Incredibles will Bloom in May

[VernRDH]

Well its not quite May yet, but I wanted to get this started since tomorrow I am hitting the ground running at 6:30am. Planning to run 3-4 miles, then grocery shopping, lawn mowing, weeding and other yard work. Plus the usual laundry, dishes, cooking etc.

Our roster is listed below, if any of your info is missing and you want me to add it, just post or PM me.



Here is our Incredible line-up

VernRDH~Veronica------11/18/70----------Disneyland Half
ladytink75~Melinda
roomthreeseventeen~Amy-----3/24/80---------Wine and Dine Half
lisah0711~Lisa------7/11 ------------- Princess Half
Mickeys#1Fan4ever~Patsy-----1/18/65----------Disneyland Half
mikamah~Kathy
leeshiebean~Alicia
ScubaMickey~Linda-----11/3 ---------Princess 5k
3TinksAndAnEeyore~Stephanie
MickeyMomTo2~Lauren------ 3/12 ------------Princess Half
PlainJane~Amy
kelleydea~Kelley
donac~Dona 5/29
escape~Susie Disneyland Half
tassma~Tassma
ADPiSpaz16~Jess------4/16----------------Princess half
momof2minnies~Linda------------- Expedition Everest Challenge WDW 5k and Half 2011.
lyncecelia~
stampinggoddess~
MommyTaraLee~TaraLee
mommyof2pirates~Lindsay-------------1/18/79--------Princess Half
nov02mom~Kristen

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Thanks for the new thread, Veronica!

Maybe we should post our races for the month, too? I'm doing my very first official race (a 10k) on the 15th!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Thanks veronica for the new thread...I love the catchy titles you come up with. Boy its sounds like you have a busy day today. I agree it would be nice to see whos doing races each month too!

 

[momof2minnies]

Happy May everyone! I have been MIA for a while with yardwork and spring cleaning.Hopefully it will be easier to keep up with everyone now.

Roomthreeseventeen- good luck on your first 10k!!!

Veronica- You are doing a great job- we had pizza last night too- no way I am going near the scale with all that sodium on board!

Linda

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

A little bit of a discouraging run for today. I think my expectations are just a little to high. I am a perfectionist so this running stuff drives me crazy. I get frustrated when I am too slow or feeling like "im gonna die" during a run. I am very competitive so it kills me to know I am always in the back and not the best. Ok with that being said let me tell you about my run today.

I decided to go outside since it is beautiful out today. It was already 60 some degrees at 730 this morning. I am the one who will be praying for the cooler weather on princess morning. Morning only then it can be warm the rest of the day. Well I did C25K W5D3. I felt great while running on my treadmill but outside not so much. I was sucking wind and felt like my body was barely moving when I ran. I made it through the first 5 min run and then my next two 5 min session I think I walked about 1/4 to 1/2 of them. I made it to the 2mile mark at 29 minutes. I also didnt realize how much of an incline was around my area. For the most part I was running on an incline the slightest, not a hill by any means but it does make a huge difference than just running flat. I guess I cant expect miracles but it just made me wonder if I will ever be able to do this. I know its my first week of running....maybe I should have started at week one of the C25K.
I think I am definitely going to make saturdays my run outside day for sure. I cant count on the treadmill to totally get me ready for the 1/2.

Ok well thank you for listening to me. I hope your saturday is "incredible"

 

[MickeyMomTo2]

Well, it's pouring down rain this morning in Middle Tennessee! That is helping me to NOT run, which is good. My knee has been bothering me, and I didn't run on Thursday. It is not all the way better, so I knew I needed to take off today, but I didn't want to. The rain will keep me in check. I know it is hurting because I was pushing too much. I am going to have to remember that slow and steady improvement will be much better in the long run and help me to avoid injury. I have been reading Jeff Galloway's running book, and he really stresses the importance of some slower, easier runs each week instead of running hard every time.

