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Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:53:03 GMT

Hi all. Happy new week! I know its Tuesday, but still...

Michael- Sounds like you had a great run. I am so jealous. I plan/hope to be able to do a run like that some day too! Keep it up.

Eileen - sorry to hear about your family's illnesses. My SIL and youngest niece just got over H1N1. Fortunately the rest of the family didn't get it. Of course it helped that my parents were able to help out and take the other kids to get them away from all the germs. I got to see them all this weekend and they seem to be all better. Hope your family recovers soon too.

Jasmine - Thanks for the encouragement. I walked last night, but my shins were protesting so I slowed down a bit. Looking forward to next week when I can begin walk/running. Hoping the sore shins won't delay that.

Friday, one of the women I work with brought in a lady who makes hula hoops. She was selling them. They are starting a hula hoop exercise class here this week. As someone who never learned to hula hoop as a kid, I still can't figure it out, but its a great core workout so I think I will give it a try. Should be an interesting addition to my running workouts.

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

pam

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:21:54 GMT

Sorry for the delay in communicating folks. Between Active being "inactive" and my limited access to the Internet while on the road, I am only now getting back to you with commentary.

Michael- I really like how you stretched your simple, early morning run into a great one that was 2 hours long. And at an excellent penguin pace. It will be a while before I get far. My longest so far is 4 miles.

Smashville- Congrats on your race! You are doing about the same pace I was at with so little C25K under my belt.

Donna- I'm visiting my mom in CA, and I'm just putting in the mileage to improve my times, since I can run one hour already. In fact, I did 3.5 miles in 60:18 on Sat, then improved my time on the same route by one minute today. I used to live here before 1999, and 20 yrs ago, when I used to be a young penguin runner and triathlete, I used to run and bike all over the place here. Its kind of nostalgic to be back here again.

pam- You are doing exactly what you need to do to ease into C25K capability to remain injury free. We'll all be rooting for you.

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:44:21 GMT

I finished my W3D3 5k on Saturday in a very penguin-esque 54 minutes. Of course, I did walk the last 1.75 miles or so...I had finished the W3D3 running...and was going to keep on running...but the hills really got to me. Plus, I'm only 1/3 done...no need to hurt myself and set my training back.

Anyway...even if I were in normal shape, it was an utterly brutal course...I feel like I'll be running it again next year for the challenge.

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:50:58 GMT

Eileen, We were going to start a new thread every week so we don't have to weed through all the posts every time. But this week active.com was down all weekend and just came back up when you posted so the thread did not get much traffic as no one could post. I'm not sure if we should just keep this one open for another week; I don't think I can change title but I will try.

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:39:56 GMT

I finally found you people and a new thread! The title says this will go through tomorrow???

Family stress recently has cut into running routine. M-I-L into hospital, multiple health problems, now into nursing home, prognosis is not good - I'm spending time at the hospital/nursing home, doing errands, etc. Then DD developed viral pneumonia that a specialist said could be related to the H1N1 pneumonia - spent time at her home with their 3-year-old and 6-month-old and doing whatever necessary - tomorrow is dr appt for her. But that's life, and we're glad we're retired so we can help family.

ANYway, tomorrow I begin again, maybe on week 4, probably on week 3. From watching my m-i-l's declining strength, I've relearned the importance of keeping moving, no matter how little.

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:47:16 GMT

Rainy Day,

You are really rockin' with those times. 13.1 mm is SUPERB!!! You are running circles around me.

You'll have to join the "whippersnapper" support group if you keep that up.

I am so glad the wedding was successful. It is good to have you back.

Donna,

Good runs. I bet that Chicago race was something else. I went to school at Northwestern and had

some good times in Chicago.

Today was quite unusual. Got up at 5:30 am (yes, even on a Saturday). As I was warming up, I felt horrible. I usually run/walk 1 mile to warm-up.

After warming up, I stretched for a long time. Little by little I felt better. Finally, I started my long run. I had planned to run an additional 5 miles.

All of the sudden, I felt great! First three miles had a good pace and sprinted into mile 3.1. Took walk breaks at each mile mark. Mile 5 was rough.

I was afraid I had pushed too much early on. My hamstrings were getting sore. I had to slowdown to my warm-up pace.

Did a sprint into mile 5.2.

While I was walking, I thought-why not run one more?

I had already run 6.2 miles counting the warm-up. At that point, I had been running 1:22. So, what the hey!

I ran one more mile and sprinted into mile 7.2. 1 mile for warm-up and 6.2 miles. This was the longest run I have ever attempted.

I spent 2:02 hours of actual run/walk time. The most I walked was 2 minutes at the mile 5 & mile 6.

I didn't hit Jenny's speed but I ran the first 3.2 miles at 15:50 perfect Penquin pace. My total pace was 16:58.

Those last three miles were a bit slower. But even slow miles count!

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:46:28 GMT

It is a beautiful sunny fall day here in Louisville so I just got out there and ran 30 minutes; good time for me too. I hope to run both Saturday and Sunday. I am doing better now that I have scaled back my runs to 30 min and one day a week do more. I think I will do the OHR. It might be the right thing for me.

Have a great weekend!

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:50:10 GMT

I'm BAAACK!

I have tried for the last couple of days to get on this site but to no avail. Probably operator error...

The wedding was wonderful - in spite of the rain - and I'm quite glad it is over.

This week I've had 2 great runs (both without stopping or walking) - Monday I did 2.7 @13.9 pace and today (drum roll, please) I did 3.1 @13.0 pace!! I am so happy that I want to get out and do it again tomorrow. But I won't. One of the things I have to learn is that becoming an adult-onset athlete means that I can't train like you young whippersnappers.

Did I just say, "whippersnappers"???

I will wait until Monday to run again, but will enjoy some nice long walks in between. I do believe it's time for me to consider RUNNING a 5k.

How's everyone been?

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:21 GMT

Penpals,

Has anyone heard from Rainy Day Run?

Jenny had a wedding for her daughter on Halloween.

I hope she has gotten some rest.

Re: Penguin Support Group - November 3-9

guest — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:23:34 GMT

You and I are currently running about the same pace, so don't worry, I'll be right behind you. Besides, when you actually race, you will find that your pace actually improves 1-2 mm, due to the excitement. I know I felt so SLOW in my race, with everyone passing me, but actually did a very fast 1st mile. I was in Week 6 of C25K, so I walked about 10 mins on and off during the run, and finished less than 52 mins - and improvement of 10 mins from my 1st 5k this summer. We both will keep getting better.