December 2017 Running Challenge
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RunsOnEspresso wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »cburke8909 wrote: »@PastorVincent sorry but eating out is the issue. The only way to eat out is to plan the meal. Like Red Robin has this fantastic Avocobbo salad and the calorie total is reasonable.(You can even get away with eating some fries) The other option at Red Robin is to skip the bun. Most of their burgers are very tasty on a lettuce wrap. The same type of meal made at home is usually half the calories.
So its a few hours after my run and my calf is indeed sore. I was planning an elliptical run for Friday, I'm considering a rest day or at least reducing the intensity of the exercise.
I did plan the meal - as in I planned to go stuff my face with bottomless fries and Red Robin Gourmet burger with Gluten Free bun. There are only so many options I have when I eat out so, I pick based on that limited set.
I guess I will just have to see if I can fit another 13 miles in today
So true! I love Red Robin. We go once or twice a month. And I can eat their fries! There's so few places I can have fries that I will eat them when I get a chance. Plus, I don't really eat salads and I hate when I think I've found a new place to eat, only to find out their gf options are.... salad.
That just happened to me... had a gift card to Cracker Barrel. UGH. When you can fit your GF menu on the back of your hand, you should just give up pretending.1 -
PastorVincent wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Man... I need to stop tracking calories. It is depressing. Ran 13 miles... and still was not enough to burn off dinner at Red Robin last night!
I just eat reasonably healthy, my nutritionist doesn't want me to count calories unless I gain or lose weight.
Eh. I like food. Without objective measures, I would regain back all the weight I lost fairly quickly. MFP CICO has keep me in my target range longer than anything else I have tried.
You see the miles I put in each month, it is not like I am not trying to be healthy. I just like food.
A lot. Especially tasty food. Tasty food is the best.
heh, same here. I guess that I'm lucky, I can make most foods I like better than the bought variety, so I can make them healthier than if I bought them. Nutritionist said that if I gain weight then she'll have me count calories, but for now, nutrition is her main focus. I lost the 17# I needed to through CICO, now I need to work on refining the fuel this performance machine takes in...LOL0 -
@PastorVincent We've went to Cracker Barrel a couple of times. The problem is the stuff I want to eat there isn't gf LOL
Lately I've been obsessed with Denny's. Not a lot of food but most of their skillets & breakfast sides are gf. I could eat breakfast foods 24/7.0 -
@PastorVincent ok then I guess your plan has to be more miles for each visit. I consider a no holds bar visit to Red Robin a run of at least 15 miles. Problem for me at this point is that now that I don't eat that way, even with the long run to offset calories my body is not happy with that amount of that kind of food. So I enjoy the meal but the after meal is misery.0
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MNLittleFinn wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »MNLittleFinn wrote: »PastorVincent wrote: »Man... I need to stop tracking calories. It is depressing. Ran 13 miles... and still was not enough to burn off dinner at Red Robin last night!
I just eat reasonably healthy, my nutritionist doesn't want me to count calories unless I gain or lose weight.
Eh. I like food. Without objective measures, I would regain back all the weight I lost fairly quickly. MFP CICO has keep me in my target range longer than anything else I have tried.
You see the miles I put in each month, it is not like I am not trying to be healthy. I just like food. A lot. Especially tasty food. Tasty food is the best.
heh, same here. I guess that I'm lucky, I can make most foods I like better than the bought variety, so I can make them healthier than if I bought them. Nutritionist said that if I gain weight then she'll have me count calories, but for now, nutrition is her main focus. I lost the 17# I needed to through CICO, now I need to work on refining the fuel this performance machine takes in...LOL
Oh, at home is the worst, I have too many options. I work from home a couple days a week and those are the worst for eating. When I go into the office, where I can only carry so much food with me, I do better.
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RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent We've went to Cracker Barrel a couple of times. The problem is the stuff I want to eat there isn't gf LOL
Lately I've been obsessed with Denny's. Not a lot of food but most of their skillets & breakfast sides are gf. I could eat breakfast foods 24/7.
See, growing up, Denny's was always the place you ended up because nothing was open at 2 am... one never planned to go there, just you ran out of options when you were in HS/early college in places to go to crash, drink coffee and burn up time. So - to this day I never think of Denny's as intentional place to eat. 2 -
cburke8909 wrote: »@PastorVincent ok then I guess your plan has to be more miles for each visit. I consider a no holds bar visit to Red Robin a run of at least 15 miles. Problem for me at this point is that now that I don't eat that way, even with the long run to offset calories my body is not happy with that amount of that kind of food. So I enjoy the meal but the after meal is misery.
