Wk of Apr 22--WISH Walking/Running Club

[Mouse Skywalker]

Oh, yeah!

Alas, my race partner, Rhonda, sacrificed her chance to get a finisher's certificate because she refused to leave me to make up for my slow pace, and we finished right over the official time limit.

ETA: sorry it's so huge! I can't get it to size down!

That is a great picture Cam! I love that you got Mickey to hold your bib number. That was a great idea!

 

[princessmomma]

Yes, great picture Cam!

Where was it taken?

 

[chimera]

ETA: sorry it's so huge! I can't get it to size down!

Can't wait to see what OptiMike has to say about that


I have a fairly high critter tolerance 'cause my dad was a little bit like Steve Irwin. He had a 6-foot boa when I was born and various other oddities as I grew up. I used to catch crickets for his lizards to eat when I was a kid. What I don't do well with are slimy green tree frogs

I am on self-imposed rest this week and it's makin' me crazy! I've already decided that I'll give up tomorrow, but I'm doing 5 miles this weekend regardless of what whining my feet have planned. Is it just me or does not running make you eat constantly?

I bet it takes a lot to scare Big Vic
I haven't pulled an anyone on a run (yet!). As mentioned during Scar Wars, most of my flamboyant injuries were when I was a kid.

Krista... for your sister. As Cam said, temporal arteritis is fixable.

Matt...great photos!

Sunny...congrats on your SWOG!

 

[Calcio]

Bill

Thanks for your reference to A&M. 2 of our best friends are a husband and wife pair on the faculty there, 1 in accounting 1 in finance. Remembering that we live in the land of the hostile, the folks in College Station are the opposite. Last summer I was there with Lesley visiting our buddies, and we all went our for real barbeque, something else you cannot get here. Lesley wanted a combination that wasn't on the menu and she asked the young man behind the counter what it would take to get her preferred order. The young man said, "you just did it mam," and filled her order with a smile. Try that in Boston (and then duck).

The A&M campus is amazing to someone from a small College like me. Huge doesn't describe it. Our friends have a very comfortable life in Aggie-land. No state income taxes, low cost of housing, low cost of everything, and great jobs.

Of course, I still have that UT degree, and cannot help occasional references to Aggies .

Krista

Best to your sister and family. Our health is so delicate, I hope she gets this turned around, and then turns it around.

Cam and Rhonda

I've said it before, and here it comes again. The medal and bib mean everything. You carried that bib around the course (as described by Churchill "blood, toil, sweat, and tears"), and you received the medal in the chutes. That dumb certificate is generated by a computer, months later, in an air conditioned complex, and then mailed to you. I have all my medals and bibs hanging in my office for all to see and me to reflect on from time to time. This year's certificate? Well since I never have framed one, don't care about the darn things, and don't know where they are, this year when it arrived I took a logical step. I threw it in the trash.

No certificate can match the emotion behind the medal and bib, and Cam's pic with Mickey shows it in her face.

12 days to the Minnie for you wild and crazy participants.

Craig

 

[angietuck2]

Hello Everyone!!

Quick Training Report

4 miles 39 minutes - really slowing down, I have a pretty significant back issue right now and I have been seeing chiropracter, we will see what happens

I can not POSSIBLY catch up with everyone!! I'm so sorry I have to finish a 25 page paper on Global Warming and study for 3 finals.

But thanks for everyone who asked, our presentation went ok. The presentation part was ok, but the MEAN old PROFESSORS ( sorry Craig - just kidding - I actually adore and respect these 2 professors) they grilled us with questions about our design, that of course we could not answer. It's ok, toughens you up!

Lisa Loves Pooh To answer your question, I am graduating from USF with an Engineering degree. The poor people on this thread are probably very tired of hearing about it and will be happy in 11 days (YES ONLY 11 DAYS ) when it is all over. I must tell you I admire you jumping right back into training after just having a baby. I did not start really exercising until my youngest was about 3.

Krista The whole story about the pregnant thing is really funny. I had a little similar incident, except mine involved DH too. One Saturday night I said why don't we get Sweet Berries (frozen custard) tonight and he said "Do you think your but really needs that " TOTALLY KIDDING!! He is really not mean - swear. But 5 minutes later I go across the street to my neighbors and he says "Are you pregnant, you look like you are gaining wieght?" Well I will have you know I took my but to sweet berries and got the biggest ice cream I could get - and it was SOOOOOOO good!

On a serious note, will definately be praying for your sister.

I am so sorry I can not catch up with everyone else.

angie

 

[thndrmatt]

75 min on the bike trainer today for me, as I watched "Cyclysm Sundays" which I had DVR'd. Worked out pretty well, once you subtract out commercials the 2 hour show ended up about that long, and when I started to fade towards the end they were pumping towards the finish and that gave me an extra kick as I tried to catch them while not moving.

Flying tomorrow night Thur night and Fri night it appears, which means probably leaving at like midnight or later Fri to drive the two hours up to where I'm doing the metric century Sat morning. Could be painful if the schedule stays that way...

