Princess 1/2 walkers?

[NC State]

Thank you for the kind words.
I had an injury so I have just started back running. I'll walk for 10 mins, run for 5 mins. I do this for one hour, I can cover 4.3 miles in 1 hour. I'm not going to "push" myself so that's why I think I should "walk" the Princess in Feb. I just don't where to start for the race.

 

[Dreamer2012]

Hi everyone...just checking in to see if there is anyone still here on this thread. I have been gone for a little bit, but have been "training" for the Princess 1/2 with my DD14 in 2013. I think that the sign up date is fast approaching..does anyone know the actual date? I was also wondering if I HAVE to use my official time from last years race or can I register with the time they list? Thier time got me in corral D last year, and I think my official time from the Princess this year would actually put me in a much further back corral - thanks for the info if anyone can answer that would be great! Hope everyone is well and keeping up with thier individual training program...

 

[debbieandroo]

hi! nice to see you again! I don't know about the corral placement but I do know that the PHM registration begins on July 10th.


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[John VN]

Hi everyone...just checking in to see if there is anyone still here on this thread. I have been gone for a little bit, but have been "training" for the Princess 1/2 with my DD14 in 2013. I think that the sign up date is fast approaching..does anyone know the actual date? I was also wondering if I HAVE to use my official time from last years race or can I register with the time they list? Thier time got me in corral D last year, and I think my official time from the Princess this year would actually put me in a much further back corral - thanks for the info if anyone can answer that would be great! Hope everyone is well and keeping up with thier individual training program...

Welcome back Dreamer2012 and deebieandroo, glad to read you're staying with it.

Not necessary to use your time from last race. Put down the best time that does not need to have chip proof.

I'm betting things will go well for you since registration day is my birthday and you seem to be gung-ho for a good race.

 

[Dreamer2012]

Thanks John VN I can always count on you to come through with an answer! How lucky we all are to have a seasoned "PRO" who spends time on this thread helping us all out. Thanks again. I can not believe it is time to register again. What have I done? My DD14 is sooo excited and I am just scared to death. You would think that having done it once before would make it easier...but you would be wrong...instead of feeling committed - I am feeling like I should be committed! YIKES!! I am however glad to know I do not have to use last years time - that will definitely help. How is everyone else feeling? Who will be signing up on the 10th?

 

[amykay9377]

Thanks John VN I can always count on you to come through with an answer! How lucky we all are to have a seasoned "PRO" who spends time on this thread helping us all out. Thanks again. I can not believe it is time to register again. What have I done? My DD14 is sooo excited and I am just scared to death. You would think that having done it once before would make it easier...but you would be wrong...instead of feeling committed - I am feeling like I should be committed! YIKES!! I am however glad to know I do not have to use last years time - that will definitely help. How is everyone else feeling? Who will be signing up on the 10th?

I am SOOOO ready to sign up. Until now, I feel like I am "playing athlete" - like everything I'm doing somehow is just for fun. Once I get registered, maybe I'll feel more "I'm DOING this!!!" I don't know.

 

[John VN]

Dreame2012-I am just so glad for you, your DD and all the others here, who are making the effort.

I am SOOOO ready to sign up. Until now, I feel like I am "playing athlete" - like everything I'm doing somehow is just for fun. Once I get registered, maybe I'll feel more "I'm DOING this!!!" I don't know.

amykay9377-We are all athletes in the sense that we are involved in a sport but at the same time....please, Please, PLEASE....NEVER give up the feeling of "playing athlete"!

The coolest thing for me is the KNOWING I'm "just playing athlete" and not a professional athlete who needs to be "working at being an athlete". What I mean is that the athletes who have a need to perform for the sponsors, teams and the money can very easily have the FUN taken out of the effort. I go out to accomplish what I can, doing the best I can, at that moment in time. If I improve, I am happy and if I don't improve, I am happy to have been able to be there, at a place and time when hundreds of millions of other people just couldn't be. Might sound goofy but I am a goofy person and enjoy being so.

Hope this goofy old guy is making some sense for you magnificent women. Be safe and stay healthy.

 

[Dreamer2012]

Goofy is good John! Since this will be my second time at the Princess, the first I was so concerned with not being swept I only focussed on keeping my pace - This time I want to "enjoy the journey". My plan is to do just what you said - No pressure - just relax, do my best and be grateful that I am able to be there! To be with my wonderful daughter and make a memory not a time! I am so excited about sign up day! TTYL everyone....

 

[John VN]

.....To be with my wonderful daughter and make a memory not a time!......

I like that!

