my first real running workout

[Brina]

Not just going for a run, but an actual workout. A friend from my paddle team is a personal trainer and took second in her age group at the danskin tri last summer. she started this group to do interval training one morning a week. It was a great workout, but I remembered something important. I HATE RUNNING. But, I guess it would be hard to do a tri without it.

[Tri Girl]

:D lol on the "hate running" comment. I injured myself last fall before my Oct. marathon, and since then I've "hated" running. I'm just now getting back into a groove with it.
Yeah, I guess doing a tri without the running would just be a du- and even duathlons have running (although USAT has some aquathlon races where you only swim and bike... hmmmm).
Glad you tried that run workout. Who knows, you may just grow to LOVE running and want to do it all the time.
Hang in there, it should surely get easier (if not physically- mentally).

[KSH]

I hear ya.

For a short period, I actually began to somewhat like running. Then, I got this lower leg pain.

Now, I dread the thought of running. Actually, it scares me... I think I may never be able to run without pain again.

I am working with someone... and hopefully the leg pain will be fixed... but if it's not, my running days are over.

Hopefully you can become "one" with running!

[Nanci]

I used to hate running- then I discovered trail running.

Nanci

[Nanci]

Makes me wish there were "trail swimming!"

Nanci

[Lise]

Makes me wish there were "trail swimming!"

Nanci
HA! Have you seen some of those X-terra courses? They look like trail swimming to me! Actually, Nanci, X-terra tris might be right up your alley. http://www.xterraplanet.com/races/

I hate running, too. But I do it because I want to be a runner and a triathlete. Sounds funny, but it makes sense to me! :rolleyes: L.

[DirtDiva]

Trail swimming... (http://llanwrtyd-wells.powys.org.uk/bog.html) :D

[Lise]

HA! And to think, I descended from these people. :eek:

But wait! There's an entire triathlon!
http://llanwrtyd-wells.powys.org.uk/bogtriathlon.htm

[DirtDiva]

I know! If I could run 12 miles, I'd be tempted to enter just for a laugh!

[Lise]

I know! If I could run 12 miles, I'd be tempted to enter just for a laugh!
Oh, hey, it's only a run of "approximately 8-10 miles". Who gets to choose? How approximate are we talking here? Cuz after 8 miles, that's enough for me! I've never said, "Oh, what the heck, let's do a couple more!" And let's see, you run 8-10 miles, then you snorkle through a bog, then you mtb 16-18 miles...again, who decides that distance?!?

I must say, it sounds right up Nanci's alley. :p

I especially like the pictures of people cheering along the sides of the bog snorkel channel thing. I mean. Don't they have, um, other things to do? Bog snorkeling. It's going to haunt me.

Let's see. This thread started out about running. I went running today. What happened? :eek: I am so de-conditioned. Last fall I was running so much, training for a marathon. Now I cannot run 2 miles without walking a block here and there to catch my breath. Some of it's emotional, a bit depressed about the stupid guy who walked away (see thread in "open"). But c'mon, Lise, shake it off. I'm just not as strong as I was last fall when I was training a lot. I looked back at my training log from this time last year; I am stronger now than I was then, and I had my best season ever last year. So just keep at it. I'm off to ride my bike to the YMCA and go swimming. I just need to run more. And bike more. And swim more.... :rolleyes: L.

[Nanci]

S*r*w that guy Lise! He probably has a small pee pee anyway!! It'd be like bog snorkeling to find it!

Just be glad he didn't have a s**t explosion in your bathroom like one guy I met on-line!

Nanci (always ready to take it to a lower level)

[mommelisa]

Just be glad he didn't have a s**t explosion in your bathroom like one guy I met on-line!
Nanci (always ready to take it to a lower level)

LOL, Nanci! That reminds me of that movie with Jennifer Anniston "Along Came Polly". Did you see that scene in the bathroom? I laughed so hard I cried!

[Nanci]

Yeah, it was like that, only we didn't live happily ever after. He didn't even get to kiss me.

Nanci

[Lise]

S*r*w that guy Lise! He probably has a small pee pee anyway!! It'd be like bog snorkeling to find it!

Just be glad he didn't have a s**t explosion in your bathroom like one guy I met on-line!

Nanci (always ready to take it to a lower level)
Ummm...no, I can testify to this one....OK, I'm a sl**. :o But the two things (he thinks) he has going for him are ...the size of his pee pee, and his Jaguar. From now on, no more guys with fancy cars. Size of car price inversely proportional to size of heart, appearantly!

