Oktoberfest for Hukuna Matata!!!

[wdw4us]

I forgot it's Thanksgiving up north this weekend!! Have a good one to all my friends in Canada!

I wear an 8.5 shoe but always buy a 9 sneaker.

denise

 

[windwalker]

I forgot it's Thanksgiving up north this weekend!! Have a good one to all my friends in Canada!

I wear an 8.5 shoe but always buy a 9 sneaker.

denise

Hi Denise, Erica wears a size 9.5 in a sneaker. She experiments a lot with shoes to find something that works for a princesses foot. Right now she likes the Asics Stratus and the Mizuno Wave Rider, I want her to try the Mizuno percision 9 when we are at the Disney Marathon Expo.

I like the running warehouse site for buying shoes becasue they are cheaper and they have good sizing information on each shoe. I often buy a shoe to try and it not work for me at all even though it is rated highly. I wear a size 9.5 mens. What size is Mark?

Has anyone heard how Connie and her hubby are doing? He was supposed to have back surgery, she is just recovering from shoulder surgery.

Concerned Panda

 

[funwalker]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family in Canada!

Connie & Jon

Vicky, I was surprised and very thankful that the chiropractor worked on my feet & legs! I have another appointment on Monday.

Went to the gym today to try - did a short upper body workout. It was good so I am going in the morning.

Denise, I checked out the doors - undecided on which one to pick...just like toilet paper - too many choices.

Sorry, I need to go ice my foot ...

 

[windwalker]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family in Canada!

Connie & Jon

Vicky, I was surprised and very thankful that the chiropractor worked on my feet & legs! I have another appointment on Monday.

Went to the gym today to try - did a short upper body workout. It was good so I am going in the morning.

Denise, I checked out the doors - undecided on which one to pick...just like toilet paper - too many choices.

Sorry, I need to go ice my foot ...

Margie, you love are a nut.

Laughing Panda

 

[funwalker]

Good Morning, Team!

Connie, hope you shoulder is better today and you were able to get a good nights sleep! How's Jon?

Ankle/foot is better today - swelling is down more - not as sore. I am wearing the lace up brace during the day. Now I have a stinging - pin prick sensation (?)

Beautiful Fall Weather in my area ... I love it even if I am not able to get out there for a walk

I just couldn't help it.

 

[wdw4us]

Busy day here so I woke up Mark at 6:30 to head out for our 5 miles. Just an easy 5 to get the blood going. It's another beautiful day here. Leaves are turning more each day, crisp but sunny. Shower and then off to Runner's alley to get me some new "tires".

Feel great today, we were going to go to dinner last night, but the restaurant was very busy (so much for a bad economy) but this place has a variety of choices from sandwiches to full meals either that or they were drowning their sorrows. But we didn't want to wait an hour so we went to the grocery store, bought some fresh pasta and sauce, turkey meatballs and a bottle of wine. Had a fab meal in no time and it cost a LOT less.

2 weeks till the wedding and then vacation for me! It is time to taper for TOT yet?

denise

 

[windwalker]

Busy day here so I woke up Mark at 6:30 to head out for our 5 miles. Just an easy 5 to get the blood going. It's another beautiful day here. Leaves are turning more each day, crisp but sunny. Shower and then off to Runner's alley to get me some new "tires".

Feel great today, we were going to go to dinner last night, but the restaurant was very busy (so much for a bad economy) but this place has a variety of choices from sandwiches to full meals either that or they were drowning their sorrows. But we didn't want to wait an hour so we went to the grocery store, bought some fresh pasta and sauce, turkey meatballs and a bottle of wine. Had a fab meal in no time and it cost a LOT less.

2 weeks till the wedding and then vacation for me! It is time to taper for TOT yet?

denise

Taper for ToT? It's only an 8 miler dear. Besides it's an 8 mile party walk, at least for Erica and I it will be. We are walking with Lynn. You can join us if ya wanna, we will probably go around a 14 min per mile pace. Last year we started in the very back with Anne and walked with her a bit then moved up from WISH group to group till we caught up with Robert, Linda, Kim and Mike and walked the rest of the way in with them. We had a change to visit with a lot of wishers during the race that way.

I just did an hour of pool running today. I always feel so refreshed after that workout.