 

[amykay9377]

amykay9377-We are all athletes in the sense that we are involved in a sport but at the same time....please, Please, PLEASE....NEVER give up the feeling of "playing athlete"!

The coolest thing for me is the KNOWING I'm "just playing athlete" and not a professional athlete who needs to be "working at being an athlete". What I mean is that the athletes who have a need to perform for the sponsors, teams and the money can very easily have the FUN taken out of the effort. I go out to accomplish what I can, doing the best I can, at that moment in time. If I improve, I am happy and if I don't improve, I am happy to have been able to be there, at a place and time when hundreds of millions of other people just couldn't be. Might sound goofy but I am a goofy person and enjoy being so.

Hope this goofy old guy is making some sense for you magnificent women. Be safe and stay healthy.

Goofy ol' John, you make perfect sense! I just more meant that I felt like I was "playing" as one would "play house" or "play dress up" - it hasn't become real to me yet that this is who I am (or becoming) now. When I go to races, I still feel out of place, like I don't belong there. I'll see other mature women, or other larger women and go"'oh thank God' there are other people like ME here" rather than thinking *I* am like everyone else here - a runner having fun.

It's a mindset thing from always being the fat girl picked last, I know that, and I'm getting away from that thinking, but slowly...

 

[mahipp]

Right now, I'm concentrating on walking to lose weight. I've probably lost about 60 pounds and have almost as much left to lose. Come October or so, I plan on starting a true half marathon training program. The question is - which one? I hear so much about Jeff Galloway, but his are for people who want to walk/run. I know my knees and ankles will never survive running. I know I have to walk the PHM.

I've found these training programs. Anyone have any experience with them or any other?

http://media.spryliving.com/uploads/media/12MarathonTrainingGuide.pdf
http://www.halhigdon.com/assets/_legacy/halfmarathon/halfwalk.pdf

 

[Dreamer2012]

Mahipp - both plans look like they would prepare you well for the PHM. I walked then entire race last year and it was wonderful! I am planning on doing 2013 with my DD15. Right now we walk M-W-F - 2 MILES IN APPROX 30 MINS. then on Sat am we have begun walking to breakfast which is approx 6 miles. We get a ride home! We plan to keep the M-W-F routine basically the same because of work and school constraints. We will eventually add to the Sat distance but for right now we plan to stay with this scenario. The ;lonfgest distance I did before my first PHM 2012 was 8 miles I believe, and adding the additional 5.1 miles was really not that much further (however on race day had you asked me I may have felt a bit differently!) I wish you great luck, and for diet motivation just remember to ask yourself before you take that extra bite of whatever...Do I want to carry this with me for the entire 13.1 miles? I also kept reminding myself that every pound I lost was one less to carry on race day and that was also hightly motivating for me! Keep us posted with your progress!

 

[debbieandroo]

Right now, I'm concentrating on walking to lose weight. I've probably lost about 60 pounds and have almost as much left to lose. Come October or so, I plan on starting a true half marathon training program. The question is - which one? I hear so much about Jeff Galloway, but his are for people who want to walk/run. I know my knees and ankles will never survive running. I know I have to walk the PHM.

I've found these training programs. Anyone have any experience with them or any other?

http://media.spryliving.com/uploads/media/12MarathonTrainingGuide.pdf
http://www.halhigdon.com/assets/_legacy/halfmarathon/halfwalk.pdf

Ooooo...those look cool. To be honest, I hadn't really found a detailed schedule for walking a half - I was just seeing ways to adjust a running schedule to accommodate walking.

I'm walking the PHM, too. To get ready for that, I'm planning to walk some halves [or halfs?] in the fall so I'm trying to build up my miles now. But it's summer - yikes! Even first thing in the morning or late night is so so hot.

Someone on the WISH section [can't remember who now] has done a lot of race walking and suggested, especially for the summer, to walk three days per week. Two days would be at least an hour each and one day would be two hours each - which will get my body used to walking that long. He also said not to worry about time and pacing because of the summer. So I started doing that a few weeks ago [after trying to walk 30-45 minutes alternating with running then a long walk on the weekend].

I think it's helping. I've been treating these long walks just like running, in that I'm giving my muscles a rest on my off days and cross training with weights and briskly walking my dog. This past week, I saw that my pacing was better even with our record breaking heat. I'm still in sweeper-territory, time-wise, but I do have a few months to go yet.

This morning I walked a 5K and kept at a 16 minute pace. I did better [one minute faster] as a walker than I had done in a 5K back in April that I had tried to run. Slow but sure...this tortoise isn't passing any hares just yet but those little rabbits better watch out - here I come!

