August Runners....

[kerc]

Inspiring awe or admiration; majestic: the august presence of the monarch.

Welcome to the August running thread!

[kerc]

Apologies to anyone who posted your goals over in July. I just think new week, new month = time for a new thread!

Welcome to anyone and everyone who is running, thinking about running, walking, wogging, whatever. This thread gets moving fast (like some of the runners here). Jump in where you can, don't feel like you always need to catch up!

[eksmom]

Race/Preggo Lists

BBM - marathon relay (5 mile leg) - September
CherylAnn and sisters - 5K - September 10
CherylAnn - 10K - September 16
kate~mom, nancy926, grnmtnmama, pumpkinseed, mr. pumpkinseed - Philly Distance Run (half) - September 17
Patti Ann & everyone else who would like to participate - Griffin Patrick 5K - September 24
cRebRun - Fox Cities Marathon - September 24
CherylAnn - bike century - September 30
DrJen - 5K - September 30
kpinny - half - September
lucenamama - half - October 1
Plady - half - October 1
Balancin1 - 5K - October 7
wawoof - RNR Half San Jose - October 8
CherylAnn - 5K - October 14(?)
mamabeth - half - October 22
annelizabeth - half - October 22
Geo & Janessa - 5K - October 28
kpinny - Marine Corps Marathon - October 29
Shantimama - half - October
Kerc - half - October
eksmom - Suntrust Richmond Marathon - November 11
Balancin1 - 8K - November 24

The Preggo Dingo List

HBM - September 6 - :
Patti Ann - October 12 - :
ND - December 5 -
BBM - December 30 - :

[eksmom]

My goals for the week:

Monday: cross train - ride bike to/from work - check!
Tuesday: 3 easy, possibly bike to work
Wednesday: 6
Thursday: 3 easy, possibly bike to work
Friday: rest
Saturday: 6 at marathon race pace
Sunday: 11

[kerc]

My weekend -- get ready, it's exciting:
saturday: bring dh's computer in to work. Dump contents to external 450 gig harddrive there. Reinstall operating system. Oh bring along family too just for fun.

sunday: clean out basement. Install shelving over my desk area. Move big old honking table out, replace with smaller table. Goal is to put sewing, knitting and everything else stuff on the shelves, leaving the table space to actually work.



GOALS for Kristin:
1. Get out of the house before 8am 4 days this week. (this is a problem for dissertation writing and needs to be solved ASAP, my best writing time is 7-10 am).

2. Walk or run 100 minutes this week.

3. Water drinking.


Thanks Reb for the dddc!

EKSmom -- can you post some recipes for cukes on your blog or something? WTG on deciding to switch plans. I always thought you were freaking nuts anyhow. I thought of you over the weekend when I was driving to the hardware store to buy shelf brackets -- in my defense, I thought it closed in 10 minutes when it actually closed in 70 minutes.

Geo: are your inlaws there or are you going to Indiana?

BBM: 5 miles. Holy smokes!

everyone else

[poppywise]

subbing!


goal: find a 5k race to run, already...

stay cool everyone!

[moonshine]

Ok, just posted my grumpy whine on the other thread, which is just as well. Starting over.

[Balancin1]

subbing... so swamped at work. But still crusing off yesterday's high!

[kerc]

Originally Posted by moonshine

Ok, just posted my grumpy whine on the other thread, which is just as well. Starting over.

Sorry i forgot to comment on that one. My husband is the world's worst person for me to send to the store. He doesn't eat much fruit and I love love love fruit for snack. So....anyone want either a WAY overripe box of strawberries or a way underripe bag of peaches? I've got milk, I'll trade ya.

[Shantimama]

Goals for this week.........

- walk every day, run as often as my lungs will allow

- keep looking for a good second hand bike

-finish quilt for dh and I

- yoga every day

[Runningmommy]

subbing-

Tuesday~8 miles (strides?), yoga
Wednesday~Recovery 5 miles,yoga, pilates
Thursday~10 miles, yoga
Friday~pilates, yoga
Saturday~Recovery 4 miles,yoga
Sunday~15 miles (will be my longest run yet) yoga

[kate~mom]

subbing :

eks - i have the final 5K of the summer series on wednesday night - can you add me to the race list? it may turn out to be an untimed 3.1 mile group run if the heat is insane.

[Geofizz]

Originally Posted by kerc

Geo: are your inlaws there or are you going to Indiana?

Both: Phil's parents coming Wed night, going to IN for the weekend, MIL/FIL coming back nect Wed-Sat. I'll be working/running a lot.

[Runningmommy]

Wendy~where in Indiana?

[mamabeth]

subbing : must go....maybe to use my very very last day of DSL at work waiting on an African to come pick up the rest of our stuff. but who knows. gotta love African time.

[eksmom]

Katie, I added you.

Kerc, cuke recipes coming up on the blog. We are positively buried under squash and cukes right now and I am having to get creative.

Mamabeth, so sorry you can't take full advantage of the DSL on your last day!

Went out to lunch with DH - Indian food. Tomorrow I reclaim my health... get back to running, eating right. Gonna be a hot bike ride home this afternoon (heat index over 100?), but I gave DH all my "weight" - backpack with everything I don't need so that he can carry it home, not me. The only catch is that in order to be able to wear my sunglasses, I have to be able to transport my regular glasses in my (empty) water bottle, which means no water. Only 6ish miles though, so I should be OK.

[HappyToBe]

I need to check in here for motivation! It's just so HOT out Dh just gave me his old ?MP3 player so hoping that helps keep me running instead of breaking into walks like usually happens.

Awesome thread

[kerc]

Originally Posted by eksmom

The only catch is that in order to be able to wear my sunglasses, I have to be able to transport my regular glasses in my (empty) water bottle, which means no water. Only 6ish miles though, so I should be OK.

how tight's your bra? could you hook em on there and still have water?
room in your saddle bag? mine has a teeny bit of room once I get my spare tube and dodads to change tire in there.


squash: are we talking summer squash?

[Plady]

Just subbing.

Cut my run a mile short today--it was just too stuffy on the TM at the gym and my shoes were bugging me again! : My toes felt first like they were on fire then my left foot started feeling like I was landing on a stone under the ball of my foot again. WHat's up with that??? These are the new new shoes too. I'm bummed and confused.
Gotta run.

[eksmom]

Originally Posted by Old Lady R-C

how tight's your bra? could you hook em on there and still have water?
room in your saddle bag? mine has a teeny bit of room once I get my spare tube and dodads to change tire in there.

squash: are we talking summer squash?

Bra could be tighter but it might work. Saddle bag is small and will be filled with keys and phone (I ditched the tire changing stuff today; 100 degrees is not when/how I'm gonna change my first flat. Phone will have to cover that today!). The glasses case won't fit in there anyway, so I'd only put my glasses in there if I could put keys and phone elsewhere.

I do have a second bottle cage that's normally unused, I could probably get a standard 20 oz. bottle of water or Gatorade and stick it in there. Duh.

I think I need a bigger wedge bag, I was trying to be conservative about weight but it's not realistic.

Yep, summer squash. Just posted recipes to my blog.