March 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    @rheddmobile Having spent most of my life around military, being married to a veteran, working in a military community and volunteering there as well I can assure you usually the whiny be - otches with impulse control problems don't usually make it very long one way or the other. Unfortunately I'm probably as uptight and obnoxious as your husband 😬 sounds.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    LoveyChar wrote: »
    @rheddmobile Having spent most of my life around military, being married to a veteran, working in a military community and volunteering there as well I can assure you usually the whiny be - otches with impulse control problems don't usually make it very long one way or the other. Unfortunately I'm probably as uptight and obnoxious as your husband 😬 sounds.

    My entire family is military, including my sister who’s a (retired) Marine Colonel. Believe it or not, my husband was a Ranger Pathfinder in Panama. He does come through when the stakes are high enough!
  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    LoveyChar wrote: »
    @rheddmobile Having spent most of my life around military, being married to a veteran, working in a military community and volunteering there as well I can assure you usually the whiny be - otches with impulse control problems don't usually make it very long one way or the other. Unfortunately I'm probably as uptight and obnoxious as your husband 😬 sounds.

    My entire family is military, including my sister who’s a (retired) Marine Colonel. Believe it or not, my husband was a Ranger Pathfinder in Panama. He does come through when the stakes are high enough!

    That is awesome, truly awesome! I don't know what a Ranger Pathfinder is but my ex-husband was an 82nd Airborne Ranger, completely crazy but driven. They're all amazing and I don't even like my ex-husband but he still sacrificed as did they all. I appreciate all of them...the land of the free because of the brave...
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,451 Member
    @Elise4270 Glad you got out for a walk. No idea about the toes.

  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    Not joking nor being sarcastic. This is not an "introverts rule during quarantine" post, just a very real observation.

    The longer we live under this "lockdown" the more I realize that my regular lifestyle is considered "hard" and "oppressive" and "unrealistic" to most. In fact thanks to required "zoom video meetings" - I am being forced to GREATER levels of interactivity with others than before this lockdown.

    Seriously, y'all are strange. :)

    THIS!!!!! For me, the only big difference is my husband is here. ALL the time. And I wanna kill him. Other than that, not much changed.

    We should have quarantined all the husband's together... Mines driving me mad too.


    My husband has many fine qualities but stoicism is not one of them. We both work from home so we are fairly used to a high dose of each other’s company but the added stress is not bringing out the best in either of us. You know how in war movies there’s always that one recruit who complains all the time so much that the others secretly pray he’s going to cop it? And then he either catches a bullet early in the movie to show the stakes are real, or ends up getting his stuff together and becoming an unexpected hero. Or sometimes both. That would be my husband. Yesterday on our cool down walk he was melodramatically carrying on because someone was walking on the far side of the street from us at almost exactly our pace, with a set of jingling keys. After asking him to please stop talking about it for the fifth time I straight up told him that it would be a miracle if we both lived through this. Which bought me some silence, for about half a block.

    LOL! Mines ADD and I am just beginning to understand that he isn’t intentionally being obnoxious. It still feels like it though. He won’t listen to me at all, when he just asked me what I thought ? And I’m not the boss of him... well. No I’m not. We’re not use to this much time together. If I asked mine to please stop talking about the keys... I’d be accused of not caring about his feelings and being unsupportive, maybe even secretly sleeping with, liking, plotting with, the key jangler! Haha! No not really. But maybe. Gotta love them, I know they try.

    @quilteryoyo I think the toes ate just tightness really. No pain but since my gait is poor, maybe it’s just tired and overworked. Thanks for thinking on it though.
  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    4 fantastic miles tonight! My heart goes out to all people, most likely everyone, affected by this. I saw a boy and grandpa (or dad) with metal detectors out doing their thing, saw cyclists, walkers, runners, saw a food truck and people waiting in line. I ran up to the middle school track and unlike my daughter's track at her school, this one is wide open. I ran laps around it while this buff man used all the bar equipment and was flipping the humongous tire that football players use to practice tackling with. People are trying to remain optimistic and positive. Smile and keep on keeping on.

    Nice job to all of you that are pushing on and pushing through.

    @Scott6255 It's a hot one out there! I was "glistening" as well... You got it done, my friend, nice job!

    @quilteryoyo I like that show, most anything crime drama is my interest. Nice way to enjoy a run!
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited March 2020
    @quilteryoyo @LoveyChar I like true crime sometimes. It gets dark and it’s just dumb the reasons people find to do others in. But... dh told me our local loco joe exotic has a series on in Netflix. Swore I wouldn’t watch it, but heck, I’m gonna queue it up momentarily. It’s called Tiger King if anyone’s interested in some real stupidity/ true crime.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    @quilteryoyo @LoveyChar I like true crime sometimes. It gets dark and it’s just dumb the reasons people find to do others in. But... dh told me our local loco joe exotic has a series on in Netflix. Swore I wouldn’t watch it, but heck, I’m gonna queue it up momentarily. It’s called Tiger King if anyone’s interested in some real stupidity/ true crime.

