Show us your Ghoulies - Halloween Run Challenge (Page 39)

everything....stink my house up by grilling salmon..once a week, hamburgers, sausage, veggies....

notarunnr - 2009-10-02 9:38 AM

Girl Passing on Left - 2009-10-02 12:05 PM

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kimk - 2009-10-01 8:34 AM I am Kim and I have been doing tri's for 2 yrs. Just finished my season on Sunday with 2nd in my age! First time I have gotten hardware! I want to do a 1/2 mary the beginning of November so this run challenge will do me good! Need to still figure out my goal. Will look at the training plans here or if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them! The longest I have ever run was a 10 mile but that was in June. I have only been doing 5k's since then. So I need to start from there. I am also a fitness instructor at the Y and need to adjust my workouts for when I teach a lot of classes.

Kim, congrats on the AG hardware!!!!

x2~ also kim there is a program I followed called Hal Higden...wanna join us hals gals? he makes it simple to train...just follow his daily program...if you are too late just count backwards from the day of the race and see where you should be....

http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/index.htm

and my sister who is a marathon runners SWEARS by the run 5min walk 1..run 5 min walk 1...for the entire race...says she totally beats her times of trying to run the whole thing!?! I have trained to run it...so I personally am goint to try and run the entire race!? hoping no walky for me!

I am a big fan of the Hal Higdon plans.  I'm on week 5 of the Novice Half Marathon plan.  Am running the Philadelphia Half in November.

so we have lots of hals gals on this team... Here is a big ol' HIP HIP for hals gals!!!!!

Me too!  I am using the novice HM plan!

KATIE.

YOU A HAL'S GAL TOO.

WOOOOHOOOO!
stacieb

Yep...so I definately think we should have that cabin Hals gals weekend!

BTW GREAT JOB on the 10 miler!

I'M IN.

JULES, YOU COMIN'??

any of the other GHOULIE LADIES want to join us?

get a-packing cuz its a HALS GALS/BT CHICKSTER WEEKEND.

ill bring the wine and the buffalo chicken dip!!!

WOOOOT!
stacieb

Can I come too??? Love girls weekends!  I'll bring "Hals Gals" t-shirts.  Technical and womens sizes, of course.

I'm doing the Hal's novice HM plan, and I have wine, can I come, too?

all you had to say was the word wine....that is the magic word!!!!

You are soooooo IN!!!!

Ok I am going to become a Hal's Gal just to come!  I am more of a Jack Daniels girl.....yes both

oh sista...you need not join! you are always in...and as you know after all the invites to come hang out....you are always welcome...and you remember we do have an extra guest bedroom with nice comfy king bed with its own door so you can come and go as you please....and I will even throw in the use of my car while here! you just have to fly here...oh most important if you come before the end of this month...we can get my brother to cook for us! so all we have to do is drink wine...and more wine....then we can end the evening around the fire pit with a little high end tequilla and with ol' Jack! you know Daniels!

serendipity - 2009-10-02 9:39 AM Just went to contract on a house.  Same town we are in now, but bigger and some nice amenities like running water in the winter (don't ask) and closets.  I love getting another house but hate the process of buying it.  Stress and aggravation.  Looks like I'll be relying on BT and training for sanity again.

gooood luck! so when will you know something?

kromanowski - 2009-10-02 9:41 AM

Girl Passing on Left - 2009-10-02 11:01 AM

kromanowski - 2009-10-02 4:56 AM Morning All!  BIG day for us here in Chicago!!!  I know many people here are against us getting the Olympics because of costs, but I guess because I am a south-sider I can see the potential to rejuvenate neighborhoods that have been neglected for years...oh yeah and I happen to love the olympics

sorry Katie...was just watching the news and Chicago was eliminated! I think it would have been great there! my grandmother grew up there and I would have liked to make a trip there to see her old stomping grounds....

obtw...if any of you know who John Phillip Sousa is...my grandmother was asked to perform in a concert in some park in Chicago with him...back in the 30's or 40's! She was a professional whistler...yup there is such a thing! haha ~~she was walking thru the park whistling when Sousa went past...and loved what he heard...he asked her on the spot to come perform with him while he was playing....pretty cool, eh!??

