Good morning Incredibles!! I've missed you all. It's was a busy week for me. My son made his first communion on saturday, and I was getting the house and yard in order before hand, and we had an absolutely beautiful day. He did a reading in church and was so sweet and serious, and then we had our family and friends over for a party. I only ran twice last week, but got back to it yesterday and ran/walked 3.6 miles, probably ran 2 miles. I'm liking the walk/run better, it doesn't get my joints as achey. My hip had really bothered me for a good week, after I did 2.5 miles straight, and adding the walking back in has really helped.
I hope to be back on later and get over here more often now, and keep up with the running.
Veronica- congrats on the running, and reaching a new low weight!! It's such a good feeling to see a number we haven't seen in years. I gotta get back on the ww wagon very soon.
Congrats to all the successful running you are all doing and welcome to the newest incredibles!!
Momto2pirates- I'm pretty new to the running, but find that when I can't breathe and am dying, I am running too fast, and I try to slow down a little, and that will usually keep me running.
I think there was more I wanted to say, but I got to run to work now. Keep on running or walking everyone!!!! We can be INCREDIBLE!!!!
Thanks Kathy!! Glad to see you back, congrats on your son making first communion. I'm no WW expert, trust me, but I do know it works when you follow the plan.
I had to take my daughter in for an ear infection today, so I asked her pediatrician what he thought about my knee (he is a runner and I knew he wouldn't mind me sneaking in a free question). He said from the location, it is a ligament (not one of the major ones) and that it sounded like overuse, not a more serious probelm. He told me to rest it another week and ice it a couple of times a day. I am also wearing a compression sleeve on it, and he said that would help. If this doesn't help, I'll make an appointment with a sports doctor. We pay 100% of our medical bill until we reach our deductible, so I would REALLY like to avoid going to the doctor, if possible.
Welcome to the Incredibles! I am a new runner as well, so I can relate to your excitement. I can't wait to participate in the Princess Half!
Good idea asking the ped, sounds like good advice. Hope it feels better soon.
Hi Incredible's
It has been a busy week around here...Glad tomorrow is Thursday because it is my Friday and I'm ready for the day off!
Welcome to the team Laura & Kristen!
Congrats to all of you who are moving the scale downwards! It is awesome and very inspiring to me! Keep it up!
Even though this has been a busy week I have managed to fit in a run, a walk and a bootcamp class. Monday after work I went walk/run with a co-worker. She is just starting to run so we did a 1 min run & a 4 min walk for 4 miles and then I came home and my son and I went and ran 3 miles...we are participating in the Susan G. Komen breast cancer 5K on Saturday so we thought we'd get in a practice run. So that was a total of 7 miles on Monday! I went back to bootcamp on Tuesday and needless to say today was a very s-l-o-w moving day because I am super sore....but no pain ~ no gain
So tonight I took my puppy for a 3 mile walk to try and stretch out these sore muscles...didn't work though. I think I'm worse than before I went
Lauren ~ I hope things are starting to improve around the Nashville area. I have been keeping up with the situation and it really makes me so sad to see the water in the Opryland Hotel and the OpryMills mall....it is just horrible. I have family and friends in the area so it is very close to my heart.
Well Incredibles have a GREAT Thursday and Happy Exercising!!
WOW you go girl on all that exercise!! Keep up the great work!
Thank you all for the warm welcome. I am learning so much just by reading your posts. You all have so much to give just by sharing your lives.
I have now been doing this for a little over a week and I lost about 1 1/2 pounds, but then this morning I went up a half pound. I haven't been eating poorly. I have decided it must be muscle. My legs feel more muscular and muscle weighs more than fat, right? When I would just diet that would discourage me, but it isn't bothering me because I know I'm going to make healthy eating choices today continue to walk/jog.
The walking and jogging are going well. I am alternating jogging and walking for a total of 2 to 2 1/2 miles with a 3/4 mile cooldown walk. I love the cooldown part because sometimes I walk by my house and my dh, ds and dd come along.
I figure to make it to the princess 1/2 marathon I need to add 1/4 mile per week.
