Team 5: Herc's Heroes--July Hours and Miles Post Here!

[MomofCKJ]

Capts, hope you don't mind I started a new thread for July!

Come on Herc's Heroes! These threads are getting quiet, where are all of you?

Allyson

 

[MomofCKJ]

I just ran for the first time after over a week of not running. It was hot (I need to get up earlier and go before it starts to get hot) and it felt hard. I hope if I can get out there every other day that in a week or so I feel back to where I was before.

I did 23 minutes and 1.9 miles.


Allyson

 

[cdn_gal_eeyore]

Allyson, thanks for starting the thread this month!

I'm currently away on vacation so I'll post my miles and hours when I get a chance back home. Hopefully we can rally our existing Herc's and maybe get a few new players to bring the team morale up a bit.

 

[windwalker]

Hi Allyson, Leana and the rest of the Heroes. I have a new player coming over. Disneyrunningnut, who is training for a December marathon.

Leana I have asked Scott, ScoJo15, to contact you with instructions on how to do the spreadsheet. Why don't you have him give Alyson access also so she can help you?

Visiting Panda

 

[disneyrunningnut]

Hi everyone I my glad to be on your team!!!

My name is David, 41 years old and I am from South Carolina.

I just posted my manifesto on the Journal board. lol

Here is a link:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1875449

When do you guys post your mileage and time? My week runs from Sun-Sat.

David

 

[windwalker]

Welcome David. I enjoyed reading your story. I to had let myself get out of shape and put on way to many lbs after retireing from the Air Force. I switched to walking after a running injury.

I know you will enjoy the team. They are a fun good group.

Visiting Panda

 

[windwalker]

Hello Heroes, Happy 4th of July!!!

Visiting Panda

 

[windwalker]

Heroes please welcome Linda, Momof2minnies. She is training for the 2009 Disney marathon.

WELCOME LINDA!!

Walking Panda

 

[momof2minnies]

Good morning everyone! Thank you Dave!

I am 42 yrs young and training(not officially until Aug.) for the full in 09.I usually work 2 days a week so the other days I am usually on in the am.

I like to run,walk,bike and do the elliptical.I will be dusting off my Rollarblades soon too.

Hi Allyson how have you been?Kids enjoying the summer? Glad to be on your team.

Tell me how this works.Yesterday I walked 3 miles and ran 3.1.Does it count?

Linda

 

[GirTheGecko]

Welcome to both of our new teammates!

Hopefully, I'll be able to settle into a better training routine since we're in the homestretch of summer. Now I just have to get through coworker vacations.

 

[MomofCKJ]

Welcome David and Linda! Glad to have you here!

Basically you count miles and time. If it is during a race it is doubled (both miles and time). Cross Training does count as well so log time for things like that.

Some people post each time they do something. I like to do that just to keep track for myself. But basically the captains were counting the weeks as Saturdays through Fridays. And so people would post, say today for instance being Saturday July 5, they would post their totals for Saturday June 28 - Friday July 4.

The Captains would take the totals and enter them in on the spreadsheet.

Am I forgetting anything teammates?

Linda so great to see you! I kind of let my training journal fall by the way side. Too many places to post, too little time. Life is good though. We had a week in Maine that was fun and I have a solo Disney trip coming up in August!

Have a great day out there folks!

Allyson

 

[disneyrunningnut]

Hi Everyone, I ran 70.3 miles last week in 628 minutes.

Highest mileage total since I tore my hamstring last fall.

 

[windwalker]

Hi Everyone, I ran 70.3 miles last week in 628 minutes.

Highest mileage total since I tore my hamstring last fall.

WoW

I started training a little differently this year, I go by time in motion instead of higher miles. I did this because I was missing the stretching and strength training. So if I have an hour to exercise I'll do 30 min of walk training and then 30 min of cross training with no break between. So far this is working well. But closer to the marathon I'll be upping the miles. I won't be cutting the cross training though just adding more miles to it.

Walking Panda

 

[momof2minnies]

Today I did the elliptical for 30 mins.That was 2.06 miles and I walked 2.5 miles.The weather is real lousy here so chose not to run today.

Linda

 

[cdn_gal_eeyore]

Hi teammates!

Sorry to have been absent for a bit, but Tuesday and Friday were holidays for us here so I was away, visiting my folks in Kelowna, BC for the week. I kept up with my workouts though, logging my 15 and 16 mile long runs, a couple of mid-week runs and two trips to the pool.

Since both Duckie and Dana have been absent for a bit Dave asked if I would help to lead Herc's Heroes. I can attest that the challenge has motivated me to get a workout in when I didn't feel like it, so I really am thankful for the challenge.

For all the new folks, we did start logging weeks as Saturday - Friday, just because the challenge started Feb 1, and that was a Saturday. Personally, my workout week runs Monday - Sunday so I've always reported my totals that way since it made the most sense to me. Feel free to log your week as you want though.

Running, walking and biking count towards your miles and your minutes count. Any other crosstraining goes towards your minutes count.
Races count for double miles and double time.

If you have any questions then feel free to PM me, or post it on the thread and any of the teammates can help out.

And just in case you guys are wondering a bit about me...I've been running fairly steadily for two years now, although I did start running several years before that. I guess running and I had commitment issues before that! I am all about races - they definitely motivate me to keep going and to push myself. I'm currently training for my first triathlon on August 10th and the Quebec City Marathon on August 24th. I'll also be running the Disney full in January.

Good luck everyone!

 

[windwalker]

Herc's heroes please welcome your new player WDWFlgal. Be on your best behavior now you don't want her thinking y'all are country do ya.

Visiting Panda

 

[cdn_gal_eeyore]

Welcome to the team WDWFlgal!

I've started the month off on a fairly good note:

Wednesday: 3.5 mi of running, 550 m of swimming
Thursday: 3.25 mi of running
Friday: 1000 m of swimming
Saturday: 16 mi of running
Sunday: 25 mi of biking

Total for the month so far: 48.6 mi, 06:56:53

 

[momof2minnies]

Yesterday I ran 3.1 in 30:56.Not as good a pace as the other day but I'll take it.

Linda

 

[MomofCKJ]

Week of June 28-July 4th
23 minutes
1.9 miles


Saturday July 5th I did 1.5 miles/18minutes.

Allyson

 

[MomofCKJ]

Just got in, still so hot out there even at this hour.

2.6 miles
32 minutes
I had been doing a 6R/2W but tonight moved to a 3R/2W. I am going to use the Bingham R/W Half plan for training come fall and it starts with a 3/2 so I thought I'd try doing that now. I think what I really need to work on is a better selection of music on the iPod. If it is a good song I can push and keep going, if not I find myself dwelling on how much I want to stop. I think I need to fill this thing with some good songs I really like!

Allyson