Official 2013 Tower of Terror 10 Miler

[rigsfhdgnv]

2013 TOT Goals:

Primary: Go in uninjured!
Secondary: Beat last year's time.
Dream: Finish sub-2:00:00.

Secondary is very attainable. Primary and Dream will require a balancing act of working hard to build speed without ending up injured... again.

On the subject of racing in the heat... Last night was my first truly uncomfortable run of summer: temp 88 with a Heat Index of 94, blazing FL sun, AND I was trying to push a 10:30 pace. Recipe for disaster, folks. I overheated big time and the wheels came off 2.5 miles into a total of 3. Final avg pace was 12:21.

BUT, here's the takeaway for folks worried about the heat - best thing I've found to slow myself down on a hot run? More walk breaks. Just throw in an extended walk interval every so often. It slows the heart, eases muscles and helps me far more than trying to run slower on the run intervals.

Going in uninjured sounds like a great goal! I think I'll swipe it.

Back to the doctor for my IT Band this week. I should be able to get a cortisone shot. It will be my first one and I'm a bit nervous, but I'm hoping it will help me run pain-free again!

 

[annmarieda]

you can bet we are doing the party even if you are picking me up off the ground

Things do happen though... and getting sick on a ride wouldn't be a lot of fun. I think I should be ok, but again...things can happen. And... finishing... yes, again, things can happen and even though I have managed to complete all races I have been in... there is always the potential fora first.

2013 TOT Goals:

Primary: Go in uninjured!
Secondary: Beat last year's time.
Dream: Finish sub-2:00:00.

Secondary is very attainable. Primary and Dream will require a balancing act of working hard to build speed without ending up injured... again.

On the subject of racing in the heat... Last night was my first truly uncomfortable run of summer: temp 88 with a Heat Index of 94, blazing FL sun, AND I was trying to push a 10:30 pace. Recipe for disaster, folks. I overheated big time and the wheels came off 2.5 miles into a total of 3. Final avg pace was 12:21.

BUT, here's the takeaway for folks worried about the heat - best thing I've found to slow myself down on a hot run? More walk breaks. Just throw in an extended walk interval every so often. It slows the heart, eases muscles and helps me far more than trying to run slower on the run intervals.

Add me to the "uninjured" goal. It is so easy to go from doing well... to injured and NOT doing well. I injured the ligament to my toe (turf toe) and there are days where it is close to healing and then others that I have to bite my teeth together to get my shoes off after a run. I have managed to get a boxers fracture when I fell during a run and suffered peroneal tendonitis. LUCKILY... knock on wood... no more injuries!! INJURIES SUCK!!!

 

[Imagineer2Be]

Completed my first ten mile run/ mostly walk today in 164 minutes on a treadmill. Now to get faster and start doing some outside. Just over 4 months to go.

 

[kramerzoo]

Completed my first ten mile run/ mostly walk today in 164 minutes on a treadmill. Now to get faster and start doing some outside. Just over 4 months to go.

Wow! That's awesome!! Thanks for the inspiration!
It's so hot here in DC that I hope the weather starts cooperating soon so I can go back to running outside...

 

[bumbershoot]

Add me to the "uninjured" goal. It is so easy to go from doing well... to injured and NOT doing well.

So true.

Today I was at my WW meeting and they had this special open house for activity. Our local weight-loss celebrity was there giving an intro to Zumba. Which turned out to be 4 different songs plus a 4 minute cooldown (and Zumba cooldown doesn't really feel like a cooldown to me). I was wearing street clothes and my Crocs flipflops, and we were on carpet.

I didn't do any of the turns she was doing, that's for sure! All I need is to knock ages off of my training with a wrenched knee...



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So I tried Sports Beans, and I LOVE them! They are right up there with the added-sodium Shot Bloks for me. Everything else has just felt like sugar to me. It helps, but not as much as those. Of course the shot bloks are margarita-flavored, which makes them especially fun. I think I still have one more chewy thing left to try, and there's still the mystery of the touted coconut water (I have one can and one packet to add to water), but so far the margarita bloks and the beans are top of my list in terms of what they do for me, usability (the gu chomps are way too hard for me to chew!), and taste.

