You're going back and doing what Updated 10/3 10K

[ljcrochet]

I do have one vacation planning to report, I made Cloe a boarding and doggy day camp reservation. No clue if I will keep it or not. Depends on if MIL wants to dog and house sit for us. It is cheaper if she does.

 

[jenn-]

You can do it Lisa! Just remember, slow and steady still crosses the finish line (or something like that ). I know you don't know how I can run on a treadmill, but I have no idea how you can run in the heat. I was having breathing issues just walking to the mailbox.

I am not sure how people roll out of bed and go for a run. I was excited about having more time at the gym today and not having to push myself as hard. I managed 5.15ish miles in 69 minutes. The 5 mile mark was crossed closer to 63 minutes though. The rest was achieved during cool down.

This run was hard. I didn't really try to push myself hard, but the run itself was hard. I just don't think I am cut out for running early in the morning (and by early I mean anytime before I eat lunch ). I went into my run having eaten my 1 container of single size cottage cheese and1 low carb granola bar. I had only had one glass of water and my cup of coffee to drink. I am pretty sure I was still dehydrated from overnight, and I ran out of calories way before I hit mile 5. I pushed through and managed to finish, but it was a struggle.

I seem to have a hard time getting to the Y with everything I need. With 4 kids to herd out the door, I am happy to have the proper headcount when I get there. So on Wednesday I took an unplanned shower and had no towel. Today I was planning on a shower so I made sure I had all my soaps and shower stuff. I got done my run, dripping wet, I was longing for my shower. I carefully unpacked my shower stuff. Then I took out my clean clothes. Out came my socks, my pants, my underwear, my bra. Where the heck was my shirt?!? I dug to the bottom of my bag. It really isn't deep or big, so this didn't take much effort. There was no shirt in that bag. I could have sworn I set it on my bed so I figured I left it there. Turns out, I just never took it out of the closet. No point on taking a shower if I only had a stinky sweat stained shirt to wear to DD's gymnastics. I took a few minutes to use the blow dryer on my shirt. I can't say it helped all that much, but at least I tried. One of these days I will get into the Y with everything I need. Then the weather will get cool and I will be back running outside. I am off running for the weekend.

 

[ljcrochet]

You are doing great!
You should pack an emergancy change of cloth bag for the car that stays in the trunk. This way you will always have what you need to chang into. Or make a running bag get dressed at home and change into the running clothing at the gym.

 

[jenn-]

Hello, my name is Jennifer and I have a shopping problem. I was at Target today and found some shorts on sale for $2.50! Of course I snagged them. This will give me something new to wear over my compression shorts that doesn't have the underwear liner built in.

I have spent the afternoon "cross training" by filling up boxes with books and moving them from one end of the house to the other. I can't wait until we get to reverse the process.

 

[ljcrochet]

That is not a shopping problem. That is being a good shopper.
My target didn't have any sale shorts. I looked yesterday.

 

[ljcrochet]

Another crazy weekend. My DH and his brothers decided to go fishing. I should mention that they have never done a fishing boat before. Well DH has gone deep water fishing when we were in Barbados years ago. But this was a first for BIL's. Last time for one of them. DH caught a baby Thresher that he had to throw back. Matt (a friend who went with them) caught a 17 inch Fluke, only problem is to keep the fish they had to be 21 or 22 inches.

I decided to drop them off and take the girls to the beach. We made the plans when the fishing was 1 to 5. Guys had to be dropped off by 12:30. I call DH to double check the time. Good thing I did, boat was not getting back till 6.
I was surprised that we were able to get a great spot on the beach. Put the top sheet that I use as bleach blanket down, we ate lunch. Then we played in the water. Went back to the blanket. I read a book while the girls played in the sand.
Repeated this routine for a while.

Waves were pretty crazy, in fact the water kept on coming up higher. First almost to our blanket, then on our blanket. Had to chase the sand toys.
Took the girls to the playground. Then it was time to get the guys.

You can see the boat in the background returning to the pier.
We dropped Matt off at the train. Both BILs decided to spend the night. They both said they wanted to go running with me in the morning. I had found a local 5K/10K/half marathon. I'm signing up to do the 10K, BIL and his fiance are going to do the half. Other BIL is going to do the 10K with me.

