Wk of Apr 8--WISH Walking/Running Club

[Honeibee]

Judy - So sorry to hear about this. I will hope that one of your horses didn't step on it. Hopefully it is just bruised and only painful right now.

Bill

Thanks Bill. You know, I'd rather that one of them did. It wouldn't hurt so much.


BTW, do we have anyone here that is running Boston on Monday???

 

[aladdinsgirl]

Carrie--My kneecap is still red from last September when I fell and sprained my ankle on a run.

Stacey--Scream it from the mountain tops: YOU ARE AN ENDURANCE ATHLETE!!!!!!!!!! By the way, I have both of those books and they are both wonderful!!! Keep a tissue handy!

Craig--Be careful!!!!!

Judy--Here's some more for you

Bill--How's little Timmy settling in?

 

[Kristi1357]

Judy - more &

It seems like the Boston Marathon is going to be run in a snwo storm. Chad is so happy he was not able to find a voucher to run it now!

Back to taxes...

 

[wtpclc]

Carrie--My kneecap is still red from last September when I fell and sprained my ankle on a run.

I still have scars from a college roller-blading incident. The tops is the middle school newspaper delivery stepping on teh the curb incident, though. Still on the middle of my knee. How long you think we can keep this up?

 

[aladdinsgirl]

I still have scars from a college roller-blading incident. The tops is the middle school newspaper delivery stepping on teh the curb incident, though. Still on the middle of my knee. How long you think we can keep this up?

I have "hole" in the middle of my shin from running across a yard in high school in the dark and falling down in a drainage pipe. Yeah, that hurt pretty bad.

Stephen has a REALLY good injury story involving a wrecked bike and a gauge in his leg that was inches away from him never being able to walk again. It's a nasty scar too!

 

[gatorphipps]

Christa

Your comments about your youth apply to me as well. I'm sure if any of my elementary school teachers knew what I did for a living it would kill them. I couldn't control my energy and enthusiasm, and had my own personal chair in the principal's office as evidence. The crazy thing is they would punish me by not allowing me out for recess, which of course, really punished my teachers. A far better idea would have been to take me outside every hour and make me run a lap around the school grounds. Or two laps.l

THis is so true! Take care of yourself!

Judy - AHHHHH! Had that b/4. It was right after my 1st 1/2 marathon. My Doc told me to stay off of it for 2 weeks...I said, Yeah right! I am a mother of 2 so How do you suggest I stay off of it? Well I didn't run on it and got better shoes and it got better.

I still have scars from a college roller-blading incident.

Carrie and Krista - I also have scars from rollerblading, biking, running, and, yes, skate boarding (in my middle school days)! The rollerblading is the best scar, but the bike scar is the funniest story. My short legs will never win a modeling contest.

OK! Here is an email about a swimming experience a friend had when she got in the pool to share a swimming lane.....

Oh, I didn't ask her! I started to get in and she "ran" over and started
yelling at me "NO! NO! You can't get in this lane! It's for water walkers
ONLY!"

I pointed that the sign at the end of the lane said "Lap Swimmers and Water
Walkers Only"

She continued yelling "NO! Victor" (whoever he is) "said that I don't have
to share this lane! This is for water walkers only!" The entire time she's
standing there with her arms out literally blocking my entrance into the
lane. Personally, I was rather amused because who in their right mind would
say to someone "I won't share with you, even though there are six of us in
the pool right now and only three lanes." Well, who over the age of about 3
1/2?

I asked the lifeguard, "Is this true? I can't swim in this lane?"

"Of course you can. You have to share." (she says to the 60+ year old woman,
whose mama didn't bring her up right...obviously)

"NO! You can't swim in this lane! It's in the regulations! You can't!"

I point out that if she doesn't want to be crowded, she can go into the
other ENTIRE HALF of the pool where water walkers and aerobics people
generally stay. She says "No, it's too crowded for what I do. I WATER JOG!"
she says, as if my pitiful little mile swim was just so beneath her serious
WATER JOGGING.

Amused I point to the other half and say "Um, Ma'am, there's no one in that
area right now. It's hardly too crowded."

