The Running Thread - 2018

[TheHamm]

ATTQOTD:
The kids decided they wanted to be Star Wars characters, no complaints here! We have Princess Leia who was not having my suggestion she dress for Hoth (snow on Halloween happens!), and Rey. We do a Halloween family event earlier in the season, so they dictated everyone's costumes. DH is Han, I am Jin, Grandma is Yoda, and mostly bald Grandpa was declared to be Chewy because he always wishes he had more hair. Leia, Rey, and Yoda have crochet hats which got a lot of compliments, my costume is probably the least impressive. I already played the part of tauntaun carrying the kid on my back for the last mile of the local park event on Saturday, I have no intention of doing that again! However, I did figure if I could run 10 miles in the morning and then carry 41lbs for a mile in the evening I can survive 13.1 miles!
A local art center had an open house to make cardboard decorations, and they insisted we make star wars vehicles. My attempt to make the millenium falcon was noble but lame and I was not pleased when the hipster college kids asked if I was making an avocado. Jin's speeder turned out awesome. I will ditch work early for the kindergarden costume parade and then we will go out around the neighborhood for an hour.

October
miles: 60.9 highest yet by 0.9 miles
made it to the longest run yet, 10 miles
joined my first group run
found one pair of winter running tights
November and December are much traveling, I am not sure I will top this, but I would like to maintain.

 

[PkbaughAR]

ATTQOTD: We are at Fort Wilderness so today started out with the Headless Horseman 5K worked into my training plan per @DopeyBadger. We will go into Hollywood Studios for a few hours this afternoon, have fast passes for slinky dog, and will be back to the campsite to hand out candy! We went to MNSSHP on Sunday night and loaded up on the candy for the express purpose of handing it out tonight! If you’ve never been to the Fort over Halloween, it’s a sight to behold with all the campsite decorations. In the 1600 loop this year, a group has set up a full replica of the Haunted mansion, complete with stretching room, the ghost library, the graveyard, etc! It’s amazing!

 

[KSellers88]

ATTQOTD: No kiddos here, unless you count the furry kind, so we don't have any super exciting plans. We also live in the boondocks and don't get trick or treaters. LOL. I will take our Golden Retriever on our normal walk in town and then head to my parent's for dinner and to watch Survivor. They actually have a chance of getting trick or treaters, but since we leave for Disney tomorrow I doubt my mom has been focused on buying candy. Major Halloween fail.

October:
182 miles
155 Average HR
9:41 Average Pace

 

[KSellers88]

ATTQOTD: We are at Fort Wilderness so today started out with the Headless Horseman 5K worked into my training plan per @DopeyBadger. We will go into Hollywood Studios for a few hours this afternoon, have fast passes for slinky dog, and will be back to the campsite to hand out candy! We went to MNSSHP on Sunday night and loaded up on the candy for the express purpose of handing it out tonight! If you’ve never been to the Fort over Halloween, it’s a sight to behold with all the campsite decorations. In the 1600 loop this year, a group has set up a full replica of the Haunted mansion, complete with stretching room, the ghost library, the graveyard, etc! It’s amazing!

How cool!! Is that 5k for Halloween? I might need to make some plans in the future if so...I've seen the decor at the Fort and it is absolutely amazing!

 

[camaker]

ATTQOTD: Our kids have long since moved out, so no commitments on that front. Our neighborhood has a lot of trick or treaters, so it'll be a case of turn out the porch light and hope they don't come ring the doorbell anyway. Our bulldog (see avatar pic) goes nuts every time the doorbell rings, so we don't partake in giving out candy for his sanity.

 

[Bree]

ATTQOTD: This is the best place we have ever lived when it comes to Halloween. There are sooo many kids in our neighborhood. We had a neighborhood celebration this past Saturday with a tween/teen haunted house that scared the pants off of them. There was an outdoor movie and crafts for the littles. We are going over to my neighbor's house for chili and drinks then joining the rest of the 'hood for a huge group photo of all the kids in their costumes at 6:30. Everyone starts trick or treating right after. There are adult treats at most houses too. They are having the haunted house again since a lot of the teens were at homecoming last weekend. I'm so excited to join in this year. Last year I had a sprained ankle and two sprained wrists so I was stuck at home.

 

[tidefan]

ATTQOTD: First, I've got a 6-mile run per my Higdon plan. Then, we will have some friends over and hand out candy (hopefully holding back some Reese's for personal use later...)

 

[Miranda]

Our bulldog (see avatar pic) goes nuts every time the doorbell rings, so we don't partake in giving out candy for his sanity.

That's another reason we don't hand out candy either, our dog goes bananas when the bell rings.

 

[natsalways]

ATTQOTD: Our kids are entering their teens, so this might be our last year trick or treating. DD (custom Jedi) is heading out with her friends are we are taking our son (Robot). We’ll leave a bowl of candy on our doorstep. We carved our pumpkins last weekend and apparently that was a bit too early because they got all moldy, so no cool pumpkins for the kids to look at this year, but at least we got pictures!



October:
Miles: 60
Avg pace: 10’51”

Going to be less the next couple of months as I take a bit of a break and focus on some cross training. Probably start spinning up again in late December for an early May race somewhere.

 

[cburnett11]

ATTQOTD: Most of our city called an audible and decided to do Trick or Treat last night because we're supposed to get storms tonight. I handed out candy for a bit... my kids did the same at their houses.