I need to put my girls to bed. I will be back with my next update soon.

 

[jenn-]

That sounds like a fun Saturday. I can't wait to read about today.

 

[ljcrochet]

So I woke up at 8 this morning. I was so sure my girls would be up. Their door was closed, so I quietly open it and they are both fast asleep. Which is good since they need their sleep but bad since that means BILs will still be asleep. Girls wake up about a half hour later. We ate a quick breakfast and was off. It was probably around 9:30 at this point. After running back in the house, first for BIL's sweat band that we found in a suitcase we borrowed from MIL (BIL had borrowed it last), then for the charger for the shuffle so it would not be dead for BIL. I'm sure I went back in the house for something else as well.
We all went to the park. By all I mean both BILs, DH, my girls and Cloe the dog.
My BIL runs a 8:30 mile, other BIL is just starting to run. I knew I would be slower than them.. I think I stayed with them for about 1/4 of a mile. Then for a while I ran behind them but not too far behind them. Then I had to slow down a bit so I lost them. This park is a little weird for doing laps. It is laps, but there are a few different little ways you can go that changes the distance. I decided to go around the long way after my second lap, which lead me up to the main road into the park then into the parking lot across a grassy field. I got to see 4 bus full of people show up at the park and I had to run/walk around them. I figured I would get to the playground and find my girls. But I didn't see them. I was deciding where or not to do a third lap, I started the 3rd lap, then BIL (the running one) caught up to me (his 4th lap) and said that other BIL stopped and was with DH and the girls. We turned back and didn't see them. At this point I stopped runkeeper and we started to walk.
I did a total of 2.74 miles in 41 (almost 42) minutes. Pace was 15:13 minutes.
mi Pace (min/mi) Elevation (ft)

1 13:17 2
2 15:10 -2
3 17:44 3
It was so hot. BIL took off his headband and rung it out. The amount of sweat it trapped was gross. I called DH and found out that they were doing a lap of the lake. We decided to walk the other way and met them. According to mapmyrun.com we walked another 1.27 miles

So I did a total of of about 4 miles even if it the last mile was walking and I have no clue how long it took.
I did 7.77 miles this week which is half a mile more than last week.

 

[jenn-]

Sounds like you need to run the park more often. Great run.

 

[jenn-]

I went to the Y yesterday. Nothing overly exciting. It was a fairly easy 4 miler. I totally wimped out and didn't add any hills. I did a total of 4.1 miles in 51 minutes which gives me a 12:26 minute mile for the run. That MM is skewed slow a bit as I did a 3 minute warm up and 4 minute cool down. Those really mess with overall time. I am on track for week 5 on my training program. Tomorrow is another 4 miles.

 

[ljcrochet]

Jenn you are doing great. I'm not going to be able to keep up with you.

I don't know if I ever updated what I decided to do with my iphone when running. I decided to get a purple armpocket.

Today was my first run using it. It was great. So much better than my old waist belt.
DH didn't have to work this morning so he came with me to the park. We went to the same park that we went to on Sunday. This time DH was on his bike. He did almost 8 miles on the bike. But I'm sure you don't care how DH did.
I walked/ran 3.3 miles in 53 minutes.
mi Pace (min/mi) Elevation (ft)

1 14:47 -1
2 16:32 0
3 17:44 0
4 14:42 -2
I'm going to have to work on walking for 5 minutes when I start. I want to start out running so I usually cut my warm up short. I know that is not the best.

I need to update my running playlist. I think if i was able to skip songs I would have skipped about half the songs I heard today. Not sure what I was thinking when I put them in the running mix. I think the only "good" song I heard in my whole run was the tailspin song. Not sure what was up with the music. I am up for any good suggestions on what to run to. I'm also thinking of looking for 4 minutes song followed by one minute of something silly, maybe the musical intro to walk to.
Any ideas?

 

[jenn-]

Whoa! When did we get a table of contents going? I totally want to be a cooler color than black. Make me dark purple or something.

