Wk of Mar 9 - WISH Walking/Running Club

[SamSam]

Oh, Yum! So I'm supposed to drink chocolate milk with Thin Mints for training and recovery! Sounds perfect to me.

 

[mkymsehi]

Do a Google Search, and you'll find lots of info on chocolate milk being an drink option for sports recovery.

Here's just one:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/24/health/webmd/main1342839.shtml

 

[Cruella de mom]

Hi Everyone-

I ran 8 today. It was tough since I am struggling with some strange vague leg pain. Hopefully it is just diet related and a couple of days of eating better will fix me up. I am one of those strange people that can forget to eat and I have not been eating much lately. At least, I hope that is all that is wrong.

I used to drink a big glass of milk after every run. Perhaps I should try choclate milk.

Shan - I had to have muscles reattached too. I think it depends on how they do the surgery as to how long the recovery takes. My surgery was up near my lungs and even breathing normally hurt for weeks so I can't compare with what you are going to get done. I know the first time I went grocery shopping after my surgery, I had to stop and rest twice.

 

[TEK224]

Just poppin' in. Saw the post about chocolate milk for post race. Yum! I've had 1-2 glasses of choc milk after the last 3 WDW races. As soon as I get back to the room, while waiting for my ice bath to fill, it's choc. milk time!

OK, gotta get back to work!

Terri

 

[MouseDogMom]

Vic - Squirrel guard can be a full-time job, but it is VERY exhausting. Mystic must sleep at least 20 hours a day to recover from the effort. She did actually catch one once. It was only a baby, and she didn't actually kill it immediately, but did inflict fatal injuries. She was so proud of herself, and DD was screaming hysterically. I don't think she's ever recovered!

Judy - What an experience! Definitely an excused absence from the LR in my book. And plenty of people seem to have lost their mojo - you are not alone.

Amy - More for your DD! Never even occurred to me that you were a negligent mom!

Carrie - You guys have cost me more money. We were in Barnes & Noble Friday night and I wandered into the running section and somehow came out with Chi Running. Don't know how that happened... Gotta finish my library book before I start it, though.

My teammates know I've been suffering from a lack of mojo for the past few weeks. Did not run the half last weekend due to bad weather (race reports confirmed that I made the right decision - not only was there torrential rain and horrible wind, there was also hail . They said while crossing the bridge they actually were moving backwards.) I hadn't run in 3 1/2 weeks, but I made it out this afternoon and did 3.7 miles. Walked the first half mile, then did 2R/1W to take it easy, but ended up doing the next 2 miles faster than normal! Am planning to do a 5K this weekend to get back into things, then if that goes well will do a local half on April 5th.

Jackie

 

[TXAng]

Chocolate milk as a recovery drink? Cool! DH will be so excited - he LOVES the stuff.

 

[Big Vic]

Good evening WISHers!

3 miles on the TM this evening. Wish I had something more to report.

Dana - Welcome back! We had a baby squirrel fall out of a tree last year. The boys were scared of it.

Judy and Carrie - I don't know why Marilyn takes such good care of me. I'm a pain in the butt to live with.

Debra - I feel your pain.

Jackie - I know how exhausting squirrel patrol can be.

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Hi WISH Team! Seems like we need get well WISHes to several of us and DDs too.

Mel, I do WISH you will be ok real soon. Scary stuff.

Shan, good luck with the procedure. My friend had something similar done, she was lifting weights pretty seriously and beginning her running program. After the surgery, she came to a stanstill for at least 6 weeks with a slow build up from there.

Me, with my recent surgery has me ok to walk but absolutely nothing else. I will see him again at the 7-week mark. I expect to hear that I can begin upping the pace, I'm not sure about any weights/ab work I think that will be out for quite some time yet. I also complained to my doc that this recent surgery should have automaticallhy tucked in the overhang I have. (2 c-secs later and family heritage.) He laughed and said it seems to be a common request. I'm thinking well, duh

Debra, amazing you are doing the Cleveland event and I will not be in town to cheer you along. I do WISH that you enjoy the event, I've never participated in it and it does intrigue me.