After 75 min and even my longest ride so far a couple weekends ago of 120 min the estimated 220 min it will take me to complete the metric century sounds awfully long...

 

[tiberius]

After yesterday's run for speed, today I just took it easy and did some speedwalking. I don't want to try to go too fast too soon.

Lisa - Thanks. CoCo loves compliments like that.

I saw so many other items to comment on, but am too tired to write them all. I have a date in court as a witness for a client of mine, wish me luck!





Richard

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Don't forget that Steve and Dave want to pull each other, preferably when they are tied up.
Bill

Let's see if I have this straight: Bill doesn't want Judy pulling a Cam. I try not to pull a Judy and no one wants to pull a Carrie. Wow, what a group we are.

What! did I just walk in on? OMG! I'm so happy to read that our Team is bonding.

I've updated the calendar.

 

[keenercam]

That is a great picture Cam! I love that you got Mickey to hold your bib number. That was a great idea!

Yes, great picture Cam!

Where was it taken?

Thanks, Dave! Actually, Mickey autographed it and insisted on it being in the picture. Isn't that fun? We went to City Hall in the MK to ask where to find Mickey to have him sign my bib and they radioed over to ToonTown and sent us over there to Mickey's House to see him. We also went and got Goofy to sign Howard's bib in the area wtih all the characters in ToonTown.

Craig -- You made me cry. Happy tears, of course. Thank you for your eloquent words.

Matt -- God Bless and stay safe. Thank you again for what you do.

 

[Optimator]

Can't wait to see what OptiMike has to say about that

No comments here. Earlier today DW kindly reminded me that this is "a family board" and told me that she would probably put a block on my posts if she wasn't married to me. Harsh!!

O.K. then,

Hello to all my on-line friends. I had a rest day today. I hope to run tomorrow. With any luck, I will be pleased with my progress.

Is that family appropriate enough for you?!?

Assuming there's anyone that has yet to put the block on me.

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Thanks, Dave! Actually, Mickey autographed it and insisted on it being in the picture. Isn't that fun? We went to City Hall in the MK to ask where to find Mickey to have him sign my bib and they radioed over to ToonTown and sent us over there to Mickey's House to see him. We also went and got Goofy to sign Howard's bib in the area wtih all the characters in ToonTown.

Oh that is a great idea. I got a picture with Mickey too at ToonTown when we realized the princesses, DD6 and DD9 , hadn't gotten Mickey's autograph yet on the trip. I WISH I would have thought to have taken my bib and have Mickey autograph it.

 

[Kristi1357]

Awesome pic Dave!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I hate posting back to back, but I need to ask for some prayers and for my sister. I just got off the phone with my Mom, my oldest sister, Shari, has been in hospital since Friday because of migraine headaches and high blood pressure. She is having surgery sometime today, the surgeon is actually taking a piece of her vein out above her temple to see if they can figure out why she is getting migraines and why her blood pressure won't
stabilize. I'll keep everyone posted.

I hope she is doing better.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I have been here for almost 12 years and Lynnda has been here for an undisclosed number (most of her life) since that would give away her age. I have been told that is not a good thing for hubby's to do.

Timmy is now 3 weeks old today, depending on how you actually count the weeks.

Bill

It's official...I live under a rock.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Becky – I tripped and fell before mile 7 during the full (we were off the road on the right and when I went to step back onto the road, I couldn't tell it was a bit higher -- I have no depth perception). Flat down on my front and slid along the pavement courtesy of that very slippery tyvek bib. Continued to scrape my hands and knee as I slid forward. Tore my ipod shuffle (which was on my race belt) to heck and back and ripped the number right off my WISH shirt (which was irretrievably ruined with pavement scrapes and tiny holes where the bib ripped off!) Rhonda, Lily & Pat picked me up. Rhonda poured water over my bloody hands, gave me her emergency band-aids out of her fanny pack and Pat almost poured her sports drink over my hands instead of water. I had open wounds on both palms & my knee, wrenched my shoulder, my wrist and my knee and was just an absolute mess. The medics offered me a ride, many times. Rhonda tried to talk me into stopping at a medical tent to at least get cleaned up, but I was so afraid of getting swept. After mile 20 when the medics offered me a ride to the end, I told them I wasn’t going home without my Mickey medal. I attribute getting to the FINISH to a race partner who stayed with me every step of the way and my 2 mantras: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" and "the pain is temporary. The pride of finishing is forever."

Oh, Sunny, sweetie -- are you okay? Geez, now you really can say you've pulled a Cam.

OMG!!! I had no idea!! You go girl!!!

I guess I pulled a cam last year...but it was during training. And the wus that I was had my coach come fetch me.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Well I had planned on teh exercise bike this a.m.

But a few things impeded that (and it wasn't the baby! ).

First, woke up and immediately realized I hadn't deleted a work shift this morning...OOPSIE!!!

