The Running Thread - 2018

[PCFriar80]

@LSUlakes Best wishes and stay positive! Everything will work out!

 

[camaker]

Little Luke had a incident at daycare today that resulted in him biting his tongue fairly deep, but not all the way through. He’s going to be put to sleep for stitches. Some pixie dust and prayers would be appreciated. The being put to sleep is the concerning part.

Yikes! Hope Luke comes through ok!

 

[McNs]

@LSUlakes & family - pixie dust from NZ for Luke, hope all goes OK.

 

[Disney at Heart]

Little Luke had a incident at daycare today that resulted in him biting his tongue fairly deep, but not all the way through. He’s going to be put to sleep for stitches. Some pixie dust and prayers would be appreciated. The being put to sleep is the concerning part.

Pixie dust also from me to Little Luke and your family. My experience with this was when my youngest had to have tubes in his ears. They put him to sleep, but it was for about 30 minutes. I was a mess, but he was fine. At 5 yo, he had 5 stitches in his forehead. They did not put him to sleep and it was very traumatic for him. Prayers that he'll be fine, and the "sleep" is short and uneventful.

 

[LSUlakes]

He’s up and doing good. Waiting for our paperwork to go home. Thanks everyone!

 

[SheHulk]

He’s up and doing good. Waiting for our paperwork to go home. Thanks everyone!

Oh thank goodness

 

[Slogger]

@LSUlakes …….was going to send you positive thoughts for Little Luke but just saw your update and sounds like it was a good outcome.

Parenting -- it's a tough job but the benefits are amazing.

 

[AntimonyER]

@LSUlakes, glad to hear your little one is ok!

 

[flav]

@camaker and @LSUlakes my best thoughts on a healthy recovery from your latest worries.

 

[Waiting2goback]

Fun Friday QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

ATTQOTD: I've heard of this idea before, so it's not a original thought.... but I would love a dining option while on the people mover! A hour or so of nonstop people mover during the fireworks while eating some nuggets and fries!

I don't think my wants are THAT far from being possible. All I want is how things used to be. I want a clean monorail that used to be enjoyable to ride. I want all the plussing back, like the parade for example. I want Disney service to come back to what it was back in the 90's. I love Disney, don't get me wrong, but I am tired of them spending $70 billion to buy Fox (for example) and then making cuts in the park to make up some of the cost. And as I am writing this what I really wanted just came to me. I want Walt to come back to life and let him run the company/parks for a year (one day wouldn't be enough). I would just love to see what he could do with the resources the company has now. His concern was never the money, his concern was us and our experience.

 

[Miranda]

I finally found out what it's like up at the front of a race!

My running group race directs the local fall festival day 5K so I spent all last night and this morning handing out bibs. I only screwed up one that I know of and gave it to the wrong person, thankfully by pure luck, the girl covering the 1-299 range with me and I both new the picker-upper (who was picking up a friend's bib) from HS and remembered that she had told me "97, Clark" and I said "that's not Clark... oh she's 94", then I proceeded to dig out the 97 bib and hand it to her and didn't realize it until the real 97 showed up. We kept scanning the crowd and eventually my buddy went off to look for her and ended up finding her and her friend hadn't even shown up yet so I think we're in the clear on that. We got the guy whose bib was given out assigned a new one.

Then I saw the start of the race! I had no idea that local races have lead cars! There was a cop car and a convertible with a beauty pageant winner in it who also went to hold the finishing ribbon. I am always standing so far in the back I never see what happens up front. I'm usually lucky if I can hear the anthem. Then we had to hustle to the finish line where I had the stressful job of being the backup timing machine clicker to the chip timing. There's these machines with thumb clickers attached to them and they print out the backup timing and we had to have a writer, a caller (calling out bib numbers for the writer), and a timer clicking as the torsos cross the line. Then after the top 20 of men and women are done, we could stop writing/calling/clicking, unplug the clickers, and go to spot timing where we just punch in bibs as we see them approaching and hit the enter button as they cross (not needing to get every single one).

