Is this realistic?

I decided not to sign up yet. The wife and I talked last night and she wants to move out by January so with all the uncertainty of needing to find a place to live and possibly having to move in January I decided to just save the money at this point. If I can put together a few good months at work and save a little more I may sign up just for the marathon once I know what's going on with my living situation. But at this point it is all about saving for 2018 and making that a really nice trip for myself once I don't have to deal with her being mad at me for going. Thanks for the help though.
 
Waiting- if you can, go! Who knows what will happen next year? Enjoy your life. That's my two cents anyway.

Chiomaca- I can't believe you are in the third trimester already! Are you done with that crazy stressful job you had? Good luck on your race!

I'm at just under 1900 calories a day since Monday and am down about 2 lbs so far. When I dropped the 10 lbs so quickly I was eating 1400. I felt horrible. Since then I quit and just maintained. Now I'm ready to work on it again. I'm happy with my macros and sometimes it's a lot of food and I struggle to eat it all. But I will maintain muscle and that's most important to me. We found an Olympic lifting bench, bar and 320 lbs of weight on Craigslist for $250!!! So now I have that in my basement and plan to start lifting 3 days a week and still taking the 2 HIIT classes. I'm looking forward to figuring out a new routine.
 
Ok... newbie over here..

But i ran the Enchanted 10K in Feb 2014. I looked at the pictures and couldn't believe how i looked. I got determined.... i said by May... the 24 hour event, i was going to transform my body.

I started by running and my diet. I pretty much just watched what i was eating and continued my run training. I worked out every day... sometimes twice. I was 145 pounds at the Enchanted 10k and by the 24 hour event in May i was 121. Completely transformed my body!

Since then i had a baby and a horrible relationship break up and im back up to about 139. Im determined to get to 120 again...

But yes it is possible to drop weight if you are eating correctly and also exercising.
 
Chiomaca, if you have something saying you submitted your PoT and it says it was accepted you should email runDisney. If you say you have that evidence that it was submitted they will let you change it at the expo. It happened to my friend that did the marathon with me this year. He just had to bring the email and info showing the acceptance and they just changed his corral on the spot. While your pace is not where it needs to be for corral A you earned the spot and it will allow you to take it easy and enjoy the race more as opposed to bobbing and weaving through the slower runners in the back. The fact that you can still do circus in your third trimester is pretty impressive, or running for that matter.
I have no idea where my PoT e-mail is...and remember that I thought I submitted the darn thing in my first trimester when I was working 14 hour days...I have no clue. There isn't anything in my e-mail archives, but I was deleting anything that wasn't an immediate need. The Active site said I had submitted and had a PoT accepted, so I didn't worry about it. I'll be annoyed, but that's life.

New job? Is this another new job or the same one from a few months ago?
I changed job at the beginning of April. Now only working 10 hour days, which is nice.

I decided not to sign up yet. The wife and I talked last night and she wants to move out by January so with all the uncertainty of needing to find a place to live and possibly having to move in January I decided to just save the money at this point. If I can put together a few good months at work and save a little more I may sign up just for the marathon once I know what's going on with my living situation. But at this point it is all about saving for 2018 and making that a really nice trip for myself once I don't have to deal with her being mad at me for going. Thanks for the help though.
That's a reasonable decision given the circumstances.

Chiomaca- I can't believe you are in the third trimester already! Are you done with that crazy stressful job you had? Good luck on your race!
Yup, 29 weeks this week and I'll be running the race at 30 weeks. I'm now working in Operations Analysis, which is much less stressful than the last job. No 3am phone calls about nuclear tests or downed Russian airplanes in my world, and there are no crises in budget analysis. Mostly what I've been doing to start with is just learning the job and doing some translation from analyst-speak into executive-speak. Turns out that is one skill that comes in handy.

When I dropped the 10 lbs so quickly I was eating 1400. I felt horrible.
Yikes....1400 calories and working out? The one time I did South Beach, that no carb/no sugar phase, I couldn't run or do any cardio without getting dizzy. I had to wait until I was allowed to eat moderate carbs before I could do anything that required stamina. 1900 seems much more reasonable.

Ok... newbie over here..
Welcome!

I started by running and my diet. I pretty much just watched what i was eating and continued my run training. I worked out every day... sometimes twice. I was 145 pounds at the Enchanted 10k and by the 24 hour event in May i was 121. Completely transformed my body!
More than 20 pounds in 3 months? That seems really fast...really hard to maintain I'd imagine. Good luck with your journey!
 