That is REALLY COOL!  Wow a professional whistler!  and JP Sousa!

yeah she was an amazing lady..and I miss her dearly! she did pass on some of the whistling to me....she loved that I was one of the only grandkids that could actually hold a tune! sure glad she never heard me sing!!!I leave singing for the shower ONLY!!!...when noones at home  hehe

Thanks Dee! I will keep that good luck stored away for when I need it most out there!! have a great weekend....will probably not report back til Monday....we are heading directly from the race venue to a Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco...and then Im sure I will be ready to collapse in bed!

what are your plans for the weekend? running somewhere??? or everywhere??? haha

I love softball...played as a kid for over 6+ years...recently I played on a coed team...and when I went up to bat the other team all came in...and thank goodness for my batting practice I did at the cages before the game....cuz I SMACKED it over thier heads! that will teach them!! haha never underestimate a girl with a bat in her hand! MUWAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks Katie!!!!  I just found out it is supposed to be colder then usual...so here is that layering thing while running...but still will probably underdress rather then over for this dont want to haul a bunch of clothing around my waist and sure dont want to overheat...

although I did just read that any clothes that you throw to the side will be picked up and donated to shelters near by....thats nice! but not sure Im ready to donate my zoot jacket...

ohhhh sooo close....but as they say....NO CIGAR! keep on a trying tri - ing!

that is what I am thinking for tonight!!!! thanks for the reminder!

iowagander - 2009-10-02 10:00 AM

Girl Passing on Left - 2009-10-02 9:01 AM

kromanowski - 2009-10-02 4:56 AM Morning All!  BIG day for us here in Chicago!!!  I know many people here are against us getting the Olympics because of costs, but I guess because I am a south-sider I can see the potential to rejuvenate neighborhoods that have been neglected for years...oh yeah and I happen to love the olympics

sorry Katie...was just watching the news and Chicago was eliminated! I think it would have been great there! my grandmother grew up there and I would have liked to make a trip there to see her old stomping grounds....

obtw...if any of you know who John Phillip Sousa is...my grandmother was asked to perform in a concert in some park in Chicago with him...back in the 30's or 40's! She was a professional whistler...yup there is such a thing! haha ~~she was walking thru the park whistling when Sousa went past...and loved what he heard...he asked her on the spot to come perform with him while he was playing....pretty cool, eh!??

That's awesome! As a former band geek, that's a really cool story.

hey you just never know when you may be approached.... she also helped her sister manage the building that still stands at the end of wrigley field....they used to complain about all the players from the other teams who would stay there and would cause a ruckus...she got some of the most amazing autographs from players and whole teams...I found these recently when my mom and I were going thru some photos of hers....truly impressive some were photos of the entire team and most had signed it! told mom she hit the jackpot...some collector will be dying to have them!

skrtrnr - 2009-10-02 10:03 AM

Girl Passing on Left - 2009-10-02 11:01 AM

kromanowski - 2009-10-02 4:56 AM Morning All!  BIG day for us here in Chicago!!!  I know many people here are against us getting the Olympics because of costs, but I guess because I am a south-sider I can see the potential to rejuvenate neighborhoods that have been neglected for years...oh yeah and I happen to love the olympics

sorry Katie...was just watching the news and Chicago was eliminated! I think it would have been great there! my grandmother grew up there and I would have liked to make a trip there to see her old stomping grounds....

obtw...if any of you know who John Phillip Sousa is...my grandmother was asked to perform in a concert in some park in Chicago with him...back in the 30's or 40's! She was a professional whistler...yup there is such a thing! haha ~~she was walking thru the park whistling when Sousa went past...and loved what he heard...he asked her on the spot to come perform with him while he was playing....pretty cool, eh!??

thats one of the coolest stories ive heard.

someone needs to write that as a chapter in a book....

stacieb

I am really trying to find some kind of brochure or hand out that may have been given the day of her performance with him...still searching!!!! would love to frame it and give it to my mom - her only child! my mom would not believe that we could find one!!! she does not know the power of the internet!! haha

this Hals Gal is going to finish with a smile...and hopefully shine for that camera shot at the finish...even though every bone and muscle will probably be SCREAMING!

actually...I think I will do fine...I just hope I dont forget to not stop and listen to some of the better bands! sure there will be lots of sidelines entertainment....I just hope I stay focused! haha!

STILL indebted to you for life, and will engrave your name on my top tube.

love you mr wgraves.

mwah!
stacieb

me too...trying to keep up with some chatty bters on this challenge....

oh thats right...thats you guys!

all seriousness...I have been staying really busy with my daughter who is working from our home in between the century bike ride last weekend and our HM this weekend. We are having lots of fun. Went shopping yesterday. I behaved...she did not! haha

Another run down! Woooo...my right side under my ribs was hurting though...kinda cramping but kind of not cramping...I don't know...it was weird...so I basically spent my run yesterday trying to decide what it was and today convincing myself that I a) dont have an enlarged liver (ps...i learned how to feel my liver today...yaaaaaa!), and b) that it is just some sort of weird stitch and probably due to the fact that I was sick for awhile and hadn't really been running too much...

I'm probably going to give myself a bruise if I keep on digging under my ribs to feel my liver too...need to stop..haha

not only topPAGE but top of the day! enjoy your weekend!

just dont go all out and I think its fine.....plus depends on your training...which I dont know yet...do you run quite a bit and are those distances comfortable...and you arent planning on going out and breaking records are you??