That actually was my plan... not joking. Just did not do the math in advance and I was thinking "Oh, 1/2 marathon should be enough" Guess not! Of course fewer refills of fries might have helped.... nah! 0 -
@PastorVincent I never did either until I had to find a place open at like 3 am for a pre flight meal. GF options are limited at that time. Then I had their jalapeno bacon and keep going back. Bacon. It's my weakness (besides fries... now you all know why I need to run hah) 0
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I get it. Work is worse for me... crackers and stuff for the students... too easy to snack. at home I'm prtty good, with the cupboards closed, it's out of sight out of mind..... that and the insane amount of coffee I drink, stimulant plus appetite suppressant is a great combo.PastorVincent wrote: »Oh, at home is the worst, I have too many options. I work from home a couple days a week and those are the worst for eating. When I go into the office, where I can only carry so much food with me, I do better.
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RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent I never did either until I had to find a place open at like 3 am for a pre flight meal. GF options are limited at that time. Then I had their jalapeno bacon and keep going back. Bacon. It's my weakness (besides fries... now you all know why I need to run hah)
It is stinking amazing how many calories are in fries! Oh, but, yum!1 -
RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent We've went to Cracker Barrel a couple of times. The problem is the stuff I want to eat there isn't gf LOL
Lately I've been obsessed with Denny's. Not a lot of food but most of their skillets & breakfast sides are gf. I could eat breakfast foods 24/7.
Yes! They have a gluten free English muffin and it's actually GOOD! I asked the waitress if it was of any notable brand (like Red Robin's buns are Udis), but she was completely clueless.0 -
lporter229 wrote: »RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent We've went to Cracker Barrel a couple of times. The problem is the stuff I want to eat there isn't gf LOL
Lately I've been obsessed with Denny's. Not a lot of food but most of their skillets & breakfast sides are gf. I could eat breakfast foods 24/7.
Yes! They have a gluten free English muffin and it's actually GOOD! I asked the waitress if it was of any notable brand (like Red Robin's buns are Udis), but she was completely clueless.
Do you happen to know the brand of the bun at Eat-n-Park? I love how soft the texture is.0 -
I have not been able to keep up with this thread. I have been going non-stop from 6AM until 1AM pretty much every day for at least a week. My SIL (in Pittsburgh) has been completely bed ridden for two weeks with a bulging disk and pinched nerve in her back. She and my brother have had a string of bad luck for the last year and have been working like dogs to try and keep their heads above water, so this is the last thing they needed right now. I feel extremely helpless, so the only thing I could think to do was to send food. I tried looking at one of the meal service web sites, but they are a) expensive, b) complicated to give as a gift and c) not fully prepared, so they would still have some cooking to do and I'm not sure how much it would help. So I got the bright idea that I would cook them a bunch of freezable meals, vacuum pack them, and ship them in a cooler. yeah, that probably wasn't the best idea when I am also trying to get ready for Christmas and the onslaught of in-laws who will begin arriving today. But now it's done and ready to be shipped and I am sure that they will appreciate it. Now if only I could remember my point in telling you this...
Oh yeah, so anyway, yesterday I had a busy day so I planned it out to the tee. I was going to stop at Wal-Mart on my way home from work and then sneak my work out in before I finished preparing meals and dusting and vacuuming the house. When I arrived home I opened the garage door only to find out that my husband was in there with the dog. As soon as the door went up, out she went. She has the time of her life flying around the neighborhood and it's pointless to even try and catch her. She runs around, doing a fly by every five minutes or so just to make sure we are still there looking for her and then she takes off again. I would love to just let her run as I know she would probably return, but we are too close to a busy road and it makes me scared. After about 25 minutes of trying to lure her in with treats, we finally got her with some pepperoni. But of course, she had been in the woods and had rolled in some really stinky *kitten*, so then we had to give her a bath. After all was said and done, that was about 45 minutes out of my perfectly planned day and the only thing I really could give up was the workout. So unplanned rest day yesterday. It's all going to be hit or miss what I am able to get in between now and Tuesday, but with the in-laws here for 5 days, I am going to try and need to get in as many runs as I can.7 -
@lporter229 I wonder if they are Glutino? I had similar ones like 3 years ago and think it was Glutino.0
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@Orphia great candy cane!
@garygse glad the shin is better. I just cracked up at your PS and PPS comments.
@lporter229 what a day. I think the frozen dinners was a great idea. I looked into the food thing for my brother too for Christmas and there was nothing like what I wanted to send him.
Gosh I’ve barely run this week. Tonight Skip, a friend and I are running at Fleet Feet’s PJ run. I think it’s a 1 or 3 mile option. My friend is just getting back into running and she wanted to go so we said sure. Skip and I brought matching long sleeve night gowns for the event.
