Marathon Princess

Xena · Oct 16, 2007

Before my post..here is the update list of participants..of course if you still want to take part...just PM me or Hanging Jury and we aill add you to the list 
Following the list of participants is the list of questions so that you can simply paste and copy them in your own post. This is the reason this thread has now become sticky..did not think that my whole bio would be sticky but..whatEver LOL 
Hanging Jury 10/15 
Marathon Princess 10/16 
McTortle 10/17 
BikeGirl72 10/18 
Alex 10/19 
FloridaBoiler 10/20 
RunninTheRockies 10/21 
Notey 10/22 
Auntie Moe 10/23 
High Heat 10/24 
Hahaoya 10/25 
Tamster 10/26 
Nettie 10/27 
Orange Shorts 10/28 
Tithers 10/29 
JackDuggan 10/30 
wherestheportojohn 10/31 
HP 11/1 
ToeJamOnCrustyFeet 11/2 
Thirtyin04 11/3 
techgoddess 11/4 
colby 11/5 
Arrojo 11/6 
the Kenyan 11/7 
Quixotic Notions 11/8 
Martin 11/9 
ym 11/10 
dcoroner77 11/11 
Gingerbread 11/12 
muzicgrl 11/13 
oache 11/14 
Solitude 11/15 
Bootsie 11/16 
Willrun4chocolate 11/17 
Hippo 11/18 
Dankinia 11/19 
jcumming 11/20 
Jebba 11/21 
Equinox Marathon 43 11/22 
Grizzly 11/23 
Xavier Dan Q 11/24 
Shades 11/25 
Chele 11/26 
ToddEP 11/27 
SnowboardBoy 11/28 
Sister Golden hair 11/29 
DEturtle 11/30 
Kasieee 12/1 
Mortimer the Surly Goat 12/2 
CoachT 12/3 
Roots 12/4 
Missy 1102 12/5 
Willamona 12/6 
Wyrillco 12/7 QUESTIONS 
1. Why do you run? 
2. What is your greatest accomplishment? 
3. What is your motto/theme song? 
4. How do you deal with bad runs? 
5. Do you reward yourself for good runs? How? 
6. Who do you admire most? 
7. What is the greatest advice you have ever received? 
8. What do wish you had learned younger? 
9. What do you wish you could do but can't? 
10. How would your friends describe your personality? 
11. What do you wear running? favorite outfit? 
12. What has been your favorite race? 
13. Do you have a goal race right now? 
14. What makes you happy? 
15. Tell us one interesting thing about you that you haven't said (at least not often) on this forum in the past. 
16. Tell us one interesting thing about another user of this forum that has not been posted (at least not often) on this forum in the past (make sure the other person will not object to posting the info!).