She keeps on, by this time I'm done playing this game and say "Well,
whatever. I'm swimming. I'll take this half." She literally yells "NO! You
can't!" I leaned forward and said "You know what? You're not my mother, nor
are you the head of the YMCA, so you will not tell me what I can and cannot
do. I am going to swim now. I don't have time for this."

I get in and she "runs" ahead of me, arms out (seriously, like a 3 year old
trying to block my way). Fortunately they've yet to erect walls in the lanes
(LOL), so I just swim around her. SHE HITS ME as I swim past! I figured that
if I came back and she did it again I'd get out and go to the front and ask
her to be removed. She didn't and you know what? We managed to swim together
just fine!

What a piece of work! In a way I feel sorry for her. Obviously she's a
bitter old crab who is pretty used to bullying people to get her way (I've
seen her do it before, but I don't bully easily). After the swim I was in
the locker room getting changed. She sees me, stomps over to the entrance of
the locker bay I'm in, stands there BUCK NAKED and just GLARES at me. I
smile the biggest, sweetest smile I can and go back to changing. She stomps
off. A few minutes later she's dressed, she stomps back over and does the
same thing. I just smiled, chuckled, nodded my head in a "it takes all
kinds" fashion and walked past her. I think she was pretty upset that a) she
didn't get her way and b) she didn't make me mad enough to actually have a
complaint against me.

I thought about filing a complaint against her. After all, she did put her
hands on me while I was swimming in an effort to keep me out of her lane,
but I decided against it. I mean what if this is the only place she can
afford to swim? But if I have to share a lane again and she pulls it again,
I will file a formal complaint and request that she be disallowed in the
pool.

What a knob!

 

[wtpclc]

OMG Christa! That's awful. You know, I always though tlife would eb better when I was only dealing with "grown ups." FUnny, I think maost kifds act more mature than many adults!

Krista - How about the the scars on both feet from last years nasty adventure in new sandals?

 

[TXAng]

Jen – Still no luck with the hiring process? Bummer! Hope you find the right person SOON and that your foot feels better, too.

Stacey – WTG getting your 10 miles done!

Christa – Wow. The nerve of some people! Good for your friend for standing her ground.

Well, our first 5K is THIS WEEKEND! Is it a bad sign that I'm already nervous? What if I make a wrong turn somewhere? What if it takes me 7 hours to finish? What if I trip and fall down? Oy.

DH is totally fine - not nervous at all. But he ran cross country in high school. This is my first real event ever. And it's only about 60 hours away!

 

[Jen117]

We may have found someone for the job. Tomorrow I have one more interview and then we will decide. I just hate hiring, we get more bad ones than good ones.

Carrie and Krista - I can join you with the scars, but I may have to take third place. But I do have some great stories of my clutzy-ness. Hey, in college I sprayed my dust rag with pledge and some pledge went on the wonderful industrial carpet... a short while later the phone rang and ran to get it....Whoooosh... I flew across the floor and knocked up my knee really bad.

Christa -That story was funny and bad all at the same time. She kept her cool really well. I am not sure I would stay so calm.

 

[RedDragon]

bekkiz: awesome job on the run!!!

Jackie: Calcio can be our Jack Sparrow!?!

Andrew: have fun with the new recumbent bike!!

Matt: nice workout! Keep your head down!

Dave: let the DDs have a little time off or they might get burned out. When the weather gets better, I bet they'll want to get out and do some running.

Christa: woo-hoo on those stats from the race!!!

Cam: the Goofy frame sounds awesome!

Sunny:

Sara: this weather has GOT to go! Where is spring?

Monica: see Sara above. Here we are just getting rain, albeit lots of it. I can't imagine 18 inches of snow!!

Judy: OUCH

Jen: good luck hiring someone!

Stacey: on the 10 miler! Wear that shirt with pride.

Angie: good luck on the run this weekend. You'll do just fine and I can't wait to hear how it goes!

I was with my trainer this morning. I wore my WISH shirt and she loved it!! She so wants to run in the Minnie this year but there was something about a wedding reception (her's in fact) so she thought she should attend that instead!

I hope everyone has a great evening!!!

 

[gatorphipps]

Well, our first 5K is THIS WEEKEND! Is it a bad sign that I'm already nervous? What if I make a wrong turn somewhere? What if it takes me 7 hours to finish? What if I trip and fall down? Oy.

