Daily Check In Thread -- 10k+ version
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Hey! We rolled it over again...Varda, I just realized you're only 4 hrs away from me also!!!
So, in light of Beth saying she's going to have a hellish week, I pose this question; what do you all do for a living?
I'm a graphic designer and production manager for a local media company, aka newspaper(s), and photographer on the side.
Everyone else? Go!
In answer to that question..I'm a Senior Designer of women's apparel for a catalog company. "Senior" in more way than one, LOL! My customers are 55 or older, with an average customer age of about 68 years old.
How interesting that so many of us have creative/ad related jobs.
Also, I ran my first jantastic run of the week tonight. (I better get crackin'!) I did 4 miles in just over 44 mins! Yay! Now I just need to eek out the time for a good long run.0 -
I'm terrified to delete this topic cause I'm not sure what would happen to the other threads. So just ignore this post. It's what happens when two people roll a post at the same time, I guess0
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Holy ****! Excuse the profanity, but I just realized that my decent 11 minute miles (flat track) included warm up and stretching.
When I look at the times, I did a 10:05 for the first 1.5 miles, a 9:47 for the next 1.33 miles and then finished up with a 9:37 for the last .21 miles.
These are ridiculous dream times for me. I would gauge that it was comfortably hard, just below race pace. It was intended to be an easy run, but it was the first in four days and I was pretty stressed.0 -
Wooooo HOOOOO!!! Awesome Varda! You are fast too!!!! SEE!!!!0
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Kinda validates the whole taper/ per race rest thing, doesn't it.
(Also, I repeat my earlier statement that I wish races were held on perfectly flat, climate controlled courses.)0 -
Or October...if we really want to enjoy the run part. August in Minnesota can be brutal..i.e. 100 degrees and humid at the MN State Fair...just saying. :-)
EARLY October. I've gone trick or treating in long underwear
Anyway. Instructional Design.
One of the ways I describe it is by having you think of a teacher you had. Possibly the smartest person you ever met, but couldn't explain what s/he knows to save their life. My job is to work with that person and ask the right questions to get the knowledge you need to do your job better. I create a learning experience with this knowledge that makes it easy to comprehend and apply the expertise. I do not teach a class, however, I would create the curriculum, write the facilitator scripts and and develop the materials you use.0 -
Kinda validates the whole taper/ per race rest thing, doesn't it.
(Also, I repeat my earlier statement that I wish races were held on perfectly flat, climate controlled courses.)
I'm pretty good at finding races (in Atlanta, no less) that come close to that ideal. Also, you can find indoor endurance events, if you look for them. They're not very popular anymore, but they still exist.0 -
Everyone has such interesting jobs! Mine is not! I work in accounts. I work for a company that makes animal feed. It has 3 feed mills, 4 mobile feed mills, 15 country stores and a transport company. My job is to process all the purchase invoices for the 15 country stores, it is a full time job but I only work 4 hours a day.... Go figure! Not surprisingly I suffer from repetitive strain injury!0
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Well, I'm coming to YOU with all my runner-math problems!0
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My job title is Operations Analyst but I do a few different things. A lot of what I do is financial forecasting. Every order we get is a unique, custom-engineered product for backup emergency power in large installations like NASA, secret facilities, military bases, hospitals, nuke plants, etc. Each project can take a year or more from order to shipment. And every month we need to provide a 12-month rolling forecast to our two corporate parents (we are a joint venture). I look at those projects and forecast how profitable they will be at shipment, which could be a long time away. I constantly monitor each project during it's life cycle and track changes and actual performance compared to estimate. My background is mostly electrical engineering & programming but I have also worked in sales and project management. And I've been in this business 22 years so I can forecast pretty accurately. Besides that I develop the tools & software that the sales department uses to quote projects.0
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That's such a cool job, Tim.0
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That's such a cool job, Tim.
It's OK. Boring at times. I miss engineering but in our business that means traveling frequently to installation sites as well as a lot of weekend work to get our projects shipped out on time. That was fun when I was young & single but not any more. The tradeoff is sitting at a desk all day staring at spreadsheets. I'm more of an outdoors person so I get a little stir crazy sometimes. Running helps that a lot!0 -
I got 3 miles in on Monday and another 2 yesterday. I was supposed to do 3 but bailed on the last mile, The snow was coming down so heavy that it was hard to see through my glasses. It wasn't supposed to start snowing until later in the day. I see now that I need to keep a hat will a bill in the car. At least that might have kept some of the snow off my glasses. It's supposed to be snowing again tomorrow for my next run. I'll be prepared for that. Running while it's snowing is pretty, as long as you can still see :laugh:0
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Everyone has such fun jobs!!! it is funny that half of us are creative and the other half are analytical and as I call it "smart brain" the stuff I dont understand, numbers, measurements, etc... Very cool everyone!!! thanks so much for sharing - it's interesting to know since we "spend" a lot of time together here
WAY TO GO VARDA!!!
Nice run, Rindy! Snow and all All you snow birds are tough!!! I couldn't do it I don't think, I'm acclimated to this warm ness, even though I've only been here 1.5 years! 0 -
I still haven't figured out what I want to do when I "grow up". If I had a do over, I don't think I would be in IT. But here I am, I'm a Systems Administrator. Every few years at work they change our job titles, even though the role doesn't change. I've been in IT for 14 years. The products I support are SharePoint and Lotus Quickr (both collaboration tools) as well as Lotus Notes/Domino (mail routing and databases). That involves maintaining the server farm, end user support and vendor management. I also live in spreadsheets, audit reports, manage upgrades, and do disaster recovery testing. Not very glamorous but it pays the bills. At least our 24x7 on call support for the most part has been moved offshore. Now days I only paged a couple times every few months as opposed to several times throughout the night. I'm also very thankful that I no longer have to work holidays and weekends, well I do work a couple weekends a year, but that's it.0
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I "retired" from teaching 2 years ago after 25 years. I am now contracting as a Project Manager/ Finance Team member for a large IT company.0
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The thread I see in all of our jobs is Project Management/Design/Systems Thinking. We know how to work within constraints and get'er done.
