CarsonRuns Member

Why would anyone point and laugh at a swinging c0ck? That's what they do, swing. It's natural. Like breast feeding.

That race is all rolling hills. There are no major, debilitating climbs on it. You'll be slower than you are on a flat course, but it's not going to put you in the DNF tent. Any hills you can do will help you, but I would say running hills is required before this race.

I''d suggest adding 20 minutes to the marathon prediction for a first marathon.

Most everything that needs to be said has been said, but I want to add one other nugget. I'm of the belief that, if you have to slow down your long run to a slower pace than your easy run, you're doing your easy runs too fast. You should be able to do a long run at your easy run pace, maybe even a little bit faster. My…

Does not compute. Can't comprehend.

Very good point and worth looking at. My monthly average pace is usually around 9:05 pace Look here to confirm: http://www.runningahead.com/logs/f395f426a792443989cc9b545ae45445 And I ran a 3:10 marathon last fall. That's a 7:17 pace. So it does matter what we are talking about in the discussion. A very important point to…

KMs maybe?

Pretty sure she confused pace with speed. 5 to 6 mph is far more likely.

Must be nice. Signed, Joe Average

I know, right?

Height is irrelevant. Meb is 5'4.

Doesn't matter what anybody else runs, and as others have said, pace varies depending on what your doing. Race pace and recovery pace are two totally different things. My recovery pace is about 6 minutes per mile slower than my mile race pace. Just go out there and run, build slowly, be consistent, and you'll see you pace…

I don't wear underwear any other time, why would I put them on to run?

That's because there is no scientific proof that low electrolytes leads to cramping. Noakes cites two factors that lead to cramping: 1) Asking the muscles to do something they are not capable of (over training, hard racing, etc) 2) Heredity

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I don't know that anyone has actually read the entire tome. I use it more like a research tool.

I'd have to go back and reread the preface in "Waterlogged", but I believe he recants some of his findings from "Lore".

In Noakes book there was a study that was conducted in very similar conditions to those you mentioned. Miners in super hot conditions, eating low sodium over a period of time. if I remember correctly, the result was very similar to what you described, about a week before they ran into a deficit. Which only serves to…

The hydration recommendations from the "experts" are based on "studies" conducted by organizations like the Sports Science Institute. Guess who funds that organization? Gatorade, which is owned by Pepsi. They have conducted their "experiments" in such as way as to derive the results that they wanted, which is that you must…

I'll address the running aspect here. When coming back from injury, it's best not to think it terms of mileage, but it minutes. Starting out, you'll want to run fewer days than you were before. If you were at 5, run 3. If you were at 6, run 4. If you were at 4, run 2. Start with a 10 minute run and see how it feels. Do…

Untrue. I had it. Got it treated with PT and ART (Active Release Technique) and it's no longer an issue. If you know the right exercises to do, the right shoes to wear and run with the correct form, it can be defeated (you see what I did there?).

Correct. I do almost all of my runs without water and have seen dehydration rates as high as about 6% (over 7 pounds lost during the run). One of the comments referenced Noakes' book with refutes every single study in the last 100 years that says you have to drink water when you exercise. The basic premise being that the…

Tempo runs are usually done at your Lactate Threshold Pace (LT). What is my LT, you ask? It can be loosely defined as the pace which you could sustain for one hour. For faster runners, this could be around HM pace, for slower runners, closer to 10K pace. In order to determine what your LT pace is, you should run an all out…

Just hit start again and it will add on to the previous part of the run. It won't start a new run until you download the workout our hold the lap button to save/reset the run.

I have a 610. I use two screens with three fields on each. I tried to use 4, but I was having a hard time reading the numbers with my old *kitten* eyeballs. This is the screen I use 80%+ of the time, even for racing. Those are the only numbers that are important to me. Screen 1: Center: Lap Pace (I use this instead of…

Depends how fast you want to run it. I run 70+ miles a week to run sub 90 minute HM. No way I could run that time on 25 miles per week.

If you are thinking about running a marathon, then your question should be "How can I fit more mileage into my schedule?", not "How can I fit more cross training into my schedule?". Cross training for runners helps you to train without getting injured, it won't help you get to the finish line of 26.2. You need to run more…

I don't think of it as running slow. It's running easy. I gauge it by the effort that I put forth, which has been backed up by HRM data. Some days easy effort is 10:30 per mile, some days it's 8:30 per mile, but how it feels is essentially the same. It just depends on how rested and recovered I am that day. Have you run a…

/me feigns shock

Welcome! You fit in just fine. For your 5K, I suggest an easy 2 to 3 mile warm up jog with 4 to 6 strides at the end. I time my warm up to end about 15 minutes prior to the race start. I'll do 3 or 4 strides at the end of that warm up, then change shoes and shirt and head to the start line. 5 minutes or less before the…