The Running Thread - 2018

[Waiting2goback]

QOTD: Do you do any type of workout or other activity on your recovery days? If so what do you do?

ATTQOTD: I rest on non-running days. They are usually days when I get to spend a little more time with the family.

Right now I don't. But once things settle down and the weather gets better I plan to add my bike rides back in on alternating days. I'm hoping to get some P90x strength training workouts in for the upper body and maybe a day of Yoga to stretch myself out.

Efficient with time I guess. Up at 5:00-5:30 (shower, make breakfast (eggs/oatmeal) and lunch at same time, eat), leave for work at 7, get home from work at 4:45, out the door to run by 5:10, home by 6:20 to 7:00 most nights, eat dinner, play with the kiddo, her bedtime is around 8:00-8:30, and then I'm in bed at either 8:30 or 9 depending on the DIS. Rinse and repeat! There isn't a lot of time I'm not at work, running, or playing with kiddo I guess.

I forget your kiddo is younger. I am constantly running my kids to basketball and doing homework and stuff. Throws a big wrench into my routine. Once basketball is over next month I can get back into a better routine as well. Sometimes I'm not getting to the gym until 9pm..

I love sleep. I rarely have any issues falling asleep. I usually get between 5 and 6 just due to schedules and work. I would like 8, but its not going to happen. However, can function on little sleep. Usually by Thursday I am feeling it and Fridays, I am ready for the weekend.

I'm usually ready for the weekend on Monday morning.

 

[rteetz]

Snow day! No school! Doesn’t help with getting a run in though...

It needs to be spring like yesterday...

 

[HomeiswhereMickeyis]

ATTQsOTD:
Sleep - 7 1/2 to 9 hours or else I'm useless and need a nap.
Workouts - If I'm not running I'm bilking or weightlifting. I have one true rest day and that has been spent at Disney lately... not sure if that can be considered a rest day with all that walking lol!

 

[GreatLakes]

QOTD: Do you do any type of workout or other activity on your recovery days? If so what do you do?

I have a lot of other physical activities I do but don't really look at them as something I do on a recovery day. I just look at it as something I do when I'm not running. Lately I've been doing a lot more pool miles since I have a few indoor tri's I'm signed up for but in the summer I also bike, take the dog on a walk, take the kid on walks.

 

[PrincessV]

QOTD: Do you do any type of workout or other activity on your recovery days? If so what do you do?

ATTQOTD: I've never thought of my non-running days as "recovery" days, but I guess some are! I have one designated rest day per week, and that's truly a rest day: no exercise outside of normal daily activities. Other non-run days are for cross-training: yoga, Pilates, ballet, strength training.

 

[michigandergirl]

Snow day! No school! Doesn’t help with getting a run in though...

It needs to be spring like yesterday...

Snow day here too! It's been snowing here for a week straight. Kids & I are feeling lazy today...glad I did today's run yesterday. I am so ready for spring.

 

[Jules76126]

I feel all of those with snow days. The university I worked for closed early on Wednesday due to snow and ice - I worked from home all, don't got time for that nasty commute. But it's going to be 50 tomorrow so maybe Spring is coming

 

[LSUlakes]

Fun Friday QOTD: Calling all popcorn lovers! Do you make homemade popcorn or the microwave variety? Whats your favorite flavor? Those who make on the stove, wanna share a recipe?

ATTQOTD: For Christmas DW gave me a whirley pop which is like giving a gift for everyone in the house. DD loves popcorn the most so prior to this it was microwave, movie or Disney popcorn. Then life changes lol. After one or two rounds of very bland following directions recipes, I consulted the greatest wealth of information possible.... GOOGLE. I found a recipe for kettle corn and its a game changer! Its 1/2 cup of kernels, 1/4 coconut oil, 1/4 sugar. Heat oil, add kernels, and then sugar. Then wait for the magic to happen. SO GOOD!!!!! Movie nights have been happening a lot this year to get more popcorn.

 

[LSUlakes]

For all of those wanting spring I want to saw you can have it after I run my POT half on March 11. Until then yall need to keep getting snow so our lows stay at least in the 50's. I need cool/cold weather to run decent as my training is suffering yet again.

 

[camaker]

ATTQOTD: My go-to for regular popcorn is microwave Orville Redenbacher's Movie Theater Butter flavor. Even better, it's available in mini-bags that are great for a calorie controlled snack. For at home specialty popcorn DW got a recipe for a great caramel popcorn. It's noteworthy because in addition to being delicious it's not sticky if you prepare it right!

