2012 Running Thread

4 miles today. Pretty fast. Last mile at pre surgery pace, but I was working pretty hard at it. Still good to be there.



Also rode 20 miles. Obsessed with getting back to pre surgery weight.



I am all in on chocolate ice-cream day.

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dltnhm,

I did run through radiation after BMX, but I did not have TE's or chemo so that might have made it easier.

I had signed up for Boston pre-DX and felt like it might be my only chance to do it. Luckily, I really didn't have to ramp up the miles until after my last rad treatment. I basically stopped all other workouts except for running and stretching. Since I am going "flat" I never wore a bra at all and do love that, but can imagine that chafing could be an issue if you need a bra. I would probably try Aquaphor to help with that. 

FYI, walking hills is a VERY good substitute for running and you will not lose much fitness at all. I have come back from 3 surgeries now and walking vigorously has made it quite easy to transition back to running.

10K today was a great experience!   It was rainy and gray but a comfy 60-something degrees and of course, no sunscreen needed.  I made my time goal, finished unofficially at 1:05:27 (about 10:33 min-mi), felt very strong until the very end when my oomph started to fizzle a little.  The after party was fun too, some fun swag and a band, along with lots of dogs (it benefitted an animal shelter).  Saw a few friends as well as one of my rads techs.

One year ago today, I was in "the chair" getting my first chemo tx.  I am truly amazed at what the human body can do.

I see a podiatrist on Tuesday about my bizarre half-grown in toenails, an aftereffect of taxol, they are returning very slowly and a few are still discolored.  After I know what the deal with my feet is, I can start thinking about what my next running goal will be.......

Hope you all enjoy your runs this weekend as much as I've enjoyed mine!

Fantastic Kat!! That's a great comeback.

Yay Kat!!

Go Kat!

Did a last-minute 5K Saturday - the Nick Adenhart 5K in Williamsport, MD to benefit youth baseball.  Nick Adenhart was from Williamsport and was a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels until he was tragically killed by a drunk driver a few years ago.  It was a good cause so we decided to do a walk-up registration.  It was HOT and humid - close to 80 degrees, no clouds, and the course was all road pavement with very little shade.  Also, even though it was a loop course, it seemed like it was uphill the whole way!!    But we finished, and I did 12:06 minute miles - slow for the rest of you, but a good pace for me!  In some ways those challenging ones are great - I felt so proud of finishing and not having to walk any of it despite the heat and sun.  

welcome jpmomof3 to the happiest thread on BCO.

Running was easier after mx than lumpectomy for me because there was nothing to jiggle and feel sensitive. I was pretty big so there was lots to jiggle post lumpectomy. I did not log any runs on Nike+ at all for six weeks after the lumpectomy. I was walking at a 15 min/mile pace at 4 weeks post mastectomy, and got up to a half marathon by 10 weeks, and only lost 15 minutes off my PB. I subsequently had a DIEP. After that, exclusively walking for six weeks, I did a slow run HM at 6 weeks. I planned to walk it, but I was at a pre-HM tune-up 5K and I found myself swept up in the running enthusiasm and I essentially ran the first 3K of the 5K and ran/walked the rest, and ran more than I expected of the HM. My approach is, when the jealousy of the runners overcomes any little voices that say "you need more rest", try a bit of running, but be good to YOU and listen to the little voice. I am an avowed medal-lover, but I am always conscious that they have enough medals for everyone, and there's nothing to gain from wrecking myself to come in 7,765th instead of 7,907th. There will be a time to run for speed improvement (and I think I need to get into that stage now) but there is a time to run for the joy it gives you and an upright-and-smiling goal, with everything better as gravy.

I had no chemo or rads, but others here can answer with their experiences on that.

Firstcall, I am glad to her that your running is feeling better! You must be strong to get through chemo and run during it. I love that feeling that a good run gives me. Goldlining I think you are very right, I just have to listen to my body and reason. I am glad to hear that most were able to start so soon after surgery. I don't think i will start until I have recovered enough from surgery. Luckily I am very small breasted and hopefully won't have too much trouble with the bounciness of running. It just seams wise to wait until my white counts have rebounded from the chemo too. The walks are holding me through and I am fortunate that I haven't gained any weight, though I know the muscle to fat ratio has changed somewhat. I am hopeful that the recovery time for running for cancer is faster and easier in some ways that recovering from childbirth (I put on a lot of weight of that!)