Margie, nut is good. I have never been acused of being normal myself.

Have an awesome day y'all.

Walking Panda

 

[Villains_Rock]

Vivky, Sue and Diane - Happy Turkey Day!!

Denise - Good luck with the "tire" purchase!! I need to buy my rotation "hooves" (as I call them) myself. I'm thinking Saucony Hurricane or Brooks Adrenaline GTS...anyone try with of those? Oh and I like the Dover door.

Margie - Say hi to the Michigan wilderness for me. I really miss MI this time of year! You feeling as if you can get-er-done at the Free Press?

Dave - All this talk of ToT...I'm super jealous!

Training: I went out for a nice brisk 4 miler this morning before work. Tomorrow is cross and strength. Monday is 12 Miles!

My computer is broken. Complete crash. So if you guys don't hear from me in the next two days...do not fret...I'll sign in at work next week when I can.

Any word on Connie and Jon?

 

[funwalker]

TEAM!

Yes, Eva I am preparing for Detroit - I am resting, Icing, Soaking, Ibuprofening, wearing a lace up brace during the day. The swelling & pain is down. I still have 8 more sleeps - it should be even better. My DD will wrap my ankle (Not taking any chances) and if I have to stop I will. I am going to finish and it has a longer finish time than most so I figure I should be okay even with two weeks of NO walking. I am going to the gym for upper body workouts - did an hour today and it went well. Will try some ABS tomorrow afternoon

Talked to Connie this afternoon - she sounded good Both are recovering from surgery and the long painful 2-hour ride home from the hospital. They were able to get some rest last night. Connie had her first Physical Therapy session yesterday --- kind of painful. Today she was thinking she might be able to do a little on the 'Dreadmill.'

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying this wonderful fall weather -

Bummer on the computer, Eva!

 

[wdw4us]

Howdy All: Another 5 today in my new sneakers. Ended up with Brooks and so far I love them. They checked my stride etc and I do have an even step, very little wear on my shoes on the side which kind of surprised me. So I got a mid-level shoe. Tried on a bunch but felt the Brooks were perfect for me.

Also bought our orange vest and used them today, after we were done Mark thought he could go supervise some tree cutting and I would head off to direct traffic. We now have the "uniform".

It was 38 when we left this morning and I still worked up quite the sweat. Coffee now and then I hit the ground running for errands today.

Have a good one

denise

 

[windwalker]

Good Morning Y'all.

Denise I used your story about leaving your stress at the door as the topic for my blog entry today, thanks.

Eva, I had a computer meltdown after down loading an email with a virus last week. I had to use the disk that erases the hard drive and reloads it to out of box condition. Lost lots of pictures and a lot of writing.

Everyone have a super day, it's a rest day for me.

Resting Panda

 

[wellesleyprincess]

Hi Everyone!

No running for me, as the race is tomorrow. I was going to pick up my number, t-shirt, and goody bag today; however, I now have other plans this afternoon, so I'll just have to get them right before the race tomorrow.
So my goals for this race are as follows:
I'd be satisfied with myself as long as I finsih in under 1 hour
My real goal is under 56 minutes (roughly a 9 minute mile pace)
If it was the perfect day I think I could potentially finish around 50 minutes (roughly an 8 minute mile pace).

I'll be sure to report back tomorrow.

Best,
Jennifer

 

[windwalker]

Morning Team, I have a new player coming over to join us, please wellcome Crunkyjens. She is doing the ToT with us also.

I'm off to to a 10 miler with my wild princess.

Team Panda

 

[Lynn G]

Good Morning Team!

Crunkyjens!

Denise - I am partial to the Charlotte door!

Shoes are a difficult subject - I was told I was a slight overpronator, but I know I have a high arch, and a stability shoe was recommended, that would follow the neutral recommendation of RW. I have been happy with the Asics Kayano and the Mizuno Wave Alcomy 8.

Jennifer - hope you have a great race today!

Hope you northern folks had a great Thanksgiving!!!!

Margie - thanks for the update on Connie and Jon!

Did not get much walking in last week, hope to improve on that this week! I want to get out this morning before the wind picks up, it is cold, but it will be worse in the wind! At least the sun is out today. My knees have been terrible, but I think that is partly because I have not been walking. So, starting today, I am going to get back into a program.

