Wk Of Nov 11 - WISH Walking/Running Club

[nepatsfan73]

**Big Vic** Big thanks to you for your service.

My training is coming along slower than I hoped. Got in three short walks this week and some stationary bike work. The back and hips have held up relatively well, so plan to try a 3 mile long walk (for me) tonight. If all goes well, I'll try to start increasing distance again. As I am running out of room to keep reworking my training schedule, I am hoping ground control gives me an all systems go and I don't need to alert "Houston" to any more problems. I figure my former cheetah-like speed will instinctively kick it ... OK, I really had the speed of a turtle with arthritis, but a man can dream.

or other healthcare provider licensed to prescribe and/or dispense medication

Exactly!

 

[nucpharm29]

Happy Veteran's Day! From me as well

Well, the 14 miler is in the books. Finished in 2:10 and some change, which is around 9:20 pace. And I actually could have been a little faster, but that darned IBS started again around mile 10. I had to do the run as far as I possibly could, and then walk till I felt better until I got to the restroom (sorry if TMI) But no matter, I'm really pleased with the result. Mostly b/c this was a hard week, healthwise for me, and I didn't think I'd even be out today.

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday!

 

[nepatsfan73]

I've been meaning to ask ... Whassup with the MCM now known as Philly Marathon '08 thread-people? Are they just too cool to hang with us regular weekly thread WISHers?

 

[princessmomma]

Hey Bill, we all post on this thread as well. I would consider most of us are regulars here!


Oh, and I am really not cool at all. I am really a boring housewife/Math teacher. Heck, I am at Disney now and while the kids are showering up from swimming, here I am checking the WISH board to see how everyone's LR's were this weekend!

 

[skfulkers]

Stephanie--WOW, tell your DH that game was way too close. Kudos to the Brownies for putting up a good fight. But I must say, they are still the Brownies. By the way, good job on your 14 miler!

Steve

 

[CynthiaCindy]

I've been meaning to ask ... Whassup with the MCM now known as Philly Marathon '08 thread-people? Are they just too cool to hang with us regular weekly thread WISHers?

I have been posting on that thread and also wanted to respond. I'm new around here and I don't want anyone to think that I am trying to be rude or anything. I have posted on this thread a few times (and also on other threads on this board). I have been lurking over here a bit, but I honestly do find it hard to keep up with this thread. Also, I have read on the boards that a lot of people are really nervous about meeting others and introducing themselves in person. I think I have the opposite problem. I will introduce myself to anyone in person, but am a little nervous and intimidated about jumping into discussions on the boards. The MCM thread was just less intimidating because there are fewer people. I do, however, want to try to post over here more often to get to know more people.

BTW, Bill, I am also a big Pats fan (I lived in New England until I was 18). My DH, however, is from San Diego and a HUGE Chargers fan (and NE hater - especially after the playoffs last year). I'm really not looking forward to the game tonight, I assume there will be lots of yelling at the TV . . .

 

[rKyDeX]

I've been meaning to ask ... Whassup with the MCM now known as Philly Marathon '08 thread-people? Are they just too cool to hang with us regular weekly thread WISHers?

Not too cool - I'm just keyboard time and memory challenged. I have a hard time keeping up with the half-dozen or so folks that ran MCM. I'm overwhelmed at this thread. But, I do lurk here.

I'll take a shot at trying to post here regularly.

Chester
W.I.S.H. Half-Fast Missing Link Marathon Team

 

[aladdinsgirl]

We just booked our airfare for January!!! We will be landing at MCO at 9:44 on Friday morning.

Mel--Nice job getting your 16 miler in! It doesn't matter if you ran like Lightening or Mater or even Guido, you got your steps in and that's all that matters!! No dice on getting a 1/2 marathon entry. Everything is booked already through the travel companies and charities. I'm running a 10K on Thanksgiving day, so still "training" for that, I might continue to get some decent long runs on Saturdays after the 10K just because. Too bad this didn't happen last year when my Mom got sick and couldn't run the half, I could have run in her place.