I have no idea where my PoT e-mail is...and remember that I thought I submitted the darn thing in my first trimester when I was working 14 hour days...I have no clue. There isn't anything in my e-mail archives, but I was deleting anything that wasn't an immediate need. The Active site said I had submitted and had a PoT accepted, so I didn't worry about it. I'll be annoyed, but that's life.

I changed job at the beginning of April. Now only working 10 hour days, which is nice.

That's a reasonable decision given the circumstances.

Yup, 29 weeks this week and I'll be running the race at 30 weeks. I'm now working in Operations Analysis, which is much less stressful than the last job. No 3am phone calls about nuclear tests or downed Russian airplanes in my world, and there are no crises in budget analysis. Mostly what I've been doing to start with is just learning the job and doing some translation from analyst-speak into executive-speak. Turns out that is one skill that comes in handy.

Yikes....1400 calories and working out? The one time I did South Beach, that no carb/no sugar phase, I couldn't run or do any cardio without getting dizzy. I had to wait until I was allowed to eat moderate carbs before I could do anything that required stamina. 1900 seems much more reasonable.

Welcome!

More than 20 pounds in 3 months? That seems really fast...really hard to maintain I'd imagine. Good luck with your journey!

It really was a lifestyle change.... i maintained until i was pregnant with my second child... i gained and lost some, but im having tonget back to it hard core now :)
 
Waiting- if you can, go! Who knows what will happen next year? Enjoy your life. That's my two cents anyway.

Chiomaca- I can't believe you are in the third trimester already! Are you done with that crazy stressful job you had? Good luck on your race!

I'm at just under 1900 calories a day since Monday and am down about 2 lbs so far. When I dropped the 10 lbs so quickly I was eating 1400. I felt horrible. Since then I quit and just maintained. Now I'm ready to work on it again. I'm happy with my macros and sometimes it's a lot of food and I struggle to eat it all. But I will maintain muscle and that's most important to me. We found an Olympic lifting bench, bar and 320 lbs of weight on Craigslist for $250!!! So now I have that in my basement and plan to start lifting 3 days a week and still taking the 2 HIIT classes. I'm looking forward to figuring out a new routine.

I haven't ruled it out. If I can save a couple hundred for this year I will sign up, if not then it's no big deal.

That's awesome that you will get the weights and bring it home. I can't wait to see more pictures as the changes continue.


Ok... newbie over here..

But i ran the Enchanted 10K in Feb 2014. I looked at the pictures and couldn't believe how i looked. I got determined.... i said by May... the 24 hour event, i was going to transform my body.

I started by running and my diet. I pretty much just watched what i was eating and continued my run training. I worked out every day... sometimes twice. I was 145 pounds at the Enchanted 10k and by the 24 hour event in May i was 121. Completely transformed my body!

Since then i had a baby and a horrible relationship break up and im back up to about 139. Im determined to get to 120 again...

But yes it is possible to drop weight if you are eating correctly and also exercising.

Welcome! I am sure you will get back to where you want to be. I have all the respect in the world for you ladies that have kids. It takes a toll and your body and the work it takes to get back into shape is amazing to me. You'll get there if you want it bad enough.


I have no idea where my PoT e-mail is...and remember that I thought I submitted the darn thing in my first trimester when I was working 14 hour days...I have no clue. There isn't anything in my e-mail archives, but I was deleting anything that wasn't an immediate need. The Active site said I had submitted and had a PoT accepted, so I didn't worry about it. I'll be annoyed, but that's life.

I changed job at the beginning of April. Now only working 10 hour days, which is nice.

That's a reasonable decision given the circumstances.

Yup, 29 weeks this week and I'll be running the race at 30 weeks. I'm now working in Operations Analysis, which is much less stressful than the last job. No 3am phone calls about nuclear tests or downed Russian airplanes in my world, and there are no crises in budget analysis. Mostly what I've been doing to start with is just learning the job and doing some translation from analyst-speak into executive-speak. Turns out that is one skill that comes in handy.

Yikes....1400 calories and working out? The one time I did South Beach, that no carb/no sugar phase, I couldn't run or do any cardio without getting dizzy. I had to wait until I was allowed to eat moderate carbs before I could do anything that required stamina. 1900 seems much more reasonable.

Welcome!

More than 20 pounds in 3 months? That seems really fast...really hard to maintain I'd imagine. Good luck with your journey!

It's probably for the best that you will not be in the faster corrals. At this point the goal should be to have fun and finish healthy. It's inconvenient for sure but it will all work out.

I am glad the new job seems to be less stressful. The other one sounded cool for a short period of time but with a baby on the way it probably wasn't the best situation anyway.
 
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers and future mothers.

Chiomaca, I am anxious to hear how your race went. I hope you had fun.
 