 

[debbieandroo]

Mahipp - both plans look like they would prepare you well for the PHM. I walked then entire race last year and it was wonderful! I am planning on doing 2013 with my DD15. Right now we walk M-W-F - 2 MILES IN APPROX 30 MINS. then on Sat am we have begun walking to breakfast which is approx 6 miles. We get a ride home! We plan to keep the M-W-F routine basically the same because of work and school constraints. We will eventually add to the Sat distance but for right now we plan to stay with this scenario. The ;lonfgest distance I did before my first PHM 2012 was 8 miles I believe, and adding the additional 5.1 miles was really not that much further (however on race day had you asked me I may have felt a bit differently!) I wish you great luck, and for diet motivation just remember to ask yourself before you take that extra bite of whatever...Do I want to carry this with me for the entire 13.1 miles? I also kept reminding myself that every pound I lost was one less to carry on race day and that was also hightly motivating for me! Keep us posted with your progress!

Ha, I read that last night just as I was popping a Payday [a little one] in my mouth! This morning, during the 5K, I thought about how that Payday was keeping me company as I was bringing up the rear.

 

[debbieandroo]

Goofy is good John! Since this will be my second time at the Princess, the first I was so concerned with not being swept I only focussed on keeping my pace - This time I want to "enjoy the journey". My plan is to do just what you said - No pressure - just relax, do my best and be grateful that I am able to be there! To be with my wonderful daughter and make a memory not a time! I am so excited about sign up day! TTYL everyone....

I am so glad to read that you're going back for a second time. I was so excited for your success last year but was a little nervous [for myself] that you didn't want to do it again. And here I am, signing up as a walker, partly based on your experiences! What a great memory that will be for you and your daughter.

Goofy ol' John, you make perfect sense! I just more meant that I felt like I was "playing" as one would "play house" or "play dress up" - it hasn't become real to me yet that this is who I am (or becoming) now. When I go to races, I still feel out of place, like I don't belong there. I'll see other mature women, or other larger women and go"'oh thank God' there are other people like ME here" rather than thinking *I* am like everyone else here - a runner having fun.

It's a mindset thing from always being the fat girl picked last, I know that, and I'm getting away from that thinking, but slowly...

Amy, your words encouraged me so much!!!! And were exactly what I needed to read right now!

I have committed, at least through next year's Princess, to focus on walking only. And I'm walking my little toes to the bone! Still, I'm a little insecure about that, especially since I don't even walk that fast. Fast for me, yes, but other walkers still zoom past me.

I signed up for a road race series sponsored by our local runners' club and was encouraged to do this by someone who told me she walked these races. There are 8 races, total, that grow in distance from 5K to half marathon [by November]. All of this to try to pull me out of this insecurity I have about walking and, like you said, 'playing athlete.' And also to keep me motivated to walk longer distances in the fall.

I picked up my packet at a running store and, as usual, felt about 100 pounds heavier than everyone else. Yet, everyone was so encouraging, even the store's employees, and gave me lots of good wishes for the race today.

This morning, I pulled in and saw so many runner looking types - thin, fit, young. What was I doing there?!?!? But I had paid my money and hey, somebody has to be last, right? Might as well be me!

And I kept thinking about what you wrote about feeling out of place and that I needed to get out of that mindset. I belonged there, too, even as a walker.

And, while I might not ever beat anyone to the finish line [I finished next-to-last in my age group!], I'm still beating my tendency to let those 'fat girl' thoughts keep me from trying things like this.

Again, thank you for your timely words, Amy - I really needed them this morning.

Hopefully, all of this mental warfare will get easier. That was a lot to think about at 5:30 on a Sunday morning!

 

[mahipp]

I am so glad to read that you're going back for a second time. I was so excited for your success last year but was a little nervous [for myself] that you didn't want to do it again. And here I am, signing up as a walker, partly based on your experiences! What a great memory that will be for you and your daughter.





Amy, your words encouraged me so much!!!! And were exactly what I needed to read right now!

I have committed, at least through next year's Princess, to focus on walking only. And I'm walking my little toes to the bone! Still, I'm a little insecure about that, especially since I don't even walk that fast. Fast for me, yes, but other walkers still zoom past me.

I signed up for a road race series sponsored by our local runners' club and was encouraged to do this by someone who told me she walked these races. There are 8 races, total, that grow in distance from 5K to half marathon [by November]. All of this to try to pull me out of this insecurity I have about walking and, like you said, 'playing athlete.' And also to keep me motivated to walk longer distances in the fall.

I picked up my packet at a running store and, as usual, felt about 100 pounds heavier than everyone else. Yet, everyone was so encouraging, even the store's employees, and gave me lots of good wishes for the race today.