Xena · Oct 16, 2007

Well I did my best...HJ set the bar pretty dam high yesterday 1.Why do you run? I started running 6 years ago because I just had my daughter and felt that the whole gym thing was just going to be too much with 2 kids. I had always been very active with biking, hiking and aerobics…but time seemed to disappear after the birth of my daughter…so I thought about running…cause I could do it early in the morning straight from my doorstep. When I started my family laughed in my face...because I was NOT a morning person. Well that is all it took for me to need to prove them wrong and here I am 6 years later. Each time I presented them with a new challenge …they thought I was crazy…again just fueling my determination <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy"> Running makes me feel strong and fit and it allows me to think through issues. I come home after a run and I am ready to tackle my day. I cannot imagine my life without my running. In fact a few weeks ago ..just before my last HM..someone told me to be careful not to injure myself because it would be less painful to light me on fire than to watch me not be able to run.LOL When my daughter plays “house” and she is the mommy...she always “goes out for her run”. I define myself to a certain extent as a runner…I am a runner…I run…I love to run… I am extremely passionate about it 2.WHAT IS YOU GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT? My kids...hands down…they are my my greatest accomplishment 3.WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO/THEME SONG? Motto: I will never give up…I will never surrender Theme song: Firewoman by The Cult..I play it before every race and often at 4 am if you look down the street where I am running you will see me “shake it” along the yellow line <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy"> 4. HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH BAD RUNS? I treat them as character development and as wonderful opportunities to allow me to truly taste the greatness of the good runs and appreciate them more when they happen. 5. DO YOU REWARD YOURSELF FRO GOOD RUNS? I think I am a running purist. My reward is the run itself. I have never rewarded myself for a run extrinsically. For me running the good run provides me with such a passionate joy that I do not require nor want any other type of reward. 6. WHO DO ADMIRE MOST? My mother…she was the strongest woman I have ever known. She was ill most of my life yet was always full of “piss and vinegar” a vibrant, beautiful, sexy, strong, happy and passionate woman…even though she was faced with such immense challenges. She taught me to be strong and independent and appreciate every moment in this lifetime...to take risks and not be afraid to speak my mind…to suck the marrow out of life like there is no tomorrow. I miss her every day <ul><li>WHAT IS THE GREATEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER RECEIVED?</li>
</ul>To forgive and never hold a grudge…to live each moment to it’s fullest…to appreciate flaw and find beauty in it <ul><li>WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU AHD LEARNED YOUNGER?</li>
</ul>To appreciate that the pain associated with pushing yourself beyond your limits pays off tenfold if you keep it up <ul><li>WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU COULD DO BUT CAN’T?</li>
</ul>Time travel <ul><li>HOW DO YOUR FRIENDS DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?</li>
</ul>Passionate, honest, intense, strong willed, slightly pervy, loves to be around people, says it like it is even if others don’t appreciate that, hard head, stubborn, extremely generous and giving, low maintenance yet very very vain, confident and just plain fun…oh and did I say stubborn?? LOL I think with me there is no in between…peeps either love me or hate me…there is no real neutral ground…and I am ok with that… <ul><li>What DO YOU WEAR RUNNING</li>
</ul>Summer: bra, running skirt or racer bakc type top and running skirt Winter: tights, underarmour compression top, pink jacket I always wear my breast cancer bandanna to hold my hair and so that my mom can spot me on the road from heaven. I have never ever been on a run or raced with out it…even in –30..I wear it under my hat <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy"> <ul><li>WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVORITE RACE?</li>
</ul>Vermont..because of the crowd support..last year I lost my sports beans on the connector..and I knew I was safe because in VT the peeps support the runners by literally having buffets in front of their houses…I have run 3 M and probably close to 20 HM’s…VT rocks..it really does!!!! <ul><li>GOAL RACE NOW</li>
</ul>I am training for VT in the Spring and Haliburton Forest 50 miler in the Fall...oh and a few HM’s here and there 14.WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? My kids, running, my family and friends, dancing on the yellow line in the middle of the road at 4 am with music blasting in my ear, summitting a mountain, feeling every part of my body work when exerting physical effort, baguette et fromage, watching the sun rise when most of the world is sleeping.. <ul><li>TELL US AN INTERESTING THING ABOUT YOURSELF</li>
</ul>I am master knitter. I create beautiful garments with 2 needles and yarn. I love quality yarns and I have a stash of yarn that could probably compete with any wool shop hidden in my basement 16 TELL US SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT ANOTHER POSTER ON THIS FORUM Willa is a running mom but has no children. I recruited her to the RM thread on CR because I thought she was funny and could give a different perspective to the group. Now she still posts there and I do not.

Horrible Peanut · Oct 16, 2007

<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile"> Cooooooool!

Hanging Jury · Oct 16, 2007

MP: That was great. Waaaaaayy mo' betta than mine! 
Thanks for sharing. 
HJ

Xena · Oct 16, 2007

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<div style="font-style:italic;">MP: That was great. Waaaaaayy mo' betta than mine! 
Thanks for sharing. 
HJ</div>
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Thanks ..but I don't think so LOL..anyway..it was fun to do

wherestheportojohn · Oct 16, 2007

MP, 
Thanks for the insights. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/notworthy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="notworthy"> I'm putting in my order for a scarf--->a long skinny one that is soft, softer, softest....in purples and mauves, please. 
My staff always checks to see what type of scarf I'm wearing as my fall-winter accessory! ~I'd love to own an MP original~

ToddEP · Oct 16, 2007

MP~thanks for the addition to the list. Thanks for giving us all some insight to the beautiful person that you are.

sistergoldenhair · Oct 16, 2007

I am totally going to download "Firewoman" for my mp3 player. 
Thanks for sharing a little of yourself with us. Your passion and positive energy come through in your posts, and now we know a little more where you get them from. 
I like how you incorporate the bandanna into your runs for your mom and make it even more meaningful. Is the cause (breast cancer) also why you wear pink?