I STILL haven’t gotten everything I need to start the new job, it’s getting really annoying. I drove out to post today to do my training, but they having an open house for Christmas and it would be impossible for me to train during it. No one will be there tomorrow so Tuesday is the next possible day. Can you say wasted time all this week.
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PastorVincent wrote: »RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent We've went to Cracker Barrel a couple of times. The problem is the stuff I want to eat there isn't gf LOL
Lately I've been obsessed with Denny's. Not a lot of food but most of their skillets & breakfast sides are gf. I could eat breakfast foods 24/7.
See, growing up, Denny's was always the place you ended up because nothing was open at 2 am... one never planned to go there, just you ran out of options when you were in HS/early college in places to go to crash, drink coffee and burn up time. So - to this day I never think of Denny's as intentional place to eat.
I was a Denny's waitress in college. I think that's a very good description of it. We used to get all sorts - we were right across from the East Precinct station, and a hotel which charged by the hour, and on the road from the airport. So an equal mix cops, prostitutes, Fed Ex pilots, and philosophical college students. The funniest thing that ever happened was when some guy tried to rob the place without realizing how many cops were in there. Someone immediately radioed the precinct and about a billion cops swarmed out in our direction - seen through the front windows it looked like someone stepped on a nest of fire ants! The guy with the gun was disarmed and taken away so quickly that some customers in the back didn't realize there had been a robbery!6 -
December Running Challenge
Goal: 90 km
Ran: 71.2/90 km
21/12/17 Run 8 km
17/12/17 Run 6.5 km
16/12/17 Rest day
15/12/17 SL A
14/12/17 Run 8 km
13/12/17 Run 3.4 km SL B
12/12/17 Run 6.3 km
11/12/17 Run 7 km SL A
10/12/17 Run 6 km 32
9/12/17 Rest day
8/12/17 Walk 5 km
7/12/17 walk 10 km
6/12/17 Run 8 km
5/12/17 Run 6 km
4/12/17 Run 6 km
3/12/17 Walk 1 hour
2/12/17 rest day
1/12/17 Run 6 km2 -
12/1 10.02 miles
12/2 14.02 miles
12/3 9.41 miles
12/4 9.01 miles
12/5
12/6 10.01 miles
12/7 10.01 miles
12/8 14.5 miles
12/9 10.85 miles
12/10 26.65 miles
12/11 8.36 miles
12/12
12/13
12/14 9.01 miles
12/15 13.13 miles
12/16 17.03
12/17
12/18 10.27 miles
12/19
12/20
12/21 10.37 miles
As of today: 2041.82 miles for 2017
December Goal: 182.65/2003 -
12/1 9.75mi
12/2 4mi
12/3 rest
12/4 4mi
12/5 6mi
12/6 5.64mi
12/7 10mi
12/8 4mi
12/9 4.3mi
12/10 rest
12/11 5.5mi
12/12 4mi
12/13 9.25mi
12/14 3.31mi
12/15 10mi
12/16 5mi
12/17 rest
12/18 5.5mi
12/19 4mi
12/20 8mi
12/21 4mi
Another 4 easy miles. 10 tomorrow.4 -
12/1 - 5 miles. Still loving the warmer than average weather!
12/2 - 5 miles.
12/3 - Busy / rest day.
12/4 - 5.15 miles. This weather is nuts! It was 63° at 4:45 a.m.
12/5 - 4.75 miles. 35° temperature drop in 24 hours...Brrr!
12/6 - 3.5 'mill miles, then upper body weights / abs.
12/7 - Unplanned rest day. Didn't sleep...ZZZZZ
12/8 - 3.5 on the treadmill, then weights and abs.
12/9 - 4.5 windy miles.
12/10 - 3 'mill miles, then extremely short upper body weights.
12/11 - 5 miles.
12/12 - Rest day.
12/13 - 5 windy miles.
12/14 - 5 miles. Colder by 15° than yesterday, but way more comfortable because no *kitten* wind!
12/15 - 4 miles. Shorter than usual because my wife wouldn't stop talking so I could get out the door to run
12/16 - Unplanned rest day. Just lazy.
12/17 - Another rest day...still lazy...and a bit hungover
12/18 - 5.1 miles.
12/19 - 5 miles.
12/20 - 4 on the treadmill, then upper body weights
12/21 - Sooner than usual rest day as I plan to run every day of the rest of December.
@PastorVincent - I so want to sarcastically click "Woo" now...but it will get lost or misunderstood.
@7Lenny7 - Nice Plan!
@Orphia - Love the candy cane run! I am not patient enough, nor enough of a planner to do anything so cool!
I probably won't be back on here until the 26th. Merry Christmas to those celebrating! I hope you all get a chance to enjoy family, fun and food!
