The "Penguin" daily threads were originally conceived to emphasize that all members of the community have a place on the boards. Encouragement, motivation, a little love nip (you will love one, give it a try!) or even a little kick in the pants when needed -- it can happen here. Basically, we celebrate just getting out there and moving our tails!What is "slow"? "Slow" is a perception but one of the common benchmarks is the 10:00/mi pace; but there's no firm line. In fact, there are many of us that have slipped past this, and just hope that no one notices and revokes their "igloo privileges." It can be confusing for the forum newbies, but we're not one of the teams in any of the fine games. It's a totally open group, so stop lurking, post an introduction of yourself dive in and join the fun! No application necessary! There might even be a lovely picture for Scotty (we love pics!)

Good Morning Penguins!

I am definitely spending more time exercising than online. Just finished reading yesterdays thread. Yesterday I tallied up the total time I spent working out and it came to 2 hours and 45 minutes. I am splitting the full body gym workout into upper and lower. Yesterday I did upper body. At home I did 60 minutes on the bike, the 12 myrtle exercise, and 14 other bodyweight exercises, followed up with two glasses of red wine!

Good morning, Penguins!  Hope you have a great Tuesday!  3 miles later for me today.  Trying to catch up on the full night of sleep I lost the night before last, so I did not get up early to run this morning.

Gustav, thanks for getting us started.  Good for you on all the time you are spending on exercise!  I especially like your post workout activity!

Vance, enjoy the 4 trail miles later!  That's something I want to find and try.  I do all of my runs on the many rural roads near my house.  I need to find a trail and branch out for some variety!

A quick story from yesterday - a mom at my school came in the office yesterday to pick up a absence request form for her daughter because she is running the Disney Marathon.  I remarked that my DH and I would like to run a Disney race sometime.  She then asked if I was a runner, and I told her that I was just a beginner, having been running just over a year, and that I just ran my first half in December.  She looked at me and told me that I wasn't a beginner anymore if I had run a half, and that I needed to be proud of my accomplishments.  It was such a nice surprise to have someone who I consider a "real runner" tell me that.   Then of course, she talked to me about how I too could run a marathon, and for the first time, I started thinking that maybe someday I could.

Have a great day!

Jen! That's awesome! It's so neat how the littlest things inspire us! GO FOR IT! :-)

Good morning, Penguins!  Hope you have a great Tuesday!  3 miles later for me today.  Trying to catch up on the full night of sleep I lost the night before last, so I did not get up early to run this morning.

 

Gustav, thanks for getting us started.  Good for you on all the time you are spending on exercise!  I especially like your post workout activity!

 

Vance, enjoy the 4 trail miles later!  That's something I want to find and try.  I do all of my runs on the many rural roads near my house.  I need to find a trail and branch out for some variety!

 

A quick story from yesterday - a mom at my school came in the office yesterday to pick up a absence request form for her daughter because she is running the Disney Marathon.  I remarked that my DH and I would like to run a Disney race sometime.  She then asked if I was a runner, and I told her that I was just a beginner, having been running just over a year, and that I just ran my first half in December.  She looked at me and told me that I wasn't a beginner anymore if I had run a half, and that I needed to be proud of my accomplishments.  It was such a nice surprise to have someone who I consider a "real runner" tell me that.   Then of course, she talked to me about how I too could run a marathon, and for the first time, I started thinking that maybe someday I could.

 

Have a great day!

Morning Penguins-

Gustav, our resident early bird, thanks for starting us off again. That's a LOT of exercising you deserved that wine for sure!!!

N Bug- enjoy your trail miles. I want to try trail running someday. That is a lot tougher to do living in a city!

Jerry- hope work slows down and you get out today!

Jen- what a nice encounter

Tori- hope you get through those lectures coffee cures all

AFM- Yesterday I had no knee pain during walking and stairs, so I'm putting the count at 1. Not sure how many days I am going to try for this time before trying to run again....but I may just take the week off (booooo) just to be safe. But I still want to keep track. Sooo...1 and counting!!! Just got back from my first excursion to my new gym! Did 25 minutes on the elliptical with a resistance of "1" and an incline of "1" and went really easy. Nothing like the elliptical workouts I used to do, but I wanted to make sure it didn't make the ITB issues worse. Then I did a hip and core routine and stretched.

Have a great day!

YES!! I graduate March 1!! AHH!! It's so closeee!!

Good morning everyone.

 

Jen -- nice story.  FWIW, I still consider myself a beginner and I've also been running one year.

 

Jerry, Vance -- enjoy your runs later

 

Gustav -- you are an excerise maniac!

 

Tori -- Is this your last semester?

 

Has anyone seen Kara lately?  I don't think I've noticed a post from here since before Christmas.

 

AFM -- six miles planned for after work.  The forecast is predicting 50º -- I hope the weatherman is correct.

Did 8M with 4 @ 15k. Feeling good as an afternoon rain cooled it nicely for me.

Damaris, yes it's a pfitz!

Noted. Will see how this workout affect my body and will probably adjust to hmp on next workout and do a comparison.