(And anybody who has the ability to technically support SharePoint has the inner strength to run a marathon.)0 -
Nice run Varda!!!! quick
30 minute run today 3.5 miles @ 8:43...
I design power lines...mostly.0 -
Nice run Varda!!!! quick
30 minute run today 3.5 miles @ 8:43...
I design power lines...mostly.
Nice fast run there! Designing power lines sounds interesting. I've always been fascinated by the high-voltage transmission stuff. Our equipment is usually no higher than 15kV class with a rare 32kV here and there. I used to love working around that equipment.0 -
The thread I see in all of our jobs is Project Management/Design/Systems Thinking. We know how to work within constraints and get'er done.
(And anybody who has the ability to technically support SharePoint has the inner strength to run a marathon.)
Leave it to the Senior Instructional Designer to sum it all up in a nutshell. :-)
So interesting to hear what every does! Thanks for asking the question, madmiss!
I'm considering a career change. My plan is to move to a vacation destination and work in hospitality with a 9 to 5 (no more than 40 hour week) schedule -something simple like carrying bags or smiling at people and opening doors. Then, I will spend my free time enjoying the natural beauty of the place. Including, running, hiking, biking etc. My husband is with me on this. We just have to get the kids through college first.0 -
Awesome pace Varda! And Joe!
And interesting reading about everyone's careers. I never could decide what I wanted to be when I grew up - fortunately that job found me when I was 43 years old.
As far as the MOA trip, my birthday is mid-October. Just saying.0 -
Beth, I love the sound of that job! I might have to join you as long as the weather's not too hot for running, lol.
Well I think I may be back on track. Today my first km felt good and the time was good too. Normally it feels hard and I'm really slow, and occasionally it feels good and I'm still really slow! I decided to push on a bit, more of a tempo run, and I took 3 minutes off my best 5km time!!! :bigsmile: So happy!!!!0 -
Beth & Varda both rolled this post, and I just saw a comment on another group I'm in about how that happens. When Beth posted she rolled into the new thread. Because Varda has special powers in this group she can quote on a post in an old thread, but it starts a second roll-over thread instead of combining with the one already started.
Glad to hear your running is getting back to normal Romy!0 -
Oh cool. Thanks for letting me know how that happens.0
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Beth, I love the sound of that job! I might have to join you as long as the weather's not too hot for running, lol.
Well I think I may be back on track. Today my first km felt good and the time was good too. Normally it feels hard and I'm really slow, and occasionally it feels good and I'm still really slow! I decided to push on a bit, more of a tempo run, and I took 3 minutes off my best 5km time!!! :bigsmile: So happy!!!!
Love it when that happens.0 -
I consider dog walking/errand running during hard months.0
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We just got back from our trail race. Boy I felt out of shape after that experience! It was cold - about the coldest temps I have ever experienced while running. 25°F at race time. That was good and bad. Good because it froze most of the trail, otherwise it would have been a mess. Bad because the cold air hurt my lungs and I have been coughing a lot since the race. Anyway, we got there a little early so I did a slow 2-mile warmup run. When the race was about to start I positioned myself at the front because these races do not have a starting chip time. They go by gun time and record your finish time via the chip. If you line up in back it can cost you 30 seconds or more. I went out way too fast: 7:36 in the first mile. The end of that first mile starting going up a steep hill. The hill lasted another half mile up before we starting going down the other side. I was totally spent at the top of the hill. The backside was in the sun and the trail was melting and getting sloppy. There were some ups and downs as we headed back through the forest and every uphill sucked the energy out of me. I felt awful until mile 3 when I started to catch my breath after some flat running. My pace had dropped before that and I tried hard to pick it back up but didn't have much energy. Ended up finishing about 9:30 overall pace and 5th in my age group. Guys in their 40's are always very competitive in these races! My wife was just 90 seconds behind me and finished first in her age group. This is just the first of an 8-race series for points so hopefully I can do better in the next races.0
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So, in light of Beth saying she's going to have a hellish week, I pose this question; what do you all do for a living?
I'm a graphic designer and production manager for a local media company, aka newspaper(s), and photographer on the side.
Everyone else? Go!
I calibrate & repair patient equipment in a local hospital. My main areas are Kidney dialysis machines and physiotherapy equipment. Part of the job entails operating a hyperbaric chamber as well.0 -
Had a great run today. I got to go outside!! What a difference it makes.
Today's run felt easy, light and fun. I ran faster (slightly) than my treadmill pace and felt great the whole time.
I've noticed that my now "normal" running distance is about 6K (at least outside; the treadmill is harder to get that distance on). Today I ran 5K, walked 3 minutes, then ran another 1.5K (easily). I seem to be moving forward in terms of distance.
I'm always happy when I notice an improvement in my running performance and to realize that I'm loving the experience of running.0 -
Had a great run today. I got to go outside!! What a difference it makes.
Today's run felt easy, light and fun. I ran faster (slightly) than my treadmill pace and felt great the whole time.
I've noticed that my now "normal" running distance is about 6K (at least outside; the treadmill is harder to get that distance on). Today I ran 5K, walked 3 minutes, then ran another 1.5K (easily). I seem to be moving forward in terms of distance.
I'm always happy when I notice an improvement in my running performance and to realize that I'm loving the experience of running.
I love this. It was just a couple months ago you were still working to this goal, and now your gobbling down those miles on every run!0
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