I don't have the music issues too much. I run to whatever is playing at the time. I mainly run to my country music playlist that was set up by my DH when the iPod was his. I will admit that hearing "Skin" by Rascal Flatts 40 minutes into a hard run had me nearly in tears on the treadmill. I have a hard enough job not bawling to it when I am not physically spent. I think you will go insane looking for exactly 4 minute songs, but there may be some way to sort time in iTunes by length (no clue as I don't manage iTunes, that's DH's job).

I am pretty sure the stress in my life is currently effecting my runs. I had to force myself out the door yesterday for the first time all summer. I didn't want to run. I wanted to stay home and do nothing. As staying home equaled cleaning instead of doing nothing, I decided I would rather run than clean.

I got us all to the Y in decent time. There was no real pressure time wise, but I felt like pushing myself. I managed to do my 4 miles in 48:30 (averaging 12:08 MM) which included the 3 minute warm up walk, but not my cool down period (grand total was 4.16 miles in 52 minutes). As much as I am enjoying seeing how fast I can get myself, I know I would not be able to maintain that speed for 13.1 miles, so I will be slowing myself down for my longer runs. I just have to resist the temptation to up the speed on the TM.

So I've been reading Born to Run recently. I am now looking at my shoes with great suspicion. I'm pretty sure I will have to try this whole bare foot running thing eventually. Unfortunately there is a very clear sign on the door at the Y that says shoes are required, so I don't think I will get to try it on the TM. I am debating on trying it on my driveway. I don't think I am brave enough to try it on the street. My driveway is a light colored concrete vs. the black top of the street. This would also get my hills in as my driveway is one long hill. I'll let you all know if I get up the nerve and try it out.

Tomorrow is my 6 mile run. That will be a new distance PR for me.

 

[2gr8DisneyKids]

Hi Ladies!

Glad your running and training is going well! I just did another run this morning... so slow to get back into the routine after the 1/2 in March and vacations with the kids this summer.

I am going to sign up for either the 5 or 10K here in Montreal the first weekend in Sept. The 5K was my first road race last year during training for the Princess and I want to do it again! I really wanted to do the 10K, but with little time left and little runnung over the summer I might have to go for the 5. The 5 is the pretty run anyway, the 10 starts in the ghetto and then runs the 5 and into the Olympic stadium from the games here in the 70's. It is pretty sweet, but not as great as running through the castle!

 

[ljcrochet]

Whoa! When did we get a table of contents going? I totally want to be a cooler color than black. Make me dark purple or something.
So I've been reading Born to Run recently. I am now looking at my shoes with great suspicion. I'm pretty sure I will have to try this whole bare foot running thing eventually. Unfortunately there is a very clear sign on the door at the Y that says shoes are required, so I don't think I will get to try it on the TM. I am debating on trying it on my driveway. I don't think I am brave enough to try it on the street. My driveway is a light colored concrete vs. the black top of the street. This would also get my hills in as my driveway is one long hill. I'll let you all know if I get up the nerve and try it out.

Tomorrow is my 6 mile run. That will be a new distance PR for me.

Your could check these out

Hi Ladies!

Glad your running and training is going well! I just did another run this morning... so slow to get back into the routine after the 1/2 in March and vacations with the kids this summer.

I am going to sign up for either the 5 or 10K here in Montreal the first weekend in Sept. The 5K was my first road race last year during training for the Princess and I want to do it again! I really wanted to do the 10K, but with little time left and little runnung over the summer I might have to go for the 5. The 5 is the pretty run anyway, the 10 starts in the ghetto and then runs the 5 and into the Olympic stadium from the games here in the 70's. It is pretty sweet, but not as great as running through the castle!

Good luck with your taining. I can't wait to hear all about it.

 

[ljcrochet]

Today was another running day for me. Only problem was when my girls left for camp it was drizzling. The news said be on the look out for downpour. So I decided to give the treadmill a shot.
As you know I hate the treadmill. I decided to take it nice and easy on the treadmill. I tried to do a 5 minute warm up, I think I only did a 3 or 4 mintue warm up. I put the treadmill on 4 mph and pretty much left it the whole time. Most of the time I was running, but I did a few 30 seconds of walking spinkled in. The way my basement is set up there is no way to angle the treadmil to face the tv (espically since the treadmil folds so most of the time it is folded out of the way).
I did 2 miles in 30:46 mintues. According to runkeepr my average pace was 15:23. So already an improvement over my last treadmill go round. After I finished on the treadmil, I did the bike for a bit. Probably 20 mintues. Not really sure. My bike doesn't have an acurate control panel. Most times it is not working at all. Today it said 15 mintues but I don't think it was on the whole time.

