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No rest for the weary, 35 mile bike ride followed by a short run.
Weekend plans are to get together with family. We’ve gotten old enough that we’re now hiding eggs for neices and nephews but it’s always great to get the one egg from Grandma with a check, green > chocolate.
After all the hunting and eating it’s time to get out and exercise.
13 Mile run Saturday. Sunday off because I like being married!
Ray,
Great saying hello to you this weekend in Bumpass…I’m sure it was you parked along the side of the run route taking pictures on Friday afternoon…we waved as we drove by.
Anyway, I lack funny Easter stories, so instead I’ll bore you with the details of my 1.5 hour run and 4.0 hour bike ride…my coach is evil.
40k time trial bike and 16 mile run are my plans for Saturday and Sunday.
I don’t have any funny stories other than my kisser deathly afraid of the big bad Easter bunny. I’d love to try this watch out, it looks amazing! Thanks for the giveaway and the great site!
just trying to get a Garmin 610 for less than the retail price!
When I was 7 I had a nearly catastrophic event when I managed to eat 12 Cadbury creme eggs in one sitting. Face covered in chocolate, I was slipping into a food coma when all of the sudden the sugar rush came about. I literally ran around the house outside looking for more Cadbury eggs hidden around the yard. When non were to be found, I had to switch to jelly beans, but it wasn’t the delicious fondant filling. To this day, I still have a raging addiction to those wonderful eggs.
Well, this year I’m going to celebrate Easter on airports and airplanes. Maybe they’ll have chocolates on the plane!
40k time trial bike and 16 mile run are my plan for Saturday and Sunday.
Looks awesome, could come in handy for my tri training!
When I was a kid, we had an easter egg hunt outside, I picked up an egg I found, put it in my basket, and went about the hunt. When we got back inside, we started opening our plastic eggs and hard boiled eggs. Turns out we didn’t have any hard boiled eggs…. I had picked up a snake egg… Luckily no one ate it.
Every year I buy peeps and pretend they are for my kids (17 and 21 men). I eat them on my way home from the store. I am shameless :)
I remember my parents hiding money in the big golden egg (empty panty hose container). Those were the days when a $1 was huge!
Count Me in ;)
Iver had finding easter eggs, and your parents wrote down they hide 50 eggs and you comeback with 51 eggs? well that’s last year “lost” egg ;-)
Planned workout: 8 mile run on Saturday. Strategize hitting up of post-Easter candy sales.
Every year I buy peeps and pretend they are for my kids (17 and 21 men). I eat them on my way home from the store. I am shameless :)
I remember my parents hiding money in the big golden egg (empty panty hose container). Those were the days when a $1 was huge!
Gonna ride 95K to my mum’s beach house Wednesday – stay with my family – run every day (and swim Friday) and ride the 95K back again – training done :-)
I’m in for the 610! Here’s to hitting the lottery :)
My mom was an expert Easter Basket Hider… some years we would cry and cry until she finally helped us find our baskets…in the oven, the dishwasher, the washing machine/dryer.
No funny easter stories but this weekend should see me getting in a 20mile run before I start my taper for the Edinburgh marathon.
Really enjoyed my Kilomathon (26.2km) last weekend.
I don’t have a funny Easter story but I plan to do a 10K run on Easter Sunday. :)
My Easter story has to do with our dog, Kenny. One year, early in our marriage, my wife and I decided to dye eggs. We dyed them, left them on the counter to dry and went out to dinner. Upon our return we discovered that Kenny had eaten almost a whole dozen hard boiled eggs (shells and all). Needless to say, about 24 hours later, Kenny was very anxious to get outside.
It’s a weekend for runs – long and easy both days!
5k run
Connection timed-out on original comment attempt .. sorry if it actually went through and this becomes a repeat!
Planned weekend workout: 8 mile run. Strategize hitting up of post-Easter candy sales.
Hi Ray!
