Wk of Apr 15--WISH Walking/Running Club

[hockeygirl]

Time to catch up with everyone:

Mel--nice job on your run, despite the wind and humidity.

Claire-I would love to hear what you think about those books after reading them, especially Hal Higdon since I am following his training program for my half marathon.

Meghan--sorry to hear about your DH's schedule change, hopefully it can get changed back real soon.

Lily--WTG for getting back into your training! Glad to hear you had a great week!

bekkiz--Wow, that is a huge jump in mileage for one week...be careful not to increase too much in order to prevent overuse injuries.

Maggie--That's cool that you signed up for the CDC, wish I could make the trip out there, but just won't be able to do it this year..oh well!

Kelley--I hope your DD and DH are feeling better soon! Hope you can get back into your training real soon.

Angie--WTG on your LR!! You are going to do AWESOME at the Minnie!!

Andrew--Hope you are feeling re-energized soon! Make sure you listen to your body and don't overexert too much.

Jackie--WTG for registering for the half! You must be soooooo excited!!

Dave--Nice job on your 7 miles! But what a hill that you had to complete!!! YOu are going to be so ready for the Pig!! Keep up the good work.

Martha--Hope you are feeling better soon!
Enjoy your holiday!

Matt--that's awesome! Can't wait to read your race report.

Judy--sorry to hear you had a tough run on saturday. Hope your foot is feeling better really soon.

Carrie--WTG on your LR! Glad to hear that the leg pain was not too bad!

Sunny--WTG on the 5 miler today!!

Leana--sounds like you had fun working at the half marathon!

Shan--WELCOME!! to the boards!

To anyone I missed, SORRY!! Hope everyone in the NE is staying dry!

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Hey WISH Team!

I just updated the calendar sticky thread. Please check to be sure your info is correct.

Welcome to Shan! Great that you've found this wonderful group!

Sunny, I'm jealous that you got to watch the marathon. I hope you survive the week with DS and his vaca. Sharing of the remote is not fun.

Leana, congrats for volunteering for the event. It is a great thing to be able to do this for folks. We all know it means a lot.

I've got physical trainer day today. I love this day! I'll try to catch back in later. Keep movin' everyone.

 

[RedDragon]

Shan: As Carrie said, we can get sidetracked but it all goes with the training. Advice and support are what we're about.

Sunny: congrats on your 5 miler!!!

Leana: oooo, a Westie rescue! I love Westies although I've never had one. I think they are such sophisticated yet unpretentious dogs. But that's JMO. Give him a pat on the head and a biscuit from me! All the pets that DH and I have had have either been adopted from shelters or found on the side of the road (a whole other story). Our two current kitties were adopted from the most wonderful shelter. I love the moniker "forever home." We're proud of our pets (can you tell!?!).

Judy: keeping my fingers crossed that you get help from the podiatrist. Is it a sports podiatrist you are seeing? Love the story re: orthodics in dress shoes!! I don't think I could fit my orthodics in my dress shoes.

Becky: slept like a baby. However when I woke up this morning, the cats were hunkered under the covers and when a branch hit the air conditioning unit, one of them made a beeline for under the bed. So I don't think they slept too well!! It seems to have calmed down a little here but the rain is supposed to stay for the rest of the week. What fun!!!

So my trainer cancelled on me today so I did a 40 min cardio. Watched the marathon while I was doing the cardio and that was quite inspiring. Tomorrow I walk and lift with my walking buddy. He's doing really, really well.

Hope everyone has a lovely evening.

 

[Calcio]

This is totally off topic, and yes, I know pride is one of the 7 deadly sins but . . .

I received a couple of surprise phone calls today and I can update my resume. This fall I will be a Visiting Professor of Finance at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that's right folks, MIT has hired a kid who was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma. The very same MIT that has a collection of Nobel Prize winners in Financial Economics on their faculty. This is tooooo funny and too surreal. It seems the Finance Division chair turned in his finalized fall schedule Friday at noon, and 4 hours later he lost one of his professors. He made a couple of phone calls to people in the Boston area he has worked with, and one of them told him to call me. I had to consider his offer for about 2 seconds, then I had to consider what Martha would do to me if I told him no. All signs pointed to an enthusiastic YES, which I gladly gave him.

