December 2022 Monthly Running Challenge

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Laurz9191

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for the tips about the bugs and the Christmas tree. Unfortunately, at the time of my post, said Christmas tree was already in the living room sans bug spray and believe it or not, I don’t have any bug spray (although we do have bugs in Germany just not that many pesky ones). I’ll keep you updated if we do happen to have an infestation.

And, what is in my opinion much worse!, right after putting the tree up, my daughter and I came down with what is most likely the flu. So we are 3 for 5 on being sick and I’ve been bed ridden since Monday, drinking lots of tea, and dreaming of being healthy and out running and not feeling like crap. So it looks like zero kilometres for me this week. Fingers crossed I’ll be out running again soon.

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eleanorhawkins

@Fit2btied2016 in the toolbar above the box you type in there is a button for spoiler brackets (in a dropdown menu, it's the icon before the smiley one on my screen at least)
Re: your hip... do you stretch after your runs? I have to do 10-minute walks before and after ALL my runs to warm up and cool down, then around 10 minutes of stretching and if I have the time I put my legs up a wall for another 10 minutes or so. SO annoying and takes so much time, but anything to keep me mobile (my legs hate me lol).

tarun_yadavA

Good morning all.
How's everyone doing?
Nearly recovered other than the odd cough...
Got a run in after 3days of lounging in bed watching Office re-runs and Christmas movies!

@Fit2btied2016 @SummerSkier @quilteryoyo thanks for checking-in on me 😊

eleanorhawkins

I have to tell you all about something that happened this morning that reminded me why I love runners. Even the speedy ones that I always feel look down at me for being slow and old and taking too many walk breaks.

It's raining today and I didn't want to go do my scheduled painfully long intervals on the trail by the river as it can be dangerous down there (like a couple of people usually get swept away and drown every year) so I went to the road the fast road runners like to use for intervals. It's about a mile long, flat and not too busy.
So anyway, there I was toiling away in the drizzle when it turned into a storm. I like running in the rain but thunder and lightning not so much, but I was 2 down 2 to go and thought I'd just keep going. I hadn't seen anyone else out there (guess I'm in the really crazy minority!). Finally, I was nearing the end of the last interval, and when everything in me was screaming at me to just quit I looked at my watch and saw I had just over a minute left, so I yelled out loud "Come on woman, you can last one more minute!!!"
I hadn't heard that there was a guy coming up behind me and was about to pass me. For context, I run so slow that the fast guys overtake me like racecars even while I'm going as fast as my little legs can go!
So... he comes up beside me... looks at his watch, falls into pace with me and holds next to me for a minute, then as soon as my watch beeped he sped off ahead. Never said a word. I probably wouldn't have stopped because I'm a stubborn *kitten*, but that silly little thing, having someone 'supporting' me, made such a difference to how hard that last minute was!

Teresa502

That's awesome @eleanorhawkins!

Tramboman

Laurz9191 wrote: »

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for the tips about the bugs and the Christmas tree. Unfortunately, at the time of my post, said Christmas tree was already in the living room sans bug spray and believe it or not, I don’t have any bug spray (although we do have bugs in Germany just not that many pesky ones). I’ll keep you updated if we do happen to have an infestation.

And, what is in my opinion much worse!, right after putting the tree up, my daughter and I came down with what is most likely the flu. So we are 3 for 5 on being sick and I’ve been bed ridden since Monday, drinking lots of tea, and dreaming of being healthy and out running and not feeling like crap. So it looks like zero kilometres for me this week. Fingers crossed I’ll be out running again soon.

I guess Deutsche bugs are more civil than American bugs (lived in Berlin for 4 years, but I am not a jelly roll).
Hope you and your daughter are feeling better soon.

Tramboman

Teresa502 wrote: »

That's awesome @eleanorhawkins!

I agree!
Talking to yourself is fine; but when you start answering yourself, ....