This morning, I pulled in and saw so many runner looking types - thin, fit, young. What was I doing there?!?!? But I had paid my money and hey, somebody has to be last, right? Might as well be me!

And I kept thinking about what you wrote about feeling out of place and that I needed to get out of that mindset. I belonged there, too, even as a walker.

And, while I might not ever beat anyone to the finish line [I finished next-to-last in my age group!], I'm still beating my tendency to let those 'fat girl' thoughts keep me from trying things like this.

Again, thank you for your timely words, Amy - I really needed them this morning.

Hopefully, all of this mental warfare will get easier. That was a lot to think about at 5:30 on a Sunday morning!

I'm so with you ladies - I've always been the fat girl, never athletic. I did my first 5K with my 14 y.o. daughter. I kept asking her "Are there people behind us? I don't want to be last!" And, we weren't.

I've been trying to spread my wings more and more. I joined our local rec center to use the gym. I get nervous when there are "gym rat" types in there - with their weight lifting belts and gloves. But, I try not to let them intimidate me (easier said than done some days!)

I've also started kayaking. My husband bought himself a kayak a few years ago. I had never thought of using one myself. I'm the fat girl who has trouble getting in and out of the cars at Space Mountain, how was I going to get into a kayak. But, I tried it for the first time the other day. Yeah, my DH had to help me out. And, it was so much freakin' FUN! I've lived on the west coast of Florida since I was 16 - that's 35 years - and this was the first time I've done some of this stuff! I feel like I've missed out on so much and now I am hungry for new adventures. Waverunners are next!

 

[amykay9377]

Amy, your words encouraged me so much!!!! And were exactly what I needed to read right now!

I have committed, at least through next year's Princess, to focus on walking only. And I'm walking my little toes to the bone! Still, I'm a little insecure about that, especially since I don't even walk that fast. Fast for me, yes, but other walkers still zoom past me.

I signed up for a road race series sponsored by our local runners' club and was encouraged to do this by someone who told me she walked these races. There are 8 races, total, that grow in distance from 5K to half marathon [by November]. All of this to try to pull me out of this insecurity I have about walking and, like you said, 'playing athlete.' And also to keep me motivated to walk longer distances in the fall.

I picked up my packet at a running store and, as usual, felt about 100 pounds heavier than everyone else. Yet, everyone was so encouraging, even the store's employees, and gave me lots of good wishes for the race today.

This morning, I pulled in and saw so many runner looking types - thin, fit, young. What was I doing there?!?!? But I had paid my money and hey, somebody has to be last, right? Might as well be me!

And I kept thinking about what you wrote about feeling out of place and that I needed to get out of that mindset. I belonged there, too, even as a walker.

And, while I might not ever beat anyone to the finish line [I finished next-to-last in my age group!], I'm still beating my tendency to let those 'fat girl' thoughts keep me from trying things like this.

Again, thank you for your timely words, Amy - I really needed them this morning.

Hopefully, all of this mental warfare will get easier. That was a lot to think about at 5:30 on a Sunday morning!

I'm so glad! It's so funny, our perceptions of runners. Looking at them from the outside, they all seem so thin and healthy and perfect, the kind of person who wouldn't give those Fat Girls the time of day, but when we are in the Inner Circle of running, they are the nicest, helpful, uplifting people!
Great job on your finish!!!!

I'm so with you ladies - I've always been the fat girl, never athletic. I did my first 5K with my 14 y.o. daughter. I kept asking her "Are there people behind us? I don't want to be last!" And, we weren't.

This is my mantra. I've had it from the very beginning of my journey,when I did the March of Dimes walk back in March - it was my FIRST time doing anything (walking, running, etc) and I was so scared of being the very last person!! Then, in my first 3 5ks, I said that no matter what, I didn't want to be last - two out of 3 times I wasn't last!

I even have a BondiBand that says "Not Fast, but Not LAST!"

 

[Dreamer2012]

Just wanted to say hello tonight. I am super excited for signing up tomorrow! I am wondering however if there is any "advantage" to signing up early? What time does sign up actually begin midnight tonight or sometime in the morning? How are all of you doing with your training and goals?

 

[amykay9377]

Just wanted to say hello tonight. I am super excited for signing up tomorrow! I am wondering however if there is any "advantage" to signing up early? What time does sign up actually begin midnight tonight or sometime in the morning? How are all of you doing with your training and goals?

Sign up begins at Noon EST (Florida time!). I'm so antsy right now, I'm ready to get it done!

 

[Dreamer2012]

Is anyone there?? I am trying to register and not having any luck.. thought it opened at noon?