By the way, this is the first group I've told about this. My mother and in-laws can wait. My mother will pass out, and my father in law will think they have made a terrible mistake.

And I still have prep to do for tomorrow's classes. I'm going to be beyond worthless tonight, giggling like a fool every time I think of it. I can always make shadow animals with the projector.

Training? I don't need no stinkin' training! I did bike and lift Saturday, hard work but it felt great. Yesterday I ran 7 miles on the dreaded treadmill, varying the pace and incline, producing 10 minutes per mile pace and about 300 feet of elevation climb over the miles.

And I registered for the Tower of Terror 13K, where I'll run with my lovely bride and many of my good friends. As Bill Murray says in Groundhog Day, "that was a pretty good day!"

Today everyone gets my best wishes!!!!!!!!!!

Craig

 

[thndrmatt]

Triathlete's race report is up! As for training, this week was a "recovery week" as I was sort of mini-tapering for the race Sunday by taking Fri and Sat off. Ended up with 2 hours swimming, 8.7 miles running, and 34.9 on the bike on the week. That totalled 5 hours 30 min, down from 7 hours 11 min last week. Total mileage was 43.6 way down from 89. I should bounce back the other way this week though. I've got a local sprint triathlon on Sat, but planning to put in 5 other days of long workouts as well. Then next week on Sat will be the metric century ride, my furthest ever on a bike! Following week the Minnie double, then a taper week, then back down there for the Ironman 70.3!

 

[gatorphipps]

Hey!
Real quick.....
Here is my race report if you did not see it on the other thread. Around 50 pics!
http://journals.aol.com/gatorphipps/PhippsFamily/
Matt- That is awesome!

Craig - you never cease to amaze me!

Dave - WTG on your LR!

Steve - WOW on your race...hill training...who needs it.

Welcome Shan!

WTG Steve on the 1/2 and to anyone else who raced this weekend that I missed....

Biked 20 miles today...I knew I was in trouble when I was going down hill and had to pedal hard to keep a 14 MPH pace...I normally coast at 29 MPH down this hill! WIND WAS KICK'N CHICK'N! I finished in 1:30...not my best time, but I will take it for the wind conditions!

 

[princessmomma]

This fall I will be a Visiting Professor of Finance at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that's right folks, MIT has hired a kid who was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma!!!

Craig

Congratulations Craig!

We are so honored that you came to us first with your news! I know I am the same way, I would come here first with news, good or bad. I think that is why I love this group, we really understand each other and are going through a lot of the same things.

Yeah for the kid from the Midwest!

Christa, great pictures! It looks like you had a great time with your sister.

Shan, welcome! Wow, 25 miles of week walking and at a 12-13 mpm pace, you are cruising!

Sunny, good to hear about your 5 miler. It is nice to run a race with someone and talk the whole way. By the way, is that Marathon clippie new???

Leana, good job volounteering (like my Canadian spelling? ) for your the race. I would like to do that to see the race in the eyes of a volounteer.

Dave, what a hill. You are ready for the Pig!

Sara, how is your Grandma training going? I read that the no headphone rule will be strickly enforced. It will be interesting to see if they follow through.

Long run (10-12 miles) set for tomorrow, I hope this wind dies down.

Colleen

 

[tiberius]

First to business, I finally went back to full speed today for a workout...which for me was running for 3 minutes at a 12 minute per mile pace, then walking for 2 minutes at a pace around 18:30 minutes per mile. I don't blaze down the road, but I get there eventually. I need to figure out what distances I will run during the as a summer maintenance period to be ready for training for the fall and winter running seasons.

Andrew - furry cruise missle (LOL) that can be so true

Martha - I am told CoCo pines away for me as well, she certainly bounds to the door when she knows I am there. It used to be that I could count on her to be at the door before I fixed my old squeaky brakes.

bekkiz - I don't know if what I have to say counts as advice, after all the only people I beat are the back of the pack runners. Although, I do enjoy knowing that since I can run a steady pace, by the end of the race I always seem to be passing some of those people who overextended themselves too early.

 

[plutosmyfav]

This is totally off topic, and yes, I know pride is one of the 7 deadly sins but . . .

