MARCHing Warriors!!!

[dsnyfan21]

You can so do it, you'll have your WISH family with you all the way!

Tracy

 

[ImMarcik]

You can so do it, you'll have your WISH family with you all the way!

Tracy

Thank you!

 

[bellaDisneydncr]

ok so I just looked at the mileage so far for the team for february and I must say- that is ridiculous!! Great job everyone!!!

 

[smileyk8]

Thanks for all the ipod advice everyone- he has unfortunately gone and i waved a sad goodbye to him earlier tonight! I tried most of the tricks straight away but did have a go at rebooting him. No luck so i toddled out today and purchased his beautiful purple replacement. Putting my songs on as i type- it feels a bit like ive betrayed my old one Man i need to stop getting so attached to random material things!

amy great to hear your half went well. I'll be on the look out for your report.

Marcie you can def do it alone, not that you'd be alone anyway with this merry lot there to keep you company!

Roxy awesome mileage for feb- you've done so well

Kat ahh the acrobatics again- feeling a little bit green!

Michelle what an amazing start to the month and after such a great feb total too.

Tracy thanks again for your endless encouragement and keeping us all in check

I've done an hour of physio/core exercises tonight. Only 2 runs til princess time!

 

[gsu1988]

I wanted to report my totals for February. I had a pretty good month. Nothing hard just took it nuce and easy. I am not currently training for anything so just doing some maintenance miles. Also my weight this week was 247 down 15. Here is my February total:

78 miles
13 hours

 

[dsnyfan21]

Ken: Thanks for getting your miles and times posted!!!

We are just waiting on two more people:
1/2 marathonpixie:Barb
PrincessShea:Katie

Our totals totally ROCK everyone, I know March will be better. (mostly because there are more days in the month. hehe)

Kate: When are you getting into Orlando? Are you staying to eat at POR when the meet is over? ( I think I remember you saying you were staying there.)

Tracy

 

[bellaDisneydncr]

Hey Warriors! Nothing to report running/exercise-ish but I got some amazing news tonight!
Back in December I had auditioned for the shows for the spring semester at WVU Theatre. (aka- the people who own my life...) Anyway- I did not get any parts. I was totally bummed because one of the shows was a musical. Well the director had me call him tonight and he offered me a part in the show!!!! He said that some people couldn't fit it into their schedules so if I wanted the part it was mine! Well, of course I said yes!!! I'm so excited and couldn't wait to share with you all!

I picked a good time to start running, too. The show we're doing (Urinetown: the Musical) is going to be a huge workout- so the running to build stamina will do me some good! And I'm going to have lots of hours of rehearsal to use for the team!!! Well thanks for listening lol Have a great day tomorrow Warriors!!!

 

[Roxy]

Cograts on getting to do a musical Katrina. Enjoy and have fun!!!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Sorry about the stonker, Kate. But don't sweat it. You will have a great princess run! Just think of that tiara medal!

Jen--hope you are on the mend. Sick is not fun.

Katrina--way to go on the musical! Have fun with it!

As for me, I did 9 miles on the bike today followed by a 2.5 mile run. The run was intentionally short as my tri is only 6 days away. I did speed work today and it went really well. For those 2.5 miles, I averaged a 9:27 pace, which is super speedy for me.

Tha hammie is still not all the way healed, but it should hold me for the tri.

GREAT JOB WARRIORS!

 

[mkymsehi]

I caught a small dose of Panda flu, so I took the day off to rest. 4,000 miles away from Dave, and I still get sick.

Around lunchtime, I headed out to run 2 quick errands. The second one took me to the post office at the airport. As I was leaving, I look to my left for this other car to merge. And I noticed this bright yellow Honolulu Marathon finisher's shirt on the driver. It was Marcia!!! LOL, she was killing time waiting for her other friends to get their rental car, so she could show them the way to Waikiki. I talked to her for a few seconds, and then told her to meet me at my house.

