2013 Running Thread

Thank you, Runfree

Taxol wasn't so bad yesterday... feeling ok today too! Following advice of a friend of friend, I iced my fingers and toes in hopes of warding off nail loss and, more importantly, neuropathy. 

Good luck all and Shana Tova--it's the Jewish New Year, time of reflection ... hoping for better and healthier times for all of us in the coming year!

Becca

Thanks piper, it's tomorrow. Weather is perfect for a run. Want to joking me?

At the Midsummer Night's Run (15K), I was wiped at 15K, but at the 15K point in the Disneyland Half, I felt pretty good. The difference was the stress on the course itself: the 15K was crowded and had many non-participants encroaching on the course. I felt I was fighting just to do it, whereas even though Disney had a pretty dense field at the start, everyone was going the same way and there were opportunities to get forward and around any clumps. That and the much more generous hydration provisions at Disney made so much difference. Congrats on your 5miler! (the .26 is probably the corners: they measure courses from the side closest to the corner, so if you run the tangents, your total run is closer to the official distance. But 5.26 on 5 miles is not that bad for efficiency. I did 21.7 on 21.3 official km, but mr. goldlining did 22km+.)

way to go, wing48!

Goldlining, enjoy Paris and have fun running somewhere new....it will be hot there now I assume so perhaps your run yesterday was good training :-)

Paris weather is hovering about where we are here 20C give or take 2 (about 66-72F). Less rain, allegedly for the seasonal norms, but I'm seeing rainy forecasts every day except two days, one of them fortunately being the day I am scheduled for Disneyland Paris!

Happy running everyone! Keep up the good efforts!

Dear all, I completed my first real "run" yesterday...the Paatuwaqatsi on the Hopi Reservation.  It was a 4 mile/10 mile/15 mile relay for teams or a 30 mile (I did the 4 mile).  It's a fund-raiser to bring awareness to the need for protection of seeps, springs, and rivers on the rez, draining away because of desert SW development.

Anyway. It was a killer run through sand and up steep hills, but hubby and I ran nearly all of it--walked about 5-10" of it during the steepest parts. 

Claire

Hi everyone!

Haven't checked in for a while, mostly because there was nothing new to report - been running all summer, mostly 3-4 miles, but yesterday I did a really nice 7 mile run (weather was finally cool enough to want to stay out, LOL).

I've signed up to run the Race for the Cure in NJ on October 6th, but I'm not expecting great things time-wise, but for a good reason .... my 10 year old DD will be running alongside me, and I promised her I would stick to her pace.   This will be her 2nd 5K.   She doesn't run regularly, but does do 14 hours of competitive gymnastics a week, so is in pretty good shape and a few weeks ago ran 3.8 with me while on vacation.    I can't tell you all how much it means to me that she wants to do this with me.    I ran the same race last year, with no idea that just a few short weeks later I would be diagnosed myself.    My 13 year old DD, who doesn't run will participate in her own way - by "Sleeping In for the Cure", LOL.

wow just hearing Paris and Tokyo! so jealous! enjoy the beautiful scenery for us.

Happy running piper!

good to hear folks are out and running.  love the tokyo and paris stories.  i am lame and mostly just run on the hotel treadmill when i travel. 

just finished a half marathon.  as i am slowing down and being passed the last two miles i am just filled with gratitude for having the ability to run and train and just be out there with so many other healthy people.  everyday i run is a gift to me.

not much of a running week for me.  too tired and sore to do more than walk until today.  now back on the program.  training for my first marathon.  NYC.  got rained out last year, but ready to go this year.  at least as much as anyone can be ready to run that distance.

Okay I am back to report that I did drag myself out of the hotel for a run. On Friday, my meetings wrapped about noon, and I took the tram back to the hotel and changed for a walk, which took me to les Catacombes, the underground tunnels where they quarried the stone the city was built with, and which then caved in in places and had to be rehabilitated, and one thing led to another and they collected the skeletons from a whole bunch of cemetaries around Paris and stacked them up in these otherwise empty tunnels. Very awe inspiring, literally seeing what is left of millions of Parisians who lived 200+ years ago. So that was a long walk and my feet were sore, but at that point, my running shoes seemed like my least uncomfortable option, so I changed and ate three shot blox for energy and hit the streets. I ran to the Seine along the Rive Droit this time, but had to turn over to Gare de Lyon and then got a bit disoriented and found myself down around the Bastille and tried to follow the setting sun to reorient myself back to the Seine, and ran across the island and to the Rive Gauche and back along that to the Bibliotheque Nationale, where my hotel was near. End to end 9.5k and pretty happy with my pace and comfort level, particularly considering that I had walked for 3 hours (including 2km of bones) just prior to starting. I run so much better when I have no idea where I am going. I don't know why. 

I flew home today, and forgot to put on the compression so I'm a little swelly. I used upgrade credits for a business seat and it was a fully flat bed seat so that helped some, but I'm trying some lymph voodoo and compression now. I should be asleep x 100 now, but still a little too wired up from the adventure.

Tammy_M43, ... and then? With a good time like that, I think sign up for a distance to target and watch how you beat it! 10K? 

Sydney Harbour Bridge would be awesome scenery to run on. There must be some great run events there that the rest of us would envy!

Goldlining, thanks for the encouragement....I'm on my way to 10k! If you are ever in Sydney then maybe we can have a run together :-)



Firstcall, please add my next run to the list.... Lifesupport Beachside Dash 5km Sunday 20 October....once that's done I'll find a great 10k event!

Hi all,

I haven't written in months. . .because I haven't run in months (since May).  I finally got an MRI on my knee that had been intermittently painful for 9 months and I have a torn meniscus and inflamed MCL.  The last thing I want is another surgery, so I'm trying prolotherapy.  Anyone ever done this?  I've had 1 treatment (of 3) and my knee feels alot better already.   I did go for a 1-2 mile run twice this week to test it out and it felt great! 

Unfortunately, I have recently developed plantar fasciitis!  Ugh!  Anyone have experience with that?  What helped?  How long until it was better?

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