DH is totally fine - not nervous at all. But he ran cross country in high school. This is my first real event ever. And it's only about 60 hours away!

Being nervous is fine. I ALWAYS get really nervous b/4 a race. Ask the WISH friends who were around me the day of WDW 07. I have to visit the bathroom 10000000s of times b/c of my nerves. I am not nervous about the 1/2 this weekend b/c I am running with my sis. There is no pressure on me.
YOU WILL DO GREAT!

 

[Minnie]

Sunny

Judy


Wow everyone thank you so much for your comments on September. Still waiting for our vacation time to be approved but I think we're going to go for it we can.

I don't like waiting till Sept to go to Disney but not having the Brazillion tour groups and lower crowds all sound wonderful. We want to back in Dec to see the Xmas decorations so this may work out well

I'm about as nervous as I could possibly be about the trip overseas. That long of a plane ride has me extremely worried. WISHing that it goes well.

 

[bekkiz]

gatorphipps That story is hilarious! It reminds me of all the crabby master's swimmers we used to have to share the pool with in college (I played water polo and we had morning swim practice.) Heaven forbid there was more than 2 people per lane! So my poor polo team had to squeeze 4 people per lane so we wouldn't tick off the old fogeies!

TXAng You are going to be AWESOME and have a great time. We're all rooting for you


RedDragon, disnutt, wtpclc, aladdinsgirl Thanks for the encouragement I know imy little mile's not much, but it's so much better than nothing

Today I went to a real running store and bought some ($$$$ ) real running shoes. The guy was super helpful and really gave me some good advice. It turns out the shoes I had were about 1/2 size too small. The new ones are pretty cool and super prefect for my feet.

I put them right on and went on a 3 mile walk on a trail near the store. I held a 16:40 for the 3 miles. Pretty darn good I have to remember that this kind of improvement is easy at the begining, but pretty soon, I'll have to work a lot harder

Also! My Garmin 205 came in the mail today. I'm planning to do some interval training next week with it. Here's what I'm thinking, please let me know if this is a good idea or maybe other ways to do this?
Choose a particular distance, maybe 3 or 4 miles to start and go 1/2 a mile at a quick pace (like for me right now, 7 minutes for a 1/2 mile) and then a 1/2 mile at a more relaxed pace (like 9 minutes for a 1/2 mile) and repeat for the full distance.

I was a swim coach and so, I base a lot of my ideas on workouts for swimmers. I have no idea how this translates to the walking/jogging world. Thoughts?

 

[MouseDogMom]

TXAng: Good luck on your first 5K. You're gonna have so much fun!

Martha - So you like the Jack Sparrow image? I just HAD to come up with something...

Remember, Vic and I are the same age. He's the Fabio of the group, I'm just trying to keep up with his example.

Bekkiz - I wish I could run more with my dog, but my scar story involves her. She stopped to sniff another dog, I didn't stop in time, ugly tangle of dogs, leash, runner, runner (me) ends up on pavement in faceplant. I love walking with her, but have to forget going for time.

I think I'll concentrate on stretches this weekend - tracing the alphabet, curling my toes, stuff like that, while I wait for the big toe to heal enough to put shoes on. Maybe I'll even re-introduce the arms to the weights! Monday will be my target date for a return to normal workouts, either bike or TM. (Now that I've put it in writing, I have to do it - right?)

Jackie

 

[chimera]

Hmmm...let's see if I can win Scar Wars

My belly button has a smile since I had my tubes tied after Lenna was born.

There's still a few acid scars on my arms from when I was a chemist.

Left elbow has a nasty one from a bike accident as a kid.

Bottom of my left foot, stepped on a broken Coke bottle (barefoot) when I was 11 and severed the tendon to my big toe. I was in a splint on crutches for 3 weeks and missed the big 6th grade camping trip to the Everglades.

I have implants...dental implants ...because I knocked my front teeth out in a skateboarding incident when I was 9.

And my personal favorite which I think some of you saw near the end of the half...scar on my tongue...bit nearly through it when I was 7 (tripped while running down the hallway and hit my chin on the footboard of my bed).

Isn't this something we're supposed to do when we're 80?

 

[gatorphipps]

Hmmm...let's see if I can win Scar Wars

My belly button has a smile since I had my tubes tied after Lenna was born.