Laura
Laura, the scale, she is a cruel mistress
. I weigh every day, even though I know I shouldn't. So every day is something different, and not always in the right direction. But the only day that counts for me is Sunday. But it does help to keep me "on track" during the week.
Welcome Laura!
Glad everyone's training is going well! I got out and did some intervals yesterday: 1 mile warmup run to the track, 3x800s with a 400 walk inbetween, then a 1mile cool down back home. I hope to do this once a week combined with a tempo run and a long run.
This is completely non-running related, but I entered a photo contest and two of my photos have made it to the first round of voting. I was trying to be fair on Facebook and not tell people which two were mine (so people could vote on their real favorite), but no one liked that idea. They kept asking which were mine! Here's the link:
http://photo.tutsplus.com/articles/news/memories-photography-competition-voting-round-1/ if you could go vote for your favorite! Takes a quick second, no signing up or anything. I'll put a spoiler below with my two picture numbers - look if you like!
SPOILER
(my two are twentyseven and twentyeight - the second being the more popular)
Beautiful photos, Alicia!! I keep up with your workouts on DailyMile, but its good to see you here too!
Wow! You've gotten a lot of exercising in this week. I hope your muscle soreness is better today.
Don't worry! Over time, your weight will go down. Half a pound could be from drinking a glass of water before you weighed or anything like that. Keep exercising and eating right, and you'll see progress!
Your pictures are awesome!
I think I have self-diagnosed my knee injury. I think it is
Pes Anserinus Bursitis from overuse/pushing too hard. The good news is that RICE and stretching my hamstrings will clear it up. Leg presses also help to strengthen the muscles associated with that area. I spent a while stretching my hamstrings last night, and I already feel a lot better today. I am going to go do a very easy run this morning, and then diligently ice and stretch in the coming days. Hopefully, I'll be back to normal soon!
Hope everyone has a great day!
Sounds like you have a plan to deal with it, hopefully it gets better.
Hello everyone... Sorry I have not been on for a while but life has been hard for me... we had so many things go on in our life in April that I had to drop my planning for a DW vacation in early Dec/Jan to taking it next year in Dec/Jan....
I have stopped working out for the time being but I have to pick it up because it looks like things are gonna change for the better for us...
I hope everyone has been to succeed in their work out...
I will try to log on every day... I need the accountability on my workout... I did check out some walking dvd's and they seem pretty easy right now... I like the fact that LS not so hard to do..
Well I hope everyone has a wonderful day....
Sorry to hear you had to postpone your trip, but hopefully things will turn around and you will have even more time to get excited about going! We will hold you accountable if that is what you need. We'll hold your (virtual) hand if you need us to. We're here for you girl!!
So time for my vent. DD apparently got into a disagreement with a friend at school. They were arguing and DD called this other girl a name (a racial slur). The girl, however, is not of that race and did not seem to care that DD called her the name. A third girl (who apparently taught my daughter this word) then told the teacher that DD called the girl the name. DD was told to apologize. This was yesterday. Then today (after the state testing BTW) she was sent to the principals office. She was asked by him and the school counselor if she knew what the word meant. She said she only knew what the other girl told her, and that it was a country. So she had no idea what the word meant or its connotation. DH was then called and was informed of the incident, and told that DD would receive 1/2 day in school suspension for this infraction. DH went to pick up DD after school and met with the principal. He asked why such as harsh punishment, as it did not seem to fit the crime. Principal says its a "level 2 offense" he cannot change the ruling. We talked to her about this, she was afraid that we would punish her as well. We told her that we would not and talked about calling people names and not using words that you didn't know what they meant. DH had also asked if there was a list of words the kids were not supposed to use, principal said no there wasnt. So if she had called the girl b!+ch, no harm, no foul. Just apologize.
All this was a bit disappointing, but it is the icing on the cake for this year. We are just glad that DD is only at this school for the rest of this year, then we are off to middle school.
Sorry for the long vent, just frustrated. Time to go walk with DD on the TM.
If only he would splurge on the garmin watch I want.
but we need the extra money for our vacation in july so I understand. 