Chiomaca, I am anxious to hear how your race went. I hope you had fun.

It was a bit of a roller coaster of a weekend. To start, I took your advice and showed my PoT at Runner Relations and got moved into Corral B. So, Yay! Then, my race bag with bib, tee shirt and expo purchases got stolen in the lobby when I was checking in. So...that sucked. The next day, Runner Relations gave me a new bib, still in Corral B, but no tee shirt and the only thing I was willing to re-purchase was the race pin, but that was sold out by Saturday. So...high and a low together. I had a great lunch with Tim, my mom and Lee and Laura (you know them from the podcast) and we mostly just chilled. We didn't spend much time in the parks and just relaxed. The race was okay. I started up with the Corral B folks, right next to Jeff Galloway, who was very nice and pleased when I told him that run-walk-run was how I was able to keep racing at 30 weeks. I even got a shout out as a "Mama in training" when I crossed the starting line. I finished with Corral D folks at three hours flat, thanks in part to the many potty stops I made, and partly because I was having Braxton-Hicks contractions starting at Mile 6. It wasn't quite a personal worst time (I think...pretty sure the Princess Half that I ran on a dislocated knee was 3:15 or so) and Tim was waiting at the finish line. Mom finished in 3:24, but due to the different corrals, she was actually about 40 minutes behind me. After Tim headed home, Mom and I napped and then rode the handful of rides I'm still allowed on - Pirates, Buzz Lightyear, Jungle Cruise. In the end, we were done really early...I felt like I'd run a full marathon, not a half. Anyway...it was a great weekend in the end, because I got to spend time with mom and Tim and good friends, and I finished the race.
 
You accomplished the 2 most important things, you finished and you had fun. Everything else after that is just gravy. Pretty impressive that you ran half the race with Braxton-Hicks, as if running pregnant wasn't impressive enough. I have met Jeff before. He is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. I'm sure he was excited to hear you were using his method to keep running. I'm surprised he was in corral B though. I thought he always lined up in A for all the races. I don't think you can really consider this in the running as a personal worst because you have never run 30 weeks pregnant before. Sorry to hear that you had your stuff stolen but I am glad you got your corral moved up.

Hopefully your recovery goes well. When is the baby due? August?
 
You accomplished the 2 most important things, you finished and you had fun. Everything else after that is just gravy. Pretty impressive that you ran half the race with Braxton-Hicks, as if running pregnant wasn't impressive enough. I have met Jeff before. He is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. I'm sure he was excited to hear you were using his method to keep running. I'm surprised he was in corral B though. I thought he always lined up in A for all the races. I don't think you can really consider this in the running as a personal worst because you have never run 30 weeks pregnant before. Sorry to hear that you had your stuff stolen but I am glad you got your corral moved up.

Hopefully your recovery goes well. When is the baby due? August?
I figured running through the contractions was good practice :smooth:

Tinkerbell reserves Corral A for women (I think, it was all-women last year), so the fastest men are in B. Galloway was very happy when I told him that - he said "Until you're 100!" That dude can go fast, too!

I'm due mid-July, almost exactly two months from now.
 
I figured running through the contractions was good practice :smooth:

Tinkerbell reserves Corral A for women (I think, it was all-women last year), so the fastest men are in B. Galloway was very happy when I told him that - he said "Until you're 100!" That dude can go fast, too!

I'm due mid-July, almost exactly two months from now.

I have never been the one to give birth, obviously, but from what I can tell there really is no practicing. :scared:

I know, I think he is now in his low 70's and he still runs in the 8-9 min/mile pace. Well, he used to be an Olympic athlete so this genes are with him a lifetime.

Very exciting. You have your name picked out yet? Do you know what your having. I missed that you were pregnant somehow so I may have missed that you told us that already too?
 
I have a few names picked out. My family has a long tradition of changing their mind about baby names, so I have few but not one that I'm set on. It's surprising how many of my friends and family are annoyed by that.
 
Lol. My sister is due at the end of August and we are all annoyed that they haven't picked a name either. I think it's just because we want to call the baby something besides IT. I'm glad that you had a good race. Braxton hicks suck and I can't imagine running 7 miles with them.

Welcome Angela!

Waiting and Beatlecat I hope everything is going well!

I'm still hanging in. I've been off track with food for the last 2-3 weeks and gained 3-5 lbs depending on the day. Pretty annoyed with myself. But I got back on track today and so far so good. My goal is to lose 10 lbs before my cruise and I have about 45 days to do it in. Might not happen but I've got to try. I'm still doing the same workouts essentially so no change there. I'm ready for some warm weather and sunshine!!
 