And the bike--had NO BATTERIES. Well it did--but one was corroded and the other three were either dead...or staring at their corroded friend in disbelief of how much of a wimpy battery who was for not holding up for the 1 year they sat idle doing diddly. So I had no display, no fan, and no mechanism to adjust tension or anything. So I biked for about 5 minutes and said forget this. Will go out later today or batteries and then bike when Baby Boy is napping.

My thighs were screaming to be worked out and though Goofy is in the works....he's a LOOOOOOOOOOONGGGGGG ways away. Right now I am in just the "training to train to train" mode. I have promised myself no running for about a month or so (since my ligaments are still loose thanks to all those pregnancy hormones that make them that way).

Now I just gotta work on getting hubby starting to work out--b/c he's doing the full..and at his current pace...he wouldn't even wake up and be ready to throw on his race day clothes.





Cam: "I can do all things through Christ who strenghens me"--I regret that when my doula said this to me while I was in transition (laboring)---that my response was "Well, Jesus was never in labor."

 

[jeanneg]

Cam and Dave: awesome photos with the Mickeys! Don't worry about not getting the finisher's certificate, Cam.....it's the medal and knowing that you finished that really counts.

I've heard that if you get swept, there is no medal. I didn't realize they still gave it to you if you finished slightly over regulation. Does anyone know approximately what the cushion is? I pretty much thought they would just pick-up and close shop as soon as the 7 hours (plus start time) elapsed. Knowing that I can miss the cut-off by a few minutes and still medal is very comforting.

Nancy and I have our half-marathon event this Sunday. Based on last year's results we should tie for dead last! We intend to finish by keeping our eyes on the prize....first a medal, then LUNCH!

 

[wtpclc]

OMG LIsa! I'm so glad I had no coffee in my mnouth when I read your "Jesus was never in labor" comment! Good thing God has a sense of humor.

OptiMike - Sounds liek I should know your dw, but I don't. How do I have to PM to get her to loosen the reigns just a tad. Don't go cold turkey on us!!!

Cam - My post did not do your suffering justice. I was afaraid I'd screw up the details, so I went for the short version. LOVE that pic! The thought of 3 WISHers coming to your aid tells reminds me what a wonderful group we have. EVen if Pat did try to pour sports drink on your wounds. There would have been no "try" if I was there. You would have been stickey, I'm sure.

Sunny - Great SWOG!

Well, I had a stonker last night which turned me into a whimp. I started hurting enough to make me whine btween 0.5 and 0,75 miles into our 40 min. At 1+, it started to sprinkle (but the crops were big). I asked dh how far we would go in the rain. He suggested we urn around at 1.5. He looked over and say the pain on my face at 2 Yeah, it'd been ther efor over a mile, but took him a while to notice). We stopped. I stretched and we walked the rest of the way. The joy of knowing that I should not hurt myself more if I keep runnign is gone. I'm tired of hurting. Th ePT helped a lot, but I seem to have hit a plateau. Still have not scheduled teh gait analysis and no Osteo Manipulation (boy, that sounds scary) until Mid May. Ugh. I think I'll just take it real easy and save it all for the Minnie. BTW, icing the booty stinks! FOrgive teh major whine.

Funny thing did happen at the beginiing of our run. The local "goofyguy", not to be confused with goofyMike, was runnign the opposite way near the beginning of our SR yesterday. he says, "I won't make you stop, buyt I keep forgetting to tell you something," as he turns and runs with us. NOw, this guy is a true runner to turn around kknowing we won't want ot stop. He tells Scott, "I keep wanting to tell you how lucky you are to have someone to run with. No matter how slow I go, no one will run with me. not my wife or my 2 kids." So sweet of him to say that. I mentioned that it's not always easy, but it's so nice not to go alone. (Not to mention that I'd not likely still be running on my own.) I just thought that was really cool of him to say. he's right adn it goes both ways, but most peoiple would just say that I'm the lucky one. BTW, I don't think it's the pace, this guy just runs forever!

 

[wtpclc]

jeanne - They stop sweeping after ~20 miles. After that, as long as you don't stop, you get the medal. Cam had bikers on her heels the whole time, but she would NOT stop. However, you need to make it in the 7 hours to get the Goofy.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Cam and Dave: awesome photos with the Mickeys! Don't worry about not getting the finisher's certificate, Cam.....it's the medal and knowing that you finished that really counts.

I've heard that if you get swept, there is no medal. I didn't realize they still gave it to you if you finished slightly over regulation. Does anyone know approximately what the cushion is? I pretty much thought they would just pick-up and close shop as soon as the 7 hours (plus start time) elapsed. Knowing that I can miss the cut-off by a few minutes and still medal is very comforting.

Nancy and I have our half-marathon event this Sunday. Based on last year's results we should tie for dead last! We intend to finish by keeping our eyes on the prize....first a medal, then LUNCH!

The cushion varies from year to year as it is determined by how long it takes the entire field to cross the start.

There is one final pick up point in the half and the full (I forget where)...but once you pass that you are permitted to finish. ALL finishers will get a medal. Only REGULATION finishers will get a certificate.