Craig, have a great time across the pond. I know you will.

Vic, the shadow boxes that Marilyn made are really nice. Great job.

Judy, I think you missing that LR was replaced by a lot more work and I'm so glad that the girls hung around waiting for you to get them back into the corral.

AlohaJeff, man you are one busy guy. Ooooh and thin mints! I liked that! We still need to find our local Girl Scouts so we can participate in the Rite of Spring. We always buy those cookies.

Magslite/Mike--great to have you here. I'm a Chicago acquaintance too. Tell Maggie Hi and I bet those fine young ones you've got have been keeping you both quite busy.

Thanks for asking the question too.

It looks like Chocolate Milk will be the official drink of the WISH Team! Mmmm!

I got some steps in today 3 miles and took it easy though. I kept it at not more than 15 min/mile on TM for but the first mile was much slower warm-up pace at 16+. We got hammered by that snow with 21 inches and today it's been melting away. Weather is hopefully going to cause it to be significantly melted by the end of the week.

Sorry to those I've missed. It's not intentional. I'm flying from memory.

 

[mkymsehi]

Hey WISHERS:

My Tuesday interval speed workout -

1 mile warm up, followed by 10 x 300 's sprints with 50 yard walking intervals, and finished with a 2 mile jog. Not a long distance training day, but my ticker was going full speed. My training partners thought I was trying to kill them. LOL, I wasn't.

I had to take care of some errands, and pick up the Princesses, get them home, fed, bathed, and off to Dreamland.


Have a good Wednesday everyone!

 

[kzmarathon]

Oh, Yum! So I'm supposed to drink chocolate milk with Thin Mints for training and recovery! Sounds perfect to me.

So THAT'S what I have been doing wrong all these years! I will gladly add chocolate milk and thin mints to my post-run recovery! I just received the first box of thin mints in what I have been told is the first of many cookie shipments - the difficulty is going to be sharing them with the rest of my unit. I can always say that I am in training and require the thin mints for absolute performance - they can have the tagalongs and peanut butter sandwiches!

Had a fast 7 miles on Sunday and an easier paced 5 miles last night in smokey conditions unfortunately, but at least I ground it out. Hope everyone who has posted about injuries is healing fast and fighting the urge to get out there too quickly. It's frustrating, but it's best to wait until the body is ready before jumping back into the routine too fast. Time to get back to the work of the day.

Z

 

[Kristi1357]

My 5 miler last night turned into 3 miles. I forgot to bring my asthma inhaler to the gym and was not able to take it preemptively. Which meant I was having a hard time in my first running interval. At that point, I decided to just walk and cut it back to 3 miles. I was tired as usual. And Chad was at the gym with me and he's having IT band issues.

Speaking of asthma & inhalers - I will take a picture of the holder thingie from CVS and post it sometime. I think Vic was asking about it awhile back.

I was thinking....could we finagle a WISH discount and all the females that need it could have their tummies tucked?

 

[wfloyd]

OriginalBill - Awww shucks. Thanks. I hate that I missed it though. It's really nagging at me. Gosh, I just can't imagine you grumpy, sick or not.

Lynnda will attest to the grumpiness. I think she dreads me not feeling well and would rather lock me up in the room until I feel better.

Bill - Sorry you're sick. Did I miss an update on Timmy> Did the new drug work?

We can't tell right now if it worked. He generally seems happy but is still pulling on his ears and screams every now and then. On the other hand, he is also teething so I can't tell what pain is related to the teeth and what is related to the ears.

Dana - Good to see you back.

I did get out last night for a little bike ride. I felt decent afterwards but it started to rain towards the end of it causing me to get back to the house faster than I had planned.

Bill

 

[laxdef69]

This is Mike, Maggies DH...I took the plunge and registered.

Yesterday was 60 minutes on the elliptical.

