1/21
25.51 miles
497.04 miles MTD

**** congratulation on your retirement ....@clepant....

@clepant well done for taking the leap. I am 66+ and in NZ we can retire at 65, but there are things I do that have nobody trained to do eg chemotherapy! But I think they wont actually make an effort until I hand in my notice also! And @kar328 some part of why I stay is the financial side!!

@darkrider42 Great you have stuck with it and about to make a comeback!

20 Jan 5.7 miles Molly the dog stopped dead and I went down backwards. Sore shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip and knee. Nothing broken and at least it was the left side! Fallen 3 times on to the right!

21 Jan 20.53 miles not the easiest as feeling sore. It was hot and humid!

22 Jan 6.2 miles recovery run but felt really rough when I got home - so I am home sick today! Just giving my body a chance to feel better.

MTD 186.68 miles

On a high note that is my last long run till Buller gorge marathon on 10 Feb!!

lamlam2013 wrote: »

Wow...this challenge is going strong! My sister was in the hospital this week, so my life has been very hectic. she's home now and doing better, but I completely lost track. I feel so bad about getting off track and not being of much support to you all lately, but I will do better. I am on a 4-day vacation next week/weekend, so things may be a little lax then...not sure what the Wifi situation will be like. Keep up the good work! I will restart the challenge in February.

You should not feel bad one bit. We all get off track for one reason or another from time to time. We are here for you if you need us.

Thanks to all of you who gave me some nice thoughts about retirement. I truly love what I do and most of all I will miss my kids. They keep me feeling young. I have lots of things I want to do too. @kar: Like you, I had to make sure all my ducks were in a row financially. I had a horrible advisor who I dumped last year and my new folks are fabulous. I was afraid they would tell me to stay another few years but they said that I am in good shape financially. I do have to say it seems like only yesterday I was where you are now. It went fast and so will your time. But I look to teaching some other classes outside of teaching, community service....training more faithfully, travel. I have this crazy desire to do the Ride the Rockies challenge but need to put in lots of training for it.
@Dave: The last year was rough and dark for me. My running came to a halt and my knee pain worsened while my heel healed. I have faithfully been taking Tart Cherry Concentrate for a month and a half and I am not coming home in pain anymore. I feel like I am coming out of the tunnel so I am with you friend. We can get back at it together.
@lamlam: Sorry about your sister, but glad she is doing better. Take care of you and her. That is what counts we know you will be back here cheering us on.
@Lenz: I always love taper time. Must be a great feeling for you too. Makes one feel like you made it over that long climb. Now it will soon be race day....you and Janet so inspire me!
Jan. 21:It was a balmy 40 today. Perfect for running and cleaning up my miles and walking 4.5 miles.
TTD: 237 miles

@power0304 - Hey, at least you're still out there putting in miles! You should be proud of that. The weather across a couple continents has been pretty miserable making big km/miles hard to come by.

Deleting double post....

1/16 - 6 miles
1/17 - 5 miles
1/19 - 10 miles
1/20 - 3 miles
1/21 - 10 miles
1/22 - 7 miles

138/175

@JTH11706 - My friends and I were talking about the Dopey challenge the other day...Congrats on your Perfect Dopey! And since none of us will ever do it (I did the Glass Slipper a couple of times and that is it), we were wondering...if you had your choice, would you do it in the order that it is (shortest to longest) or the other way around so that after every finish, you had a shorter distance to look forward to? Not that Disney is ever going to change it, but we were just curious.

@clepant - Congrats on your retirement!!! A friend of mine at my work just put her paperwork in a couple of weeks ago. I will miss her tremendously as I know many of your friends and coworkers will miss you as well!

Lisah8969 wrote: »

@JTH11706 - My friends and I were talking about the Dopey challenge the other day...Congrats on your Perfect Dopey! And since none of us will ever do it (I did the Glass Slipper a couple of times and that is it), we were wondering...if you had your choice, would you do it in the order that it is (shortest to longest) or the other way around so that after every finish, you had a shorter distance to look forward to? Not that Disney is ever going to change it, but we were just curious.

@Lisah8969 - funny you should ask this. I have two friends I go with who are also perfect Dopeys and we were just talking about this. I would reverse them and go longer to shorter. It's tough that after doing the 5k, 10k and half marathon you still haven't even run half the total distance. But I suppose that would make the last few races a lot harder because you'd be sore. The way it is I feel like the first two races don't even count. But as you say, Disney would never change it.

3.4 miles

January 1 - 7 km run / strength training
January 2 - rest day
January 3 - 18 km run / 10 km stairmarster
January 4 - 10 km run
January 5 - 16 km run / strength training
January 6 - 16 km run
January 7 - 5 km club run / 10 km walk
January 8 - 8 km run / strength training
January 10 - 14 km run
January 11 - Strength training
January 12 - injured
January 13 - injured/strength training
January 14 - injured
January 15 - injured
January 16 - injured/strength training
January 17 - 7 km run
January 18 - 8 km run
January 20 - strength training
January 21 - 5 km run/ 5 km stairmarster
January 22 - 8 km run
January 23 - 8 km run / strength training


141km - goal 400 km

Thanks everyone for your support. Onwards and upwards

01/21 - 7.40 miles
01/22 - 1.63 miles





Hope everyone has a good week.

Chris

@clepant - We are seeing an increase in canine influenza but not the two strains you are thinking of. For some reason we are seeing a new strain that Idexx and the University of Missouri have been unable to identify so it may become a new strain. It's hard on young and old puppies but there isn't a vaccine for it. We are seeing a large increase in two canine influenza strains in the Northeast. The H3N2 and H3N8 are two strains that have increased quite a bit in the Northeast. They have increased all over the eastern united states but mostly in the Northeast. There is a vaccine for the two strains but your dog must have a competent immune system to make them work. Chemo Dogs don't have a competent immune system because of the drugs. It would still give them some protection which is better than none. However, it won't stop them from getting sick. It just makes it easier for them to recover. Even with our vaccines, they don't stop you from getting sick, they just make the illness less severe and help speed recovery.

January 1 - 7 km run / strength training
January 2 - rest day
January 3 - 18 km run / 10 km stairmarster
January 4 - 10 km run
January 5 - 16 km run / strength training
January 6 - 16 km run
January 7 - 5 km club run / 10 km walk
January 8 - 8 km run / strength training
January 10 - 14 km run
January 11 - Strength training
January 12 - injured
January 13 - injured/strength training
January 14 - injured
January 15 - injured
January 16 - injured/strength training
January 17 - 7 km run
January 18 - 8 km run
January 20 - strength training
January 21 - 5 km run/ 5 km stairmarster
January 22 - 8 km run
January 23 - 8 km run / strength training
January 24 - 15 km stairmarster/ 9km stairmarster


165 km - goal 400 km

Have a lovely day everyone

1/23
25.09 miles
546.71 miles MTD