Like Lindsay mentioned above, I am type A, so slow and steady will require some self-control on my part!

I hope everyone has an incredible Saturday!

 

[ScubaMickey]

Finally, the scale was on my side this morning - lost two more pounds. Starting W7D1 this afternoon and my DH and I are going to switch locations from our neighborhood to the beach. Our beach has hard packed sand, so I hope it will be OK. If nothing else the scenary will be awesome.

If anyone is going to watch the Kentucky Derby today, a good friend of ours works for the family that owns Dublin #17. They ran Flying Private last year and the horse came in dead last. Hoping for a better run this year!

90 days until our Europe cruise, so we got to book our excursions and Palo at 12:00 a.m. last night Need to stay in shape, so I can eat more at Brunch.

Keep up the Pace,

Scubamickey

 

[VernRDH]

Thanks for the new thread, Veronica!

Maybe we should post our races for the month, too? I'm doing my very first official race (a 10k) on the 15th!

I will work on that, let me know when it is and what its called.

Happy May everyone! I have been MIA for a while with yardwork and spring cleaning.Hopefully it will be easier to keep up with everyone now.

Roomthreeseventeen- good luck on your first 10k!!!

Veronica- You are doing a great job- we had pizza last night too- no way I am going near the scale with all that sodium on board!

Linda

Linda-the scale was sooo mean to me!!! But like you said its all sodium. But boy there is nothing like good NY pizza. It was worth it.

A little bit of a discouraging run for today. I think my expectations are just a little to high. I am a perfectionist so this running stuff drives me crazy. I get frustrated when I am too slow or feeling like "im gonna die" during a run. I am very competitive so it kills me to know I am always in the back and not the best. Ok with that being said let me tell you about my run today.

I decided to go outside since it is beautiful out today. It was already 60 some degrees at 730 this morning. I am the one who will be praying for the cooler weather on princess morning. Morning only then it can be warm the rest of the day. Well I did C25K W5D3. I felt great while running on my treadmill but outside not so much. I was sucking wind and felt like my body was barely moving when I ran. I made it through the first 5 min run and then my next two 5 min session I think I walked about 1/4 to 1/2 of them. I made it to the 2mile mark at 29 minutes. I also didnt realize how much of an incline was around my area. For the most part I was running on an incline the slightest, not a hill by any means but it does make a huge difference than just running flat. I guess I cant expect miracles but it just made me wonder if I will ever be able to do this. I know its my first week of running....maybe I should have started at week one of the C25K.
I think I am definitely going to make saturdays my run outside day for sure. I cant count on the treadmill to totally get me ready for the 1/2.

Ok well thank you for listening to me. I hope your saturday is "incredible"

Making the adjustment to outside running from the treadmill can take some time. I had trouble with it at first too, since I have to power me, not the belt of the mill!!! Eventually you will not want to run on the treadmill again!!

Well, it's pouring down rain this morning in Middle Tennessee! That is helping me to NOT run, which is good. My knee has been bothering me, and I didn't run on Thursday. It is not all the way better, so I knew I needed to take off today, but I didn't want to. The rain will keep me in check. I know it is hurting because I was pushing too much. I am going to have to remember that slow and steady improvement will be much better in the long run and help me to avoid injury. I have been reading Jeff Galloway's running book, and he really stresses the importance of some slower, easier runs each week instead of running hard every time.

Like Lindsay mentioned above, I am type A, so slow and steady will require some self-control on my part!

I hope everyone has an incredible Saturday!

Galloway is a smart guy, like him. And he is right. Resting your knee is a good thing, even though you think you should be out there. Taking time to heal will only help you in the future.

Finally, the scale was on my side this morning - lost two more pounds. Starting W7D1 this afternoon and my DH and I are going to switch locations from our neighborhood to the beach. Our beach has hard packed sand, so I hope it will be OK. If nothing else the scenary will be awesome.