If only such attention to nutrition and electrolytes had existed when I was in college. I was even in the Exercise Science program (I have my BS in it!), and we didn't do any of this. My coach's response to me suddenly getting exercise-induced asthma was to suggest I take a swig of *cough syrup* before my race in a regatta, so that it would kick in by the sprint so I could still breathe. I can only imagine how much better it would have been if we had things like chomps and sports beans (and an inhaler for me) and maybe even some extra water, LOL. All we had was bagels, it seemed!

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I am weirdly excited for the official training plan to start. Even more excited when I re-re-read it and saw this:

Two 30-minute “maintenance runs” are needed each week to sustain the conditioning needed—usually on Tuesday and Thursday. If you are already running more than this, and are not having any trouble, you can continue with your current mileage on maintenance days.

I'm definitely running more than the half hour, and since I use my activity to eat more food (while still whittling down towards goal), I WANT to run more than that!

I find it marvelously coincidental that the first week of the "Finish in the Upright Position" plan ends with 3 miles on a day that I'm doing my first official *running* 5K.

 

[ua1992]

Completed my first ten mile run/ mostly walk today in 164 minutes on a treadmill. Now to get faster and start doing some outside. Just over 4 months to go.

Way to go ! Congrats - you are doing awesome !

 

[annmarieda]

Completed my first ten mile run/ mostly walk today in 164 minutes on a treadmill. Now to get faster and start doing some outside. Just over 4 months to go.

Good job!

So true.

Today I was at my WW meeting and they had this special open house for activity. Our local weight-loss celebrity was there giving an intro to Zumba. Which turned out to be 4 different songs plus a 4 minute cooldown (and Zumba cooldown doesn't really feel like a cooldown to me). I was wearing street clothes and my Crocs flipflops, and we were on carpet.

I didn't do any of the turns she was doing, that's for sure! All I need is to knock ages off of my training with a wrenched knee...

My dd had a bday party at a skating rink and I didn't dare skate for fear of turning an ankle.

So I tried Sports Beans, and I LOVE them! They are right up there with the added-sodium Shot Bloks for me. Everything else has just felt like sugar to me. It helps, but not as much as those. Of course the shot bloks are margarita-flavored, which makes them especially fun. I think I still have one more chewy thing left to try, and there's still the mystery of the touted coconut water (I have one can and one packet to add to water), but so far the margarita bloks and the beans are top of my list in terms of what they do for me, usability (the gu chomps are way too hard for me to chew!), and taste.

I am so glad you like them!

If only such attention to nutrition and electrolytes had existed when I was in college. I was even in the Exercise Science program (I have my BS in it!), and we didn't do any of this. My coach's response to me suddenly getting exercise-induced asthma was to suggest I take a swig of *cough syrup* before my race in a regatta, so that it would kick in by the sprint so I could still breathe. I can only imagine how much better it would have been if we had things like chomps and sports beans (and an inhaler for me) and maybe even some extra water, LOL. All we had was bagels, it seemed!

Trends change... that is for sure. Although, I am not sure that offering cough syrup would have EVER been a trend. Sounds like and odd coach suggestion. Bottom line though...we definitely seem to know better about nutrition now than we ever did.

I find it marvelously coincidental that the first week of the "Finish in the Upright Position" plan ends with 3 miles on a day that I'm doing my first official *running* 5K.

That is awesome!!! good luck to you with it.

 

[bumbershoot]

Although, I am not sure that offering cough syrup would have EVER been a trend. Sounds like and odd coach suggestion.

I certainly hope it wasn't a trend. It was indeed a weird suggestion! I can't remember if I did it or not. It was towards the end of my varsity sports career anyway... I don't even know if I talked to my Phys Ed department advisor about it (she was the wife of the football coach so I imagine she would have had some advice, like, oh, go see the medical people about this, LOL).

My dd had a bday party at a skating rink and I didn't dare skate for fear of turning an ankle.

