Wk Of Dec 30 - WISH Walking/Running Club

[Cruella de mom]

Hi everyone -

Oh it feels good to be home. Riding through mountains in a car is NOT a cure for vertigo.

I FINALLY got my race packet when I got home. I am official!

Lily - oh, you just lived one of my nightmares! I am so so sorry.

Angie - I actually safety pinned a gu packet to my shorts once because I had no other way to carry it. If you can't find a belt that works, don't panic, I have never run with more than a single gu or a sport bean pack and I have survived several half marathons.

Take care!
Cecilia

 

[zoegirl]

Hey everybody! I've been M.I.A. for almost two weeks b/c of the holidays, and sickness,and family, etc., etc....

Lily: I am soooooo sorry to hear about your puppy!

It looks like everyone is tapering. Does anyone else feel weird? Like you need to be running more miles? I feel like that. I'm guessing b/c I'm so used to running more.

I had to run 15 on the dreadmill last week. I was sick, and it was raining. I wasn't sure how far I'd get (was supposed to do 18-20) but figured I'd just run until I couldn't anymore.Managed to run just over 15. After I finished my hip really hurt. I didn't think too much about it figuring it was b/c I ran so long on a different surface. Well when I ran my 14 mile lr this past Friday it started hurting again, and quite badly. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?
I am already completely freaked out about this race. I have no idea why, it's my 4th time running it and my 7th full marathon. I guess b/c it's the first time I've done it alone (I've never run a race without Christa or my FIL at least running the same race). Anyway, my hip hurting is only adding to the stress. I'm so freaked I'm having trouble sleeping. Is anyone else having anxiety?

~bree~

 

[princessrunner]

Bree: I am having a lot of anxiety. Waking up at night in a panic, etcetera. My longest run for the half is 8 miles so far. I am afraid that I will not do well. I have very high expectations of myself. My DH says I am in over my head and I NEED to prove him wrong. So, do not feel alone. I am having serious anxiety and if I were signed up for the full, I would probably be committed by now!! Oh, and this is my very first half EVER!!!

I am not a professional but I have to do some serious IT band stretches after my LRs. My favorite releases your IT, glutes, and hammies all at once. You lay on your back with both knees bent, put your right foot on your left knee (figure 4ish) and then lift your left knee and pull it toward your chest. It hurts A LOT. My MIL also had me lay flat on my back last night and put one leg up straight, flex my foot and put a towel around it and then pull it back toward my chest. My hammies are WAY too tight. Oh, and then DD13 who is a gymnast, did the same stretch and put her foot over her head and touched the floor. I hope your hip feels better soon!!

 

[Sandy321]

Lilly, that's just not right

Angie I just have a jansport fanny pak - I'm huge around the middle, and I feel I need to carry a washcloth, phone, camera, gu, beans... I've been practicing with it, and could do without a washcloth, camera... but so far its working!! And on my 5 mile run yesterday it was so fun having my Dad call me with the Bears score!! (I usually ALWAYS call him!! I ran instead!)

I'm trying to stay away from a whine fest of my own!! The weather here will warm up considerably Thurs, Fri, Sat.. I feel as if I have fallen arches, and the plantar fascia pain is kicking in!

 

[Calcio]

Lily

I am very sorry for your loss. There are so many predators hanging around in suburban areas these days. Then add in a fool who is attracting them to your area. I'm so sorry.

I've had a significant setback. I pulled my right hamstring yesterday, and this one is injury, not pain. With only 13 days to the marathon I'm pretty pessimistic about being in the starting corrals. I am looking forward to the trip, but if the real reason I'm going cannot happen, I won't be good company.

I was going to do 100 easy minutes yesterday, but the entire way I felt crummy. I finally had enough and was going to stop at 75 minutes, but I didn't get there, as at 67 minutes my right hamstring popped and I was done. No tightness or soreness in advance, literally just a pop.

I have been pushing hard the last few weeks, and I was much more prepared than in prior years. I've never, ever, never had a hamstring issue from running, not even "just sore," so it appears my body simply had enough. I'm doing an aggressive rehab to try to at least participate, so I should be more certain in a week.

Does anyone have a right hamstring they aren't using on January 13? I'll pay top dollar to rent it just for the morning.

Craig

 

[princessrunner]

Craig: and a too. Keeping fingers crossed that you can rehab and join the masses. Would that I could, I am flying home on Sunday and my hammy is not busy that day, tight as all get out, but not busy. Once again, you are reinforcing my MIL who MADE me stretch last night. Well WISHes to you Craig.

 

[Honeibee]

Greetings Team -

Nine miles on the TM yesterday. I was pretty sick on Saturday so I put my L/R off for a day. And gee, thanks RW magazine for saying in the latest issue how much you really need "road" time before a LD event to get your legs used to the pounding. I haven't been outside since 11/17. OK, I'm not going to let that bother me, I'm not going to let that bother me...

