Marathon Weekend 2017!

[jeremy1002]

Alarm is set for 8 miles in the morning. Gotta stay psyched!!

 

[DopeyBadger]

Congrats to your mom! A first marathon at 60 is awesome!

Thanks! I'm hopeful she can finish. I don't believe time will be a factor, but whether her body will hold up to 26.2 miles is a different story. I'm trying to impress upon her to respect what she is attempting. I will be a proud son no matter the outcome on Jan 8th.

 

[DOOM1001]

I have the space coast full on Nov.27th,my only goal is to finish as I'm severely undertrained.Since I moved to Orlando it seems all my extra free time that I was using before to run outside or at the gym is being spent at the parks.I've done a few long runs and did a half marathon at the end of October in a decent time,but that's a half marathon and I know I can run one of those anytime without issue,a full is a totally different animal.In Miami I would also hit up a weekly run club most weeks and I haven't found one like that one here.For space coast I'm going to take it easy and slow and take more walk breaks than usual and ignore my time,luckily I only signed up for the Disney full in January and not Dopey,which I still plan on for 2018 maybe by next year I can get back to my old running habits to do Dopey.

 

[DerTobi75]

Thanks everyone for your kind words

 

[Tardisblue]

I can get my Stacy fix on youtube every day!

Out of the loop here - who is Stacy and what's her YouTube channel called?

 

[Tardisblue]

While reading here, it seems, everyone is doing the Dopey and me is the only one running "just" the marathon.

Where do you all get the mental and physical strength to do this.

This sunday I did a 18 Mile slow long run and, to be honest, I could no imagine doing this again the next day. I try to run four times a week and my pace and stamina (?) is getting better. So maybe in 2018 the Dopey is an option, if we can organize the trip from germany again :-D

I did Dopey the inaugural year (2014) and I'm "just" doing Goofy this year for financial reasons as well as trying not to burn so many vacation days the first 2 weeks of the year. Mentally it seems like I'm taking a step back in my running accomplishments, but logically I have to keep in mind that I'm still running 81% of the distance as the Dopey. It was easier for me to train for Dopey because it was brand new, exciting and I was also 3 years younger. Going through that training has made me realize that I cannot skimp and I have to get in the miles otherwise it's not going to be a fun experience. Dig deep - your mind and body can accomplish so much more than you think.

 

[rteetz]

Out of the loop here - who is Stacy and what's her YouTube channel called?

Stacy is the girl from the Disney must dos. When you go to WDW and turn on one of the TV channels it's all about must dos at WDW. She has quite the Disney fan following.

 

[surfde22]

My mom ran the 5K in 2014, the 10K in 2015, HM in 2016, and will be attempting her first marathon in 2017 at age 60. No matter the distance I will always be proud of everything she accomplishes regardless of my own races/goals.

My mom did her first 5K at Princess back in February at age 62, and will be doing her first 10K in January at 63. I don't think I'll be able to convince her to go longer distances though. I think she's going to retire from racing in January. Congrats to your mom though.

 

[rteetz]

My mom did her first 5K at Princess back in February at age 62, and will be doing her first 10K in January at 63. I don't think I'll be able to convince her to go longer distances though. I think she's going to retire from racing in January. Congrats to your mom though.

Hey that's still great for 63!

 

[DopeyBadger]

My mom did her first 5K at Princess back in February at age 62, and will be doing her first 10K in January at 63. I don't think I'll be able to convince her to go longer distances though. I think she's going to retire from racing in January. Congrats to your mom though.

That's awesome! I think I've got the opposite problem in trying to rein my mom in. She stated back in 2014 she wanted to do Dopey in 2018, and we decided the best strategy was a slow year-by-year approach. We'll see after the marathon if she still wants to do Dopey. She is an ULTRA competitive person. She likes to pick up the pace on the treadmill solely based on how fast others around her are running. And the younger her competitor the more it stokes her fires. Teaching her the train slow mantra has been VERY difficult over the last few years, but I think she is starting to finally get it.

 

[surfde22]

That's awesome! I think I've got the opposite problem in trying to rein my mom in. She stated back in 2014 she wanted to do Dopey in 2018, and we decided the best strategy was a slow year-by-year approach. We'll see after the marathon if she still wants to do Dopey. She is an ULTRA competitive person. She likes to pick up the pace on the treadmill solely based on how fast others around her are running. And the younger her competitor the more it stokes her fires. Teaching her the train slow mantra has been VERY difficult over the last few years, but I think she is starting to finally get it.

I don't think my mom has a competitive bone in her body, and my dad isn't overly competitive, so I have no idea where I got my competitiveness from.

 

[MissLiss279]

That's awesome! I think I've got the opposite problem in trying to rein my mom in. She stated back in 2014 she wanted to do Dopey in 2018, and we decided the best strategy was a slow year-by-year approach. We'll see after the marathon if she still wants to do Dopey. She is an ULTRA competitive person. She likes to pick up the pace on the treadmill solely based on how fast others around her are running. And the younger her competitor the more it stokes her fires. Teaching her the train slow mantra has been VERY difficult over the last few years, but I think she is starting to finally get it.