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01/12 4.13 miles
05/12 4.14 miles - really enjoyed this run, felt I was able to push a little harder.
06/12 3.53 miles - windy, wet, dark, sluggish - everything yesterday wasn't
10/12 4.04 miles
19/12 3.83 miles
20/12 3.53 miles - nearly didn't go bet feel so much better now
21/12 3.81 miles - think my garmin was on the xmas sherry today, said I only burned 17cals in first mile and my max heart rate was up to 197
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@PastorVincent I am with you 100%. If I stopped tracking I would without a doubt be fat again. And eff that
December 1- 18
December 2- 52
December 3- 20+8
December 4- 20
December 5- 16
December 6- 12
December 7- Off
December 8- 29
December 9- 28
December 10- 161 [16:28:02]
December 11- Off
December 12- 6
December 13- 10
December 14- Off
December 15- 29
December 16- 28
December 17- 18
December 18- 25
December 19- Off
December 20- 33
December 21- 16
529/626km
2018 Races
*Gord's Frozen A** 50K, February 19
*JAJA Trail Marathon, April 1
*Red Deer Marathon, May 20
???Lone Wolf Last Man Standing Race, June 17
*Cactus Coulee Crawl 30km, TBA June
*Eddie's Half Marathon, TBA June
*Run in the Buff 120km TBA August
*Lost Souls 100 Mile September 7
???Lewiston Trail Ultra September 29
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This! I will not stop tracking my CICO or charting my weight. This is working for me and truth be known...I really enjoy it!JessicaMcB wrote: »@PastorVincent I am with you 100%. If I stopped tracking I would without a doubt be fat again. And eff that
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AlphaHowls wrote: »
This! I will not stop tracking my CICO or charting my weight. This is working for me and truth be known...I really enjoy it!JessicaMcB wrote: »@PastorVincent I am with you 100%. If I stopped tracking I would without a doubt be fat again. And eff that
Amen to all y'all! I "go over" a lot of days now, but it still keeps me honest!2 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »@PastorVincent I am with you 100%. If I stopped tracking I would without a doubt be fat again. And eff that
I have done that TWICE already. I am so done with that. So MFP CICO is what I am trying this time. Only lost 15 pounds on MFP, but that is after losing 50 pounds, twice. Trying really hard not to find them again.
I do not know who said it first, but a buddy of mine once said he heard from a WW coach:
"I am a fat man leasing a thin man's body."
That is so true. I will not call myself thin. I am not thin no matter what my waist measures or the scale says. If I stop making my lease payments, I will be kicked out of this thin body.
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Celiac Diagnosis/Going GF + Depression over said diagnosis + Not tracking = me gaining back everything I lost.
I was one of those lucky ones who gained a ton of weight immediately after going gf. My body was like oh hey, we haven't been absorbing ANY of these nutrients before! It came on so fast then I got depressed because of it and ate more. (And yes, this was almost 4 years ago. It's been a struggle for me but I am ready to kick my own butt again)
I am working hard to get back into tracking daily, even if I go over. When I used to log daily I did so much better overall.2 -
December 1 - 10 km
December 2 - 16 km
December 3 - 5km club run / strength training
December 4 - 12 km treadmill
December 5 - 12 km treadmill
December 6 - 16 km run / strength training
December 7 - 16 km run
December 8 - 16 km run / strength training
December 9 - 16 km run / 11 km run
December 10 - 5 km club run / 16 km walk
December 11 - 16 km run / strength training
December 12 - 10 km run
December 13 - 12 km run
December 14 - 16 km run
December 15 - 18.5 km run / strength training
December 16 - 18.5 km run
December 17 - rest day
December 18 - 16 km run
December 19 - Stairmaster / Strength training
December 20 - 16 km run
December 21 - 16 km run
December 22 - 16 km run
290 km - goal 350 km1 -
PastorVincent wrote: »RunsOnEspresso wrote: »@PastorVincent We've went to Cracker Barrel a couple of times. The problem is the stuff I want to eat there isn't gf LOL
Lately I've been obsessed with Denny's. Not a lot of food but most of their skillets & breakfast sides are gf. I could eat breakfast foods 24/7.
See, growing up, Denny's was always the place you ended up because nothing was open at 2 am... one never planned to go there, just you ran out of options when you were in HS/early college in places to go to crash, drink coffee and burn up time. So - to this day I never think of Denny's as intentional place to eat.
For me it was Perkins!0 -
@zdyb23456 YES! Perkins! I spent many evenings there LOL0
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I am very social media dumb.lol I have a question do you log each day or all st once. If it's each day how do you edit each post.please don't laugh thanks0
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