Xena · Oct 16, 2007

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<div style="font-style:italic;">I like how you incorporate the bandanna into your runs for your mom and make it even more meaningful. Is the cause (breast cancer) also why you wear pink?</div>
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Well I have always loved pink..this being said...the Montreal chapter of the Breast Cancer Foundation took root in the years that my mother was first hit with the disease and she was very involved in it taking root and getting it off the ground. Now at the time she told that PINK was going to be the theme colour because of me...because I loved pink so much and it was the colour of beautiful princesses...OBVIOUSLY...that was not true LOL but at the time I believed it. So it is all mixed up..the reason for the pink. I cannot remember my life without pink or breast cancer...There has never been a time in my life where a woman in my family has not been afflicted by the disease. The women carry a mutated 13th chromosome of the BRAC2 gene. I was tested for this gene mutation last Novemeber and I am the first in 5 generations that they know of who does not carry it. So I am being followed to see if they can find something in me...that would help in research. My daughter will also be spared because she could not have inherited from me ...but I have a niece and 3 young cousins...their mother..45 was just diagnosed last year

Lincoln · Oct 16, 2007

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Well I did my best...HJ set the bar pretty dam high yesterday 
...I always wear my breast cancer bandanna to hold my hair and so that my mom can spot me on the road from heaven...</div>
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Oh, man. That is...wonderful. Or beautiful. Those are the not the words I want to use, but they're the closest words I can come up with. 
Lincoln

Shades · Oct 16, 2007

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Before my post..here is the update list of participants..of course if you still want to take part...just PM me or Hanging Jury and we aill add you to the list 
Hanging Jury 10/15 
Marathon Princess 10/16 
McTortle 10/17 
BikeGirl72 10/18 
Alex 10/19 
FloridaBoiler 10/20 
RunninTheRockies 10/21 
Notey 10/22 
Auntie Moe 10/23 
High Heat 10/24 
Hahaoya 10/25 
Tamster 10/26 
Nettie 10/27 
Orange Shorts 10/28 
Tithers 10/29 
JackDuggan 10/30 
wherestheportojohn 10/31 
HP 11/1 
ToeJamOnCrustyFeet 11/2 
Thirtyin04 11/3 
techgoddess 11/4 
colby 11/5 
Arrojo 11/6 
the Kenyan 11/7 
Quixotic Notions 11/8 
Martin 11/9 
ym 11/10 
dcoroner77 11/11 
Gingerbread 11/12 
muzicgrl 11/13 
oache 11/14 
Solitude 11/15 
Bootsie 11/16 
Willrun4chocolate 11/17 
Hippo 11/18 
Dankinia 11/19 
jcumming 11/20 
Jebba 11/21 
Equinox Marathon 43 11/22 
Grizzly 11/23 
Xavier Dan Q 11/24 
Shades 11/25 
Chele 11/26 
ToddEP 11/27 
SnowboardBoy 11/28 
Sister Golden hair 11/29 
DEturtle 11/30</div>
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Please add kasieee to the list <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy">

Shades · Oct 16, 2007

Marathon Princess: You story made me cry. Thank you for your inspiration and I think I will wear a pink bandana sometimes so your mom can spot me too-I would like more angels in heaven watching over me! <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile">

Ileneforward · Oct 16, 2007

Thank you, marathon princess, it is nice to get to know you. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile">

toe jam on crusty feet · Oct 16, 2007

I love this new thing we are doing!

kasieee · Oct 16, 2007

Wow. What a great interview! I loved it!

Martin · Oct 16, 2007

Princesse, do your kids run/bike with you sometimes?

Xena · Oct 16, 2007

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<div style="font-style:italic;">Princesse, do your kids run/bike with you sometimes?</div>
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My son has biked with me..on shorter runs...6 to 12 miles....My daughter cannot keep up yet and does not enjoy it...I really do try and run on my own or with a partner but when I am stuck...I stick her in the Champion jogger/biketrailer and him on the bike

Xavier Dan Q · Oct 16, 2007

That was really, really good. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile"> 
I was a bit skeptical of this idea, but I now see from HJ's and your POTD posts, how cool this idea can be. 
I feel like I know you a little better now.

clb · Oct 16, 2007

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<div style="font-style:italic;">That was really, really good. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile"> 
I was a bit skeptical of this idea, but I now see from HJ's and your POTD posts, how cool this idea can be. 
I feel like I know you a little better now.</div>
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I know what you mean. I am/was similarly put-off a bit by the idea of competing bios, but as in everything in life, there's an up side and a down. 
Lovely inspiring story, Princess. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile">

Arrojo · Oct 16, 2007

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