If anyone is going to watch the Kentucky Derby today, a good friend of ours works for the family that owns Dublin #17. They ran Flying Private last year and the horse came in dead last. Hoping for a better run this year!

90 days until our Europe cruise, so we got to book our excursions and Palo at 12:00 a.m. last night Need to stay in shape, so I can eat more at Brunch.

Keep up the Pace,

Scubamickey

Yay for the scale moving!!! Hope your run on the beach was good. Just finished watching the Derby, boy what a mess with all that rain!! Very exciting at the end.

Jealous of you cruising in 90 days. We are trying to plan for next June/July, but with potentially 3 other couples/families going, it is quite an effort.

For myself, I did not run this morning, I decided I needed to sleep more. I did spend 2 hours working outside in the beautiful weather today. Mowed the backyard, transplanted some plants from my neighbor that she gave me, planted 2 new trees (which means I had to dig the holes for them). Just finished cooking and eating dinner (DH and DD had burgers, I had a portobella mushroom as my burger-no meat since I am running long tomorrow).

Time to walk the dog and then have some sherbet for dessert.

 

[MickeyMomTo2]

Well, I posted that it was raining this morning. It's still raining, and there is flooding everywhere! It's truly unbelieveable how much rain has fallen today (I think we've had about 6 inchess so far and it's not supposed to stop until Monday morning). They are driving boats down the INTERSTATE to rescue people. I have seen footage of cars and a building floating down I-24 through Nashville. (You can see pics at wkrn.com)

When my son's baseball game got cancelled this morning, we went into Nashville to the science center. We had no idea the weather would get so bad so fast. We had tornado warnings, and shortly after we returned home, all three interstates into Nashville were closed due to high waters.

Tomorrow was initially predicted to be the heaviest rains. I truly hope they are wrong about that. We can't take much more.

Hope all of you are enjoying better weather than we are here!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Well, I posted that it was raining this morning. It's still raining, and there is flooding everywhere! It's truly unbelieveable how much rain has fallen today (I think we've had about 6 inchess so far and it's not supposed to stop until Monday morning). They are driving boats down the INTERSTATE to rescue people. I have seen footage of cars and a building floating down I-24 through Nashville. (You can see pics at wkrn.com)

When my son's baseball game got cancelled this morning, we went into Nashville to the science center. We had no idea the weather would get so bad so fast. We had tornado warnings, and shortly after we returned home, all three interstates into Nashville were closed due to high waters.

Tomorrow was initially predicted to be the heaviest rains. I truly hope they are wrong about that. We can't take much more.

Hope all of you are enjoying better weather than we are here!

Oh my thats sounds horrible. I will be praying for you that it doesnt get too bad. It must be a very scary feeling.

 

[Mickeys#1Fan4ever]

Maybe we should post our races for the month, too? I'm doing my very first official race (a 10k) on the 15th!

Amy ~ I think I'm going to do a 10K on the 15th as well. I've got to get my son signed up for at least a 10K so he'll have an official time to turn in for the DL half. I'm just worried about the course on this particular one...there's a lot of up hill....I hate hills!

I decided to go outside since it is beautiful out today. It was already 60 some degrees at 730 this morning. I am the one who will be praying for the cooler weather on princess morning. Morning only then it can be warm the rest of the day. Well I did C25K W5D3. I felt great while running on my treadmill but outside not so much. I was sucking wind and felt like my body was barely moving when I ran. I made it through the first 5 min run and then my next two 5 min session I think I walked about 1/4 to 1/2 of them. I made it to the 2mile mark at 29 minutes. I also didnt realize how much of an incline was around my area. For the most part I was running on an incline the slightest, not a hill by any means but it does make a huge difference than just running flat. I guess I cant expect miracles but it just made me wonder if I will ever be able to do this. I know its my first week of running....maybe I should have started at week one of the C25K.
I think I am definitely going to make saturdays my run outside day for sure. I cant count on the treadmill to totally get me ready for the 1/2.

