Black Magic Team Thread (Page 10)

Fun, absolutely!  On the way home I even felt okay about the obvious soreness that was already setting into the, um, high-hamstring area, thinking that might be a good thing.

But in the hours that have elapsed since, I've noticed some funky pain in my right achilles and ankle, and am especially wondering why I don't remember the part when somebody beat up and down the length of my legs with a set of hammers.   Have stunk up my apartment with the nice smelly rubs and patches.

The only solution is obviously... MORE TRAIL RUNNING!   

Hey everyone--wow, we are churning out the miles, way to go, way to go!  Seriously, we're doing great--just gotta close it out this last week!  Sounds like everyone is having a good weekend! 

Celeste- hardware, awesome!!  That is ALWAYS a morale booster for sure!

I took the Army Physical Fitness Test this morning and ROCKED the 2 mile run of it.  Previous personal best was about 14:15 and that was couple years ago I think...This morning, try 13:47 for me!! I am on cloud 9, this is by far (especially with the fun of a challenge) the best running month of my life.  So looking forward to the Austin Marathon in January (or running in the US in general--Giants, the UK would do too, but I'm partial to Texas! haha)!!

Continue to have a great weekend all. I'll post my plan for next week later today.  I've got just shy of 40 miles left, but don't worry, it WILL happen!  It will wear out my shoes and I'll need a new set as soon as I get home, but I want to go shopping, so that works out too!

Haha, 3 runs..not quite, but...as I've now figured out next week's schedule, here it is:

M: 8.5 mi
T: lift/bike
W: 18 mi
Th: Lift/bike (or OFF)
Fri: 10.5/10.75 mi
Sat: Lift/Bike
Sun: 10K race we just found out about, so 6.2 mi

Total planned: 43 or so...gives me some wiggle room to cut off of the M/Fri run if I need to! I doubt I'll be doing any runs after the 28th as we'll be ON THE MOVE...but we'll see, I might get some short stuff in to keep loose and not sweat too much (gotta pack that stuff!)

FORGOT to mention on this...Due to the mileage and shoes about to be done for, I've done the same...but I'm not in an apartment, I'm currently in a tent with about 20 other women--the majority of which are caddy and have been horribly loud at night when I'm trying to sleep (but I still stay quiet in the morning...do unto others), so oh well, Icy Hot is the new "smell" of the tent (beats some of the hair products some of 'em use!), they'll get over it!

John, are you teasing me? What's Rugby? Just because England lost last night

HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the game’s beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys’ School in England. Another cousin of the game of football is soccer; its beginnings can also be traced to English origin, being played as early as the eighteen twenties.

Our players play offense & defense - hard men. I won't get drawn into a debate as I love the NFL. Very similar games but obviously a lot of difference.

USARUGBY LINK

D.Z. - Beckham's a tw*t (married to a scrawny bird called Posh bloody Spice) who used to play for Manchester United (soccer - surely everyones heard of them!), equivalent to, dare I say it because I like them, the New York Yankees. Shed loads of money to spend on players & win a lot of trophies. We call their fans " Glory Hunters" over here or "$h1t". Sorry girls, started to rant there. I do apologise.

And you just beat me to the 20 women in a tent comment. I was just trying to visualise Tex with all those women........ Enough of that.

CitySky am I stupid or what? When I first read

FIRST PLACE WOMAN 30-39!

I thought it was your time It was very late when I read it. Congratulations anyway. You don't look that age

Back on the bike this morning, Oh for a bike challenge! 65 miles in 4h 57m. What! you may say? I can run quicker than that. Hills, hills, & more hills. The computer estimate is over 7,000 ft of climbing. Smashes my previous best by a long way. Started as sun came up at 0730. Cold. In the valleys where there was mist temp read 38. I was thinking of you Ken - thanks for your weather forecast & "I love the fall" It cheered me up no end. - LOL

This morning turned into a 9 miler. 21 to go!  GO TEAM GO!! 

JohnDeere: For the PT tested I maxed it out with a 300, if you use the extended scale, I think it's like a 364 (70 push ups, 99 situps for the rest of it).

Janice: I assume you had an enjoyable game. My teams didn't have a good weekend, a sweep of loses. Oh well, I can't watch them here so it really doesn't affect me as much. But, with only one more weekend HERE, I get to watch football in the real time, real soon.

DZ- Sweet on signing up, yeah, you'll have fun with it...the more you run, the more it's fun...this I've learned cause I used to HATE HATE HATE it...now I can't get enough of it!

Yes, 20 women in the tent, I don't want to be there either. But it's a necessary step on the way home, so as they say I will "suck it up buttercup."  But I'm having great success with the Icy Hot...I do need it..ankles and knees are a little sore as I don't get the stretch or good recovery time I need with the rushed schedule and all...so they'll just have to live with it.  Haha, I know, juvenile, but I really am using it!!

HAVE A GREAT RUNNING WEEK ALL!!

I am going to go with Ken too, his recommendation works for me.

Uhoh, now we have a hardware requirement...shoot...guess I will have to run hard on the 10K on Sunday!! Great job team!! This has been quite enjoyable...I've had some chances to cut some mileage or runs, but keep thinking, I pledged it, I will do it....I will do it!!

Umm, so I'm not doing any work anymore cause our replacements are doing it all. YEAH!

Agree with D.Z.  I would be batting 1000 if I could cut out teammates on challenges that werent pulling their share of the load.  Lets ramp up the inspires on those two.  My only caveat is that there is zero feedback from the one person, so I dunno if that warrants participation or not.  Maybe check the inspires you left cuz sometimes folks reply to their own on their blog (doh!). 

6.51 for this guy.  My legs dont seem to want to run fast at all these days.  Think first week of November is a no run week.  Have a great day yall and keep up the good work!

Jszat and DZ are right...this being my first challenge I suppose I didn't think it through the whole way, but they are right!  Thanks guys.

On a note, got an inspire back from Lobstergirl who said she logged lots of miles on her trip...so the team keeps on running. Way to go girl!