Mel - I'll be at Red Water Stop # 2 from 6:00am to 9:00am of the Full then I am heading to the Finish Line. I'll be bringing a stash of supplies, and will be happy to carry anything for anyone else if you want to give it to me before hand. I was planning on having some sports drinks, Cliff Bars, Sport Beans and whatever anyone else suggests. Cam did this last year and she REALLY saved my butt when I was kissing the pavement. She gave me a sports drink and I'm sure something to eat but I can't remember what it was, but it brought some color back to my face so I looked nice for the EMTs.

Minnie - I think I had a touch of that on Saturday. Either that or I had the Ebola virus. Whatever it was, I was pretty close to death so I put off my 9 miles until yesterday.

Lily -

Martha - I'm SO happy to hear about your latest L/R! YAY! But not so happy to hear about Craig's issue. Maybe if you gently massage it....It might not make it better but it will take his mind off the pain.

Angie - Being "curvelishious" myself, I find my AmphiPod very comfortable. It is completely adjustable and you can move the bottles wherever they fit best. I did have trouble releasing and putting the 10oz bottles back in the belt but I called their Customer Service dept and they send me two 8oz bottles for free. But whatever you do - do not try anything new on race day!

Craig - Oh Craig....I'm so sorry. This really stinks!

 

[Big Vic]

Good afternoon everyone!

Craig - Sorry to hear about the hamstring, my brutha. Take it easy the next couple of weeks and hopefully you'll be good to go for the marathon.

Martha - WTG with the 11 miler!

Judy - WTG with the 9 miler!

Lily - Thinking about you.

Marilyn will be working Blue Waterstop #2 for the full and then heading to the finish. We can bring a small cooler for sports drinks, gels, clif bars, etc. I'll have to figure out how to get her strategically located, either inside or outside of MGM or Epcot. Do we want to make a list of items needed?

 

[wfloyd]

All these injuries are giving me more incentive to stay in for the next two weeks...

Mel - What are these crowd control measures? Cattle prods would have been effective when we were there last week.

Lily - Sorry to hear about your loss. I think it may be time to temporarily change your name to coyote catcher. I hear Vick might have room in his cell for a partner.

Craig - Take it easy these next two weeks. If football players can come back after a week or two, I am sure you can as well. As long as you behave in the meantime. Lynnda says that includes pampering Martha for the entire taper time, but I am not too sure of how that might help. Other than keeping her from kicking you to behave.

Judy - You can't meet EMT's when you are on the treadmill. You have to be outside for that.

To all who are sick - Hope you get better soon but make sure you don't send the germs this way. Otherwise I will play dirty and keep the humidity around for a couple of more weeks.

Bill

 

[jeanneg]

Lily: so sad about your puppy......my sincere condolences.

Pungodingy: the Ultimate Direction Access fuel belt from Running Warehouse will fit. I am pretty wide around the middle and still have slack. My husband is even wider than I am and his fits comfortably. Mine holds a water bottle and has a small zipper compartment. I think it was about $17 before the Wish discount.

Craig: so sorry about your injured hamstring. Sending pixie dust and hoping for a miraculous recovery.

 

[princessrunner]

It is snowing here...again...and so I was back on the TM for 60 minutes today. I took it slow as it was supposed to be an "easy" run so I only made it 4.4 miles. Okay, maybe I took it a little too easy but we are headed to a sliding party tonight and up and down the hill counts too...right... Oh, and shoveling too, that counts. We were supposed to get 10 inches today and last shoveling it was 12" two hours ago and it is STILL snowing!! The worst part is we have today to clean it up and it is going to snow again tomorrow p.m. Happy new year!!!!

Have a great day everyone and lots of PD to the sick and injured. Get well soon!!

Oh yeah, 9 more days and I am in WDW!!!!!!!!!

 

[nucpharm29]

Craig--Oh No on the hammy!!! Like everyone else said, take it really easy these next couple weeks and hopefully you'll be in the corrals with us.

 

[HMHunters]

Craig - Sending some PD for the hamstring and hoping for a quick rehab!

Bree - I had some trouble with my hip earlier this fall. I worked it out on the adductor/abductor weight machine and that helped it out. Now it is just fine (knocking on wood).

I dropped the kids at the ice rink today and did a 6 mile stonker. Didn't really bother me; I figure I've got to get the stonkers out of my system so I don't have one for race day! It was at least warm enough to wear shorts; I'm so worried about the heat!

Happy tapering!
Renee

 

[Theta]

Lily, sorry to hear about your pup.

Craig, on no, not the hammy... lots of ice, rest and Aleve is on order.

Bree, stretch, stretch, stretch, for the hip, remember you just ran Charlotte a few weeks ago. How is Lucas?

Angie, good luck finding something to carry.

Rest day for me today. No plans for tonight, we are still recovering from our holiday trip.

Colleen aka princessmomma

 

[TEK224]

Craig - sending your way for a quick hammy recovery.


Martha, Renee & Judy - WTG on your runs!

I tried to make it 3 great runs in a row, but it didn't work. Had a major stonker today After 3 strikes, I called myself out and came home.