Lindsay ~ I've always been told when running on the treadmill to set the incline to at least 1%....it'll make it a little harder and is suppose to be more like running outdoors. Now with that being said....I still have a harder time outside than I do on the treadmill.... not sure if it really works!

Finally, the scale was on my side this morning - lost two more pounds.
Scubamickey

Linda ~ Great job!

Well, I posted that it was raining this morning. It's still raining, and there is flooding everywhere! It's truly unbelieveable how much rain has fallen today (I think we've had about 6 inchess so far and it's not supposed to stop until Monday morning). They are driving boats down the INTERSTATE to rescue people. I have seen footage of cars and a building floating down I-24 through Nashville. (You can see pics at wkrn.com)

Lauren ~ I have been watching this storm closely....all of my family lives just outside of the Memphis area and I have family and friends that live in the Nashville area....it is horrible looking at the pictures. There is a FB page (I survived the Nashville Monsoon..I think is what it is called) that people have been posting pictures on...so scary. I pray this moves through and no more lives are lost. My husband is flying to Atlanta tomorrow so I certainly hope it clears up. BE SAFE!

For me....it has been a NON exercise weekend. We went to Tahoe on Thursday and came home this morning. The most physical thing I've done is a 2 1/2 hour snowmobile ride....and believe it or not my arms and hips are super sore! It wore me out! So it has been a lot of eating...no exercising and tomorrow is not looking any better. My youngest son has a water polo tournament 2 hours away and it will be an ALL day event. I'm hoping when we get home tomorrow night I can wind down with a run on the treadmill.

Hope everyone is having an Incredible weekend!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Thanks patsy for the tip. I will definitely try it. It sounds like a good idea, even if it doesnt work its worth a try.

 

[VernRDH]

Morning Incredibles!!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend, it is very warm here in upstate NY. Though that is supposed to change when the rains come tonight. But for today I will enjoy it.

Ran 8 miles this morning in 1:29, 11:07 avg pace, not too bad. Did take some walk breaks, but was really moving at times.

FIL called while I was out yesterday and talked to DH. Wants to "negotiate a truce". DH told him no, that I am going to continue to train by myself. That I am running better and finally doing what I need to do, and not just go along with my crazy MIL.

Also, today was a little bit of a milestone for me. I got on the scale and I weighed in at 163.8. I have not been this low in probably 12 years, I weighed 160 when DH and I got married in 1997. I was totally jazzed about the weight and am looking forward to starting my training in the 150's!

Now I am off to do some laundry, then when DH gets back, we are out to do more yardwork!!

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Veronica, that's a lot of INCREDIBLE stuff. Way to go on the run, and the weight loss!

As for me, I did 5.2 miles this morning (skipped the big hill) in 59:05. 5.28 mph, 11:21 pace. Better than yesterday, still not great. Stupid heat!!! It got very warm in NYC all of the sudden this weekend, and I have to learn how to run in the warmer temps. Especially if I'm going to be doing the half in Orlando in October!

 

[nov02mom]

Hi y'all- Maura sent me over here to join in the fun with you! I'm not 100% sure what I'm supposed to do still, but I'm ready to jump right in!

I'm Kristen, chunky middle aged Momma who started getting back in shape last year. Now I'm a little addicted, but still super slow...LOL. I did my 1st Triathlon in Sept. 2009, and my 1st 10K in April 2010. I'm signed up for 5 more Tri's this season, and if I ever get my hip rehabbed I'm starting a half training group for a race in November. I'd LOVE to do one of the Disney halfs in 2011!

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Hi y'all- Maura sent me over here to join in the fun with you! I'm not 100% sure what I'm supposed to do still, but I'm ready to jump right in!

I'm Kristen, chunky middle aged Momma who started getting back in shape last year. Now I'm a little addicted, but still super slow...LOL. I did my 1st Triathlon in Sept. 2009, and my 1st 10K in April 2010. I'm signed up for 5 more Tri's this season, and if I ever get my hip rehabbed I'm starting a half training group for a race in November. I'd LOVE to do one of the Disney halfs in 2011!

