The August Heat Will Not Stop The Mighty Ducks

[bubba73]

Here it is! The new thread for the new month. I am very sorry for being late with this. Part of it was trying to think of a decent name of the thread. (Hope this is ok) The other part of it is just not being home very much with work and such. It is soooo hard to believe that we have already entered the 8th month of the year. This year is flying by!

Great news for a lot of the ones here! School starts back this month for most of us. This means the kids will be going back to school and not eating us out of house and home while they are at home. Seriously though, this should be a great time for us to be able to get some extra training done and maybe even start training for any races that are on the horizon.

Please, don't be a stranger around here. Come on back and post as often as you can. Let's get as much interaction as we can to keep up the intensity and the fun!

I look forward to having a fantastic month here with the DUCKS!!!!!!!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=py8_U1Ts1fqAolT3qxzQfKA&hl=en

Have a great month!
Bryan

 

[SamSam]

Love the name! August usually means treadmill, instead of outside, for me, but I will do my best to put in the time.
Triple D's Rock!!!!

 

[ryley26]

Bryan don't remind me school starts soon back to work. I'm ready though been a busy summer need a more regemented life. I been crazy with vacations and the kids.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

realized I haven't posted hours since July 20th..I'm sorry!

July 21-27th: 9.5 miles, 126min minutes
July 28th-31st: nothing to report

 

[TnTsParty]

Well I am gearing up for more training coming up starting the week of Aug 17th so I should be once again adding miles for the team. Sorry for being a slacker over these last few months. I have gotten out and done a few miles here and there but I slacked on writing them down and it wasn't anything of significance. All that is about to change since I have committed myself to doing the Goofy. I will be running for a charity called The Rally Foundation or Rally Athletes for Childhood Cancer Research. I should be getting a website tomorrow and it will have the Rally Kid I will be running in honor of. His name is Andy and he is 8 years old. He was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma at age 1. I figured I might as well "use" the challenge of doing the Goofy to help out a worthwhile cause. I am really excited about this (well not so much the training part of it - actually I am dreading it already) the joy of doing what I can to help out sick kids out weighs the months of training and the bling bling bling doesn't hurt either.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Well I am gearing up for more training coming up starting the week of Aug 17th so I should be once again adding miles for the team. Sorry for being a slacker over these last few months. I have gotten out and done a few miles here and there but I slacked on writing them down and it wasn't anything of significance. All that is about to change since I have committed myself to doing the Goofy. I will be running for a charity called The Rally Foundation or Rally Athletes for Childhood Cancer Research. I should be getting a website tomorrow and it will have the Rally Kid I will be running in honor of. His name is Andy and he is 8 years old. He was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma at age 1. I figured I might as well "use" the challenge of doing the Goofy to help out a worthwhile cause. I am really excited about this (well not so much the training part of it - actually I am dreading it already) the joy of doing what I can to help out sick kids out weighs the months of training and the bling bling bling doesn't hurt either.

Great cause! And definitely a great motivation to get in gear and start that training!

 

[ironz]

Spreadsheet is updated.

I didn't do much on my vacation, but did do a sprint tri this past Sunday and got 3rd in my AG. Run still my weakness, but I'm hoping Goofy training will help with that. Today was our 48th day over 100 degrees this summer. I'm not acclimated since I travel so much. It's tough.

Life has got me down lately. I'll try to keep up. Sorry.
Will post my miles/minutes later.

Glad to see my buddy Big Vic back on the board with some training! hugs to you.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

ironz, hope things start looking up soon. i know the feeling.

so today I ran my first 8 miles ever! I actually felt really good and am really happy about it. more details in my journal in my sig.

 

[Big Vic]

6 miles, 75 minutes.

Betsy - Hugs to you too.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Aug 1st-7th: 5miles, 54minutes

 

[Kira G.]

Reporting in:

97 minutes
7 miles

Have a great week everyone!

 

[ryley26]

Betsyhugs and thoughts to you.

I was a bad week got food poisioning which led to one heck of a week of training. DW said at least we were back from vacation.

Miles Aug 1-7
Running
45 miles
7 hours

biking
50 miles
4.5 hours

Have a great week duckies. Rich

 

[ahoff]

Hello Ducks, welcome to August. I think August 1st is like the Wednesday of summer.

My miles for the firat week is 15 hours and 260 miles, 40 of which is double 20 that I did for a race. Bryan, thanks for the kind words in the other post. I am lucky to have a job and workplace that makes biking to work a pleasure. I am more impressed with all the miles that everyone is doing just running, being that running is not one of my strong points. Rich, running 45 miles along with a case of food poisoning? Keep up the good work, everyone!

Hope everyone has a great week!

Augie

 

[Ronda93]

checking in for the first week of August.

430 minutes
30 miles

Stay cool everybody.
Ronda

 

[bubba73]

Rich Hope you get to feeling better soon, if you are not already. Even with that, you still did 95 miles. That's awesome!!

Augie My pleasure!!

Rhonda, Kira, Vic, Sharon, Jenn, Tricia It is really great to hear from all of you! You are all such wonderful teammates. Hope everything is going great for all of you!!

My Update Last week was a little low in mileage for me as I was doing more walking/running than normal. Just making sure I still have some runner's legs for my 5k on Saturday. I have found out that I don't which scares me a little. Race will probably be slower than I want it to be. Not happy about that at all. But we will see.

My Miles - 55
Hours - 12.25

I hope everyone has a great week and look forward to hearing from you all soon.

Stay motivated!
Bryan

 

[TnTsParty]

Just wanted to check in while I have a chance. I don't have anything to report for the first week of August but I am happy to say I will have something to report for the 2nd week (is that right Aug 8-14?) its not much yet but I am in pre-Goofy training mode. I am actually not too scared of my training plan - just hope its enough to get me through all 39.3 and that I am actually able to stick to it - I know it was tough to stick with the marathon plan last year especially during the month of December.

Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL Tuesday. Stay cool in the heat.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

good luck on the 5k Bubba!

 

[Running Mouse]

I made it to a Computer !! I see everyone is doing GREAT. It looks like I'm going to have a lot of company getting ready for the Goofy this fall. The way this board reads The Ducks are going to be FLYING !!!

Bryan, how can u not have runners legs when u did 55 miles ??
In my dreams. Now that is a WISH for me.

Here is my first week of August #'s
Running 30.2 miles about 4 1/2 hours.

Not doing anything else right now but running.

Hope all is Well
Cheers
Dave

 

[Big Vic]

3 miles - 30 minutes

 

[SamSam]

I had a light week, but will do better this upcoming week.
Had a great visit with kids and grandkids in California, then a little adult play time in Vegas. Now it's back to the grind.

Week ending 8-14-09:

120 minutes 7 miles wogging plus cross training