Rookie Moves?

[Suzy Mouse]

When I got to the airport on Thursday, my sister noticed I only had a carryon. She said, "You're not checking your bags?" I told her I didn't want to separate from my shoes. She looked at me like a deer in headlights and I figured she was upset that she didn't think of that. She looked at me and very calmly stated, "I forgot my sneakers."

Fortunately for her, her bf came to the rescue and FedExed them to her overnight. "Rookie Move!!" she continues to say!

My "Dumby Move" was that I forgot to check my room key and lost it along the way!

Anyone else with a "Rookie" or a "Dumby"move?

 

[FireDancer]

The closest I have happened for the 2006 Country Music Marathon. The weather was looking like it could be cool but it was borderline. I decided to bring down my base layer running pants just in case. The weather was warmer so I was going to wear my shorts. Well, the morning of the race I realized I didn't bring them. My choice was to wear the winter base layer only or go with cargo shorts. I went with the base layer.

It was a bit warm but I managed. Now, not only do I check and double check but the first thing I do when I get to the hotel is lay everything out. This way even if I do forget something I can get it at a local store of the expo ahead of time instead of realizing it at 4:00am.

A couple of tips that I have read or learned over the course of traveling to races is to always pack everything you would need to run in your carry on. That way even if the luggage is lost you have your running gear. I also wear the last pair of running shoes that I retired on the plane. That way I have a pair that I can run in if the race shoes have some problem of if I forget them. I usually retire running shoes with at least some cushioning left so it wouldn't be too bad and I wouldn't have to try and break a new pair in the day before a race.

 

[cewait]

By no means am I a rookie but I can be a bone head.


I had shed all throw down clothing in the full this year at MK knowing that we would be protected from the wind over to AK. Well except for gloves and head band. Once leaving AK I tossed the gloves thinking it was now warm.. At least the sun felt that way. Mr Bone Head needed those gloves as he turned north on World Dr at mile 21.

We live and learn. Sitting here now I can rationalize the move as a positve move as I know the gloves would have been freezing once put back on.

 

[MrsPotts]

My bone head/rookie/bad mom move was not packing dry clothes for my son for after the race. He finished long before me and waited patiently for me to finish in his cold wet clothes!!! Fortunately we had a car that he could wait in but he was there at the finish line yelling for me and shivering like I've never seen before!!! He's such a good kid!

 

[Duanerice]

Not a rookie but it just goes to show you anyone can make a dumb move.

I went to get my gear together for the full and the shoes were wet. It then dawned on me what I did. I wore my full shoes for the half. Duh!

The half shoes were a bit worn so that is why I was going to use the newer pair for the full. Oh well.

What really worried my was the D tag. I used the full D tag of the half. Found out it makes no difference.

enjoy,
Duane

 

[Suzy Mouse]

I called them Rookie moves because they are moves a Rookie would make... Not us!!

 

[FFigawi]

By no means am I a rookie but I can be a bone head.


I had shed all throw down clothing in the full this year at MK knowing that we would be protected from the wind over to AK. Well except for gloves and head band. Once leaving AK I tossed the gloves thinking it was now warm.. At least the sun felt that way. Mr Bone Head needed those gloves as he turned north on World Dr at mile 21.

We live and learn. Sitting here now I can rationalize the move as a positve move as I know the gloves would have been freezing once put back on.

I did almost the same thing as Charles. I gave my jacket, with gloves and hat in the pockets, to my wife at mile 19. I was toasty warm until the turnaround on Osceloa. I was cool from there until the turn north on World Dr., at which point I was cold because of the shade. I was fine once we got into the sun again, but that was a pretty cool stretch of running. My jacket was missed.

 

[scoolover]

This past year I had a mid-morning 5 mile race about 10 miles from my home. I left a bit late because I knew I could make it and would not have to do all the waiting. That morning I mowed my lawn in my 5th generation running shoes. I'm talking green stains and the sole was flopping. I got there and realized that I was still wearing the lawn shoes. There was no time to go home so I ran in those. Didn't turn out too badly and I actually ran a pretty good time.

 

[Padstack]

This past year I had a mid-morning 5 mile race about 10 miles from my home. I left a bit late because I knew I could make it and would not have to do all the waiting. That morning I mowed my lawn in my 5th generation running shoes. I'm talking green stains and the sole was flopping. I got there and realized that I was still wearing the lawn shoes. There was no time to go home so I ran in those. Didn't turn out too badly and I actually ran a pretty good time.