I just want to check if the display protection is less fragile than on Nike+ GPS watch.
Count me in twice (retweet also ;))!
btw. Very nice blog.
Count Me in ;)
Iver had finding easter eggs, and your parents wrote down they hide 50 eggs and you comeback with 51 eggs? well that’s last year “lost” egg ;-)
My workout this weekend is to pack up everything I own and move it into a new apartment
We’ve got perfect weather these days her on the other side of that big ocean, so my Easter will be spent outside running. Btw, I’m planning to get one of those “If you see me collapse, please hit ‘Pause’ on my garmin.” t-shirts:)
When I was 5, I was so upset about the frilly dress my mom made me wear for Easter. I hated frills and lace. I did however find the “golden egg” with $5 inside at the community egg hung, and had the local paper photographer take my pic, but in the pic my arms are crossed and I’m snarling b/c my pic would be in the paper wearing that darn pink frilly dress!!
I’m from another country and I don;t really celebrate eastern the same way you guys do. I’ll be working out in the morning (Short Ride – long Run)!
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Woke up to a surprisingly snowy Easter morning to see bunny prints over the front yard. Ranked up with best Easter ever.
Found out last year that my parents had let our pet rabbit out the night before to leave the prints, but she got away and the parents had to look around the neighbourhood for an hour to get her back. They have mixed opinions about that year…
No funny Easter stories, this year will be a long run Saturday, and then SHOCKER will be going out to 9:30 club on Saturday night! Very excited to see Femi Kuti and hopefully I can stay up, all the training means I haven’t been up past 11 in a long time!
Plan to do a 5 mile on saturday if the snow clears up!
10k race!
I’m planning on a 10 mile tempo run tomorrow. A 6 mile run in huaraches Friday. And end up the week with a 14 mile long run.
When I lived in Hungary as a youngster my grandfather would hide a lot of the Easter eggs in the manure pile out back for the egg hunt. He got a great kick out of me trying to dig them out of the pile. I’ll never forget his laugh.
One entrie!! Great Blog!
Plan to do a 2k bike ride with the children on Sunday, and 20k of rollerskiing on Monday, Oh ya.
Thanks for the give away. Hope I win
When I was 7 and had an Easter egg hunt at my grandmas for the first time she hid plastic egss but was not aware that you were suppose to place candy inside them so when my brother and I found them all we got were empty cheap eggs, we cried. I cant wait to have kids and do the same to them :)
Great!! Best Regards!!
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Planing a 21k run this weekend. The 610 would come in real handy!
Great!! Best Regards!!
I will be getting married.
Probably do some shorter but faster runs to prepare for a 5k next weekend! Plus running with family since they’re in town visit!
Oh, and lots of chocolate bunnies afterword!
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Planning on a 20k run and learning how to put the new caravan up.
I’d love to win it!!!
I recently moved to NYC – well if you consider 4 months ago recent. Anyway, I am training for my first triathlon – a half ironman – and have found the challenges of training in the greatest city in the world (sarcasm) to be, well, interesting. For instance, this morning I went out for a 7 mile run. I was sporting my Garmin Forerunner 405 to get an accurate mileage, pace and calorie count. What I ended up with was none of the above. All the infrastructure (think building, bridges, sewer rats, etc.) in the Big City, my Garmin has trouble maintaining satellite reception. The first time I ran in the City, I was amazed when I checked my watch and saw that mile 3 was a brisk 4 minute per mile pace while mile 4 was a not-so-impressive 10 minute pace. One solution to this would be to buy the foot pod, but sometimes seeing that 4 minute mile pace gives me just the boost of confidence I need to make me feel like training for a half IM while working 80+ hours a week isn’t that crazy after all. Of course my ego is kept in check when my next mile ticks in a good 5 minutes slower!
Still happy with my Garmin Forerunner 305. Have a great day.
When I was a kid, my Mom would hide the Easter eggs and our dog would follow after her and eat them all.
