Barking Mad To Run
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!)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
LOVELY after-work run/walk for me yesterday. First some rain came in as I was driving to the park where I was going to run. The rain stopped when I got to the park, but we must have been in some kind of 'vortex'....because the temp then dropped from 97 degrees to 77 degrees...and stayed like that for my whole run/walk. SWEEEET! 20 degree drop in temp, low humidity, low dew-point. The 70s stuck around for most of the night too. I ended up with 4 miles on off-road trails. At 4:30 PM there were very few people in the park - I met only 1 cyclist on my entire route - so I kinda felt like I was "KING OF THE PARK", lol, enjoying my own private domain.
Today is my "Thriday." My university has a football game tonite - we are playing the Arizona Wildcats and the game will be nationally televised. Gail and I have season tickets, so off to the game we go. I will be getting off work early today to do a little bit of tail-gating and then enjoy the came. This is our first home game - after we beat U. of Houston on the road last week, 27 - 7, they sure were surprised! - and we are trying to have an "Orange Out" and pack the stadium with at least 40,000 fans all in orange shirts (our team colors are orange/blue/white). Don't know if we can beat Arizona, they are a darn good team, and this is only our 4th year of having a football team, so they have quite a lot of experience over us - but regardless of what happens, should be a fun night. The game will probably run late, so my boss kindly gave me tomorrow off, so I could enjoy the tail-gating, etc., and then 'recover' tomorrow.
Thymoleptic: Psychologically Energizing....which will be the game tonite. Go UTSA RoadRunners!
Morning Scotty.
Supposed to be a RD but when your up at 4 and feel like running, what are you going to do? So 4 done this morning maybe a RD tomorrow.
Return To Racing
Happy Thriday, King of the Park and PAD. I'm going back to my gym after work. It's been closed for 2 weeks for remodelling so I hope its nice.
Good day for it since its hot and rainy today.
Have a great day !!!
Former Bad Ass
Morning. IN court so 10 with 6 at MP tonight.
Damaris
Amazonian Princess
Good morning
Good luck to your team and enjoy tailgating tonight, Scotty!
Hi, PAD!
Enjoy your workout at the remodeled gym, Jerry!
Headed out for a pre-work run:walk then upper body with the trainer tonight. Chilly and dark outside, yay!!!
I can. I will. I am.
Team TJ
I did not want to get up at 4:30 this morning to run. So, I did it anyway. 3.3 miles done before work.
Running for TJ because he can't.
race obsessed
Happy Birthday PAD!
Singer who runs a smidge
Morning, Penguins!! Choir practice was fun last night, and I got a little more familiar with the upcoming songs, so that's all good. Today I am going to try to have it ALL, with a walk AND office yoga! Call me crazy!!Scotty -- the weather gods were certainly smiling on you!! Have fun at the game!!PAD -- sounds like a nice unexpected run!!Jerryb -- no cops today? Hope the gym is awesome!!Docket -- Good luck in court, and enjoy the 6!!Bacon -- woo-hoo for chilly and dark!!Robert -- way to be disciplined!!Slymoon -- good morning!!PAD's birthday?? Happy birthday!!And to Brilliant from yesterday -- glad the pooch is doing better!!
When it's all said and done, no one remembers how far we have run. The only thing that matters is how we have loved.
Scotty - sounds like an ideal run yesterday. Have fun at the game tonight, whatever happens.
PAD - Happy Birthday! Good job on the morning run. Why up so early?
Jerry - have fun at the gym.
Damaris - hope court goes well today so you have lots of energy for your run tonight.
Baconista - chilly? sounds good right now. Hope you had a good run/walk. Are you coming back from injury?
Robert - I would have a very hard time getting up that early to run. Good job.
Hi Slymoon!
HopesMom - Go for it. Walk and yoga - it's all good.
AFM: hot and humid here, so I may run on the TM later.
From the Internet.
Hi pens! Ran 6.5 miles with 3 at tempo. The weather was great but the tempo felt hard and I never really hit my target pace. Blech. At least I got it done.
Thriday for me too. On leave for a week to be baby sitter for 2 little ones while MIL is going on vacation to some part of China. Should be fun!
5 easy done in the morning.
Happy birthday, PAD.
2015 Races
2XU HM - 29 Mar
Well, the walk part of today's agenda is done. Seems like I either have to be out when it's stupid-hot or stupid-early. Maybe I'll go back to stupid-early for a while!
Happy gym workout, Jerry. Hope the gym remodeling is very accommodating for you!
Good luck with the miles tonite, Damaris. Maybe you will get lucky and your temp will drop to 77 also while you're out there. Yeah...that'll happen out there for you all right...about as much chance as your cats doing this, right? ....
Way to beat the Sandman, Robert!
Maybe you can do Yoga while walking around the office, HsM, get 'em both in at once.
Hope your TM miles go well, Ginny, if you decide to do them.
Way to go on the tempo run, Lauren, sorry you did not hit your targets, but at least you got out there and got it done.
Gee, Bin, your MIL is ditching you for China? How rude.... So you got the double-baby-jogger all ready to go, right, so you can now get both upper body and leg work!
Hey, PAD...how old are you now in dog years?
My tech just broke my water purification system. I suspect I'll have to purchase a new one, for about $4k.