Last week was brutal, just brutal. Monday started off nice; I was feeling good, increasing my stride and really enjoying the pace. 10/50 RWR was finally starting to feel normal, which is good. But Tuesday, oh Tuesday. My left ankle just throbbed. I iced it and decided to take it easy. This extended into Wednesday, which saw the arrival of the rains. We've needed serious precipitation here on the East Coast for a couple months and we finally got it. Various weather stations in the area reported multiple inches of rain over the next several days, extending into and through most of the weekend.
Needless to say, last week was pretty much a wash (pun not...well, ok, yes, pun sort of intended). Tim and Jonathan toughed it out and got through most of the schedule (serious props to them). This week though we start fresh, picking up wherewe I left off with Week #4 of conditioning:
Needless to say, last week was pretty much a wash (pun not...well, ok, yes, pun sort of intended). Tim and Jonathan toughed it out and got through most of the schedule (serious props to them). This week though we start fresh, picking up where
Week #4 (10/50 RWR)
| Day | Duration |
| Monday | 23 min. run/walk |
| Tuesday | 28 min. walk |
| Wednesday | 25 min. run/walk |
| Thursday | 30 min. walk |
| Friday | OFF |
| Saturday | 1.75 mile run/walk |
| Sunday | OFF |
We've already bumped our walking times up to a half hour flat, since that's relatively easy to do. Overall, we hope to be done the conditioning program by the end of November/early December. Tim has been studying Galloway's different training regimens and has some ideas on how we can bridge the gap between 15 and 30 RWR (the delta between the end of the conditioning program and the beginning of the actual half marathon training). Every day helps.
On a slightly brighter note, I spent some time last week polishing the blog's background theme. Our original was a simple tiled layout using this awesome picture Tim found of Main Street in the Magic Kingdom:
I spent some time perusing Google and found a ton of cool images pertaining to the various runDisney events, including many really nice shots of the different finisher medal collections.
The According to Kelly blog is a neat site run by Kelly Lewis, a pretty prolific blogger who documents all of her running events with runDisney (she's actually considered a member of the media when covering these events). Just seeing all of the different moments captured on her excursions is exciting; there are so many runners at these events it's almost mind boggling. Anyway, I definitely recommend checking out her site if you have time.
The final picture I grabbed for our new background features Maleficent in her dragon form, menacing a runner in front of Cinderella's Castle:
The Slowly Tri-ing blog is another neat runner's blog documenting different runDisney events.
I spent an evening playing around in Adobe Photoshop Elements with all of the above images and more, tweaking different collage layouts until I created a scrapbooking style that I thought worked well for the blog. Over time, I plan on adding in pictures of us as we participate in different events. The final result is all around this post so I hope you enjoy it.
Before I close, take a look at that third medals picture, the one with the medal collection. Do you see the white circular medal in the bottom right corner? That is the 2012 Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon medal. In 13 months time, we will all be wearing that medal. Bring it!
Cheers,
Peter
On a slightly brighter note, I spent some time last week polishing the blog's background theme. Our original was a simple tiled layout using this awesome picture Tim found of Main Street in the Magic Kingdom:
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| Quiet on Main Street, taken from Magic in Pixels Photography |
I spent some time perusing Google and found a ton of cool images pertaining to the various runDisney events, including many really nice shots of the different finisher medal collections.
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| The Princess Half Marathon Tiara and the Coast-to-Coast medals, found at According to Kelly - The Princess Half Marathon |
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| The Walt Disney World Half Marathon, Marathon, and Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge medals, obtained from According to Kelly - Goofy's Challenge Part 2 - 2013 Walt Disney World Marathon |
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| All sorts of Walt Disney World and Disneyland finisher medals, seen at According to Kelly - Princess Half Marathon 2013 |
The final picture I grabbed for our new background features Maleficent in her dragon form, menacing a runner in front of Cinderella's Castle:
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| Mile 11: Slay Dragon, original seen at Slowly Tri-ing - 2011...A Mostly Great Year! |
I spent an evening playing around in Adobe Photoshop Elements with all of the above images and more, tweaking different collage layouts until I created a scrapbooking style that I thought worked well for the blog. Over time, I plan on adding in pictures of us as we participate in different events. The final result is all around this post so I hope you enjoy it.
Before I close, take a look at that third medals picture, the one with the medal collection. Do you see the white circular medal in the bottom right corner? That is the 2012 Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon medal. In 13 months time, we will all be wearing that medal. Bring it!
Cheers,
Peter
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