I have a few names picked out. My family has a long tradition of changing their mind about baby names, so I have few but not one that I'm set on. It's surprising how many of my friends and family are annoyed by that.

Wait until you pick a name and then they complain because they don't like it. My mother in law hated my son's name (Collin) and called him another name for a couple months until my wife snapped at her.

We didn't tell anyone our final decision on names for any of the kids either. We didn't know what we were having, which bothered people as well.

Oh well. You're doing the work to grow the baby and you will do the work to raise the baby, you get to make the rules. :D

Lol. My sister is due at the end of August and we are all annoyed that they haven't picked a name either. I think it's just because we want to call the baby something besides IT. I'm glad that you had a good race. Braxton hicks suck and I can't imagine running 7 miles with them.

Welcome Angela!

Waiting and Beatlecat I hope everything is going well!

I'm still hanging in. I've been off track with food for the last 2-3 weeks and gained 3-5 lbs depending on the day. Pretty annoyed with myself. But I got back on track today and so far so good. My goal is to lose 10 lbs before my cruise and I have about 45 days to do it in. Might not happen but I've got to try. I'm still doing the same workouts essentially so no change there. I'm ready for some warm weather and sunshine!!

I am right there with you StayCool. I have gained 5 lbs back and it is really bothering me. I need to get my act together as well. But, assuming we can turn it back around then it won't matter. I had an MRI on my ankle the other day. It has been hurting since the marathon and my podiatrist wants to rule out a torn tendon. So I am waiting on the results. He said I can still run but overall my training has been awful this season so far and I have a race in a month. It's only a 10K but I really wanted to improve a lot this year.

I am waiting to decide on Goofy til I get the results. I just don't know if I should commit to that level of training and two races back to back when my ankle already hurts.

Oh well, these are still better problems than the ones I faced when I was a couch potato. My goal is to be down to 210 lbs by 10/1. I said it here first.
 
Lol. My sister is due at the end of August and we are all annoyed that they haven't picked a name either. I think it's just because we want to call the baby something besides IT. I'm glad that you had a good race. Braxton hicks suck and I can't imagine running 7 miles with them.
I think the desire is to put her name on things, which cracks me up. No matter which name I pick is going to be Indian, so there won't be anything pre-made. And I've never understood the desire to throw monograms on things...just not something I'm into. I've been calling her "Dino" from the beginning, because my Navy background has me calling ultrasounds "sonograms" out of habit, and Apple autocorrected "Sono" to "Dino" when I e-mailed a pic to myself. So..."Dino" it is. The contractions don't bother me all that much, though they force me to slow down.

Wait until you pick a name and then they complain because they don't like it. My mother in law hated my son's name (Collin) and called him another name for a couple months until my wife snapped at her.
Yikes. One of the reasons I've given for not sharing is that my mom changed her mind about my name the instant she laid eyes on me (for some reason she was expecting a blonde, blue-eyed baby...and I am neither) and my step-sister changed her son's name two weeks after he was born. Yes, after the birth certificate...and I don't want to do that.

I had an MRI on my ankle the other day. It has been hurting since the marathon and my podiatrist wants to rule out a torn tendon. So I am waiting on the results. He said I can still run but overall my training has been awful this season so far and I have a race in a month. It's only a 10K but I really wanted to improve a lot this year.
Ouch. When do you get the results? Take it easy, torn tendons don't get the blood flow that muscles do, so they heal much more slowly. I hope it's just tendonitis from over training.

Had a little bit of a scare this week - I tripped and fell, not while I was running or doing a circus workout, but walking home from the dog park. I skinned my knee (for the second time in the last two months, same knee and everything) and bruised my hand. Docs wanted me in for observation to be sure I didn't displace the placenta, so I spent about three hours in the L&D area. Everything is good, my BP is good, and the baby's HR is good. I even got a bonus ultrasound because they wanted to check my fluid levels, which is also good. I'm a week past the point where a good friend delivered her now 8 month old, so I was a little freaked out when they were so insistent that I go in for monitoring. I hadn't thought anything of it until half the guys in my office told me to call the on-call nurse, who insisted I come in RIGHT NOW.
 
I think the desire is to put her name on things, which cracks me up. No matter which name I pick is going to be Indian, so there won't be anything pre-made. And I've never understood the desire to throw monograms on things...just not something I'm into. I've been calling her "Dino" from the beginning, because my Navy background has me calling ultrasounds "sonograms" out of habit, and Apple autocorrected "Sono" to "Dino" when I e-mailed a pic to myself. So..."Dino" it is. The contractions don't bother me all that much, though they force me to slow down.