I received a couple of surprise phone calls today and I can update my resume. This fall I will be a Visiting Professor of Finance at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that's right folks, MIT has hired a kid who was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Craig

Congratulations! In your field you probably won't be heading out my way and I rarely go to campus... but maybe we'll bump into each other one day. BTW their standards aren't that high-- they hired a PhD drop-out, too So does that mean Colorado is out?

Colleen-- yes the clippie is new

Sunny

 

[aladdinsgirl]

Hi TEAM!! Stephen and I are watching the Boston Marathon that we Tivo'd earlier today. I would LOVE to run Boston someday, sadly I know I'll never qualify, but maybe I can go and at least cheer all the speedies on! On a training note, I ran 5 miles today and the wind was kick'n chick'n!!! There were times I felt like I was running as hard as I could and still I was standing still. My time ended up being 55:00, I know my first mile was 10:49 and my last mile was 10:00, but I don't know my 3 middle splits. I really need to get my Garmin fixed! Hines ran the 5 miles with me, I must have really pushed him as he's spent the past 2 hours laying on the couch.

Craig--Congratulations!!! That is wonderful news!! We are all very proud of you!!!

Dave--You ran a 7 mile hill??? Yeah, you are ready for the Pig! I am in the same boat as Stephen, unless you call setting the treadmill at a 2% incline, I haven't done any hill training either.

Leana--That's very cool that you volunteered for a half marathon. Was it stressful? I've thought about volunteering for events I'm not running in, but keeping up with passing out the water would stress me out!!!

Martha--I'm very impressed that you got your cardio in on such a yucky day. I have to be honest, if I had a day off and it was pouring rain and windy, I'd spend the day in bed with a good book!

Colleen--Good luck on your lr tomorrow! I have 12 this Saturday and then it's taper time!!!

Christa--Pass on my congratulations to your sister!! How exciting!! I cracked up looking at your pictures! You are going to have to slow your pace down a little bit so we can run together some time! Does your sister have another race planned?

Carrie--Nice job sticking with your run even though it felt less than stellar. Are you still in pain?

Sunny--Congrats on your 5 mile race today! I can't believe you ran in that mess!

Shan--Welcome!!! As you can see, most of us are friends and spend more time talking about life than talking about training! Jump right in!

I know I missed people, but I have to have jump over to the ToT race page so Stephen and I can register. I'm 95% sure that my parents are coming and running as well. I also saw that the Expo is supposed to be open on Saturday as well as Friday, so that's good news for us!

 

[angietuck2]

Shan Welcome to our team these people are AWESOME!! And one (OF THE MANY) encouraging things about this thread is that you get to see that EVERYONE!! has good and bad runs. Just when I feel like I am getting comfortable at a pace and I feel like I'm cruising, I have a run that makes me feel like I have NEVER run before!! You will love it here!!

Craig - THAT IS AWESOME!! It's ok to be proud of yourself, there is a difference in that and being prideful. I am experiencing that right now too. Everything in me wants to run around screaming I'M GRADUATING COLLEGE IN 3 WEEKS WITH AN ENGINEERING DEGREE!! (of course I would include my GPA and the honors I will graduate with) I have felt really guilty for feeling this way, because I am so grateful to even be getting a degree. It's actually kind of ironic, I have my exit interview tomorrow and in my essay I wrote " I am very grateful to be finishing a degree at all because I went from, when I was in high school wanting to go to MIT to 10 years later thinking I would never realize my dream." I am here to say that, that dream will be realized in less than 3 weeks. When you have worked so hard for something and it gets acknowleged, ie - getting to teach at MIT, you can't help but feel like you are going to explode with excitement.


Sorry for the long-winded. No training for me today, but will be back tomorrow.


angie

 

[Big Vic]

Good evening everyone!

Very busy day today.

Yesterday it was 3.5 on the TM. Today was bodyweight exercises on the power rack. Nothing significant to report.

Craig - Congrats!!

Matt - Way to go!

All - Great job with your training!

To our new teammates -

Take care.

 

[MouseDogMom]

Claire - Bet Barnes & Noble was happy to see you! I'm waiting on the new John Bingham book to arrive via mail.

Meghan - Sorry about DH's schedule change. My DH worked that weird rotating schedule at his last job 11pm-7am. He quit when they moved him to 6pm-6am.