I ran a local 10k and ended up running next to a girl with the floppy sole. She had duct taped it, but it tore off about mile 2. So for the rest of the race I paced myself to the sound of the sole hitting the shoe. I ran my best 10k race that day. She ended up being the women's divison winner.

I have a separate bag for my running gear, which can also fit a spare change of clothes and toiletries. I also have two lists: one for running stuff and one for everything else I will need for the trip.

 

[sk8ingmom]

I really am a rookie, so I have a legitimate excuse!

My race went well. I shed the right clothes at the right time. I was down to a long sleeve UA top, tights, gloves and a headband by mile 2, but I kept my last fleece tied around my waist until Tomorrowland. I took my gloves off at mile 4-5, but tucked them in to my waistband. I was glad I did because I put them back on at about mile 10. I was comfortable while I was in motion.

The mistake - I have NOTHING warm to put on after the race! I run tris and I always have a change of clothes with me. I hate hanging out post-race in a wet tri suit. However, despite the forecast, I never thought about being wet and cold at the end of the race!

That was the longest, coldest monorail ride in history. Thank goodness DH finished about an hour before me. By the time I got back to our villa at BLT, he had the room heated to a toasty 80 degrees.

 

[MouseDogMom]

Mine was fairly simple, but at the time it was really stupid, given the conditions. After crossing the finish line at the half on Saturday, I took my mylar blanket and handed it to DH before I went to get my photo taken. I didn't want to have to bother with it during the picture. Then I went to get into the baggage claim line, which was 20-30 minutes long, and I almost froze to death. I felt like an idiot standing there shivering while everyone else was wrapped up in their mylar blankets!

Fortunately, a friend came by who was headed to her car and gave me her blanket. I'm afraid I would have turned into a popsicle otherwise!

Jackie

 

[Bunnylee]

Not this race but I always bring 2 pairs of shoes for races that I drive to so that my running shoes don't get wet, etc. At one of the Minnie 15K's I had put my chip on my shoe the night before as usual but in the corral looked down and had on the wrong shoes---the ones without the chip! No time to go back to hotel so ran without an official time. So now I take the 2nd pair of shoes and stick them in a drawer so I don't repeat that mistake.

 

[GBBTomorrow]

We had two almost-scary but now funny rookie moments on Saturday before the marathon. I don't think it was so much being stupid, but just the effects of how nervous and keyed-up we were for our very first marathon, that we had been planning for so long.

Mine came Saturday morning. Our training plan called for a 2-mile light jog, so out we went. Everything was going fine, but then I tripped over a crack in the pavement and took the most spectacular rolling fall. Luckily I wasn't hurt, but it really freaked me out. Imagine, to come so far, and get hurt the day before...I was lucky.

DH's moment came later that day when he hurt his ankle getting out of the parking lot tram at Hollywood Studios. He does have an injury, but was able to run on it. But there was that "oh no" moment that gave us a second's fright.

Our other rookie mistake I don't know if we could have helped. We had wanted to be in our beds nice and early Saturday night, but it was just so hard to do. The Bengals game was on, there were kids to organize, clothes to lay out, and so on. I guess it wouldn't have mattered: I don't think I slept more than an hour all night anyway. Sunday night, though, I slept like a ROCK for the first time in weeks.

 

[JimB.]

My "senior moment" came on Sunday morning sitting in the Concourse of the CR waiting for the monorails to start running. I did my "pre-flight" at least 5x before leaving my room in the BLT. After zipping across the skybridge (quickly !!!!!!) I'm sitting there thinking "I'm missing something. It just does not feel right"......

I sit there and do an inventory......... shoes/pants/clothes/cap/shirts/jackets/pack/gels/camera etc., etc., etc........ I have EVERYTHING. What is wrong?

Theeeeeeen, while getting in line for escalators up to the monorail, I see everyone else with these really cool looking blue mesh bags. Those are COOL! How did they get those................?? Oh. Yeah. That's right. I. Got. One. Too. And it's back across a subfreezing elevated walkway on the 12th floor of that pretty building over there...................

But to my credit, I made it there and back in less than 3 minutes! (I wrote that off as my pre-race warm up). Missed the monorail, but the next one came in 3 minutes and all was well.