We never got to the stage of him using my bathroom, I am glad to report.

I am now chuckling and blushing ferociously, both uncontrollably. hehhehehehheh...must stop laughing. And blushing. and laughing...NANCI! I'm bog snorkling trying to re-locate my dignity! hehehhehehehHA!

[Lise]

Oh, we kissed alright. Chemistry. Magic. Wrong! Man, I've had "chemistry" before with people who were absolutely wrong for me, I've just never had them walk away without any warning or a goodbye! Blah! Blah! I should send him an all-expenses paid voucher for an exciting BOG SNORKLING vacation! heheheheheheh ... must get grip on self....:p

[Nanci]

I met this guy, on line, who was like a thousand years younger than me. I think we might have gone to a movie, and dinner at some Italian place. Later, we made out on the couch for hours, but we never "did it." Of course, he never called me back. That was 9-11. THE 9-11.

[KnottedYet]

Running, running, it was about RUNNING workouts! (hee hee)

I'm doing the Danskin Tri this summer. I'm WALKING.

[Nanci]

I believe this is called Thread Drift.

Nanci

[Nanci]

You'll feel a lot better if you have a glass of wine and WATCH THE EAGLE.

http://www.infotecbsi.com/wildlife/

[KnottedYet]

Had me a big ol' glass of Red Hook Extra Special Bitter, does that count? (mmmmmm, beeeeeeer)

Watchin' my doggie beg for a taste of my nachos. Not quite as diginfied as an eagle! In fact, no dignity at all. (good lord, he's DROOLING)

Come on over to my house! I got more beer! :p

[Lise]

I went. I watched the eagle. I believe it was Mr. Eagle, based on hairdo. I enjoy writing "eagle" and "hairdo" in the same sentence, thank you, Nanci.

Yes, this thread has drifted. Ahem. Back to running. No shame in walking the Danskin tri. The only shame, appearantly, comes when *I* walk during my "runs"! argh. I have started doing what I call intervals, who knows if they really are--I just run faster for a block, or half a block, then walk to recover, then run my usual pace. I could stand to have a more organized way to train, but I do OK.

Nanci, really what do you think of the Bog Snorkelling Triathlon?!? :eek:
PS: If one of your memories of 9/11 is that of making out for hours with a much younger man, then you're way ahead of most of us. ;)

[Trek420]

Did you see they have...mountain bike bog snorkelling :eek:

The 9th World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships

http://llanwrtyd-wells.powys.org.uk/eventbogbike.htm

[Lise]

The Welsh. Who knew they were so odd? Yes, I'm part Welsh. Don't throw bits of peat bog at me. :D L.

[Nanci]

Actually, my first memory of 9-11 is going to Surgical Intensive Care, and there's a big commotion, with everyone gathered at the foot of a patient's bed where the TV is. I'm told a plane has hit the WTC, but then, everyone mostly thought it was a horrible accident. I called down to my department and told the person at the desk to go to the lounge and watch TV right now. Then, while we were still at the foot of the bed in SICU, the second plane hit- I saw it live.

Bog snorkeling looks a lot easier than swimming!!! I'd do that if they had it here.

Nanci

[DirtDiva]

I bought my first car on 9-11.

As for the thread "drift"... I think this was more a case of pulling a handbrake turn and speeding off in the other direction. Mea culpa - I think it was the bog snorkelling that did it. :p

[Nanci]

I think this thread jumped the shark at the mention of Trail Swimming!

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Jumping the shark is a metaphor that has been used by US TV critics and fans since the 1990s to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed to have passed its peak. Once a show has "jumped the shark," fans sense a noticeable decline in quality or feel the show has undergone too many changes to retain its original charm.

The phrase was popularized by Jon Hein on his website jumptheshark.com. It alludes to a scene in the TV series Happy Days when the popular character Fonzie, on water skis, literally jumps over a shark.

[crazycanuck]

I remember that Happy Days episode...As far as i can remember we were living overseas and it took forever for the episode to be played...Similar to living down under and being wayyyyyy behind on ER...

So, is abbie back with luka????

(The only thing i remember about 9-11 is logging onto the bbc thinking i'd find the normal whirlwind of news...OH was i wrong...thought WTF??? Turned on tv & oh...)