Bekki - Great mileage, but don't overdo it. WA is a long way from WDW, but NC seems a long way when it comes to trying to do all these races. I'm not doing the Minnie because we have a week scheduled down there in June, and I just can't afford to go in May & June! As for the Half, I'd been putting off registering, and finally this morning while I was running I just decided it was time!

Kelley - Hope the family's getting well. And 10 loads of laundry counts as XT.

Jennifer - Rescue dogs rock! My lab/chow was 4 months old when we adopted her too.

Angie - Great job running with these winds.

Dave - Amazing LR! You should do great in the Pig!

Martha - Hope you survived the weather. My co-workers just couldn't quite grasp why I was so obsessed about the weather in MA!

Laurie - Stay dry!

Judy - Sorry you had such a stonker run on Sat. Hope the podiatrist can help. My pod is the best doc in the whole world!

Carrie - Yea on finishing 10 miles with minimal pain! I was excited to hear that Amy surfaced too.

Sunny - Hooray! You ran today!

Shan - This group will definitely keep you motivated.

Craig - CONGRATULATIONS! You have every right to be proud.

Matt - You call doing a triathlon "recovery" and "tapering?"

Leana - I can't believe you have a rescue Westie! DH's first love (before the JRT, Christa) is the Westie. We have friends who have two, and he goes to their house just to play with the dogs. But I won't have any dog that's not a rescue, and I keep telling him that they'll be harder to find. Our friends told us there was an organization just for Westies, but I'm not quite ready for that second dog yet so I hadn't looked TOO hard!

Christa - I can't believe you even tried to bike in this wind!

Jackie

 

[skfulkers]

Craig--CONGRATULATIONS!! Wow, we are all so proud of you. What a great, great accomplishment. Have fun celebrating!
By the way, I see you're a big Groundhog's Day fan. Me too! How about this one:
"Believe it or not, I studied 19th century french poetry."
"What a waste of time! I mean, for someone else, that would be an incredible waste of time. So bold of you to even choose that, it's incredible. You must be a very, very strong person."

Shan--WELCOME!

Steve

 

[wtpclc]

Krista - lol. If I had made my goal time this year, 5 minutes less than last year. And if I was 70 years old, I could have been running today! Thank goodness I did not have to contend with that! Thanks for asking, my leg is back to only minimal pain when running. None after and I have not had pain in y toes in almost a week. Darn good sign I think!

Craig - Woo hoo!!! I don't even want to knwo the story beihnd your dad. He obviously does not know the Craig that we know. The intelligent, funny, compassionate friend who's always ther when we need words of kindness and/or wisdom. HaveMarha give you an extra hug from me!

Martha - I hope you took that man of yours out to dinner! (Yeah, I need you to gain 20 pounds so I can keep up with you. )

tiberius - Way to go at gettign teh steps in! You are a true penguin from teh way your post sounds! I have huge respect fro those that are on teh course for a long time. Then again, today's bostoners think I take froever. As the Penguin said, the best goal is to finish teh same day that you started. Hang in there!

Thansk to all of your good wishes on my leg!!! I'm thinking I am completely on teh mend! I can't wait for PT tomorrow to tell teh PT that I did my 10 miles!

OK, time for bed.

 

[Calcio]

Steve

Thanks. It is too funny, heck they would never have admitted me to their undergraduate, mba, or PhD program.

Yes, I do love Groundhog Day. I also absolutely love the Impressions de France film in EPCOT, and when I see the scene with the balloons and catered lunch in the film, and the voice over talks about their great poet Beaudelaire, I always think of Bill Murray and Andie McDowell in the diner, "you speak French?" "Oui."

Sunny

I didn't know you were associated with MIT. Now they have 2 fanatical but occasionally injured runners at the place. Since this is for fall it doesn't impact my 8 week visit at Colorado this summer. My goal for Boulder is to work a little and train a lot, get fit, and drop some weight.

Angie

I knew you were graduating so soon. That must be so thrilling, and I guarantee you it has an impact on your children. They see what you've done, how hard the work was, and how important it is. You couldn't give them a better role model.

Carrie

Actually its the father in law who wonders about me. Well if you had seen what I looked like and acted like the first time I met him you'd probably understand. Sadly my father passed away 15 years ago. He never had the money to spend a single day in college, but he gave me the opportunity to go where I've gone and do what I've done. Without getting too sentimental, everything I am I owe to him, and the girl I married. They gave me a chance and kept me pointed in the right direction.

