More Manatee Mayhem - 2017 Edition - Closed (Page 30)

Originally posted by rrrunner

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Originally posted by rrrunner

Those of you registered for an IM event. Did you get the $90 insurance? I did but have 10 days to cancel. From what I can tell it'll cover travel problems and injury or sickness. It'll cover if the event is stopped after it starts but not if it doesn't start for weather reasons.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by StaceyK ok a shoe question. How worn do you let the tread on your shoes get before you replace them? I know that some people say that you should get 500 mile out of a pair of shoes, but is this at all realistic? I was looking at the soles of my older pair of shoes yesterday and they are fairly worn across the ball of my foot, but I have only done about 260km (160ish mile) in them. This seems really low. Pretty much all of my running is done on fairly chunky chip sealed roads and I am a bit of an elephant when I run. Do you think that this will make the soles wear out more quickly?

Originally posted by fortissimo Yay!!!! Yes, I always get the insurance. Well except this one time when I signed up for Ironman 70.3 Oceanside because the website wasn't offering it at sign up. Then I missed the email a few weeks later. And then I got sick. Then, while on cough syrup with codeine I accidentally paid for our hotel in full (non refundable). Now I have 8 weeks to figure this out... Get the insurance!!!! You may be out $90 but that's better than plane fare, hotel fare, and race fees. Also, your credit card may cover everything that the insurance does not. Check their policy.

Originally posted by rrrunner

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Congratulations! You are now registered for the 2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery. Please check the event's official website for updates: ironman.com/chattanooga

Race Date: September 24, 2017

 

Originally posted by rrrunner

Those of you registered for an IM event. Did you get the $90 insurance? I did but have 10 days to cancel. From what I can tell it'll cover travel problems and injury or sickness. It'll cover if the event is stopped after it starts but not if it doesn't start for weather reasons.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by rrrunner

2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery

Congratulations! You are now registered for the 2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery. Please check the event's official website for updates: ironman.com/chattanooga

Race Date: September 24, 2017

 

Originally posted by StaceyK ok a shoe question. How worn do you let the tread on your shoes get before you replace them? I know that some people say that you should get 500 mile out of a pair of shoes, but is this at all realistic? I was looking at the soles of my older pair of shoes yesterday and they are fairly worn across the ball of my foot, but I have only done about 260km (160ish mile) in them. This seems really low. Pretty much all of my running is done on fairly chunky chip sealed roads and I am a bit of an elephant when I run. Do you think that this will make the soles wear out more quickly?

Originally posted by jmkizer

Woo hoo!

Originally posted by rrrunner

2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery

Congratulations! You are now registered for the 2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery. Please check the event's official website for updates: ironman.com/chattanooga

Race Date: September 24, 2017

 

Originally posted by rrrunner

Those of you registered for an IM event. Did you get the $90 insurance? I did but have 10 days to cancel. From what I can tell it'll cover travel problems and injury or sickness. It'll cover if the event is stopped after it starts but not if it doesn't start for weather reasons.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by lisac957

I get around 400 miles out of a pair of running shoes. At some point after 300 miles, my feet, knees and shins let me know that they are wearing down but I stretch to 400 miles. By that time they literally have holes in them. 160 miles does seem really low.

Originally posted by rrrunner

2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery

Congratulations! You are now registered for the 2017 Little Debbie IRONMAN Chattanooga presented by: McKee A Family Bakery. Please check the event's official website for updates: ironman.com/chattanooga

Race Date: September 24, 2017

 

Originally posted by StaceyK

Oh I should also say thanks for the recommendation of the Daniels running book. I gave it to my sister at the start of December when she headed to Brazil for a holiday. She loves it (she is a science geek) and has started applying what she has been learning while she has been on holiday.

While she was in Rio she ran about 20km along the Olympic Marathon Route (as she says she got to "run the purple line"), applying what she learnt from the book she was averaging around 5:00 per km and she is stoked, so thanks heaps.