Well, about 2 hours later, she has arrived at our house for the week. She's in town to watch her friend's daughter play in a NCAA women's softball tournament all week. The girl plays right field for Oregon State, and is a starting freshman, and bats first in the line up. Impressive.

Marcia brought her running shoes, so I'll hopefully be taking her for some scenic runs Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday (the Honolulu Marathon Clinic starts back up).

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Didn't get any training done today. I see we are quite a busy and chatty group. Good to read about everyone.
Jen, get well.
Jeff, get well,
Ken, good job on the miles and the weight loss. You are doing great!
Marcie, you can definitely do that event solo. There are always lots of folks willing to chat along the way. If you post trainig with some of the group going, you may exchange phone numbers and even get to meet up extra with some. It is alway an opportunity to get to bond with some of the WISH Team.
Katrina, congrats on the part in the musical. Enjoy the experience.
Jeff, that is such a fun thing to be running with Marcia in your home locale. Jealous I am.

 

[Sarah_Rose]

Hi Warriors!

We were little chatterbugs over at Team 'Ohana's turf, weren't we? It's a wonder that we got anything done!

Today was my cross-training day, so just 40 minutes on the recumbent bike for me.

Unrelated to running, but totally related to Disney, I also took the first step towards canceling my great big wedding of doom on the other side of the continent (where most of our family lives) this summer, and emailed the Celebration Hotel about the prospect of holding a small (20ish close friends and family) wedding there in late June/early July. I've always wanted to get married in WDW, which is pretty much the only place that my fiance has vetoed. It turns out that he's ok with Celebration, however, and it means that we could spend a day running around the MK with our bride and groom mouse ears before heading to the beach for a few days of honeymoon. I don't know if they have any availability (but heck, I'm willing to get married on a Wednesday afternoon!) or if I'll even find the nerve to cancel the wedding (and lose all our deposits that we've paid so far), but I'm more excited at the idea of a tiny Disney wedding, than I have ever been about the great big distant monstrosity. I'm pixie dusting myself on this one!

 

[ImMarcik]

Last night my friend and I went shopping and ended up at Hobby Lobby. I bought a memo board (in leopard print because I'm wild like that) I am going to hang it over my treadmill and use it as a vision board. I am going to print out a picture of the ToT medal and some other inspirational things too look at when I run. Anyway, while we were there my friend found these little wooden words in the clearance Christmas department. They had wish. She bought it for me for .39. I'm going to hang it on my board.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement.

 

[amykab]

My race report! I am still sore and didn't do anything yesterday, but will do some pilates today. On a disappointing note, I did not get that job I interviewed for. So I am in a bit of a funk. BUT, MIL is coming down this week and is taking us to WDW for a couple days this weekend!! I am a bit sad to not be doing the princess, but I am so sore now, I don't know if I could have done it anyhow.


The race went well. really well. Hydration/fuel were perfect this time round. I was totally on pace for about 12 minute miles through about mile 7. NO shin pain. THEN, the skies opened up. OMG. We were facing about 20+ MPH crosswinds and headwinds and wind driven rain. The wind was never at our backs, even when we switched directions, which happened a few times. It was in the mid 60's to start the race, which was fine, but the rain was COLD. So, I fell off my pace at this point. I was having to work like twice as hard to keep my pace where I wanted to be and was literally blown sideways a few times. So I walked more at this point. I ended up finishing in about 2:50 ish, 13.35 miles. (according to garmin), no PR, but WAY better than disney and just a few minutes off my november half.

I was so grateful for the mylar blanket at the finish. I truly was chilled to the bone. You all are free to laugh at me, but I really was cold. It was about 50 degrees with cold rain at the end. I did enjoy the food from my fave Cuban restaurant. free beer truck was closed. I only wanted hot coffee anyhow. I was worried about the full people finishing in 4+hours because alot of the food people were closing up shop due to the downpours.