I'm so glad you are doing better. You and Martha are going to set fire to that course on May 6. I'm envious, since even with 2 Disney marathons in my record I've not run, I mean run every step, the last 8 miles of the course. Maybe in 2008 I'll put on pink and run Minnie with you 2.

Thank you all. Geez I'm tearing up here. You are really cool running buddies.

Craig

 

[chimera]

Congratulations Dr. Calcio!

Welcome Shan!

50 TM min tonight at 12:49 pace. One more LR before the Minnie. And can I have a moment of silence...4 months after the race, I have finally lost a toenail

Bopping over to the ToT reggie site now! See y'all in May, August, October, Jan, etc.....

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Good Morning TEAM:

I did 4 miles on the TM yesterday in 38:43 min/9:40 mpm pace. I felt pretty good. I think my booty is healed up. It isn't bothering me at all any more. My quads were a little tired/sore from my Bluff run on Saturday, but all and all it was a good run.

Carrie- Just wanted to say I hope your piriformis is feeling better. Good luck with the PT, stretches, and exercises. Awesome job on the 10 miler. So, I missed the story about Amy, did you see her at a race? Did she post and I missed it?

Shan- It's always good to have new teammates. Great to have you here.

Sunny- Good to hear from you. I hope your health is hoding up. Your Patriot Day 5 miler sounds great! 10:49 mpm pace is awesome. You're working your way back. Great job. I can't wait to hear how the VT City Marathon goes.

Hi Lily- Hope you had fun with your trainer yesterday.

Martha- You're doing so great with your LRs. I love seeing them increase in your signature. WTG!

Craig- Congratulations on the MIT teaching gig! That's fantastic. They couldn't have hired a more thoughtful professor. We're all proud to have an MIT professor in our midst.

Matt- Nice job on the triathlon. You're making me tired with all that your doing.

Christa- Thanks so much for posting the link to the half marathon with your sister. That was a great report and great pictures. I felt like I was there. You are such a good sis to train with your sister and get her through this milestone. WTG! That's awesome!

Colleen- Good to hear from you too. Good luck with your 10-12 mile LR today. Let us know how it goes.

Richard/Tiberius- Great job on your speed work. I need to do more of that myself. I'm going to try to add some after the Flying Pig 1/2.

Hi Krista- I would so love to run the Boston Marathon someday too. Someday, lifetime goal, right? Great job on your 5 miler in the Kick'n Chick'n wind. You should really consider volunteering for a race sometime. I've done it a couple of times, and it is really fun. Yeah, keeping up with the water can be a little stressful at times, but there's lots of people to help out. It really makes you appreciate the volunteers on the course.

Vic- way to keep on keeping on.

Mel- Great job on your 50 min on the TM. WTG!

 

[plutosmyfav]

Sunny

I didn't know you were associated with MIT. Now they have 2 fanatical but occasionally injured runners at the place. Since this is for fall it doesn't impact my 8 week visit at Colorado this summer. My goal for Boulder is to work a little and train a lot, get fit, and drop some weight.


Craig

I already dropped your name today! I am surrounded by many people who think Disney is for... well... the not so bright. I have to defend myself often. So, I just had to mention my Disney fanatic running buddy who just got offered a professorship at MIT...

Angie-- I am taking my daughter to visit UMass today and I am going to make her go to the physics Dept. to see my name on a placque on the wall! That's not prideful is it????? She's not interested in science, math or engineering

Sunny

 

[princessmomma]

I already dropped your name today! I am surrounded by many people who think Disney is for... well... the not so bright. I have to defend myself often. So, I just had to mention my Disney fanatic running buddy who just got offered a professorship at MIT...


Sunny

LOVE IT!!! Yes, I get that too! When you think about it, many of us have master's degrees (and are stay at home moms), Engineering degrees, various medical profressions, (by the way, haven't heard from Dr. Lynne in a while), counsellors, researchers, college professors, etc. etc., and our course, of WISH children are brilliant as well!

this group!

I woke up this morning with a headache and runny nose. Not sure if I will get my LR in today.

Colleen