Kara, where did you see the workout cruise? I would LOVE to take a vacation like that.

Oh boy! Kara's little running girl is up over 100! :yay: Well done!!

Well done Kara!

And everyone, believe me there are plenty of people faster than I am. Particularly as the fast group is almost exclusively men. I've been running with the club for about 18 months now, and there are only two or three women I can remember ever trying to run with them.

I did 3 x 1m fast this morning, with wu/cd and recoveries that was 5.75. I was impressed that I got to the gym earlier than I did when I get the bus in, despite taking a slightly longer route. I had an early meeting though, so pretty much just did a few stretches before I had to head off for a shower.

This weekend I must have a running shoe cull. I think I have about six pairs under the stairs, and I've just ordered two more pairs (they were on special offer if you bought two pairs and as I know I like them I thought I may as well), and really should get rid of some of the old ones. I like wearing the old ones for cross country so it doesn't matter if I ruin them, but I don't think I need that many pairs to do that with! I will take a pile to the recycling place I think.

One of the new pairs will be the Marathon Shoes, so I need to start breaking them in. My current pair are at about 400 miles so won't last long enough.

Thanks all, for the warm welcome!

Saturday night I got in an "extra" skatedance session with some friends. Turned out not to be extra, after all, because I tripped over something on the skate floor. Didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but all day Sunday I was gimping around with a very sore left ankle, and decided to skip my regular skate practice. Luckily, it seems I just bruised it good, because by late Monday morning, it was feeling much better, so I got in 30 mins last night, and everything is still working this morning. This week I'm doing 5R/1W (5 min run, 1 min walk) for 30 mins, and Thursday I'll do just a straight run, probably 30 mins again like last week.

Diva, congrats on restarting the C25K!

Nova, I knew you could do it! My first straight run was last week, so I can relate...when I started, I was impressed I could run for a whole minute, lol!

Helen, WTG on running with the fastest group!

Minx, I'm new to this group, too, but welcome!

Cheryl

Back from the gym a little bit ago where I did 3 miles straight running. This is a big feat for me because I have always stalled at 2.5 miles. When I hit 2.5 I was getting pretty tired, so I just sort of sprinted the last .5 to get it over with but I still couldn't believe it. I did my 3 miles in 33 minutes, while not amazing, was well below what I thought was possible. I am thrilled and so looking forward to taking a day off (of running only) tomorrow to recover. I think I may have figured this whole thing out. I just can't run every day right now. Either way though, I am thrilled to say I made it 3 miles and maybe just maybe I can do a 5k in the spring now!

WTG, Cat, on making 3 miles. Sounds like a good time to me!

Cheryl

Way to go, Cat - that's an 11minute mile, and that's pretty darned great! :yes:

Helen - does it smell nice under your stairs with all those used shoes? :faint: Clear 'em out, speed-demon! :lol:

6.5 miles for me tonight - a good day, overall :D

Heather, :rofl: You're too much! Great job on the run!

Cat, you rock! Keep it up! I don't run every day either. In fact, until I started this training schedule the most I ran a week was three days.

Enjoy your new shoes, Helen!

Laura, I read about the workout cruise in a fitness magazine I was perusing at the gym. You know, one of the ones someone left in the cardio room. I have no clue which magazine it was or even if it was from the last six months! That cruise sounded like so much fun to me, though! I actually just read about a running cruise in my February issue of Runner's World. A runner organized a cruise with running excursions in each port. That also sounds like a blast! The exercise one just had a bunch of exercise classes on the boat.

Cheryl, glad your ankle's OK.

Ennay, where are you?

I got in three miles today, which did indeed get my little girl over the 100 mile mark. Whew! Can you believe it?!

Kara

30 mins tonight.

Those sound amazing, Kara. I would absolutely love to do some kind of tropical vacation where I work out all day and then maybe have a few drinks at night :) A good balance!

Maybe I'll see you on there! How fun would that be? A 3 Fat Chicks cruise?!

Kara

I've seen 2 running cruises advertised. Bingham has an alaska "marathon" cruise where you run 26.2 miles over the course of 5 days. Some on land, some on the ship. Most of them except I think 1 run are runs just for the people on the cruise with maybe a 10K that is a real race

I saw another cruise through I think baja or carribean that organizes honest to god open to the public races every day so that you end up with again I think it is 26.2 over the course of the cruise.

Well, I ran for the first time since hurting my knee in September. Those two miles felt so darn good! I was so excited waiting for today to come--couldn't believe I felt that way. Hoping to be ready for a June 5K race that I did last year that had a really nice course.

Off to my aqua jogging class, which I think is helping rehab my knee.

Sheila!!!! welcome back!

:wave: Sheila - great to see you, and way to go on today's run - I bet that felt AWESOME! :yay: