Wine and Dine 2015

[pxefig]

How exciting! And such good luck too

Thanks! Fortunately, I've been training for the Avengers half, so I just need to adjust things by a week. So very excited to have a do over after last year's Whine and Drown!

 

[sperkins921]

Congrats and welcome to the party!!

 

[jeremy1002]

I went for my first ever run last night! 3 miles in 35 min, including about 3 minutes of waking sprinkled in. I'm fired up to train now.


I was too late for 2015, but I've got my sights set on the 2016 F&W

 

[GBBTomorrow]

I went for my first ever run last night! 3 miles in 35 min, including about 3 minutes of waking sprinkled in. I'm fired up to train now.


I was too late for 2015, but I've got my sights set on the 2016 F&W

Great job!!!!! Congratulations on your first run, a first step that will change your life forever. Welcome to the Run Disney community!

 

[GBBTomorrow]

Hey, y'all....Run Disney uses Powerade, right? Do you know if they mix it from powder or if it comes from bottles? I have always carried my own liquids in the past, but this time I want to try training myself to what is provided on the course and run without a belt. Anybody have thoughts on that?

Thanks, and hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

 

[flatlandcycle]

Hey, y'all....Run Disney uses Powerade, right? Do you know if they mix it from powder or if it comes from bottles? I have always carried my own liquids in the past, but this time I want to try training myself to what is provided on the course and run without a belt. Anybody have thoughts on that?

Thanks, and hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

The stuff on course is powder mix, without HFCS. The stuff after the race, in the finish chute, is bottled. It could be any concentration and could get very diluted or it could be syrup. Just consider it the "fog" of race administration, casualties of carbohydrate.

 

[sperkins921]

Cross posting because I'm too lazy to think of 3 different ways to convey the same thing lol:

Another 8 miles tackled this AM. MUCH MUCH better run this week than last. It was an amazing run. Although, I can see how long distance becomes as much mental as it is physical, somewhere between mile 4-6 I kept thinking "damn, I don't know if I can do this" and had to correct myself into thinking "come on, you got this, only x miles to go". Shaved about 2-3 minutes off my time from last week, but more importantly, kept between 12 and 12:20 pace until mile 4. Again, 4-6 I really slowed down. Mile 4 and 6 were lower 13 and mile 5 was mid 14. Picked up that pace for mile 7 and finished strong in the lower 12's.

Ran in a new pair of Newton Aha's (can't remember if I posted in this thread or another of the race threads I'm on with my questions on them) and I have to say I like them quite a bit. Enough that I can honestly say I may have found the shoes that pull me away from Asics....

 

[sperkins921]

I went for my first ever run last night! 3 miles in 35 min, including about 3 minutes of waking sprinkled in. I'm fired up to train now.


I was too late for 2015, but I've got my sights set on the 2016 F&W

Congrats on your first run! You are much much faster than I was when I had my first run- and much longer....lol

Keep this up, and you may just start that 2016 race in 'B' or 'C' corral with all the other speedy folk!!

 

[Miranda]

I was supposed to do 8 today, but I have a 10K race on Thursday, so I dialed it back to 6.5. It... was... miserable. It was very humid, and I never got into the groove and I stopped for like 1-1.5 min on 3 separate times to just try and regroup and get some energy. I wasn't even planning to take a gel, but I ended up eating the one I had with me just in case only 30 minutes in to try and perk up.

I guess the run itself was ok-ish even though it felt hard and terrible the entire time, though, as I ran the same route that I did two weeks ago when I was supposed to do 6.5, and I ran it 2 minutes faster than I did that week.

 

[huggybuff]

I was supposed to do 8 today, but I have a 10K race on Thursday, so I dialed it back to 6.5. It... was... miserable. It was very humid, and I never got into the groove and I stopped for like 1-1.5 min on 3 separate times to just try and regroup and get some energy. I wasn't even planning to take a gel, but I ended up eating the one I had with me just in case only 30 minutes in to try and perk up.

I guess the run itself was ok-ish even though it felt hard and terrible the entire time, though, as I ran the same route that I did two weeks ago when I was supposed to do 6.5, and I ran it 2 minutes faster than I did that week.

Isn't it confusing sometimes how you can have a good-feeling run one day and the next it's all gone to &*#! And then your time ends up faster on the crap-feeling run. Congrats on getting through it today!

