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A few weeks ago I had a 10 mile training run on a Sunday. The day before we went out for fish at a lobster shack type place. Fried scallops, fried clams, onion rings, the whole greasy mess. I didn't have digestive issues the next day but 2 1/2 miles into the run with a fully stocked hydration belt I was suffering the…

You can also look on Runningintheusa.com When I signed up for my marathon I used it to find a half marathon that fell when my schedule said I should run one.

We're tough because we all see you with same attitude we had when we started and many of us bit off more than we could chew and almost decided maybe running isn't our sport. We're not actually tough the people giving you advice that borders on "tough love" may be tough but we care. Runner's are a great group of people, we…

Rest days are where you actually reap the benefits of your efforts. Take them. As said above, if you can't stay still go for a walk, but skipping rest days isn't the greatest of ideas. My buddy just started c25k a few weeks ago and wanted to run a 4th or 5th day that week. We all told him no and he did anyway and couldn't…

I just completed my first 18 mile run this past sunday. It's in the lead up to my first marathon after taking up the sport in 2012. 18 miles seemed daunting when I saw it on the training schedule as equally daunting as the 20 I'm doing in 2 weeks or finally the actual marathon but since I've been running regularly for 2…

Everything from the OP just screams "too much, too soon" You may want to really look at dialing it down a little as you progress as I can't help but feel you are setting yourself up for injury. Good luck, if you really enjoy running and aren't just doing this to cross something off your bucket list, don't overdo it, get…

3600 calories, 5 hours, 20 minutes of Tough Mudder.

I did tough mudder which was 12 miles of hiking up and down double diamond slopes at a ski lodge interspersed with some climbing and crawling through the mud. The next day I ran a 5k and the next day hooo doggie my IT bands. About a week of foam rolling 3 times a day and I was fine but the foam rolling hurt like a @#$@#

You don't have to go to the gym to exercise. I have a gym membership when it's just cold/rainy/snowy/whatever to go outside and be active. I could totally get away without it, in fact I don't generally go there from April to December because I run and could do exercises in the livingroom. Excepting the gym, my expense is…

I would like to run a marathon in my late mother's honor. 2 years ago I picked up running. Last year I ran a half marathon. I run 3-5 days a week and I'm a road race junky. Seriously my catch phrase might as well be "I can't, I have a race that day" I'm finally going to run a marathon at the end of July. I'll have run 2…

http://www.halhigdon.com/training/51143/Marathon-Novice-Supreme-Training-Program If you have your heart set on the full marathon look at this training schedule. It's 30 weeks long and really eases you into the whole thing. It's pretty well designed to get a non-runner ready for a marathon. I would actually give yourself 32…

I shaved my beard down to a mexican bandito mustache, put on a poncho blanket and a big cheesy sombreo and ran in 85 degree heat. I've dressed like Santa and ran through the driving sleet, I've done a number of obstacle races and I once got off the trail to poop in the woods.

Monday is a rest day on my marathon training schedule. So I went for a 45 minute walk at lunch.

I maintain a calorie budget (and occassionally look deeper than just calories in / calories out). Since I have a budget I look at my food as spending my budget and I think "is this beer worth spending my budget on" or "is this salted caramel cheese cake worth spending" It is not bad to drink your calories but you only have…

My first race was a 10K, I ran it at a 12:51 pace. It was a crazy huge event over 6000 runners some of which ran the 5K at the same time. I had no real idea how to conduct myself at a race event and my longest unbroken run at that point was maybe 2 1/2 miles. I had a freaking blast and I became totally hooked on running…

I am a runner. I've run a ton of 5Ks a few 10Ks, some obstacle races, a half marathon and I'm currently training for a marathon. I started running because it was the most calorie burn over time that I could find and I actually FELL IN LOVE with running. I no longer run for the cardio, or the calorie burn, but rather for…

What I have against vegetables is that most people cook the hell out of them and then they are gross. Many vegetables are better raw or practically raw. Cooked right vegetables are yummy. Except mushrooms, they grow them in poo.

I don't log sexual activity especially since my wife told me if I wore the heartrate monitor to bed she'd cut it off. I don't log moving around my office or any heavy lifting of stuff at work. I do log my lunchtime walk (2 1/2 miles) however..

Having taken this much weight off I am able to do so many more things and I don't feel like I'm being limited by my body. That's worth it right there. Also, because I'm being active, the only thing that is less than desireable is accounting for all the calories in/out and MFP and a heart rate monitor has really taken the…

Weight loss and health is a stream. Casting a few pebbles of holiday eating into it isn't going to alter the course. Just continue where you were and you'll be back to it in no time..

http://gizmodo.com/5902699/banish-shin-splints-forever-with-one-magical-exercise http://www.runnersworld.com/tag/shin-splints http://www.self.com/blogs/flash/2011/05/4-shin-splint-solutions-and-st.html Check these out. Also, C25K will help transform you into a runner physically. Take it slow, but keep with it, repeat weeks…

January 1st 2012 we had tickets to a Patriots game at the TOP TOP TOP of Gillette stadium. You had to walk up ramps to get to your seats. I had a horrible time just walking up ramps, I thought I was gonna die and we missed kickoff because I had to keep stopping to rest. That was the day I had decided that enough was enough…

I enjoy beer as a complement to many foods. If my calorie budget after exercise allows for a beer, I'll have one, very rarely two. If it's more than two then I'm drinking, not having it with food, and I don't drink often. I don't sacrifice food for beer, I do sacrifice the extra time I need to exercise for the calories if…

Being a grown-up I don't play with anyone's emotions. As a male who is not emotionally stunted I have had MY emotions played with. A hazard of actually having feelings and a soul is that you can be taken advantage of... It is all worth it now as I am in a very fulfilling relationship with my wife of 12 years and the only…

I need an ice free place to run. Since I have a membership I use the machines for weight training but I'm a runner and there are exercises that can help you get into form without a machine. I don't need a gym 9 months a year, but it's good to be there and it's dirt cheap I wind up paying like 40 dollars a YEAR after my…

Indirectly, yes. Between the lot of us we've lost over a half ton. I've baked/made things that border on too much (calories, fat, whatever) and brought them to an event. We can all have a reasonable serving but it is food that some would consider bad. It just allows me to make my Salted Caramel Ice Cream, have a couple…

At the end of the 30 day plank challenge was a FIVE MINUTE PLANK. It sucked, if I ever do that again it's because Jigsaw has me tied up over a spike and it's plank or die. 2 minutes is just fine for me now.

Whatever you buy do some of your training runs in it. I don't buy tech shirts anymore as I am drowning in them from all my races...