I just finished my 10th of 12 taxol treatments today. Two more to go! Got a few sleepless night coming from the steroids though...

I agree about those who are running during tx being amazing - after a couple of chemo tx it was all I could do to drag myself to work and back.  And when I got home - pure fatigue. Even walking from the living room to the kitchen was beyond my abilities on many days!!    You runners rock!

C25K week 5, workout 2, done.  I was even able to do 10 min jogs instead of 8, little woot.  (c:  Decided to keep going instead of starting week 5 over.  Next work out two miles, yikes.

welcome jpmomof3!  My best advice I can give you for post surgery or while in treatments is consider what you think you can do and back that off a notch or two.  Here is why I feel this way - in the beginning for me each time I would go out and do what I felt was ok I ended up setting myself back just a bit.  It is not worth it.  So if I thought "I feel good, I can run an hour", I would run 40 minutes.  Remember your body is working doing other things so repairing your body from a workout (run) is not your body's priority.  The fatigue from an easy run can last a few days.  I learned after my first two A/C treatments not to do anything (workout wise) for the 3 days and sometimes 4 days following treatment.  I may have walked the dog (old dog, 1/2 mile walk slow!). This was the best thing, for me.  That way by day 5 I was feeling fairly good and was up and about!  My final round of A/C I did not run at all, I was too bummed about how slow and lethargic I felt, pity party for myself.  I just finished #6/8 treatments, or #2/4 Tx Tuesday AM.  Last week I ran a 9 miler and a 6.5 miler, so for me right now the Tx is allowing me to feel okay  - still keeping with my NO workouts for 3 days post treatment and slowing picking up the pace through the next 10 days.    I am praying to the toenail Gods!  So far so good for me, I have them all!

Post surgery was different, listen to your Dr.  It takes while but it comes back.  Walks are wonderful and so are HIKES, find some local trails and get out into nature, it is really amazing!

As I think I mentioned earlier, this is my first round of chemo withOUT the Neulasta shot. I can tell today I feel much better than I did 2 weeks ago! I just hope my body can keep my WBCs up.

Have a great day everyone!  No running for me until Sunday, I am looking forward to it!

Whatever you are able to do ... keep at it ... but be careful too.

I am so thankful for my runs ... they keep me sane.

And this little Nike shoe fob that connects with my Nike app is a wonderful tool - giving me mile pace and a readout at the end. If only the GPS function would work too - the runs would be mapped.

Just when I think I can't do it ... someone likes my run on facebook and I get audible 'cheers'

And now I have little voices talking to me at the ends of my runs on some days .... Dirk Nowitski from the Dallas Mavs "You ran three days in a row. You must be addicted." "You ran more miles than last week. Way to go!" and Ellie Goulding "You've run three days in a row. You must be feeling awesome. Good work." 

The last couple of days and or nights I've doing 5 mile runs. Today I got in a 5.03 mile run and 3.06 mile run. My right knee seized up on me when I stopped at a stoplight. Didn't know it until I went to run across the street. Oh me oh my. Tried to walk it off, stretch, whatever .. but it didn't even want to bend at first. Decided to call "my sons from different moms" in our neighborhood (since all my guys are working out of state this summer) and the guys came and picked me up - nothing like the calvary coming!  I think I might just be overworking this knee. I'm hoping I'm just overworking this knee.  The last thing I need is knee surgery right now (acl/miniscus/cartiladge) and despite my not wanting to I find myself wondering if some little bugger cell could have found it's way into my knee- would have had to do it back in the fall - because from time to time this knee would act up then too. 

Enough of that. Taxol #8 bit the dust yesterday! 4 more to go!!!

My oncology nurse is going to run the Dirty Girl Mud Run on 6/30. I looked into it and it's a 5k obstacle course mud run for women and it looks like so much fun - tires, tubes, walls, nets, wading through water, crawling under so you get in the muck and mire!

And I can even register for FREE! I LOVE FREE !!!!