Comments on: Its the mooost wonderful day.. of the weeek (sing it!)

By: Leianna

Leianna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:42:39 +0000

Love treadmill workouts especailly in the negative cold weather. I’m actually thing about buying a treadmill soon for my house so I don’t have to buy a gym membership to only use a treadmill!
My current food craze is cottage cheese/fruit mixtures!
Good luck on anatomy test, that was my fave class:)

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:14:35 +0000

I wouldnt mind at all, and would find a post about it SO HELPFUL! Im lost without running, and growing incredibly bored without exercise!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:04:48 +0000

I love Christmas, but holiday music at the beginning of November was a bit too much for me. Especially when we have random temperatures of 70 degrees! It doesn’t feel like the holidays quite yet.

Yay running! I would imagine grass would be better than a treadmill, outside of the uneven factor.

Questions!

1. I love all food. Ice cream usually ranks an all-time high. Since it’s marathon week, pasta probably takes the cake (har har!) at the moment.

2. I do love Christmas…all the decorations, the music, the happiness (until people get bitter and greedy), Starbucks holiday cups!, the food…giving presents! (Okay, and a little getting presents.)

3. HATE the treadmill. I can effortlessly run 20 miles (okay, not TOTALLY effortlessly, but you understand), but it is a struggle to run a mile (JUST ONE) on a treadmill. I don’t know how people do it.

4. Done and done!

By: star

star — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:25:40 +0000

Yoyoyo!!! I totally agree about the treadmill/softer outdoor surface. Each time ive dealt with sfx ive always thought i should build up on the tread first but this time round i didnt…and so far so good
Your anatomy textbook looks oh too familiar…ah…many a mile on the stat bike were spent reading/re-reading & triple reading pages & notes LOL
You eat with chopsticks? You have skill girl!
Ok …your questions…

1. Current food craze is oats with frozen berries heated & mixed in with vanilla whey. ‘Tis perfect in this Scottish freezing-ness

2. Fav holiday is probs xmas except the coldness and i have to admit that i like to ignore it until we are into December. Ha funny story- my wee sis is 6 and at her school they have been told they are not allowed to say the ‘C’ word until December. We wondered what she was talking about….”You’re not allowed to say the C word!” ….and now we have to whisper ‘christmas’ or she tells us off!

3. Oh man i have changed. I used to ONLY run on the dreadmill…up to 18 miles :O How, i have no idea. I recently tried and couldnt last more than 6. Even then i was itching to get off and had to play about with intervals to keep me entertained

Sorry for the loooooong comment! Take Care x

By: Dr. TriRunner

Dr. TriRunner — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:50:25 +0000

@Annie
Hey Annie,

I’d love to answer any questions you have! Actually, I’ve been meaning
to do an entire post about swimming as XT (or just training for the
triathletes). Would you mind if I include your email as part of the
post?

Happy Monday!

-Erika

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:44:45 +0000

Hey! Ive been reading your blog for a while now, and was just wondering if you could help me with a little advice. I just recently was diagnosed with stress fractures of my femoral head and pelvis, as well as a torn hip labrum, so clearly no more running for me for a while (gahhhh hardest thing ever!). I know this is sort of similar to what you had expereienced, just a lot less intense and serious, but the doctors have told me I can begin to start swimming and thats basically all I can do for exercise.

Now Ive never really used swimming as a form of exercise, and Im curious if you have any helpful tips for me.. what you did, or how you started and knew what you were doing? I know its kind of a vague question but anything you can help me with Id really appreciate!

Thanks so much, and so happy your back to running