2015 Running Thread

Thanks everyone!!! Hey geewhiz, I don't think you lose the base all that fast and sometimes it's better to have the break. At least that is what our coach told us. Apparently there is a book out there called Personal Best or something like that which chronicles athletes and olympians who were sidelined for months before competition because of injuries and couldn't train but when they performed they all PRed. I haven't read the book yet but it sounds like a great read and maybe will help your spirits!!

Be well,

Renee

Just happened on this thread again as I'm thinking about when I can start running with my bum knee. Rseman, you are out of this world!!! Congratulations on your achievement!

My goals are in place!! Chicago 2016, Boston 2017, and then London, Berlin, and Tokyo to follow in no particular order. I am going make this happen.

I say all of that after struggling with three miles today LOL. I gotta get back on the wagon somehow I guess. Happy Running and New Year.

Renee

I survived the WDW Half. It was a reckoning because no training. Literally ran 5k twice since the Dumbo Double Dare. Stupid cold + asthma knocked me out for six weeks in October and November, and other random excuses. So, all things considered, 2:51 was pretty okay. I walked a lot. When I consider my time and walking through the self-care zone for nothing more than precautionary tylenol, when all these faster people are wrapped up in saran wrap and ice, I am okay with the trade off. My feet hurt, which they usually don't after, so I think it's time to escalate my passive surveillance of shoe availability. And I really need to do more training....

Hello - I just got started on running/walking the Disney races this past summer. I did the DL 5K in Sept and then Capt America 10K. I had been diagnosed with DCIS in September and had a lumpectomy right after the Capt America 10K in November. (However, I am also a 17(+) survivor of Stage 2 IDC from when I was 23 - I am now 41. Back then, in 1998, I had a lumpectomy, lymph node removal and a year of chemo and radiation treatment.) My pathology came back from the lumpectomy this past November with the margins not clear, and so my physicians are insisting that the only real option is bilateral mastectomy. Next month I'm scheduled for a bilateral mastectomy with no reconstruction - after nearly 20 years, I just want to be done with it and get on with living.

I was signed up to do SW Half this weekend as well as the Princess Half next month - I've deferred both to next year. I was thinking of doing Tinker Bell in May. Maybe you all can help give me some advice on how soon do you think it's wise to be in a crowd to do any kind of running/walking? If I signed up for just the Tinkerbell 5K in May, that would be 10 weeks after the masectomy in February. Would that even be an option, or should I just plan for the DL races in September? Any suggestions are welcome!

Hi cupcaker! Welcome to the happiest thread in BCO. We should probably have a 2016 thread but I'm sensing that none of us has the energy to start it and commit to updating the header...

I did the inaugural Tink Half 6 weeks post DIEP. That is about the most intense thing I can think of. Because of the nature of the DIEP, moving the porch up to the balcony, I was not even able to straighten up until the Friday preceding the Sunday run. I walked an hour once a week on a treadmill at 4mph, stooped over and holding the side rails. That was my training. Because of the intense surgery of the DIEP and the jiggling of running, I did not run a step until that Friday, and I ran the first 15 minutes of the Neverland 5K and walked/ran the rest. But darn it, I ran bits and pieces of that Half, and finished in 3:06 or something.

I had previously done the 5th Disneyland Half at 10 weeks post mastectomy. The problem was not at all the mastectomy side, but the jiggle of the other DD side and the different weight of the prosthesis side and the strain on my shoulders. I was so glad to get the second side mastectomy and even things out with the DIEP. (However no-recon bilateral mastectomy was a very close second choice. I feel so much more athletically capable without DD dead weights.)

Having the run to look forward to will get you up out of bed sooner after the surgery. Just don't do a lot of arm pumping while the drains are in, or you'll keep filling the bottles and they'll never take the darned things out. Take it easy with the drains in. Slow walking to clear the anaesthetic gas out of your lungs and clear your head is a great idea. Don't fear the dreadmill if it's easier to control how "far" you walk and how fast and how hard and what temperature, etc. Pamper yourself and celebrate doing it.

If you are in reasonable shape going into the surgery, there is no reason you could not keep the runDisney 16 min/mi pace at least walking even if you did Princess 2016, but Tink at 10 weeks is as near a sure thing as you can get, and you could very well do faster. I was maybe 1 min / km slower than my previous pace for over a YEAR after. Just hang in there. Obviously, listen to your body. This is not the time to fret over your pace. Suspend the mind games about just running one more street light before the walk break. Walk when you need to walk. Celebrate being there, and finishing. Enjoy the free banana.

And they're still marking Disneyland Paris Half (September) as available

I'm fortunate enough to have a business event in Spain the week before DLPHM so I will just catch a train to Paris on Friday after the event ends and I'll already be in the time zone. Registration for DLHM / Dumbo Double Dare should open soon too. But sadly, no triple bonus medal - just the Coast to Coast and Castle to Chateau.

If people still have this thread bookmarked as a Favourite, this is jJust a reminder that we're still here, just over at the 2016 Running Thread.

We miss you and look forward to your runs!