Yikes. One of the reasons I've given for not sharing is that my mom changed her mind about my name the instant she laid eyes on me (for some reason she was expecting a blonde, blue-eyed baby...and I am neither) and my step-sister changed her son's name two weeks after he was born. Yes, after the birth certificate...and I don't want to do that.

Ouch. When do you get the results? Take it easy, torn tendons don't get the blood flow that muscles do, so they heal much more slowly. I hope it's just tendonitis from over training.

Had a little bit of a scare this week - I tripped and fell, not while I was running or doing a circus workout, but walking home from the dog park. I skinned my knee (for the second time in the last two months, same knee and everything) and bruised my hand. Docs wanted me in for observation to be sure I didn't displace the placenta, so I spent about three hours in the L&D area. Everything is good, my BP is good, and the baby's HR is good. I even got a bonus ultrasound because they wanted to check my fluid levels, which is also good. I'm a week past the point where a good friend delivered her now 8 month old, so I was a little freaked out when they were so insistent that I go in for monitoring. I hadn't thought anything of it until half the guys in my office told me to call the on-call nurse, who insisted I come in RIGHT NOW.

I can see why your mom changed her mind when she saw you, it can make a difference. My wife and I were undecided about my son's name. We were down to Kevin and Collin. The second he came out and we saw his read hair we looked at him and in our own minds separately we decided on Collin. Things were crazy in the delivery room because of his medical issue that nobody knew what it was, so we didn't share our thoughts until he was taken away to another hospital. It was just so weird that seeing him would leave us with such a strong feeling either way. Both are Irish names and yet the red hair pointed us to Collin. And now I couldn't see him as a Kevin AT ALL!

As for the fall, I am glad you are OK. But yes, they don't fool around with that stuff when you are pregnant. Enjoy the attention now because once the baby comes you get much less attention. :rolleyes:

I had the MRI last Monday at night. They said the report would take a few days. I assumed I would have heard by now. If I remember I will call the doctor tomorrow and see if I can speed up the process.
 
Sorry to hear about the health scares recently, @Chiomaca and @Waiting2goback ! Fingers crossed that everything is all right.

@StayCool I totally agree about the sunshine -- nearly the entire month of May was rain around here. It was brutal…did a number on my mood, which combined with falling off track with the walking made it a rough month.

My sister and I did our first ever 10-miler yesterday! It was…not pretty. Was definitely under-trained, the humidity started killing me before we even started, and the course itself was challenging (seemingly all hills, and ended with a big uphill. ouch). Everything inside me was screaming to quit before even the first mile was up, so I'm trying to stay positive and remember that I still finished regardless and use that as motivation to improve. Maybe that'll be easier to convince myself of when my foot stops hurting…Got a sweet medal, though -- my first!
 
Sorry to hear about the health scares recently, @Chiomaca and @Waiting2goback ! Fingers crossed that everything is all right.

@StayCool I totally agree about the sunshine -- nearly the entire month of May was rain around here. It was brutal…did a number on my mood, which combined with falling off track with the walking made it a rough month.

My sister and I did our first ever 10-miler yesterday! It was…not pretty. Was definitely under-trained, the humidity started killing me before we even started, and the course itself was challenging (seemingly all hills, and ended with a big uphill. ouch). Everything inside me was screaming to quit before even the first mile was up, so I'm trying to stay positive and remember that I still finished regardless and use that as motivation to improve. Maybe that'll be easier to convince myself of when my foot stops hurting…Got a sweet medal, though -- my first!
Did you run the Baltimore Ten Miler? That's the run it sounds like - I did it last year and that last set of hills is insane.
 
Sorry to hear about the health scares recently, @Chiomaca and @Waiting2goback ! Fingers crossed that everything is all right.

@StayCool I totally agree about the sunshine -- nearly the entire month of May was rain around here. It was brutal…did a number on my mood, which combined with falling off track with the walking made it a rough month.

My sister and I did our first ever 10-miler yesterday! It was…not pretty. Was definitely under-trained, the humidity started killing me before we even started, and the course itself was challenging (seemingly all hills, and ended with a big uphill. ouch). Everything inside me was screaming to quit before even the first mile was up, so I'm trying to stay positive and remember that I still finished regardless and use that as motivation to improve. Maybe that'll be easier to convince myself of when my foot stops hurting…Got a sweet medal, though -- my first!

A finish is always great. Not all races will go how you want them to but you did it and you learned the importance of getting in the proper training.

It's been busier at work and I keep forgetting to call my doctor for the results of my MRI as I still have not heard from the doctor. So much for getting back to me within 24 hours of receiving the report. Hopefully I remember to call tomorrow.
 

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