October Totals
Distance: 120.69 miles
Time: 18:48:18
Avg Pace: 9:21 min/mi
Avg HR: 134
Avg Cadence: 164

 

[apdebord]

ATTQOTD: No kids. We always get Chinese take out and sit on the porch and hand out candy. We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood, so it’s a busy night! It will be in the 70s tonight, but I will have my space heater with me on the porch.

Just finished my October miles: 86 miles! I’ve been tracking for a little over a year, and this is my highest month by over 30 miles! Excited for my first 100+ mile month in November. Also super proud of myself for not skipping any runs this month on my plan, first time that’s ever happened.

@LSUlakes could you please add a race for me?

November
22 - apdebord - Tidewater Striders Turkey Trot 10K (1:09:30/NA)

 

[PkbaughAR]

How cool!! Is that 5k for Halloween? I might need to make some plans in the future if so...I've seen the decor at the Fort and it is absolutely amazing!

Yes this was just for Halloween! It was free, and the headless horseman rode past the starting line before we started! All you had to do was sign up! You got a bib and it was timed but not chip timed. There was water at the start and finish and your choice of a button-like pin or keychain that had the headless horseman logo and the name of the race. There were between 100-125 people I’d say. Fun way to start the day!!

 

[huskies90]

QOTD: Good morning folks and happy Halloween! I tried to post a question yesterday morning but the site or my computer was not having it . For todays question I wanted to ask what are you doing for Halloween? If you have kids do you take them to trick or treat or stay home and hand out candy? For those without kids, I think there should be adult neighborhoods that hand out tacos and margaritas! Anyone have and fun traditions? Hope everyone has a great day!

ATTQOTD: The kids are out of the house and in college so it is just me and my wife. We did MNSSHP a few weeks ago and dressed as Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps. My band played at a bar’s annual Halloween costume party last Saturday night which we do every year and do a group costume every year. Tonight, we will just be at home handing out candy – much of which we brought home from MNSSHP. It has been a busy month and we really didn’t do much decorating at the house. Just a few pumpkins on the stoop. Usually we do something fun for the trick or treaters. Not this year.

 

[dis_or_dat]

ATTQOTD: Dressing up the kiddos in costume (son is an army man and baby is a pumpkin of course!) and taking them out to trick or treat. We moved recently so thought about doing our neighborhood, but we just heard about a house in a nearby city. There's a street that goes all out for Christmas and I guess one of the homes also does an elaborate decoration for Halloween. Apparently they don't start decorating until the morning, where they hire 2 enormous trucks to hide their house until it's fully decorated in time for trick or treating. They hire even hire actors! Then everything is torn down by the next morning. Recently, they've done Jurassic Park, Shrek, Star Wars, and Pirates of the Caribbean... so maybe we'll check it out!

October - probably won't get in a run since there's a parade at my son's school and then trick or treating ....
Total: 143.87
Avg pace: 7:41

 

[Kazrak]

ATTQOTD: Youngest is too old for T-o-T now, and we rarely get kids at our house. There's a little group of four houses that are kind of a 'dead end' for pedestrians here, so we don't see many visitors.

I'm doing my usual thing today - wearing my Incredibles shirt and my Buzz Lightyear sweatshirt. Between them, they're what passes for my costume.

 

[michigandergirl]

October summary: 80 miles, which included tapering, a marathon, and most recently REST!!!

ATTQOTD: DH will be taking our daughter trick or treating while I stay behind and hand out candy. Halloween is big in our neighborhood! I usually hand out over 500 pieces of candy. My boys are teenagers and they say they aren't going out, but they also said that last year and then they decided last minute to go and were scrambling to come up with costumes. They ended up putting on their football gear. If they decide last minute to go tonight, I'm hoping I can convince them to wear my Disney running costumes (Little Mermaid & Mrs. Incredible).

 

[gjramsey]

October Totals
Distance: 175.88 miles
Time: 24:16:29
Avg Pace: 8:17 min/mi
Avg HR: 143

No plans for tonight. The boys have grown out of Halloween, and the weather is supposed to suck. More candy for me....which means more miles for me

 

[GreatLakes]

QOTD: Good morning folks and happy Halloween! I tried to post a question yesterday morning but the site or my computer was not having it . For todays question I wanted to ask what are you doing for Halloween? If you have kids do you take them to trick or treat or stay home and hand out candy? For those without kids, I think there should be adult neighborhoods that hand out tacos and margaritas! Anyone have and fun traditions? Hope everyone has a great day!

We leave for Disney tomorrow morning so tonight will be mostly packing. We aren't handing out candy because we have a time crunch this evening between the packing, getting the dog to the vet for boarding, getting the leftovers out of the house so they don't spoil, coordinating some work we are having done on the house while we are gone, and trying to get to bed as early as possible. Our son is 21 months (can't wait for him to turn 2 so I can stop counting by months) so while he is more aware of Halloween this year he isn't aware of what he is missing. We did already have trunk or treat at his daycare so he's had the experience.

 

[jmasgat]

ATTQOTD: 300 pcs of candy are ready for the trick or treaters. And 1 of 2 pumpkins is carved. I wanted to do Coco, but couldn't find anything other than a sugar skull (which was a true pain to carve and needs some touch up!) 2nd pumpkin.....Red Sox!!!!!!

 

[Sleepless Knight]

ATTQOTD: Hanging out with my nephews tonight. Not really sure what all that entails just yet.