It is winter here, dusting of snow on the ground and the high today is supposed to be 40 degrees!

The construction phase on the basement is completed, , except for a few areas that need touch up paint, and the curtain that I am making that will separate the theatre room from the library area. We can start "moving in" - who knows how long that will take! We did watch a movie on the new TV downstairs last night!

Need to get going on that dog walk! Have a great day everyone!

 

[Scott H]

Yes Kids as Lynn posted the basement is basically done, need to move in now, will post some pictures tonght.

Temp was 27 this morn, so I was a lazy pup and slept in till 5:30ish. Tomorrow will hit the bricks. I did not sleep much Fri or Sat night thinking about that darn basement, and getting it done.

Later

 

[wellesleyprincess]

Thanks everyone for the good luck wishes!

So here's the race report:

It went better than I ever thought it could.

This was my first big race; there were 7000+ runners. I got there early picked up my t-shirt (they were nice new balance long-sleeve technical tees) and my goody bag (which had a card about the Princess 1/2) and wandered the booths.

At 10:45 there was a pre-race warm up which was fun and then at 11:15 they started herding people over to their seeds.

Race kicked off at noon and it was a nice course. Relatively flat; however, you run over the Charles twice and those bridges are tough. My first 3 splits were 7:50; 7:50; 7:55 and my 5k split was a new PR of 24:20. My second half was a little slower, but I was still hitting low 8 splits. According to the clock I finished right at 50 minutes, but I'm not sure what my chip time will be.

50 minutes was my highest goal and I really didn't think I was going to make it and 55 was my realistic goal.

I'm off to recover. I'll post official times and ranking info tomorrow.

Best,
Jennifer

 

[crunkyjens]

Morning Team, I have a new player coming over to join us, please wellcome Crunkyjens. She is doing the ToT with us also.

I'm off to to a 10 miler with my wild princess.

Team Panda

Thank you so much for the welcoming!! I am very happy to be here and to have you let me be a part of the Hukuna Matata team!

How about a little background on myself? I am originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan but in the summer of 2006 I moved to Orlando, Florida. Earlier this year I moved about 20 miles north to the city of Sanford to be closer to my work as I could not stand the traffic on I4 anymore, it was driving me insane! I am 26 years old and I live with my boyfriend Seth, and my sister Trish. I've been trying a lot but haven't been too successful yet to get my boyfriend to start running with me as he has some extra pounds to lose. He claims I run too fast and too far for him. I told him whatever, I would slow down and go at his pace and walk when he needed to walk and be there for him every step, jog, and sprint of the way. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed to get him going, he just needs a swift kick in the behind!

I work as a police dispatcher for the county I live in. I work 12 hours shifts, 2days on and 2 days off with every other Fri, Sat, and Sun off. I really like my schedule it's nice, although sometimes on my days off it's harder to get up earlier than noon to get stuff done that can only be done during the day. I work the night shift 530pm to 530am so that leaves a lot of boredom time where I get frequent snack attacks!

Forgive me for having a few questions but is there a certain day each week to report my mile and minutes? Today I jogged/walked 2.25 miles with my doggy in 40 minutes.

I look forward to getting to know everyone!! Now I just need to figure out how to put all the neat little things in my signature!

Have a great day everyone!!

Jen

 

[crunkyjens]

Whoops I hit enter twice and posted my long post twice! Sorry! I fixed it so now there's just this message...at least it's not as long!

Jen

 

[Scott H]

Welcome Aboard Jen to this crew of missfits, outcasts, excentrics, etc etc etc....a great crew it is for sure.... Oh I am used to Dispatchers and so is Lynn, LOL will explain when ever we met up, I don't talk much here about my current work.

WIll you be at TOT????

ANYWAY DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

The Adventures Club Wyoming Chapter is open!!!!!!!

Not sure what to do with myself, still have to put the books and adventure stuff up and our Disney Art in the theater room.

Lynn will be calling DVC tomorrow to book the Med repo and 1st Baltic.

WDW in about 11 days, KEWL!!!!

Time for a dinner, a drink, and a movie with some fresh popcorn

 

[Scott H]

Jennifer you did great, way to go.