I recently moved to NYC – well if you consider 4 months ago recent. Anyway, I am training for my first triathlon – a half ironman – and have found the challenges of training in the greatest city in the world (sarcasm) to be, well, interesting. For instance, this morning I went out for a 7 mile run. I was sporting my Garmin Forerunner 405 to get an accurate mileage, pace and calorie count. What I ended up with was none of the above. All the infrastructure (think building, bridges, sewer rats, etc.) in the Big City, my Garmin has trouble maintaining satellite reception. The first time I ran in the City, I was amazed when I checked my watch and saw that mile 3 was a brisk 4 minute per mile pace while mile 4 was a not-so-impressive 10 minute pace. One solution to this would be to buy the foot pod, but sometimes seeing that 4 minute mile pace gives me just the boost of confidence I need to make me feel like training for a half IM while working 80+ hours a week isn’t that crazy after all. Of course my ego is kept in check when my next mile ticks in a good 5 minutes slower!
I plan to start running again after a disastrous first marathon last year.
– Eric in Naples, Florida
I plan to eat some ice cream since I gave that up for lent!
Christmas time our daughter tells us she doesn’t believe in Santa. Same daughter loses a tooth and tells us she doesn’t believe in the Tooth Fairy. With Easter coming she asks us if the Easter Bunny will hide eggs inside or outside this year? Of all three this is the one she believes…
No funny Easter stories that I can recall other than eating too many chocolate bunnies and peeps! Helping out some teammates that are signed up for IMTX this weekend by pacing them during a 100 mile bike ride…should be interesting.
Planning on a nice 10k run right after sunrise. Thanks for the giveaways
Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity. This weekend’s workout is likely to be a 30 mile trail run in the driving rain. Maybe watch some migrating whales from the cliff tops too…
Planned workout is a 10 mile run, one week away from my first marathon, it will be a slow and easy one.
I’ll put my name in for this.
Racing and then sleeping in and brunching!
This year I’ll leave on Easter Saturday for holiday to Oman.
We visited friends during Easter as a kid and I woke up and started looking for eggs. Only problem my friends family did not hide easter eggs. I look forever but found nothing. Very disappointing. My work out, hopefully a 30 to 40 mile ride and 10 mile run. Thanks for the chance to win.
I plan on using peeps as my nutrition — the packaging is pretty similar to shot bloks.
Long Saturday run; long Sunday bike.
Will do a short 5 mile trail run. First Easter since my 102.5 year old granny died last year. Will miss seeing her with her Easter bunny ears on.
this watch looks so cool….
Planning a post easter training surge fuelled by guilt at having eaten so much chocolate – Providing I receive the right amount of chocolate of course ;o)
My funny easter story is one that happened just last year. Our uncles decided to have an Easter Boot Camp. The prize was a plastic egg with money in it, amount unknown. But everyone had to do an exercise that they called out, like 20 pushups…then they gave us a clue and we got to run around the yard and find it. After a few min, another exercise and another clue. By the end we were all a bunch of sweaty relatives stinking up the house playing board games.
My younger sister had recently broken her leg skiing and was in a cast for Easter. Having a flare for the dramatic and being known to be a bit cranky, when it came time to get our pictures taken, the ten year old decided to throw a fit, because the weather was cold and pictures were going to be outside. After much screaming and yelling, she stormed off, but being in a cast, her storm was more a limp. As the family began to laugh, she became even more angry and fell into a bush in a effort to get away from everyone. We never laughed harder. She however was not amused.
Another great offer. Hapy to be in — and happy I have no tragic eating story to share!
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I’ll be running my first 50K trail race this weekend and plan to be recovering on Sunday. Would love to try out the 610. :)
A church I went to last year dropped 2000 eggs from an airplane and lets just say he was a bit off target and seeing everyone run for cover and being pelted by eggs was pretty funny. (No one injured)
Would live to win the 610! Great blog BTW
Best Easter stories involve finding my Easter basket in truly bizarre places, courtesy of my dad. Dishwasher? Check. Bathtub? Check. Garbage can? Check.
