ASPHALT JUNKIES Summer Bronzing Crew - CLOSED (Page 101)

Hi SHANNON - Welcome!!  This is Brenda, Dirk's friend that met you at the Winona tri and saw you run the Half on Saturday.   Yes, I'd say you found the right place.   I'll let Dirk do the introduction to who you are but wanted to jump in and welcome you to the most awesome group that's ever been assembled of helpful and friendly folks who swim, bike and run.     

BTW - Congratulations on completing a very windy 13.1!   Great job!

This is the right place Shannon.

To all the fellow group members I suggested Shannon begin to post in the group.  I know this isn't the "normal" protocol for beginning new members and a new session but He will be beginning his quest toward a HIM in the next couple of years with goals for a couple of Oly's in 2013.  I told him to go ahead and jump into the group and we'd get him kicked off on the right foot.

I'll allow him to post his own bio, but the short is: If you need some ART or chiro he can hook you up.  He is one of the people responsible for getting me to Boston this year.

.........Time for a bike ride after 3 hours of sleep after working until 3:30 AM this morning on an outage to a few small towns in Ohio.  I'll pay for this foolishness later.........and so will my family too, I suppose.

Shannon, welcome to the Junkies!

Dirk, get some sleep man!

Matt, Great job on the HM. I would take a 1:52 any day over my 2:07 PR. I do hope to improve mine by running it again in May.

I wish I could blame catered lunches on my weight gain, but it has just been bad eating for me. On the good side though I have gone from a 3 to 4 soda a day habbit to about 2 or 3 sodas a week. So hopefully that will help get my weight back down (if I can keep from eating cookies to make up the calorie defecit)

So my shins have been stretched and iced repeatedly for the last few days. I am not feeling that achiness in them during the days like before. I have not run or done any workouts since Saturday morning's disaster of a run. I'm planning on at least another day or two off and then try some short runs later in the week.

The rib injury is still nagging at me also. I really enjoy the Kung Fu training and I'm slowly working my way up in rank at the school. I'd like to stick with it and reach black belt rank in the next few years, but this is the second year in a row that a rib injury from Kung Fu might stop me from running in the local Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving. The setbacks in my swim/bike/run training are starting to make me question the wisdom of doing both at the same time. I've already decided to drop Kung Fu classes for the 3 month leading up to the HIM next summer to avoid something similar happening during training for that. Anyway I guess it's not really a question for anyone just more of an sharing my uncertainty with friends.

Karl I am ready to move to Florida - we are getting our first round of real cold here and I don't like it! If it is just cold but still sunny that is not too bad but factor in the cold with 15 mile per hour breeze we always have and yuck. I'll be on the treadmill today.

Actually I'm having a hard time doing anything but sitting under this blanket today. I also need to clean up my eating habits. I've been having a bowl of chocolate ice cream topped with peanut butter every night this week and last week it was Halloween candy every night. At least it is natural peanut butter so that makes it healthy right?

Welcome to the group Shannon,

I see the cold talk is picking up, I cant wait to acclimate myself to the chilly weather and go for a few winter runs.  It may even be time for the "Black Ninja" to come out of hiding.

Or maybe the frozen face look....

But either way it is time for some trail running

  it can only make you stronger right?

Just typing it out made me snap out of it. No sweet all day today. Stupid blueberries with plain greek yogurt drizzled with a little honey and a date for my sweets today. I even managed to dip out chocolate ice cream for my kids without even licking the spoon!

I'll probably also go buy some dark chocolate squares for when I think I want candy.

Another welcome from me, and I love the avatar!

Now get busy and post a bio already .

I am cold sitting in my house with flannel robe and blanket on right now!  Acclimation is not happening very quickly for me.

Or course I am icing my groin with a bag of frozen peas so that might be part of my problem.

Where is the pain located in you knee?  I know from your weight lifting history you're not likely to have strength or muscular imbalance issues.  What kind of mileage is on your shoes and/or have you changed to a different brand or model of shoe recently? 

I glanced though your logs briefly and noticed some of your longer runs had been getting up in the HM distance and slightly longer.  But what seemed to stick out to me was the difference between your moderate distances and long run distance.  This isn't something that I believe is very likely to be causing issues now, since you've not run anything in that range for a couple of weeks.  However, it is a point to consider that you should ideally have at least one run at half the distance of your long run during a given week.

Shannon,

Post a bio so everyone can get to know you a bit.  Include some goals and ambitions as well as some history.  You can go back to page one and read through the next couple of pages to check out everyone else's bio's and learn a little about them too.

The discussion of the cold can hold off as well as the cold itself!  I figure if we don't talk about it for a while it just won't get cold.

I haven't been out in the cold for long periods, other than at work, but the recent snap here brought a chill to my bones during a run recently.  I was happy I only ran about 1.5 miles and was able to get back in the door quickly.  Once I get acclimated I'll be alright with the cold and things will get back to normal.

On another personal note: I graduate from PT tonight!  My therapist and I discussed my progress on Monday night and he feels I am coming along alright.  Running can increase in slow increments and I need to continue some of my strength training exercises for 4-6 weeks after tonight.  I can tell things are working out, albeit slowly, but they are getting closer.  The other night I was able to run .5 mile intervals and felt as if I could run further without compromising my form too much.  That said, I will not be doing that!  I have planned to run these short intervals in 2 week increments unless things become blatantly obvious that I can stretch them further, sooner.  At this point I should be back to 15+ MPW by January and that is an exciting notion for me.

Dirk congratulations on your graduation! And I'm very impressed with how you are taking your recovery slowly and not trying to muscle through but listening to your body instead. Keep it up!