Running Pumpkins - Halloween Run Challenge (Page 4)

jsnowash - 2009-09-30 7:38 PM

Do we have an updated table with all of our team members listed? I'd love to post it in my training blog! Start of the month tomorrow! GO PUMPKINS!!!

toddg - 2009-09-30 2:18 PM

One more day until the office challenge start and I'm guessing we hit 5 pages of posts before then.  Should be a nice and chatty month here.

Everyone got a run planned for the first day of the challenge?

cmrey528 - 2009-09-30 4:32 PM

Joblin - we'll miss you!  Good luck with your recovery...

D001 - 2009-09-30 8:26 PM



So... Is Joblin withdrawing? And if so, does she want to stay on as Team Cheerleader?

JRowe81 - 2009-10-01 11:08 AM

my training says to run for 50 min but I can't run that long so going out for a quick 1.22 loop then go swim and come back for another 1.22 loop. Just bought a trainer too and was on it for 50min this morning! What a great invention!!!!

JRowe81 - 2009-10-01 11:39 AM SWEET BABY JESUS YES!!!! I think... I think I have found my pace for running! I have been most comfortable over my last few runs between 140-146 HBM. Ran the 1.24 loop around my house very smoothly and ran at a faster pace than ever before!! I am going to blow the 30mile goal out of the water! Hopefully I will hit 45miles or so this month. Which would be huge for me!

Frickin little chilly here today, but love the trainer I bought for my bike!! Off to swim. Oh BTW my uncle is throwing out the 1st pitch of the Red Sox game tonight so I am going to be on the field for that!!! Which will be awesome! What a kick day of training and Sox!

I think I am done the verbal diarrhea....

crews - 2009-10-01 12:48 PM

Congrats on the PR!!

Baowolf - 2009-10-01 12:56 PM

Hi all, late on the scene here.  Good to see some familar faces.  I actually don't know how far I will run as my coach only feeds me 1-2 weeks of workouts at a time.  I have just finished a month recovery post IM and am building back up, have a 30k trail race towards the end of the month (5kish feet of climbing according to the add, yay) and some recovery after that.  I will go conservative with 110 miles and up it if I need to.

Background: I live in the middle of nowhere CA, am 42 years old, happily married 20 years, 5 kids, 17 down to 4 years of age.  I came off the couch 9/07 with no background in anything.  I did a sprint 12/07 and then just moved up the progression over the past 2 years with  1 5k, 2x 10 milers, 1 half mary, 1 30k trail run, 1 full mary,  1 sprint, 1 Oly, 2 HIM, and I completed my first IM (Vineman) in 8/09 Yay.  

I am a Clinical Psychologist, School Psychologist, Program Specialist and lots of ologists and ists as part of my job covering about 10 school programs.  Some of my students like to refer to me as a Psycho-ologist. 

Race wise I have a 30k trail run in October, another one in November and then a marathon in January.  Temps dropped from 90s last week to 50's this week, so time to stop worrying so much about hydration and more about brrr (25F this am).   

I am lowsy with technology, but will try to figure out the spreadsheet thing.   

I am officially a spoiled triathlete, I did my first swim in a fully operational Swimspa lastnight at my home after over a year of contractor nightmares.  Hopefully the heater will have that water temp a bit warmer for this weekend.  It turns out it takes more than a couple hours to heat the tap water up to a comfortable tempurature.

Joblin - 2009-10-01 11:41 AM

Hi all,

actually I did run today and it was fine as long as I stay with shorter distances.

I could be in but need to have a very low goal for this month. Will challenge myself to 50K of running and walking.

Of course I can also cheerlead

Go Team, Go team....(it would help if I could rhyme too lol)

I am in Spain right now surrounded by Ironmans....you just need to do something to not feel left out