Now I feel like I can do ANYTHING! My folks and kids and DH were so proud. Me too!

Another half marathon in the pouring rain which was actually pretty fun and.... fast forward to last year....

I decided that I wanted to attempt Goofy!

So I got myself a pair of red running shoes (I had just lost my dad and that was his favorite color and I wanted him to know he'd be running along with me.) I decided that I was going to train as perfectly as I could. I'd run/walk the race. So, things were going awesome, feeling good, training good and then, WHAM!

Driving home from my DD's volleyball game, the hearing in my right ear just vanished. Gone, poof. Within a few days, I start getting really sick with vertigo and still can't hear at all. I ended up with Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SHL) which I had never even heard of before. Basically, just lost my hearing forever in that ear. But the frustrating part was that I was so sick with vertigo, I couldn't stand, let alone run for quite a while, smack dab in the middle of my Goofy training. Lost six weeks of running and working out.

But I really, really wanted to run Goofy. Against everyone's advice, I jumped back in to training. Too much, too soon and you guessed it... gave myself an overuse injury. Yep, everyone was right.

 

[windwalker]

Minnie most of your team mates on here are walkers. We are the new generation of loud and proud walkers that are taking our rightful place along side our running brothers and sisters. Most of us are walkers by fate, we are overcoming a road block to being runners, this road block is any where from a cronic injury to carrying a little extra fluff. The mentality used to be that walkers were injured runners and waiting to heal so they could run again. But now there is in addition walkers who train to be stronger walkers. So if you can't be a runner anymore you will have lots of powerful company.

I had a strong 5 mile training walk this morning on my hill route, pace was 12:42 mpm and the hills made it challanging. Then a good stretching routine.

Kimmer, wings and drinks with a Canadian princess, life is indeed good.

Everyone have an awesome weekend.

Happy Panda