There's still a few acid scars on my arms from when I was a chemist.

Left elbow has a nasty one from a bike accident as a kid.

Bottom of my left foot, stepped on a broken Coke bottle (barefoot) when I was 11 and severed the tendon to my big toe. I was in a splint on crutches for 3 weeks and missed the big 6th grade camping trip to the Everglades.

I have implants...dental implants ...because I knocked my front teeth out in a skateboarding incident when I was 9.

And my personal favorite which I think some of you saw near the end of the half...scar on my tongue...bit nearly through it when I was 7 (tripped while running down the hallway and hit my chin on the footboard of my bed).

Isn't this something we're supposed to do when we're 80?

MEL!

 

[angietuck2]

Hello Everyone!!

I'm sad to say that I have not been able to keep up with everyone this week. I did catch that TXAng is doing first 5K this weekend and did I read something about nerves??

GIRL - I know a lot of people would shoot me for this, but nerves can be a good thing if you use them a right way!! I get nervous before everything, but one thing that has taught me , is that is the way my body "pumps it self up" if that makes ANY SENSE!! Before our second 1/2 I was so nervous, I wanted to leave. Everyone looked so SERIOUS!!! - not like Disney, I was so nervous and we did great, best race ever!!!

All I can say is , USE IT, feed off of it,and love every second of it , there is nothing like a "first time" for anything -- it's so special!!

GOOD LUCK!!!!

SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR ANYONE WHO HAS AN ANSWER:

I am wondering what everyone's opinion/experiences with chiropractor's???

After a few months of some pretty bad back pain (I was in denial, and stubborn) I finally ended up at the Chiropractor today. I definately have some things wrong there, and the pain is gettng progressively worse, but I am a major chiropractor sceptic. But I saw the x-rays and he has some valid points. So I am just asking for any advice and experiences, GOOD OR BAD!!

Thank you and I hope everyone's training is going well.

angie

 

[cdn_gal_eeyore]

Hi everyone, got my 3 mile run in this evening. I ran around the neighborhood in 32:56 for a 10:59/mi pace. Finally the weather cleared up and it was sunny and warm enough for a skirt! I also felt as though my pacing was a lot more consistent. I'm really tackling those hills along the route now!

I think I can partially attribute my good run to a really frustrating day at work. I love the group of people I work with, like my boss, enjoy the projects I am working on. Problem is my "teammate." She's frustrated and approached the higher ups (my boss's boss's boss) about making a major change to who she and I report to. She didn't ask me what I thought - sheesh, this is my job, my career too, right? Unfortunately we are a team so we would both have to move together. But a line has been drawn in the sand. She who wants to move, I who want to stay. Some teamwork, eh?

 

[tiberius]

Well, our first 5K is THIS WEEKEND! Is it a bad sign that I'm already nervous? What if I make a wrong turn somewhere? What if it takes me 7 hours to finish? What if I trip and fall down? Oy.

TXAng - If you make a wrong turn, then turn around and get back on track, like I did on my half 2 weeks ago. You won't take 7 hours to finish even if you have to crawl. If you fall down, then get up and keep going (I have yet to see anyone fall down at a race, but I am sure it happens).
In the last 2 months, I have run my first 5K, 10K, and Half-Marathon, so I understand your nerves, but you will be fine. Just run like you do in practice and I bet your adrenaline will carry you faster than you expect.
Good luck!

 

[TEK224]

Angie - I was a big chiropractic skeptic, too. A few years ago I was having pain in my shoulder and bicep area. I played volleyball and the only time it hurt was when I spiked the ball. Nothing else made it hurt. And it usually hurt the whole next day, too. This went on for awhile. I even took off a season to let it heal, but the next time I tried to spike, the pain was there. My primary doc sent me to the chiro. I went 3x week for a month. She cracked my back, did electric stim on shoulder, had me do exercises and ice. To this day I have not had the problem again.

Sunny - sorry you're having the pain again. Sending your way!

Judy - Oh no! I hope it's not a stress fracture. I'll keep good thoughts for you. But don't give up!

Carrie - hope your leg/hip is feeling better!

A girl who works for me is heading to Boston for the Marathon. I hope it doesn't snow. She is so petite and has no meat on her. She'll freeze!

Terri