I trained with a lady this year for a local marathon, and she is 63! We had trained together for a half in the spring, and a lot of our group decided to train for the full in the fall. She kept saying that she would run the 18 mile training run and see how it went. I kept telling her that if she made it to 18 miles she wouldn't be able to stop training. She ran the marathon and did great! Our training plan only went to 20 miles, and she did say after we were finished that those last 6+ miles were really difficult and she did walk part of them. I think for her probably adding in one more training run with a couple more miles might have helped. For me (now that I've ran a few marathons and know I can finish), I think 20 miles for training is far enough.

 

[Tardisblue]

Stacy is the girl from the Disney must dos. When you go to WDW and turn on one of the TV channels it's all about must dos at WDW. She has quite the Disney fan following.

Thanks - watched the first few minutes. She seems very cheerful.

 

[DopeyBadger]

I trained with a lady this year for a local marathon, and she is 63! We had trained together for a half in the spring, and a lot of our group decided to train for the full in the fall. She kept saying that she would run the 18 mile training run and see how it went. I kept telling her that if she made it to 18 miles she wouldn't be able to stop training. She ran the marathon and did great! Our training plan only went to 20 miles, and she did say after we were finished that those last 6+ miles were really difficult and she did walk part of them. I think for her probably adding in one more training run with a couple more miles might have helped. For me (now that I've ran a few marathons and know I can finish), I think 20 miles for training is far enough.

That's so cool! I'm hoping come January my mom will also be able to call herself a marathon finisher. I've maxed out her training at 2.5 hours (14 miles) and she does it only once. I fear that if she doesn't take care of herself during the training that doing any more than that might be too much. Although her weekly duration does get up to 7 hrs 40 min in her peak week with a heavy shading to easy paces. Based on her fitness we project her at a 4:29 marathon, but I'm anticipating it will be slower than that given her age and that most of her training has been on the treadmill (maybe around 5:00-5:15). In the end, it's Disney and if it doesn't go her way then enjoy the sights and sounds. I will be a nervous son once I cross the finish line after Dopey anxiously waiting for her to cross as well a few hours later.

 

[PrincessV]

While reading here, it seems, everyone is doing the Dopey and me is the only one running "just" the marathon.

Where do you all get the mental and physical strength to do this.

This sunday I did a 18 Mile slow long run and, to be honest, I could no imagine doing this again the next day. I try to run four times a week and my pace and stamina (?) is getting better. So maybe in 2018 the Dopey is an option, if we can organize the trip from germany again :-D

Right there with you! I did 20 this past Saturday and I was shuffling the last couple of miles. I am doing okay stamina wise, but my pace is pathetic and my feet hurt afterwards. I am babying them now. However, I am telling you we can do this! It's going to be a huge accomplishment even w/out doing Dopey!

So, I ran my first full this year - the 2016 WDW Marathon. Please add me to the folks telling you a full marathon is NOTHING to sneeze at - it's a huge accomplishment! I can tell you that this time last year, as I hit my 18, 20 and 22 mile training runs, I couldn't fathom doing Dopey: it was all I could do to train for the 10K + full and I was BEAT after those really long runs. But what I know now, and learned on race day, was that we're supposed to be tired now. That's part of the training, pushing through fatigue and creating muscle strength and adaptation. I went into the full with the mindset that I'd do my best and if it just wasn't happening, I'd bail with no regrets... but by mile 24 I realized how much the training was paying off and genuinely felt that I could have handled Goofy or even Dopey!

 

[StarGirl11]

4 miler went good yesterday considering I haven't been in Denver in two months and it was my first training run in a month. Wish everything else in my life was going that smoothly. Moms having some medical stuff so I don't even know what the next few weeks are going to be like let alone if I'll actually make it to FL for Dopey. But I am going to press forward with training until I'm told that we aren't going.

 

[ZellyB]

Little bit late on this and nothing too exciting to share for my 3 things, but...

1) I'm a director of laboratories for a large health system. Been here almost 26 years.
2) I won a state typing contest in high school for Future Business Leaders of America. I used to type somewhere around 130 wpm. Not as fast now though.
3) That's a tough one, but probably Baby Mine from Dumbo. I used to sing that as a lullaby to my kids when they were little.

 

[JS71]

Question for everyone, so I have had a cold for ~2.5 weeks (I have three young kids who are walking patient zeros) I have been congested had a cough and occasionally am coughing up flem, I hadn't missed any runs until this weekend. I felt feverish yesterday and have not run yet this week. I am going to the doctor on friday. Not looking for a diagnoses here but wondering if anyone had has similar symptoms and how it impacted your training. Should I take it easy, push through it or an in-between?

 

[StarGirl11]

Things are a bit calmer but still stressful so I'll do the 3 things a bit late but the last 5 days have been nuts:

1. I am in college right now wanting to become a Seismologist, but my own medical stuff has kept me at this for a lot longer then me or my family ever anticipated but it's taken so long that by the time I graduate next year (which I'm on track for) it will have been 10 years since I graduated high school.
2. I decided to pick up running not for health truly but because I was talking to a friend about how much she wanted to do NYC Marathon and it got in my head I wanted to do the NYC Marathon (admittedly I was debating taking it up before then but this was the push I needed)
3. I am into pretty much anything horses but my favorite sport of them all is horse racing, been following it since I was a little kid.

Side note: Anyone ever done Dopey solo? Considering that for a last option if the medical stuff keeps parents from coming.

 

[Keels]

Side note: Anyone ever done Dopey solo? Considering that for a last option if the medical stuff keeps parents from coming.

I did the first three races of Dopey solo this year. I only had friends running with me for the Marathon.