Triathalon sounds like serious business. What was your favorite segment?

 

[VernRDH]

Welcome Kristen!!! We are glad to have you join us. Feel free to post up about races, workouts, frustrations, successes whatever!! We are all here to encourage each other!!

I will add you to our roster on the first post. If you would like, I can include your birthday or any races you are doing. Many of us are doing at least 1 Disney race between now and next January, but not everyone.

Wow, 5 tri's coming up. I am not a swimmer, so tri's are not my cup of tea. Running, I'm all over it, but my idea of swimming is lounging in the pool with a drink in my hand.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Hi Kristen and welcome to the team. I am so impressed that you have done triathilons. Way to go!

 

[ADPiSpaz16]

Oh my gosh you guys! I feel like I can’t keep up with this thread!! I want so badly to post a million times a day but I’ve been working more at home, spending more time with the kids outside, spending more time at the Y working out and it’s taking my free time away from me. On the plus side, I’m FINALLY less then 25lbs away from my long term weight loss goal. I lost 1.4lbs this last week and I think strength training has been a big help. I’m officially at 88.2lbs lost (though after I had DS, it was 100lbs!).

Today I ran six miles for the first time! I’m absolutely over the moon about it! I did it in 1:02.34. I have my first 10K on June 5th and I know I can kick butt! Now I just have to work on that time and get it under an hour!

Amy – I can’t wait to hear about your 10K on the 15th! The two of us have been so close with our times in training and I’m so excited to hear your results!

Lindsay – Don’t you dare feel discouraged about your run yesterday. Outside running is very different from the treadmill. I really think you’ll learn to enjoy it more then the mill, just keep at it. Besides, everyone has their off days. Here I ran 6 miles today and just on Wednesday, I ran 2.25 miles and stopped because I was dying! How nuts is that?

Lauren – I’ve been having the same problem with my knee. I’m reading Marathoning for Mortals and it says to take three full days off. So if you run on Sunday, you can run again on Thursday. I keep wanting to push through it but I know it’s a mistake. Feel better.

Linda (Scuba) – Congrats on your two lbs lost! You’re just doing so great! I was stuck at the same weight for like a month and I finally broke through it this week… it has better continue!

Patsy – I had a weekend of gluttony myself. I think I redeemed myself a bit with a six mile run today. I hope you’re able to hit the treadmill a bit tonight and undo any possible damanage!

Veronica – Congrats on this weight loss! That’s huge! Congrats on your time as well! Eight miles in 1:29 sounds pretty fabu to me! I’m glad to hear that DH is sticking up for you doing your own thing with the running!

Kristen – Welcome to the Incredibles! Congrats on your tris and all your accomplishments! I’m going to do my first tri in August, a fundraiser for my job. It’s a sprint tri but I’m excited about it anyway!

OK, time to put my kiddo to bed. I’ll try to do better with getting on here more often. I can do fly-by posts but I feel bad making it all about me. Totally not my style!

Oh yeah, I have a 5K on the 23rd that I’m doing here locally. It’s call the Granger Pats 5K in Granger, IN.

 

[VernRDH]

Morning Incredibles!!

Well its Monday again, and boy am I tired!! With the nice weather this weekend, we were super busy. Now I get to go to work to relax!

An unfortunate thing I have discovered: I can't eat beef. We had hamburgers last night for dinner (90/10 so they were lean) but as soon as I ate it, I felt horrible. I still feel like blah, its just a rock sitting in my tummy. I have had trouble before with beef if I ate too much (like 2 days in a row), but I haven't had a hamburger in months. I guess I will stick with the portobella mushroom while DH and DD have burgers. It is less points to boot.

No running for me today; I start training in a couple weeks, but I am still building my base. Hoping to get outside to run in the mornings soon.

Have a wonderful day all!!