No good easter stories. Just an open water swim, some running, and biking this weekend. Maybe an easter brunch.
When I was a kid, my father told me that chocolate Easter bunnies were bunnies that had retired from active egg-delivering Easter bunny duties. He said that they all were eventually frozen as milk chocolate statues to be eaten by greedy children the world over. Then he laughed. He laughed like a madman while chewing into one of those chocolate bunnies and saying “So long Reginald” through a mouthful of ears. Reginald was the name given to all rabbits by Zoltrex, the overlord who ran the whole show. Or so my father told me.
*none of that is true
Wow, Garmin is really kicking out cool gear in the past 12 months. This tiny wrist GPS is the coolest!
At least 2 hours of trainer + swimming so that I can pig out at Easter Dinner!
Whoo-Hoo!!! Count me in!
Hopefully the sun will come out on Saturday for an easy 2hour ride and then an easy 10-12mi run on Sunday.
Plan to eat a lot!
We don’t really do easter; and this year it will be all about recovering from jetlag (flying to FL from Europe this friday), so I plan to have either a nice run or swim to clear my head.
And hopefully not pass out in the heat… @_@
Hoping to get a run and ride in this weekend.
Greetings! When my brother and I were young we enjoyed a yearly Easter egg hunt at Grandma’s with a bunch of cousins and neighbor kids… One year, my brother went missing for a bit and my parents found him sitting by my Grandma’s beautiful flower arrangement sticking pussy willows up his nose!! Ha!
As for this weekend- 10 mile run with old friends along Lake Michigan and then a Milwaukee Brewer game on Sunday… All while wearing bunny ears :)
I’m afraid I don’t have funny Easter story, so I’ll answer the second part of the question. For me, this Easter weekend is all about resurrecting my commitment to living active. After a long winter, I’m planning on doing my first run in almost 5 months. So nothing to brag about, just an easy run to get back into it!
– Yogi from peaceofmindscrapbooking.com
Days off from work, but wife has the to do list ready for stuff to be fixed around the house. Oh boy! Easter should be drive to Mexico, and camp out with the family. Thanks for the giveaways Ray!
Visiting family this weekend so after skiing Friday, I’m on near-total rest until Monday morning, though I may throw in an hour of yoga on Saturday. I need the break and can’t wait.
Saturday is a 50K trail race followed by Sunday recovering and enjoying the holiday with my kids (maybe eat some chocolate). :)
No funny Easter bunny stories herd, but plans for the weekend include 10 miles on the trails at Umstead park.
The Easter bunny paid his annual visit to our house when I was a kid – and brought a couple of cute hamsters for my sister. Unfortunately – our Black Lab found the hamsters before we did and only left us remnants! Funny in retrospect, not so funny back then!
Gonna be biking the 35 miles to my parents house this Sunday morning, followed by a 30 min brick run, just in time to sit down and gorge on our Easter feast!
I just came across two years of aged (as in stale and hard as a rock) Peeps in a drawer the other day as I was desperately searching for some chocolate. If they had been chocolate covered, flavored, or filled I would have eaten them right away. I have a 9 mile run scheduled for the weekend…my longest run ever :-). I sure could use a fancy new Garmin 610! C’mon random number generator…make me the winner!!!
Just really long walks for me over the weekend
Planned workout: 2-2.5 hour ride followed by transition run on Sat, 1.5 hour base run on Sunday.
Rest week so easy ride and run.
The Easter bunny paid it’s annual visit back when I was a kid and left a nice present for my sister – 2 Hamsters! Unfortunately – our Black lab found them before we did and all that was left were remnants. Funny in retrospect -not so funny back then!
i proposed to my wife by hiding her engagement ring in an easter egg! 6 years of blissful marriage, three boys and still going strong!