Disney Here I Come!
First thing's first:
http://www.active.com/donate/tntnmep/tntnmepSGrow
http://www.active.com/donate/tnttxgc/hana_chan
Suzuko and I are both fundraising for Team in Training for the Disney World Half Marathon. If you can - please help us out!
I missed the deadline to sign up for the Disney half, so, I'm going with Team in Training.
Anyway, pretty much I didn't run at all near the wedding. I may have gone once since I last posted. And then I went home on August 3, and didn't work out at all. The wedding went great - you can go to www.brantandhanako.com for pictures and more info.
Then we went to Kauai. We had a blast, went deep sea fishing, scuba diving, on a helicopter tour - and we did kayak 17 miles along the Na Pali coast. So I did a little bit of exercising that day! Though it was a double kayak - and I think I let Brant do more of the work than I did....
Anyway, we got back on August 20th. On Tuesday the 22nd I went to my first practice with this season's participants. It was a track night, so we did a warm up, some stretching, and then just ran for 20 minutes. I started out at my pace and realized two things - one - no one was anywhere near my pace, and two - I could potentially catch up with and run with the fastest guy there - George, who happens to be my mentee.
So I sprinted and caught up with him. We ran together for maybe about a lap. And then I was done with that pace! So then I shuffled along with some other participants and did some intervals too. Mostly just trying to get to know people. It was nice to be out running again though. Then on Thursday I went out and did 20 minutes - not quite making it two miles. I pushed much harder on the first mile than the second - and didn't even make it back to my starting place. I'll blame it on the heat and humidity.
Saturday I have no idea how far I went. I did some intervals with a participant (Patty) for the first mile. We ran a total of four minutes and walked the rest. Then we kept walking for a bit over half a mile. By this time, George was on his way back - so I turned and ran with him for probably about a quarter of a mile. Maybe almost a half. Turned around with some walkers. Turned around with a runner. Turned around with some intervalers. Turned around with a runner. Turned around with some walkers and finally turned around with a runner. Her pace was right at the top of my walking pace - so I walked back with her. Anyway, each time I was with the people for somewhere between a quarter and a half mile. But I was walking big chunks of that. Again, it felt good to be back outside again, moving. Even though it was pretty hot.
Then we had a team breakfast, where everyone got to meet Donna Pitlik - the honored teammate of all my mentees. She's a great woman - I met her in my first season of TNT. What's neat about her is that she was diagnosed some 12+ years ago. And given 3 years to live. She's gone on various experimental drugs that all helped - but she grew resistant to them. Towards the end of my first season, she went on a new research drug. And finally started seeing chromasomal changes. She went from having 0 good chromasomes (out of the 20 they test) to having all 20 be good. She really is a testament to why we're doing this. Without the money that we raise for research and the research drugs - Donna would not be here. No question about it. So that was really neat and inspiring.
Back to running - I went out yesterday for 20 minutes. It was really hot and humid. However, I did much better with my pacing - and even though I was just shy of 2 full miles - I did at least manage to get back to my starting point - so at least I didn't lag that second ten minutes! Tonight I'll go again. They changed the training schedule from 3 days during the week to 4. So I'll aim for that!
In other news, Brant and I are starting to look for a house. We're hoping to get one even closer to the park. Ah to roll out of bed and be able to go running....
http://www.active.com/donate/tntnmep/tntnmepSGrow
http://www.active.com/donate/tnttxgc/hana_chan
Suzuko and I are both fundraising for Team in Training for the Disney World Half Marathon. If you can - please help us out!
I missed the deadline to sign up for the Disney half, so, I'm going with Team in Training.
Anyway, pretty much I didn't run at all near the wedding. I may have gone once since I last posted. And then I went home on August 3, and didn't work out at all. The wedding went great - you can go to www.brantandhanako.com for pictures and more info.
Then we went to Kauai. We had a blast, went deep sea fishing, scuba diving, on a helicopter tour - and we did kayak 17 miles along the Na Pali coast. So I did a little bit of exercising that day! Though it was a double kayak - and I think I let Brant do more of the work than I did....
Anyway, we got back on August 20th. On Tuesday the 22nd I went to my first practice with this season's participants. It was a track night, so we did a warm up, some stretching, and then just ran for 20 minutes. I started out at my pace and realized two things - one - no one was anywhere near my pace, and two - I could potentially catch up with and run with the fastest guy there - George, who happens to be my mentee.
So I sprinted and caught up with him. We ran together for maybe about a lap. And then I was done with that pace! So then I shuffled along with some other participants and did some intervals too. Mostly just trying to get to know people. It was nice to be out running again though. Then on Thursday I went out and did 20 minutes - not quite making it two miles. I pushed much harder on the first mile than the second - and didn't even make it back to my starting place. I'll blame it on the heat and humidity.
Saturday I have no idea how far I went. I did some intervals with a participant (Patty) for the first mile. We ran a total of four minutes and walked the rest. Then we kept walking for a bit over half a mile. By this time, George was on his way back - so I turned and ran with him for probably about a quarter of a mile. Maybe almost a half. Turned around with some walkers. Turned around with a runner. Turned around with some intervalers. Turned around with a runner. Turned around with some walkers and finally turned around with a runner. Her pace was right at the top of my walking pace - so I walked back with her. Anyway, each time I was with the people for somewhere between a quarter and a half mile. But I was walking big chunks of that. Again, it felt good to be back outside again, moving. Even though it was pretty hot.
Then we had a team breakfast, where everyone got to meet Donna Pitlik - the honored teammate of all my mentees. She's a great woman - I met her in my first season of TNT. What's neat about her is that she was diagnosed some 12+ years ago. And given 3 years to live. She's gone on various experimental drugs that all helped - but she grew resistant to them. Towards the end of my first season, she went on a new research drug. And finally started seeing chromasomal changes. She went from having 0 good chromasomes (out of the 20 they test) to having all 20 be good. She really is a testament to why we're doing this. Without the money that we raise for research and the research drugs - Donna would not be here. No question about it. So that was really neat and inspiring.
Back to running - I went out yesterday for 20 minutes. It was really hot and humid. However, I did much better with my pacing - and even though I was just shy of 2 full miles - I did at least manage to get back to my starting point - so at least I didn't lag that second ten minutes! Tonight I'll go again. They changed the training schedule from 3 days during the week to 4. So I'll aim for that!
In other news, Brant and I are starting to look for a house. We're hoping to get one even closer to the park. Ah to roll out of bed and be able to go running....
