Ilene- how right you are...... I might get to try out that whole running in the rain real soon! Luckily, it looks like if she stays on path that I will be to the north of her so hopefully a little rain and wind is all I will have to run through.
I ran 2.6 miles yesterday. I am on a every other day run schedule right now. SO tomorrow I will be doing at least the same.
WOW 20 of you running together.... I would be nervous too! It would really be nice to have a group like that to count on. I have just yesterday got a partner. Only she is just starting and I have been running for several months so it is going to be a struggle to find a happy medium. Yesterday I did 1.6 with her and the 1 on my own. I felt better having done the extra one on my own.
Oh yeah how could I forget..... I weighed in at WW yesterday and lost 3.2lbs. I am feeling really motivated!! Thanks for all your support!
Dega -- In our group of gals, when we have slower runners that stray at the back, we loop around when we reach a corner or red light and join up to them again. If your new partner doesn't mind when she walks for a minute or so you can go ahead for 30 seconds and come back to join her for 30 seconds. It can be fun, and gives you a longer run in the long run ...
Thanks for the congrads Lizbabe and Ilene! I really appreciate the idea about running ahead and then coming back. I was strictly thinking about supporting her. I have to take care of me too! I will have to try that and see if it will work for us!
Ok so I was excited about my 5-k this morning..hoping to beat my time and all. Too bad the course was poorly marked and everyone ended up running closer to 4 miles instead of 3.1! Well I still came in first for my age group and had a good time so I can't complain. I am planning a 10-k soon....if I can't convince my running partner to do it with me I will still go by myself.
I did a 3-miler on the one decent treadmill at the gym today then tomorrow I will cross train to give my muscles a break. My next 5-k is in 3 weeks. Have a great Monday!
I've not stopped by here for a while so thought I'd stop in and say hello. I'm still running, mainly on the treadmill at the moment. Distances varying between 5 and 10k usually, I'm trying to build up to my next 10k race at the end of November (although I have a horrible feeling that my registration's been messed up at the moment).
I seem to be hooked, I was looking at proper running gear for winter in the sports shop today
I completed my first half-marathon this weekend at the Fallsview Casino Marathon at Niagara falls. I had a good time even though the weather sucked, I was cold and my motel room seemed rather sketchy. I ran in with my fiance so that was fun! I did have one potty break and that took time (there was one portapotty at each station so there was a line). As the half marathon and the full one started at the same time with the same finish line I had some marathoners pass me... Gosh those guys were cut, with LONG legs and very prominent hams and quads... It was so cool to run beside them even if it was just for one nano second (I also cheered them on as they passed by).
Anyway it was a good experience and I feel very proud of myself for finishing that. My time wasn't great, however with the potty break and not feeling 100% I didn't push myself too hard.
Anyway Hope the weather improves for everyone! I am heading down south in 2 weeks, hopefully that will be good!
I'm back up to walking 4 miles or so at a shot. I should get the go ahead from my OB to start running again next week. So far I'm limited to walking and swimming, but that is going well, and I'm regaining enough core strength from that so that my back doesn't hurt all the time. Really looking forward to running again, although I'm sure it is going to be a complete shock to marathoning pre-pregnancy and now having to basically start over, I'm guessing 30 sec to 1 min running at a time.
Ilene: I am probably going to take up swimming soon as well! My mom has recently started doing that again, so I am thinking I'll join her when she goes.
Anne: Don't worry, if you got yourself into the condition to run a marathon before, I am sure you'll be able to do it again It's good to see you again!!
Anne, Welcome back! And congratulations on your little girl. You'll get back into things soon enough. Don't push yourself too much. You have surgery to recover from on top of 9 months of hormonal havoc on your body. It takes a while to feel like yourself again.
Ali, congratulations on the 1/2! The first one isn't for time, it's to finish. Next time you can set yourself a time goal.
Ilene, you've gone from treadmill running to running outside with a group. Wow. And a triathalon next summer? I'm impressed!
I'm still running. I ran a 10k race last saturday with dh. He's much faster than I am, but decided to run with me anyway. I'm glad he did. It was at night, through the Plains of Abraham. So the course was quite dark at parts. I've never run at night and did not like being unable to see where I was putting my feet. The course was also a bit more hilly than I'm used to. And there were some good gusts of wind. But thanks to dh pushing me, we finished just under 52 minutes. Which is another pb for me (previous 10k time was 52:41). Next year's goal is to get under 50:00.
No more racing for a while though. I'm currently enjoying not having a particular schedule. I plan to run about 40k/week with a 16-20k long run at least every other week this fall/winter. In late January I'll ramp back up to half marathon training for May. If that goes well, I'm thinking of running the full marathon here at the end of August next year.
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Congrats on the loss too!
Nice to "see" you again! Congrats on the half not matter what your time, you done did it girl 
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It's good to see you again!!