 

[jenn-]

Hi Ladies!

Glad your running and training is going well! I just did another run this morning... so slow to get back into the routine after the 1/2 in March and vacations with the kids this summer.

I am going to sign up for either the 5 or 10K here in Montreal the first weekend in Sept. The 5K was my first road race last year during training for the Princess and I want to do it again! I really wanted to do the 10K, but with little time left and little runnung over the summer I might have to go for the 5. The 5 is the pretty run anyway, the 10 starts in the ghetto and then runs the 5 and into the Olympic stadium from the games here in the 70's. It is pretty sweet, but not as great as running through the castle!

The 5K sounds like a nicer run, but running into an Olympic stadium sounds really cool too. I hope you have a great month training for either distance.

Your could check these out

Where's the drooly smilie when you need him? Actually the only local store that carries Vibram Five Finger shoes (according to their website at least), happens to be in the shopping complex right next door to the Y I run at on Fridays. I might just have to pop in after my run tomorrow.

Today was another running day for me. Only problem was when my girls left for camp it was drizzling. The news said be on the look out for downpour. So I decided to give the treadmill a shot.
As you know I hate the treadmill. I decided to take it nice and easy on the treadmill. I tried to do a 5 minute warm up, I think I only did a 3 or 4 mintue warm up. I put the treadmill on 4 mph and pretty much left it the whole time. Most of the time I was running, but I did a few 30 seconds of walking spinkled in. The way my basement is set up there is no way to angle the treadmil to face the tv (espically since the treadmil folds so most of the time it is folded out of the way).
I did 2 miles in 30:46 mintues. According to runkeepr my average pace was 15:23. So already an improvement over my last treadmill go round. After I finished on the treadmil, I did the bike for a bit. Probably 20 mintues. Not really sure. My bike doesn't have an acurate control panel. Most times it is not working at all. Today it said 15 mintues but I don't think it was on the whole time.

Sounds like you had a great run today. I know you hate the treadmill, but you got on and did it anyways. WTG!

 

[ljcrochet]

My sig was too long so I had to take out all of my past Disney trips. So i figured what a better place to talk about them past trips.
My first trip to Disney was in 1993. It was the first time I was on an airplane. I flew to Miami by myself. My parents were able to walk me to the gate for my flight. The reason I was flying to Miami was I was meeting DH, his brothers and FIL and FIL's wife (not sure if she was his wife at this point). They were coming off a cruise for DH's grandparent's 50th anniversary. They met me at the airport and we drove to Orlando in a minivan FIL rented. We stated at a Ramada with a really cool pool, there was a mini golf course right in front of the hotel as well.
I think I will try and pull out the photo album and scanner later today. I know I scanned some pictures in when my BILs turned 30 but I can't seem to find them.
I was able to find the back up on the server so here is some of the pictures of BILs

 

[ljcrochet]

I just looked for pictures and only found one of DH and one of me from that trip. Neither one is a good photo. So you will have to take my word for it that we were there. I have lots of pictures of the MK parade.
I will mention that the only TS meal we ate was at 50's prime time. I don't remember what we ate or if we enjoyed it.
The second disney trip I took was in December 1996. DH (who by this point was DF) and I were planning a cruise with another couple. The day before we were about to book the trip the other couple emailed us they were backing out. I don't remember why DH and I didn't go on that cruise without them but we started over looking for vacation.
We wound up booking a 4 day Carnival Fantasy cruise with a 3 night disney trip. The package included the rental car. We picked up the car from alamo. Anyone remember the Alamo shuttle from the airport. It seemed to take forever to get to the rental car lot. I remember them trying to upsell us to a convertible and we said no. I'm pretty sure our package included a economy car and we got "upgraded" to a compact.
We drove to the port and had to pay for the rental car parking. We booked a guaranteed bottom room. We got on the ship and was directed right to our cabin which was on the main level that we were on. 2nd or 3rd cabin from the back of the ship but with a huge window. We were seated for dinner at a table, wait it was a booth- with 2 other couples. One was an old couple no clue where they were from. The other was a couple from Atlanta who didn't come to dinner the last night since they gambled away all their money and didn't have any tip money left over. We were in Nassau over Christmas Eve. There was nothing to do on the ship that night. In fact instead of a show, there was a staff talent show that was only for the staff.
After the cruise is was off to disney. We stayed in a Comfort suites which was near sea world. I'm guessing we did each park since there was only 3 parks. I can't seem to find my pictures from this trip.
I do remember getting to the airport on Sunday and being told our flight was delayed but the earlier flight was still there and we could get on it. I went over to the pay phone to call my parents who were picking us from the airport. They were not home since it was their food shopping time. I left them a message telling them we were coming home on the earlier flight. We got on that flight not knowing if they would be there or not when we got home.
No clue about food or any other details about this trip.

 

[jenn-]

Fun trips down Disney memory lane. I might have to jump in on that action soon. Right now though it is training update time.

Yesterday was my long run day for the week. I am on week 5 of Hal Higdon's novice plan and it was time for a 6 mile run. That seemed like a really long run, but I had 3 hours to get it finished and I had those Vibram's to go look at for a reward. I got up in the morning and layed EVERYTHING out on the bed. I unpacked my entire run bag and set each set of clothing, and shower stuff, in its own pile. Then I double checked each pile before loading the bag. I actually made it all the way to the Y with all my clean clothing. Of course this was the one day that I wasn't having to be social afterwards.

I hit the treadmill swearing I was going to take it easy like I was supposed to be doing on my long run days. I did very good at keeping my pace down, but honestly, I had no choice. I got winded really quickly.

I think I have figured out my early morning run saboteur, my coffee. Normally my body has enough time to process the extra caffeine before my runs, but not on those earlier runs. I am probably at the height of caffeine strength when I am trying to run at 9. What that translates to is an already increased resting heart rate therefore my heart really races when I am trying to run. As it is, most of the aerobic settings on machines hate me. My average heart rate during a run is in the 170s. By the time I get up to 185 I am really having to work to run. I've seen as high as 190 once or twice, but my body was telling me to STOP. I guess this means I have to bring my coffee to drink after morning runs.

But wait just a second... what better way to solve this problem then to get my own treadmill so I don't have to go anywhere for my runs. So that's exactly what I did. I asked DH if I could get one way back when it started to get hot, but he said no. We've had several exercise equipments that were nothing more than glorified coat racks, so I understand his hesitation. I guess since he has seen me go to the Y 3 days a week all summer long, he realized I was serious about this running thing. We were at Sears yesterday and he saw one on clearance (regular price $1499, on sale for $539) and asked if I wanted it. Inside I was all , but outside I was . That is a lot of money, but since it was their last one we had to decide fast. I slept on it. We came home and read reviews. Everything we read was positive. So today we took measurements to make sure we could get it in the back of our van (seats out of course). It went in. But now we have a new problem. Those big strong guys that put it in there, didn't come home with us to take it out. We have a second much bigger problem... our house is currently a MESS. We are laying new flooring down in every single room. We have bedrooms in toy rooms, living room in the dining room, and kitchen and toy room is in the den. The treadmill is going in the den, but will have to live in the garage for a little bit. Talk about motivating to make sure the rest of this house gets done ASAP. I was thinking about taking a week "off" of the whole ordeal. Now I will be working on cleaning my bedroom out tomorrow. That is the last room that has to be cleared before it can have flooring done. Unfortunately it has been the overflow room for all the other rooms so it is packed. It is scary bad in there right now. Don't yell fire in the middle of the night, I might break a leg trying to get over it. So without further ado... my new toy the NordicTrack Elite Zi

 

[ljcrochet]

Congrats on getting your own treadmill. I can't wait to hear about your workouts.
I knew I would not be able to run on Sunday so I went out Saturday morning. Runkeeper was acting flakey so I'm not sure of my totals. I ran almost 37 minutes. I think 2 1/3 miles.