Kristi--Sorry about Chad's boss. He sounds like a true gem.

Stephanie--Your Brownies gave us a scare today! I never thought I would say thank goodness that Ben can run!

I better go, we got one Christmas tree up last night, putting up the other one tonight. I'll take pictures and post this week. I love Christmas!!!!

 

[nucpharm29]

Krista/Steve--thanks for the condolences! We went out after church to watch the game at a sports pub b/c here in Dallas/St. Louis/NO/Tennessee Land we never get the browns or Steelers unless they are on Sunday/Monday night. We left at half-time feeling pretty good. Then I decided to take a little cat nap. I woke up when there was 1 minute left and the Browners needed that field goal. Geez! Great game, though!

 

[CynthiaCindy]

Sara74 - I saw your post at the end of last week's thread. I'm no expert, but from what I have read, here is my 2 cents. Doing any training at your 5K pace is pretty fast (unless it is a very short interval during a speed work out). When I first started doing speed work, what I used to help me decide the paces was the McMillan Running Calculator:

http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/rununiv/mcmillanrunningcalculator.htm

A lot of people don't really believe in these types of predictive devices (and I don't really for race times - for example, entering my 5K PR gives me a predicted marathon time that is 50 minutes faster than the time I actually ran in the marathon), but I do like entering race times and using the recommended paces for tempo runs, speed work, and long runs.

 

[Creativebeth]

Good evening Wish Team!:

Sorry to be missing so much.....LTO! This fund raising has me really busy! I am on my way with that though....I am at $800 of my $1100 goal! I need to keep moving on it though.....I need $300 more before the Victory Junction 1/2 marathon on December 2nd.

I got a long run in today.....8 miles on the rail trail with my dsis. We did it in less than 1 1/2 hours which is pretty good for me right now. That is the longest I have ran in a long time. (since Toronto marathon I guess)

Hope everyone else is healthy, happy and getting their miles in!

Beth

 

[Calcio]

Vic, WWDave, Matt, Kevin, and an others I may have missed:

On this special day thank you for your work and sacrifice which makes it possible for so many, including Martha and I, to live the way we do. Any one of you, state the time and the place this January, and the first one is on me. I will still be in Orlando on Wednesday the 16th, so maybe that will work out.

In October of 1988 we 3 were at the American Cemetary in Normandy, and it's impossible to describe the feelings one gets when walking such hallowed ground. Martha's father (age 79) has often told us of his wish to visit Normanday and the cemetary, and this next June the 2 of us are taking him there. He just missed the war. He was actually in the infantry waiting in the San Francisco area to land in Operation Olympia when the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dropped, so I wonder how he'll react to Normandy.

Back to our running dialogue; I do have a confession to make:

"My name is Bruce, and it has been 1 week since I had a fish." Wait, that's from Finding Nemo.

My confession is that in spite of finishing a bunch of Disney halfs, a Disney full, and a Disney Goofy, the longest training run I have done in over 20 years is 13 miles. I'm sure if I had a muscle biopsy done on my calves I would have lots of fast twitch muscle fibers and very few slow twitch fibers. I'm built for pushing the pace on shorter races, not for carrying decent paces for long distances, and I really struggle in longer races and training runs.

I carried the great long run successes of our gang, including Mel, Stephanie, Dana, Vic, and especially Martha (sorry if I missed anyone), with me every step today. Man you guys are eating the bear right now. I wanted to be included in this select group, so I thought about you guys and concentrated on the distance, counting only the miles and not the clock, and got 15 today. Miles 11 and 12 were tough physically and mentally, but I took my last water and gu stop at 12, and I felt much better and stronger in the last 3.

So thank you all for pulling me through 15 today. I am counting on you all to do this 3 more times in the next few weeks, 17, 18, and 18. Please don't let me down. My marathon result depends on you.

Good luck all. 63 days until the full.