My gramma passed away a few weeks later..:( I never had a chance to say goodbye...:(

This thread was about running...(Reminds me to ask our coach if our session is still on next tues am due to ANZAC day. tlkiwi are you going to the dawn service???)

c

[DirtDiva]

I doubt it. The one here starts at 5.00am and, given that it's not a public holiday here and I'd have to have left the house by 4.00am (at least), I don't think I could make it through the work day! If I don't work, I don't get paid, so no spontaneous days off for me at present (gotta save for the summer hols). :(

[Brina]

But the two things (he thinks) he has going for him are ...the size of his pee pee, and his Jaguar. From now on, no more guys with fancy cars. Size of car price inversely proportional to size of heart, appearantly!


and directly proportional to how big an ******* he is. don't get me started.

oh, wait, dh drives a beemer and is a saint to put up with me. ah well, to every rule there is an exception.

I love thread drift.

[Lise]

and directly proportional to how big an ******* he is. don't get me started.

oh, wait, dh drives a beemer and is a saint to put up with me. ah well, to every rule there is an exception.

I love thread drift.
So glad you don't mind the thread drift! I, seriously, did think--I hope Brina's not pissed that we hijacked her "I hate running" thread!

May I just say that I do hate running right now? It may be because I just haven't really run that much over the winter, usually 6-7 miles a week, less some weeks. Or maybe I just need new shoes. I do think I need new shoes, but that's not really it. I need to run with a friend more often. It's my head that quits long before my heart, lungs, or legs.

My ex-partner, the abusive one, bought a Beemer not too long before the end of our relationship. I was on the title, for "my own security". On the title means on the loan, of course. We'd been apart for about 8 months when I got the call from the finance company. "You're two months behind on your BMW payments." "I don't own a BMW." "You're on the loan." :eek: :eek: :eek: Long story short, to save my own credit, I ended up paying it off, giving my ex my car in exchange for the BMW. That was a $16,000 mistake. I called that car "The Resentmobile". Finally traded it in for a lovely Chevy Malibu.

I always loved Jags, they are such pretty cars. Now I actually grimace when I see one. Sigh. :rolleyes: For such a smart woman, I can be so...foolish sometimes. L.

[JoyfullySo]

I have always been a Jag fan myself, but I am a much bigger fan of the classic body. The new ones have a funny front end.

BTW... Running is pretty lousy for me too. It has improved since I read about all this running technique stuff and found out that I should NOT try to run like my husband..... Boys and girls run differently.. Imagine that!!!

[bikerz]

So here's the problem with thread drift...

I was thinking to myself - hey, I meant to look at that link on bog snorkling to see what the heck it was... now what thread was that on? Was it the screwdriver thread, no that's the one about pushups. Was it the Maze thread, no, that's the one about snakes... Oh yeah - it was the running thread, which is now about jerky guys and fancy cars!!

(of course, I also could have seached "bog snorkling" and found it pretty quick, but where's the fun in that!)

But thread drift is also why I read almost every thread when I have time - you never know where you'll end up! :rolleyes:

[Brina]

But thread drift is also why I read almost every thread when I have time - you never know where you'll end up! :rolleyes:


it always seems that the ones I decide to skip turn into the juicy sex talks.:o

[Lise]

This thread has it all + a bag of chips. Let's see, to sum up:

~running
~sex, jerky guys
~fancy cars
~9/11
~bog snorkeling
~Happy Days
~the Eagle

Did I get everything? I'm with bikerz--the hardest thing about thread drift is remembering where somebody posted that cute picture or cool link that has nothing to do with the thread header!

I'll bet this is more common among womens' boards--it's how we think. :o L.

[bikerz]

This thread has it all + a bag of chips.

I think the Pringles were on another thread!

[Lise]

I think the Pringles were on another thread!
Right you are. :p

ummm...was there any biking in this thread?

[DirtDiva]

Well I was going to post "ROTFLMAO" but I can change that to rolling along on my bike, laughing me arse off, just to keep you happy. ;)

[Lise]

also, there's beer in this thread.

Hope you didn't hurt yourself, laughing that hard while riding that fast! :D

[Brina]

beer is GOOD

[KnottedYet]

Was it Ben Franklin who said that beer was proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?

Tonight I have no beer. Just Dr. Pepper. Oh, sad and lonely Friday night!

[Lise]

I have had no beer for nearly 22 years.

It's for the best. Trust me on this :p L.

[Brina]

Was it Ben Franklin who said that beer was proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy?

Tonight I have no beer. Just Dr. Pepper. Oh, sad and lonely Friday night!


Yes, it was Franklin - I have it on a t-shirt.

[DirtDiva]

Hope you didn't hurt yourself, laughing that hard while riding that fast! :D
Nah, I was going downhill at the time (hence the speed), so I didn't have to worry about remembering to pedal whilst laughing.