This morning was 45 minute swim...not really 1.2 miles, just 40 separate attempts to not drown...followed by 30 minute run.

Everything I have been reading seems to say you want simple carbs and protein within an hour of completing the workout. Peanut butter and a bagel seem to work nicely...I'll try the chocolate milk, but I'm not much of a milk drinker.

Have a great day all!

Mike

 

[lenshanem]

I was thinking....could we finagle a WISH discount and all the females that need it could have their tummies tucked?

Just got back from a 2 miler, 21:29. I seem to enjoy my longer runs, though. The short ones almost seem like a chore.

I'm supposed to run 12 miles either tomorrow or Friday. Longest run yet...

 

[Honeibee]

Greetings -

Looks like the weekly thread has really slowed down. Sad...

Today was a rest day for me, so no training to report. Other than smooshing down divots from 5:30 until 8:00 last night. I don't think yard will ever look the same. Grrr.

Kristi - Ah ha! There you are....Well, did you get it yet????? Oh no, so sorry to hear about Chad's ITB issues. Maybe he needs a foam roller. Despite SOME PEOPLE'S wise acre comments, I think it works GREAT for my ITBs. Hurt like heck when you're doing it, but then they don't bother me at all any other time.


ETA: Land's End now has these groovy compression capri's! I might have to get a pair!

http://www.landsend.com/pp/CompressionCapriPants~180159_59.html?bcc=y&action=order_more&sku_0=::BLA&CM_MERCH=IDX_00002__0000000556&origin=index

 

[windwalker]

Greetings -

Looks like the weekly thread has really slowed down. Sad...

Today was a rest day for me, so no training to report. Other than smooshing down divots from 5:30 until 8:00 last night. I don't think yard will ever look the same. Grrr.

Kristi - Ah ha! There you are....Well, did you get it yet????? Oh no, so sorry to hear about Chad's ITB issues. Maybe he needs a foam roller. Despite SOME PEOPLE'S wise acre comments, I think it works GREAT for my ITBs. Hurt like heck when you're doing it, but then they don't bother me at all any other time.

We are still waiting for the Video, Oh Great Queen of YARC and the Goddess of cross training.

Slinking off now

Walking Panda

 

[jmasgat]

So I'm sitting here at work at lunch and eating the "official training food of WISH" (2 Thin Mints--my allowance!). Soon, I'm off to MuscleMax at the club--sounds scary. Allowing myself a midday workout since I have a meeting with Australia this PM that will run overtime. That's the challenge with working global--it's even crazier when I do the one with US, Sweden, Israel, Russia, China, Korea, Australia, Canada, and India all at once! (Tomorrow at 7 am)

Cecilia I cannot imagine going more than 2-3 hours without eating--would get too cranky if I did!

I've also joined the chocolate milk train--keep a little milk box in the car in the am to drink after a workout on the way into work. Yum!

TigerLily Glad to see you're able to workout. And thank you for taking the hit on the snow (we dodged it here in SE Michigan)

Kevin Glad you got your Thin Mints (my favorites). Did you get those from home, or through some organized program? The troop that I bought mine from was collecting to send some to soldiers, so at least once box will wing its way over from me.

Maura

 

[joan4mickey]

Ran outside today-it is beautiful. I did 5 miles about 9:15/mile. My nike+ is a little off. On the TM I do a mile and it reads 1.05. I could recalibrate it, but heck if I'm doing more now at the pace it says then I figure I can only be happy when I run the Minnie Marathon and do better than I think I doing. Now, did that make any sense.

 

[Kristi1357]

Looks like the weekly thread has really slowed down. Sad...

Very . I miss my old peeps!
Love the new ones too!

Well, did you get it yet?????

That would be a big fat NO!

Is the foam roller the same as 'the stick' that I bought Chad, but he's never used?

 

[Honeibee]

That would be a big fat NO!

Are you kidding? I did, Marilyn did, Jim did...Angie..did you get anything in the mail from Disney Sports recently???