Originally posted by StaceyK For those of you that are interested I wanted to update you on how the January "Turtle Challenge" went. For those that don't know what I'm talking about my mum, my myself, and my friend K were lacking a bit of motivation to run through November and December last year and we were supposed to be gearing up to start training for the 2018 Disney Dopey Challenge. So to get us motivated I worked out the entire years training plan and wrote it out on a wall planner for each of us. The challenge was then set that the person who dropped the most number of training days between 26/12/2016 and 31/01/2017 had to buy the other two a $100 gift voucher each at the store of there choice. (There were some rules around being sick and being allowed to rearrange a week but won't go into them). Well today the challenge ended and we all completed 100% of the required training within the rules, which means we all ran (or walked if injury was involved) 27 out of the last 37 days. We have all been running mostly easy and sure the distances haven't been huge (nothing over 7k) but they have been what's required to get us from where we are through to finishing Dopey. All of us have seen fairly considerable improvement in our average times, dropping between 30seconds and a minute off our average pace per km. Anyway I wanted to let you know how the people that you are helping through the information and encouragement you are giving me are going. We haven't worked out what the payout will be for the February challenge, but regardless it starts tomorrow.

Originally posted by StaceyK For those of you that are interested I wanted to update you on how the January "Turtle Challenge" went. For those that don't know what I'm talking about my mum, my myself, and my friend K were lacking a bit of motivation to run through November and December last year and we were supposed to be gearing up to start training for the 2018 Disney Dopey Challenge. So to get us motivated I worked out the entire years training plan and wrote it out on a wall planner for each of us. The challenge was then set that the person who dropped the most number of training days between 26/12/2016 and 31/01/2017 had to buy the other two a $100 gift voucher each at the store of there choice. (There were some rules around being sick and being allowed to rearrange a week but won't go into them). Well today the challenge ended and we all completed 100% of the required training within the rules, which means we all ran (or walked if injury was involved) 27 out of the last 37 days. We have all been running mostly easy and sure the distances haven't been huge (nothing over 7k) but they have been what's required to get us from where we are through to finishing Dopey. All of us have seen fairly considerable improvement in our average times, dropping between 30seconds and a minute off our average pace per km. Anyway I wanted to let you know how the people that you are helping through the information and encouragement you are giving me are going. We haven't worked out what the payout will be for the February challenge, but regardless it starts tomorrow.

Originally posted by StaceyK For those of you that are interested I wanted to update you on how the January "Turtle Challenge" went. For those that don't know what I'm talking about my mum, my myself, and my friend K were lacking a bit of motivation to run through November and December last year and we were supposed to be gearing up to start training for the 2018 Disney Dopey Challenge. So to get us motivated I worked out the entire years training plan and wrote it out on a wall planner for each of us. The challenge was then set that the person who dropped the most number of training days between 26/12/2016 and 31/01/2017 had to buy the other two a $100 gift voucher each at the store of there choice. (There were some rules around being sick and being allowed to rearrange a week but won't go into them). Well today the challenge ended and we all completed 100% of the required training within the rules, which means we all ran (or walked if injury was involved) 27 out of the last 37 days. We have all been running mostly easy and sure the distances haven't been huge (nothing over 7k) but they have been what's required to get us from where we are through to finishing Dopey. All of us have seen fairly considerable improvement in our average times, dropping between 30seconds and a minute off our average pace per km. Anyway I wanted to let you know how the people that you are helping through the information and encouragement you are giving me are going. We haven't worked out what the payout will be for the February challenge, but regardless it starts tomorrow.

Originally posted by jmkizer

Woo hoo!

Originally posted by StaceyK Oh I should also say thanks for the recommendation of the Daniels running book. I gave it to my sister at the start of December when she headed to Brazil for a holiday. She loves it (she is a science geek) and has started applying what she has been learning while she has been on holiday. While she was in Rio she ran about 20km along the Olympic Marathon Route (as she says she got to "run the purple line"), applying what she learnt from the book she was averaging around 5:00 per km and she is stoked, so thanks heaps.

Originally posted by StaceyK Oh I should also say thanks for the recommendation of the Daniels running book. I gave it to my sister at the start of December when she headed to Brazil for a holiday. She loves it (she is a science geek) and has started applying what she has been learning while she has been on holiday. While she was in Rio she ran about 20km along the Olympic Marathon Route (as she says she got to "run the purple line"), applying what she learnt from the book she was averaging around 5:00 per km and she is stoked, so thanks heaps.