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I'm jealous because I need to run 5 days a week in order to eat 2700 calories a day. If I interpret OP's original statement properly, she gets 2700 calories with no cardio involved...

Cool your jets there, turbo. Mine wasn't a statement of judgement, it was a statement of fact. 2700 calories is a ton (and I'm very jealous). For my maintenance, you are correct that 2300 calories is my basal burn before exercise. I run about 35 miles a week and eat all of that back.

Jeez...I'm a 6'2" male and weigh 170 pounds. I maintain at 2300 calories! 2700 is sooo many.

This. Quality treadmills can be a bit spendy but you can generally get a significant discount on used equipment. Look into it as people buy treadmills all the time and then never use them. Also, you can check with your local gym if/when they sell their used machines after they replace them.

It's not like it's an all or nothing proposition. If you feel healthy before the class, then go. If you start to feel less than healthy during the class, stop and go home.

I just bulk out normal pasta with spiralized squash or zucchini. It works fairly well for me. I go light on sauce/oil but will lean on grated cheese, garlic, and S&P to amp up the flavor a relatively low calorie-add.

It works and can actually be faster than running straight through a given distance for runners inexperienced at that distance. That said, it probably makes sense to allow yourself to adjust your intervals as you get more and more conditioned to avoid plateauing at too low a level. For a marathon be as conservative as you…

It's not runger. You probably covered something like 2-3 miles in 25 minutes. Depending on your weight, that's likely only something in the neighborhood of 200-250 calories.

You're early enough in the program that missing a run here or there won't kill you as long as your mostly consistent overall. That said, I agree with the above, skip the cross training day and do a long run instead.

Maybe the bike was giving you the readout for calories per hour? It would still be a little high, but no worse than other types of exercise machines (I've generally seen error rates in the 20-30% range).

Problem is that people don't want easy to follow. They want easy to do. Big difference. There is a simple answer to what works for ALL people. Calories in vs. calories out. Easier to say than it is to do. Hence the reason for every single diet fad ever created.

He was probably referring to things like rotten chicken or natto. You know, things that make you puke after you eat them.

Then you, sir, have never eaten cookies on Christmas or pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. It's common knowledge that holiday treats eaten on major holidays have zero calories. Now if you'll excuse me, my President's Day sundae awaits...

Podcasts and audiobooks. Find something absorbing and the miles will fly by.

Zero drop shoes can introduce injuries in your calf and ankle if you are not already used to them and/or are careful to very gradually change your form. Do not try running in zero drop shoes as a quick remedy to this issue. Give your foot a rest until there is no pain at all. If it takes more than a few days to get back to…

This. /thread. Don't worry about interval work until you're regularly running 20 miles per week or thereabouts. Your only focus at this point should be slow distance. Get yourself to the point where you can comfortably run 2-3 easy 10ks per week and your 5k time will drastically improve.

Your understanding is correct. Even the ceramic 'sharpening steels' only hone, and don't sharpen (though the ceramic types can remove a little bit of the knife blade, it's still effectively a hone. They're nowhere near as effective as a true sharpening).

If you have a proper stone it's really not that hard. It's more intimidating than difficult. Even if you don't get the angles quite right at first, you can just keep redoing it until the results are satisfactory. Most likely case is that you sharpen to too acute an angle and just need to resharpen sooner than you would…

Depending on the weather, you can actually treat all of the water stations as optional for a 15k. Assuming that you'll finish in something around 70 minutes, I might plan on hitting one at the 35ish minute mark in case you want to have a gel right afterwards but for the most part if you feel good, keep moving. The gel…

This. The key is really to learn to run by feel. That way you can adjust your pacing on the fly based on what you want to achieve with any given workout. It's less mechanical and makes running more enjoyable.

It's very possible to run 5K at very close to race pace and still be able to knock out an easy 3 miles afterwards, especially if you're already accustomed to running distance and have the legs for it. Also, while all individuals are different, remember that OP is 55. If he is close to the standard 220-age max heart rate…

I like the ambition but 22:30 (~7:15 min/mile) is pretty massive and is worlds different than ~8:30 min/miles. Picking up 30 secs/mile over 3.1 miles to get to 25 minutes is still a pretty worthy goal over the next 3 months.

Manufacturers don't strip the gelatin out of stock, they just never introduce it to begin with. It's basically flavored water - Mark Bittman goes so far as to recommend boiling a couple of carrots, celery, and onion for 10 minutes or so and using that as a soup base instead of using unmodified store bought stock. The…

I'm not extremely original, so I like the "No Frills" face. It's clean, very easy to read, and is pretty highly customizable. Some of the available faces are way too busy for me.

Have you calibrated the calculator at the link? Just because you get an answer you like better doesn't necessarily mean that it's more accurate! :) I haven't used my Garmin for swimming but I've found that it tends to read a bit high on order of 10% to 15% for my runs, at least based on the notion that 3500 calories = one…

Gelatin is what actually makes homemade stock awesome and sets it apart from store bought. Fat just sort of floats on top unless you're making a tonkatsu type cloudy broth where the stock is boiled hard until the fat is actually emulsified into the broth. The fact can absolutely be skimmed and saved for other purposes…

I don't think I've seen a plan that called for a 'fast' middle distance runs before, especially on top of dedicated interval and tempo work. That plan looks a bit light on long slow distance? My 5K PR (7:45/mile) came at the tail end of training for a half marathon. About 35 miles per week at about an 80/20 easy/hard…

Since I work out at 5AM my favorite pre-workout is sleep.

Not super scientific, but your lactic threshold generally translates to a comfortably hard effort level that can be sustained for 40 minutes to an hour. You'll be able to talk during the effort but probably not in full sentences and your words will come out a bit breathy. The Jack Daniels online running calculator can give…

The difference would likely be negligible on a stationary bike. Sure, it'll take more energy to support a heavier body on the bike, etc. but overall it'll take both the heavy and the light person the same amount of work to turn the crank X number of times at Y resistance level.