Good to know there are others who avoid "unnecessary" activity like that. This week I'm doing it for my son, too, since next weekend is his ballet recital.

 

[Weluvdisny]

99% full!

 

[cortneyg0509]

I just found this board and am so excited for the Tower of Terror 10 Miler! This will be my first long race, but I am already in training mode, right now I am at a solid 4 miles, so I have no doubt in the next 4 months I will be able to run the whole 10!

 

[Dagna]

Have a podiatrist appt Friday--hoping to get cleared to train, or at least some kind of a treatment plan, so I can sign up for the TOT. But very concerned it will be SOLD OUT since it's at 99 % now.

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh.

EDIT: It's now Tues AM and the race is sold out. I guess this is my cue to say, "Next year..."

 

[DOOM1001]

I know both the full and half Disney marathon this year had around 25K to 26K runners each,how many runners run the ToT 10 miler.

 

[tinydancr06]

Started the ToT 10 Miler Time Improvement training plan today and had a great 45 min run. Finished right at 4 miles. Anyone else start their training today?!

 

[PrincessV]

I know both the full and half Disney marathon this year had around 25K to 26K runners each,how many runners run the ToT 10 miler.

They kept saying "12,000" last year, but I think that included the 5K and kids' races. so maybe around 10,000.

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Ladies and Gents... TOT is now SOLD OUT!

 

[BuckeyeBama]

I was on the fence, but my run this morning in the cooler weather convinced me NOT to run in this race. What a difference - effortless running vs torture.

Then, when I logged on after my run this morning I noticed that it was officially sold out. I guess that it was not meant to be this year - and I am perfectly fine with that. Now I need to find another race in that general time frame to keep me motivated - but somewhere cooler.

Good luck to those of you running in this one. Maybe I'll try it another year.

 

[PrincessV]

Started the ToT 10 Miler Time Improvement training plan today and had a great 45 min run. Finished right at 4 miles. Anyone else start their training today?!

Yay - WTG! I technically started on Sunday, but today will be my first of the "official" runs. It's silly, I suppose, given that I've been keeping to the 2 mid-week short runs and 1 weekend long run for, oh, over a year, but it's exciting to start a new plan!

I'm doing the Time Improvement plan, too, but with shorter long runs; I've got TOT training overlapping a late Oct. half training overlapping WDW Half training overlapping GSC training. If all goes according to plan, it'll take me up to 13 miles pre-TOT.

 

[tinydancr06]

Yay - WTG! I technically started on Sunday, but today will be my first of the "official" runs. It's silly, I suppose, given that I've been keeping to the 2 mid-week short runs and 1 weekend long run for, oh, over a year, but it's exciting to start a new plan!

I'm doing the Time Improvement plan, too, but with shorter long runs; I've got TOT training overlapping a late Oct. half training overlapping WDW Half training overlapping GSC training. If all goes according to plan, it'll take me up to 13 miles pre-TOT.

Yeah, I've been keeping that same schedule with week runs and then weekend long runs but it's just exciting to be "officially" training for something again after doing the Princess 1/2 back in Feb. I'll be doing the Glass Slipper Challenge as well so I guess I will probably have some overlap, too. I really like the feeling of being "in training," it keeps me so motivated!

 

[TMcDwyer]

Yeah, I've been keeping that same schedule with week runs and then weekend long runs but it's just exciting to be "officially" training for something again after doing the Princess 1/2 back in Feb. I'll be doing the Glass Slipper Challenge as well so I guess I will probably have some overlap, too. I really like the feeling of being "in training," it keeps me so motivated!

I am doing TofT and GSC too. Hoping to throw Tink in there as well...

 

[happysummer]

I am starting to get nervous about running this race.
My goals are not to get sweep to just finish and not get hurt.
Any other non runners worried.
I am hoping to be 20 pounds lighter for the race.
Anyone else doing a costume?

 

[TMcDwyer]

I am starting to get nervous about running this race.
My goals are not to get sweep to just finish and not get hurt.
Any other non runners worried.
I am hoping to be 20 pounds lighter for the race.
Anyone else doing a costume?

I am doing the Queen of Hearts!