I never knew the backup to the chip timing was so complicated! I am so annoyed now with anyone who does not wear their bib front and center on their shirt! I will try to never cover my bib or put it on a pant leg again now that I know there are poor people who are the backup timers responsible for spotting the bib numbers and calling them out or punching them into a little timing computer. So many people with them covered or pasted to their backs or on their leg where you couldn't read the number because their leg is moving all around. Thankfully for the spot timing it wasn't a big deal, you just pick someone else, but for the top 20 when you have to call every one, I felt bad for my buddies doing that. I also had the great luck of one of the two machines (the backup to the backup to the backup I guess, because I was double clicking 2 machines and there was a 3rd person responsible for just clicking the top 3 winners) that I was using immediately malfunction on the first click as the male winner crossed and it was the one printing the tape. We turned the tape on my second machine after a few more men crossed, but then someone from the timing company unplugged my clicker before I was done doing the top 20 women, so I'm sure that the backup is a disaster, I think I missed a few men who were out of the top 20 but I was still supposed to be clicking for women, and hopefully no chips malfunctioned. Apparently there was also a photographer lady who is the backup to the backup to the backup to the backup taking pictures of everyone as they cross getting the clock in the background.

It was really weird seeing this side of a race!

 

[michigandergirl]

GRR Runway 5K:

This was a neat race. We ran on one of the airport runways with planes & helicopters taking off and landing all around us. There was so much to look at, it went so fast! The finisher medal was super cute with an airplane on it with a spinning propeller.

I ran with my oldest son, who turns 15 next week. He refused to properly train for this race, so he wasn’t much competition for his mama, which is probably good because I needed to run this one slow anyways. It rained the whole race, so I’m very proud he got it done in tough conditions with so little training.

 

[SheHulk]

View attachment 356260 GRR Runway 5K:

This was a neat race. We ran on one of the airport runways with planes & helicopters taking off and landing all around us. There was so much to look at, it went so fast! The finisher medal was super cute with an airplane on it with a spinning propeller.

I ran with my oldest son, who turns 15 next week. He refused to properly train for this race, so he wasn’t much competition for his mama, which is probably good because I needed to run this one slow anyways. It rained the whole race, so I’m very proud he got it done in tough conditions with so little training.

 

[Baloo in MI]

Just want to wish all you Chicago Marathoners great races tomorrow! Go get em!

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

The nerves are overwhelming right now. 12 hours to go!

 

[flav]

The nerves are overwhelming right now. 12 hours to go!

Trust yourself and enjoy every moments, even the stressful ones

 

[michigandergirl]

The nerves are overwhelming right now. 12 hours to go!

You've got this! The hay is in the barn!!!

 

[Mickey Momma]

The nerves are overwhelming right now. 12 hours to go!

You've got this! And wait till you are feeling all the feelings about this time tomorrow!

 

[Waiting2goback]

I am a little jealous, after seeing all the pics from Chicago, that I am not running this race this weekend.

 

[kleph]

ATTQOTD: Been so busy lately that I'll never catch up to responses on this board. But on today's question, I've regretted signing up for races a few times.

The first time was for the last Houston Marathon in January. About 1-2 months from the race, I was failing to be able to complete my long runs and I knew that I was under trained. So lots of regret for signing up for the full without a good training plan. Fortunately, I was able to switch to the half marathon and I PR'd that race because I was more trained for that HM than for any of the 3 HMs I had done previously. So it worked out.

I also regretted signing up for a 10K I ran a few weeks ago. As I noted in my race report for that (which I'm sure you all read and all remember, just like you will all read and remember this post!), I got sick the week before the race and flaked on my taper, and it was SUPER HOT AND HUMID for this race. Yes, I should have realized that would be the case given it was scheduled to happen in late September in Houston. I won't make that mistake again. I ran the race and though I paced it terribly, my time was OK so I guess all's well that ends well...

My knees and I are currently debating whether signing up for the next Houston Marathon was yet another regrettable decision....

How about some good news?