 

[sperkins921]

Don't you hate how some runs just seem to be sooo momentously hard and kick your butt both mentally and physically??? Kind of makes you really really appreciate those good runs when they happen.

But look on the bright side, like huggy said- you got through it!!

 

[DOOM1001]

The stuff on course is powder mix, without HFCS. The stuff after the race, in the finish chute, is bottled. It could be any concentration and could get very diluted or it could be syrup. Just consider it the "fog" of race administration, casualties of carbohydrate.

The mixed powerade at Disney races is usually normal to light on the mix which I prefer when running,at the Miami half I remember drinking the Gatorade at a couple of stops where it was insane how strong they mixed it,I just threw it out!

 

[ZellyB]

We had a 10-miler this weekend and it felt really great. Finished with an 11:10 min/mile pace doing :90/:30 intervals. Felt great after a really lousy 8 miler last weekend. The main difference? The weather. Last weekend was hot and muggy and I was just so sapped. But this weekend we had cooler temps and lower humidity. It made the run so much better. I'm ready for those nice fall temps and lower humidity all the time!!

Don't know if I mentioned on here or not, but we pulled the plug on our Beach Club reservation. No discounts available and I was able to get a nice townhouse in Windsor hills for less than half the price with our own pool. I'm sad to once again give up on staying at a Disney deluxe, but I also want to eat at V&A and felt doing both was just too extravagant. So, my stomach won out and V&A remains.

 

[RookieLady]

We were at Disney this past weekend, and our speed workout fell on that weekend. We did it at Pop on Sunday, since we were leaving that day and leaving for the park wasn't going to interfere with training. Good gracious. It is humid. I live where it's hot and humid, but in the absence of much shade (comparatively speaking), it was hard. The 10:00 conditions at home were alive and well at 7:00 in August in Florida. Kudos to all you crazy Florida runners who keep up the routine through the dog days of August.

 

[sperkins921]

We had a 10-miler this weekend and it felt really great. Finished with an 11:10 min/mile pace doing :90/:30 intervals. Felt great after a really lousy 8 miler last weekend. The main difference? The weather. Last weekend was hot and muggy and I was just so sapped. But this weekend we had cooler temps and lower humidity. It made the run so much better. I'm ready for those nice fall temps and lower humidity all the time!!

Don't know if I mentioned on here or not, but we pulled the plug on our Beach Club reservation. No discounts available and I was able to get a nice townhouse in Windsor hills for less than half the price with our own pool. I'm sad to once again give up on staying at a Disney deluxe, but I also want to eat at V&A and felt doing both was just too extravagant. So, my stomach won out and V&A remains.

I'm wondering if I should shorten my R/W intervals as well. This past weekend, on my run I noticed I wanted to run faster (about 10-11 min/mile) but I can't do that for 3 minutes yet. About 90 was right when my body was like "umm, can I get a breakk?" but I was afraid that I would wreck my time if I did it. This weekend will be my last weekend holding at 8 miles before I increase to 9 miles and I think I'm going to try it and see how I feel. What pace are you running at when you're running?

Also, when I walk, I have a hard time 'power walking'. I'm not a slow walker naturally, but I see some people out on the rail trail who can walk darn near as fast as my relaxed pace! I just kind of get lost mentally in the recovery period and am constantly having to remind myself to pick up my walking pace....

 

[ZellyB]

I'm wondering if I should shorten my R/W intervals as well. This past weekend, on my run I noticed I wanted to run faster (about 10-11 min/mile) but I can't do that for 3 minutes yet. About 90 was right when my body was like "umm, can I get a breakk?" but I was afraid that I would wreck my time if I did it. This weekend will be my last weekend holding at 8 miles before I increase to 9 miles and I think I'm going to try it and see how I feel. What pace are you running at when you're running?

Also, when I walk, I have a hard time 'power walking'. I'm not a slow walker naturally, but I see some people out on the rail trail who can walk darn near as fast as my relaxed pace! I just kind of get lost mentally in the recovery period and am constantly having to remind myself to pick up my walking pace....

We were really able to increase our overall pace going to the 30 second walk break. We used to run 3/1 intervals but last year switched to the shorter intervals and I saw a marked improvement although the adjustment to that shorter break was difficult for awhile.