    I added that to my Netflix queue already. It's such a crazy story.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    @quilteryoyo @LoveyChar I like true crime sometimes. It gets dark and it’s just dumb the reasons people find to do others in. But... dh told me our local loco joe exotic has a series on in Netflix. Swore I wouldn’t watch it, but heck, I’m gonna queue it up momentarily. It’s called Tiger King if anyone’s interested in some real stupidity/ true crime.

    I added that to my Netflix queue already. It's such a crazy story.

    I never took my kids. He’d go to the mall with the cats and they were all shady AF. So glad I never went. But there were always a lot of local rumors about him and the park. We do the arbuckle park next to his, with the llama, camel, rhino, and such. No cats.
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    @elise4270 - when @7lenny7 hurt his foot didn't he have issues with his toe drooping? I can't tell if yours is drooping or just curled but possibly it could have to do with the tendon he hurt, maybe?

    My husband and I worked from home together for years. He started at home several years after I did though and I was a bit miffed at having him here initially. But then he stayed in his office and I stayed in mine and we would pass in the hallway or meet in the kitchen for coffee or lunch. Really it wasn't too different as having a co-worker in an office. Now though we are both stressed although he would never admit it. Not that we would go out a lot but now we are missing the traveling and even just getting out once in a while to the store or a movie or something.
    We have been taking some walks and today he actually took Hobbes out while I was working on a cleaning project. No run and no strength workout.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,451 Member
    edited March 2020
    @LoveyChar Crime drama and the really old TV show re-runs are my go-to shows. And anything dog related. :wink:

    @Elise4270 Shoot. I don't have Netflix. If I did, I'd watch that for sure. Sounds interesting.

    @Camaramandy648 Glad you got in a fun run with the pup and able to get food for yourself and others.

  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    edited March 2020
    Here's a genius idea: Let's encourage elders and immune compromised to self-quarantine so the rest of us can carry on. Ooooops, I wasn't supposed to say that out loud 🤭.

    Anyway @Camaramandy648 I love the garden idea. That is my next "learn how to." As far as the pasta goes, I just cut it by hand. My husband was talking about that the other day, how restaurants are suffering and trying to not waste food while trying to at least get something out of it, as they should. I hope your IT band heals quickly. Full Moon 50K sounds fun! Lastly, enjoy your alone time... You're a strong and intelligent woman and I'm happy you are standing strong.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    eleanorhawkins wrote: »
    RunsOnEspresso wrote: »
    I'm so far behind here. I even lost my log in streak!

    I posted in the FB group but I know not everyone is there. I'm planning to do my own marathon on my 40th bday. I'm going to make it into a virtual race with 5k, 10k, half or full. I'll design tanks and medals if you want. If you are interested my website & social media will have info. I'm various forms of my MFP username every where.

    And yes, it'll be like 120 degrees on my bday but *kitten* the sun 🤣

    @RunsOnEspresso Please please please call it the *kitten* the Sun Birthday Run!

    Not even gonna comment on the husband topic right now, I'll either cry or throw something at him, both of which I apparently do just to piss him off and not at all because he has me at my wits end. To run, I need. Rather be deadmill, here I come.

    OMG I LOVE THAT IDEA!
  • PastorVincent
    PastorVincent Posts: 6,668 Member
    Seems like Hony Stinger Waffles is having a 40% off sale if you use their products now would be a good time to order:

    https://www.honeystinger.com/
  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    @LoveyChar US results are showing that younger and non-immune compromised people aren't an insignificant number of the people being hospitalized with serious complications. So if we decide to let this virus go through 80% of the population quickly, it's unlikely the rest of us will be "carrying on," we'll be grieving for previously healthy loved ones who died because there were not enough medical resources to help everyone recover.

    The flu is such that people run to the doctor in fear and it's a virus, which passes in healthy people and this is also what happens with this newest virus. My middle child had the flu when she was a toddler, and I rushed her to the doctor who told me that she had a different strain than the one she was vaccinated from. She passed the virus. Now when my kids, to include my little guy, get a bug or virus, I don't rush to the doctor. I don't. But you have people that get a paper cut or something of the sort and go to the emergency room and unfortunately, you will have people left and right flood emergency rooms for little to nothing. Even in healthy people, this passes with time. I don't believe everything the media is putting out. They are over- embellishing and want you to live in fear.

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