Craig

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Thanks to all our veterans.

I will probably never keep up this week Page 3 tonight already. I’m working page one now.

Sara, don’t worry about keeping up. Just keep posting and the rest will come. It seems to me that you are doing quite well on your training so far. I don’t have an answer for your question.

Lisa, it seems to me you are in great shape with those legs if you held up to that catchers assignment. Hope you enjoyed the run with the field hockey gals.

Stephanie, you made me laugh about your Ipod “Christmas decorating.”

Mel, sorry about the arthritic ankle. I’m wondering if after your speedy marathon that you would be able to put in the steps to complete the events more slowly. Halfs work too for sure!

Cecilia, what a nice thing to do helping the others in. You sure got that right—“bite me zone!” I definitely can relate to that.

NEPatsBill, I hope the sauna treatment went well and DD had a good day.

Yech on the TM LRs. I went out in it today. I’ve done my 22 miler on TM and I can say it was not pretty. I know there are plenty more TM opportunities, so I am doing all I can to get out in it on the weekends since it is too dark and I won’t run in the dark, wait scratch that, I ran ToT.

My LR today turned out to be part stonker and part I’m glad I did it. Weather for me was perfect mostly in the 40’s misty rain toward the end. I made it to the car sat inside and it started to pour. Whew! I managed 13 miles in 3:36 for a 16:39 pace. I am not unhappy b/c I got to walk my first 2 miles with DH and we did it at about a 19 m pace, then I made the potty stop and continued onward. So my average pace took all this in consideration since I didn’t stop the timer (figured it would make it more “real”). Stonker part is that I could not take one more step. I’m WISHing at this point that I will be able to finish the full somehow and still be within time. I’ll give it a try with all I have.

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

part 2:

Cam, sorry that the team lost. That had to be one awful long game. You inspire me with the way you have adapted to the TM LRs. I’m so glad you’ve made the time to get those steps done.

Vic, glad that you have noticed the improvement a year makes. It is amazing isn’t it? That improvement is such fun and you’ve put in a great deal of time to earn it.

Susie, good job on the LR. Sounds like a good plan for your next week.

Nancy, hope you enjoyed your rest day and got all the house stuff done.

PatsBill, Glad that you went to the other thread to round up some of our team and let them know we miss them here. I feel so bad that your back is not being cooperative. I am so proud of you for sticking with this through it all. You inspire me.

Stephanie, good job on getting it done! Smart that you knew to slow it down a bit. (I can’t believe I wrote this…you are so speedy and you thought it is slow.)

Cindy, glad you came in to let us get to know you here too! Thanks for the reminder about the pacing calc.

Chester, great to see you here!

Beth, congrats on your fundraising effort! Great job. Good job on your LR too.

Craig, thank you for your confession. No one would have guessed by your speedy performances that you were doing them with only your fast twitch fibers!

Go figure, my back is not as bad today after the LR I did as it was yesterday—must be numb.

I've spent the biggest part of my day collapsed on the chair and could not imagine having to go and do real life things.

all of our WISH Team that had to step right into RL after the LRs you amaze me.

 

[Jodi]

I've been meaning to ask ... Whassup with the MCM now known as Philly Marathon '08 thread-people? Are they just too cool to hang with us regular weekly thread WISHers?

Yeah, dude, I'm definitely too cool to post on this theread; you know, I got the whole, 40 year-old-mom-with penguin-like tendencies thing goin' on!

 

[Optimator]

I've been meaning to ask ... Whassup with the MCM now known as Philly Marathon '08 thread-people? Are they just too cool to hang with us regular weekly thread WISHers?

PatsyBill - Don't get the wrong idea. We don't think we're too cool, but damn, we ARE cool.

Craig - Something tells me that you will find this January a tad more enjoyable than your no LR trained ones!