I try to run between 9-9:30 pace during the run intervals. We don't powerwalk on the breaks, but I do try to concentrate on keeping the walk pace fairly brisk. What we found with the longer walk breaks was that the longer we walked the slower we got as the break progressed, so the shorter walk seems to help us maintain a faster overall pace as well.

 

[RogueKnits]

I was supposed to do 8 today, but I have a 10K race on Thursday, so I dialed it back to 6.5. It... was... miserable. It was very humid, and I never got into the groove and I stopped for like 1-1.5 min on 3 separate times to just try and regroup and get some energy. I wasn't even planning to take a gel, but I ended up eating the one I had with me just in case only 30 minutes in to try and perk up.

I guess the run itself was ok-ish even though it felt hard and terrible the entire time, though, as I ran the same route that I did two weeks ago when I was supposed to do 6.5, and I ran it 2 minutes faster than I did that week.

I too had a tough time on this weekend's run. Felt terrible when I woke up (my lower back has been giving me some trouble). I knew it was going to be hot and humid, so I got to the track before 9 am. It was 74 degrees when I started, and 85 when I finished, and I felt terrible pretty much from the first 800m. I really had to talk myself into running each interval, and I didn't even bother timing the last two because I honestly didn't care that much. I just wanted to get it done and I knew my times were much slower than goal pace by then anyway.

I have no idea how I'm going to be able to do 11 miles next weekend. We have a wedding to go to Saturday, and we'll be staying at a hotel Saturday night about an hour from home, and then we need to pick up the dog at the boarding kennel. At least it looks like the weather is going to break by then, so maybe a Sunday evening run will be doable.

 

[RogueKnits]

The mixed powerade at Disney races is usually normal to light on the mix which I prefer when running,at the Miami half I remember drinking the Gatorade at a couple of stops where it was insane how strong they mixed it,I just threw it out!

I have a sensitive stomach, and unfortunately I can't do Powerade or Gatorade. I could maybe do it if it was extremely diluted, but you just never know what you're going to get. As a result, I always have to run with water bottles for my electrolytes. Nuun is my current electrolyte drink of choice, and I ran a half this past summer that actually used Nuun on course. I was so excited!

 

[Miranda]

I'm wondering if I should shorten my R/W intervals as well. This past weekend, on my run I noticed I wanted to run faster (about 10-11 min/mile) but I can't do that for 3 minutes yet. About 90 was right when my body was like "umm, can I get a breakk?" but I was afraid that I would wreck my time if I did it. This weekend will be my last weekend holding at 8 miles before I increase to 9 miles and I think I'm going to try it and see how I feel. What pace are you running at when you're running?

Also, when I walk, I have a hard time 'power walking'. I'm not a slow walker naturally, but I see some people out on the rail trail who can walk darn near as fast as my relaxed pace! I just kind of get lost mentally in the recovery period and am constantly having to remind myself to pick up my walking pace....

I get beat by power walkers sometimes in my 5K's... it's humbling. But they are fast!

I would give the shorter intervals (both run and walk) a try. We are so far out from the race that it is a good time to experiment without worrying about wrecking your time. I was doing 5/1, then 4/1, then down to 3/1 for Tink training, and switched it over to 2:00/0:30, which is what I still do. Between 10-11 min/mile is also my regular run pace. I sometimes dip into the 9's if I'm running extra fast or downhill, but mid-10's is usually my regular flat ground pace.

 

[Chaitali]

We were really able to increase our overall pace going to the 30 second walk break. We used to run 3/1 intervals but last year switched to the shorter intervals and I saw a marked improvement although the adjustment to that shorter break was difficult for awhile.

I try to run between 9-9:30 pace during the run intervals. We don't powerwalk on the breaks, but I do try to concentrate on keeping the walk pace fairly brisk. What we found with the longer walk breaks was that the longer we walked the slower we got as the break progressed, so the shorter walk seems to help us maintain a faster overall pace as well.

My experience was similar to this as well. I had been doing 4/1 intervals and really struggling this summer. I just switched to 2:30/30 two weekends ago and it has felt a lot better. It's the same ration of walking to running but the shorter intervals have felt better and lowered my time overall (though part of it may be the heat was less both those weekends). I agree that my walking intervals slow down the longer I'm walking so the 30 second walk intervals are good from that perspective as well.