 

[SarahDisney]

Fun Friday QOTD: Calling all popcorn lovers! Do you make homemade popcorn or the microwave variety? Whats your favorite flavor? Those who make on the stove, wanna share a recipe?

I'm not a big popcorn person, but when I do have popcorn, I usually just whatever bag of pre-popped popcorn that we have lying around the house. I actually really like the Popcorn, Indiana Black & White Drizzlecorn because chocolate (they used to have a Popcorn, Indiana store in Times Square that had all sorts of really good drizzle flavors ... back in college, that was basically the only time I went to Times Square. Peanut butter drizzle popcorn is literally the greatest thing ever).

 

[HomeiswhereMickeyis]

ATTQOTD: I'm lazy and go the microwave single serving bags. I love all the different flavored popcorn, but it has to be fresh. But my favorite is extra butter... or Disney.

 

[cburnett11]

ATTQOTD: I'm lazy and go the microwave single serving bags.

I consider all of them single serving...

 

[PCFriar80]

Fun Friday QOTD: Calling all popcorn lovers! Do you make homemade popcorn or the microwave variety? Whats your favorite flavor? Those who make on the stove, wanna share a recipe?

ATTQOTD:
Not one of the choices, but my "go to" option is Cracker Jacks! The surprise toy has gone downhill over the years, but still love it when I get to the bottom with the peanuts!

 

[huggybuff]

Fun Friday QOTD: Calling all popcorn lovers! Do you make homemade popcorn or the microwave variety? Whats your favorite flavor? Those who make on the stove, wanna share a recipe?

I also go for the Orville Redenbacher's Movie Theater Butter flavor. Single serving bag...not so much. And I have never had Disney popcorn. It always seems like a waste of a snack when there are more exciting things to be eaten. But there are so many devotees here that I'll have to try it when I get back to Disney...someday.

 

[KSellers88]

ATTQOTD: OMGGGGG! One of my favorite Disney snacks. I always get the refillable bucket because I love it so much. I know there's is Pop Secret, but it just does not taste the same at home when I make it myself.

 

[TheHamm]

ATTQOTD: I have never gotten popped corn at Disney as I feel it is a snack I could make at home and enjoy, where as there are so many things I could get there and enjoy that I would never make at home.
In grad school, a bottle of wine and a giant bowl of air popped corn was frequently dinner. I still love air popped corn (and am a sucker for these red kernels someone sells at the local farmer's market solely because they are local and red- but taste and look like normal popcorn afterwards), but my kids are just getting to the point where they won't choke on it so my husband has banished the popper to the basement. I feel guilty but still make the microwave bags from the boy scouts (I swear it is the better microwave corn) at work and gross people out with the smell. At Christmas, we make air popped corn and make the caramel in the microwave, it isn't hard but I would eat it all day every day until my teeth fall out so it must be saved. We went to disney on ice last week where the kids insisted on popcorn- which only came in a silly souvenir bag so we needed two of course- so I have been sneaking that after they go to bed, and hope they forget there were leftovers as they are all gone. It is not heavily salted or buttered, so not as delicious as microwave popcorn, but I can eat it without anyone screaming downstairs inquiring to popping noises! You all have convinced me! The popper returns for Mary Poppins this weekend!

 

[FFigawi]

Fun Friday QOTD: Calling all popcorn lovers! Do you make homemade popcorn or the microwave variety? Whats your favorite flavor? Those who make on the stove, wanna share a recipe?

I use microwave popcorn these days, mostly the Orville Redenbacher ones with the pour-over butter flavored goop. Popcorn just isn't the same if it's not dripping in butter or goop. Still, one of these days I'm going to steal my parents' old electric popper. Not very healthy, but those old poppers and their hot oil made great tasting popcorn.

 

[Bree]

ATTQOTD: I love popcorn! I am lazy and buy Whole Foods organic microwave bags. Newman’s organic is good too, but WF isn’t as greasy. When we go to St. Augustine we always stop here https://www.kernelpoppers.net/ and buy flavored popcorn. One of my favorites is key lime pie!

 

[kski907]

ATTQOTD: We had a cub scout/boy scout in the house for quite a few years until sports took over. We were always stocked with boy scout popcorn of every kind. The microwave kettle corn was my favorite. Now a days the only time we get popcorn is at the movies or the occasional jiffy pop over the campfire in the summers. Have never done the popcorn at disney, but now that I have learned you can refill the bucket cheaply we may have to try it.