StephanieKudos to the Brownies for putting up a good fight. But I must say, they are still the Brownies.
Steve

Ouch!! Steve, you have no idea the emotional toll it takes to be a Browns fan. They build up your hopes just so they can knock you down again. It hurts Steve. It really hurts . I need a hug.

Great job to everyone that put the big miles in this weekend.

 

[princessrunner]

Today is 45 minutes and weights. Lily, I am not so sure about the legs. My knees and I are still talking but my inner thighs are causing lots of hate and discontent. Thankfully though, my stretching and the orthotics are working on my PF. I have discovered that my arches are so high there is not a shoe that can be found that touches them so I have to use the orthotics to take up the space. I have worn them the last 2 workouts and woke up with zero pain so that makes me happy and I think my mojo may be returning, my chakras have realigned and my Chi has been rediscovered so all is well in central Maine!!

To all the Veterans, thank you, thank you and thank you again. You are a special group and mean so much to us. I have a 911 miracle in my home and 2 friends in Iraq right now volunteering. Thank you for giving us the freedom and the life we have come to enjoy!!!!

 

[Kristi1357]

The stationary bike did me in on Friday! My knees/lower legs were swollen all Friday night. And they started bothering me again by Saturday night. Needless to say, I have done no training this weekend. I have 3.5 miles on deck for today though.

Did you guys hear about the priest that is stalking Conan O'Brien? He tried to get into the tv station where Chad & I work on Saturday! Chad was here when it happened and he didn't even know about it.

I think we are going to call Chad's boss' bluff. I am very about this. Ack! We really think this a power thing with him. I hate this - the whole fear of the unknown thing! Please keep your fingers crossed that he doesn't use Chad very much at times when I am working. I really think I need to find some job in the school system so I can have the same schedule as Zack. Maybe a secretary or something - I have no patience & could not teach!

 

[HMHunters]

Hello, WISHers!

6 miles comin' up for me today, but I think I'll wait until the thermometer reaches 40 ...

PatsBill - Hope you got in your 3 miles without your back acting up.

Terri - Isn't it GREAT to have no soreness? It makes me realize I'm getting to be in better shape!

Cam - Five overtimes?!? You are a true fan to sit through that!

Vic - Excellent run! You really smoked your half marathon time!

Susie - I'm thinking about using a half marathon as my LR for next weekend! But I'm only scheduled for 12, so I won't have to run more after it.

Nancy - Hope you enjoyed your rest day!

Princessmomma - You're at Disney?!? Hope you're having a great time!

Steve - Why don't you add some lemon juice to the salt you're rubbing into us wounded Browns fans? It's tough to be a Cleveland fan! Character building, I hope!

Cindy - Keeping up with this thread is like endurance training!

Chester - EVERYONE is overwhelmed by this thread! Three pages by Monday morning?!?

Krista - My kids are begging for Christmas decorations to go up. Can I send them to your house? (Mine don't come out until after Thanksgiving!)

Stephanie - I share your pain!

Beth - WTG on the fundraising! What trail did you run? I'd like to try the ATT in Durham.

Craig - If I could get away with doing 13 as my max mileage I'd do it! Unfortunately I know my body and I'll max out at 24 this year.

Lily - Glad you beat the downpour; hope you're not sore!

Jodi - Anyone who can pull off a Nemo hat is cool!

Mike - Just keep with the Brown's mantra - it's a building year. There's always next year. (To be repeated next year.)

Lisa - Glad your PF is doing better!

Kristi - PD for the situation with Chad's boss. Hope the legs are better!


My daughter has found the all-Christmas-music-all-the-time radio station and it's driving me nuts already! I've notices she's got some like-minded souls on this board. So for all you WISHing for Christmas ... this is just for you

Happy training, all!
Renee

 

[princessrunner]

Do any of the New England people do the Great Bay half in New Market, NH? It is 4/6 (the weekend before Minnie) and I was thinking that since I have a 15 mile run scheduled anyway, this might be a fun one as it is only 2 hours away. Has anyone done it and is anyone doing it?????