2 Complaints:

1. They ran out of 1/2 marathon medals. If you finished the 1/2 in more than 2 hours you didn't get one. Well, you got a fake one and they will send you the real one in a week or two. Apparently what happened was they registered too many people and also once the weather turned craptastic alot of the full marathoners turned off at the half marathon turnaround to the finish. I think those people should have gotten the fake medals. The bibs were different for the 1/2 and full so it would have been easy to separate them, Anyhow, no real biggie for me, but slightly disappointing. I just wanted to get warm at this point.

2. I did have gatorade thrown in my face. Not on purpose of course, but OMG. it was abut mile 3.5 and we were starting to run into the wind a bit and this guy just tosses his half full gatorade cup over his shoulder without looking. The wind blew it right into my eyes. which stung. Again, no big deal but look before you throw and throw low!!! And he saw what he had done and kind of just shrugged his shoulders. Whatever.

Delena and I post 5K

Delena pre-race at home

my 5K medal. It's smaller, but really heavy.

We finished in about 44 minutes. I had high hopes for a sub 40 with the stroller, but it was so crowded. I think they should have given the walkers w/o strollers a 15 minute head start. Which would have left plenty of space for people who wanted to jog with strollers. I was cruising easily at a 10-11 minute/miles pace when I could find space to run. Anyhow, it was fun. I was going to let Delena walk/run/toddle the last half mile, but she fell asleep!

 

[hoosmi]

Amy- great race report! Wow- crazy conditions! The medal thing stinks. It sounds totally reasonable to me that the people who switched from the full to the half should get the delayed gratification medal. Too bad the organizers didn't think of it. But, the 5k medal is pretty sweet, so maybe the 1/2 one will be worth it! So, did the rain at least wash the Gatorade out of your eyes?!

Love your pictures. Your daughter is too cute!

As for me, not doing much. Normally I'd run today, but still kind of sneezy and don't want to get worse before the Princess. Let's just say I'll be going into it undertrained...

Hope everyone is doing well!

Jen in GA

 

[3DisneyKids]

AMY--such a rock star!

Back from my workout. TIRED! I did the whole tri today. It wasn't my planned workout, but that is how it rolls sometimes. I am SO fatigued. And I held back. I didn't swim, bike or run my fastest. I just wanted to do the course slow and easy. But I can't get over how tired I am. And I want to eat everything in sight. Everything. I ate high protein after I was done...and I am still just ravenous.

Ok, back to work and the real world.

 

[smileyk8]

quick fly by for me, sorry that i haven't caught up with everyone. Will at some point. Went for a 4miler with work friend, she runs a little slower than me so it forced me to have a more gentle run and built my confidence back up! All good. With 5 mins stretch took 45 mins.

 

[smileyk8]

Kate: When are you getting into Orlando? Are you staying to eat at POR when the meet is over? ( I think I remember you saying you were staying there.)

We land friday at 2ish, really hoping to make expo fri night but we'll see. Staying at POFQ, think we're heading out to eat somewhere else so will be poppin in for a chat and photo and then poppin back out. Tryin to convince my mum to tag along, want to get her into walking! Sorry, would've been good to have stayed.

 

[JimB.]

I put in 8 miles in 76 minutes today.

i hung around the house all day waiting for it to warm up, but the temp never got above 50 w/20 mph winds.

I finally decided around 4 pm that it was "get going or sit back & be a lazy slug" time. Fortunately ambition won out.

This time..................

Now I have to convince myself to get out on the bike tomorrow morning before the winds kick up. Last week I was POSITIVE winter was over.

Al Gore......... Global Warming my %$# !!

 

[dsnyfan21]

Amy: Great race report! Sorry to hear about the job issue. Hope to see you around WDW this weekend. Go by the expo at least to walk around the booths and stuff.

Jeff: Get better soon and say hi and give Marcia a big hug from me!!! Hope you two have some great runs together!
AFM: I got out and did about 3.10 miles and did some good stretching afterwards. I am leaving for WDW Thursday around lunch time from work. Hope to get in a small walk Friday morning. Then the Princess Half on Sunday. I hope to have my laptop with me so will try to keep up with everyone!!

Tracy