Strike 1: Went to the track, planning to do 10 miles. Legs were DEAD! all the talking to myself in the world wasn't making them feel better. It was weird, because they felt sore in my upper leg. Not muscle sore, but like they didn't want to hold me up. Yuck. Decided to just walk instead (since I'll be walking most of the full, this would give me a timecheck).

Strike 2: Got dressed to go to the track. Went outside and it was a little chilly. Had a s/s underarmour and a long sleeve race shirt on. Figured I'd warm up when I got moving. Not! It was windy at the track and I was freezing! After the 1st mile, not even close to feeling warm, so I went to the car and got my coat.

Strike 3: After walking another mile, I could feel the shin splints starting. For some reason I don't have any problem with shin splints when I run or r/w. But if I'm trying to walk at a quick pace, that's when I get the shin splint pain. Go figure

So instead of continuing on and risking possible injury, I called it a day. 2 miles only. I may give the legs the rest of the day today to rest and then ride my bike either later today or tomorrow. Don't want any injuries two weeks before the big weekend.

Did anyone see on the weather channel where Orlando's temps on Wed. are going to be a high of 48 and a low of 29?! It's supposed to warm up a little more than that for race weekend.

WISHing you all a safe, fun and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Terri

 

[TnTsParty]

Just wanted to stop by to say HAPPY NEW YEAR hope every one has a happy and healthy new year/

I was able to get outside and run/walk 2 miles this AM. I am planning on doing a 5k next Sunday but I know I am not prepared at all. I am still going to do it since its in my town. I think it will kick start me into training again since I have been really slacking since TOT.

 

[cdn_gal_eeyore]

Happy New Year everyone! It is 8:36 am on January 1, 2008 here in sunny and warm Perth, AU. I got in one final run for 2007 - 9.33 miles around the Swan River banks and it was absolutely beautiful. My legs hurt for the first 30 - 40 minutes and things felt awkward. Luckily after that my gait started to feel more natural, my speed picked up and the rest of the run was pain free. This morning we are driving down to Margaret River - an amazing wine producing region here in Western Australia. I'm hoping to get a few more runs in down there before heading back to Calgary, and before heading off to Orlando.

If anyone is interested in seeing a few of the pictures from my runs here in Perth (or in Singapore) click on my blog link.

Lily - I am so sorry to hear about your pup. My heart goes out to you.

Craig - All the best for your hamstring. I hope it feels better in time for WDW. You've been training so hard!

Have a terrific New Year's everyone!!!!

 

[cdn_gal_eeyore]

Question for you guys.... My mom is walking the half. The longest distance she has done was ToT. She hurt her ankle during the race so has only been walking short distances. Turns out it was a stress fracture, but it has healed and her doctor has given her the okay to walk the race only (no running).

Anyhow....she hasn't trained with gels or beans or anything. I don't know whether to give her some beans for race day, or whether she should stay away from them under the whole "don't try anything new" mantra. She's been training in the heat, but the humidity does concern me. What advice should I give my mom on the whole race nutrition thing?

 

[chimera]

Craig...oh my! Buckets of to heal your hammy!

Leana...has she been training with water or some Gatorade type beverage? If the Gatorade, she's not likely to need additional electrolytes from magic beans/gels.

List of supplies for scream teams:
Powerade and/or water
gels and/or magic beans
nutrition bars
salt packets
band-aids
body glide
sunscreen
ice
wet sponges
ETA: hard candies
wet washcloths
Chex mix/pretzels/potato chips

Anything else?

These are just suggestions. Please don't feel obligated to bring all this stuff or have your family/friends toting it around. I know most of you fly in so it may not be possible to bring extras. Having you or your scream team out there on the course means a LOT, so the honor of your presence is more than enough. If you can have some extras with you, it would also be appreciated. Last year was pretty brutal even for those of us that train in this weather all the time. I'm concerned we may see similar conditions this year. My biggest WISH is to send you all home safely so we can do this again next year

Happy New Year everyone!

 

[windwalker]

Terri:

Walking fast requires a lot more work from the shin muscles. I'm a walker and I have to warmup good, like a couple of miles of easy to brisk walking before I can crank out a good fast pace without shin pain. When my shins hurt during a race I know I haven't warmed up properlym and it's going to be a few miles before they feel better. You can't walk sub 11 min miles without a good warm-up. Even on a hot day I can't cut that short.

You need to take some advil and get some good rest, maybe a day or to for your legs. It sounds like you are exhausted. Or you are not eating enouth.


Cdn-gal:

Your Mom will be fine with what the course provides but if you want to give her some sports beans for emergency energy that would be fine. If she drinks the power/gator ade on the course she will be fine. I normally don' even take a drink in a race of 10K or less. Though that's not what most advise I find if I hydrate good the day before then I'm fine. Make sure she eats something an hour or so before the race.

Erica and I did 5 miles this morning. The rocket scientist I'm married decided to wear thick socks since it was chilly and they didn't do well with the Ecco Sandals. He ended up with hot spots on her feet and we had to quit at 5 miles. We were scheduled for six. She was smart enouth to call it quits when she started getting the hot spots.

I actually felt pretty good today, even a little touch of happy feet, been a while since I felt so light. One of the advntages of taper resting.

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