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I like the fact that I can control my run with the Nike+Running app, and control my music, without pulling my phone out of my pocket. While on a long training run, or even a race, my wife and other friends like to text me encouragement. With my phone in my pocket I could never read them - now with my watch I can just…
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Well yeah - duh - she mentions that in her first sentence. But most of this stuff doesn't really expire, ever. It's freeze-dried food. In my experience the only thing the expiration date does for MediFast food is reduce the resale value from about $2 per package to about $1 per package. I'll go for the cheap expired stuff…
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@ddmom0811 I rarely give up my secrets - BUT - since you have admitted you are a Sports Beans user, I should tell you that you can get 3oz packages of "Irregular" sports beans on eBay for $1.45 or less per package. I have a basket full of these that I've been eating away on for the past 6 months. Depending on where you…
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Another day where the run started late and felt like crap. Another day where I didn't want to get out there - but I'm slightly competitive, so I had to get out and get day 25 in a row on my marathon training plan under my belt. The ticker thing doesn't seem to be working - so I'll just say that's 105 out of 173 done for…
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I also started on the treadmill. 20 minutes a day is all the time I could find. At first I could barely do a mile. I remember how excited I was when I did 1.5 miles, then 2.0 miles. Then eventually the rains quit and I could get outside. Congratulations @rosso0507 on getting this far!
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Aaah yes - reality bites. I'm pretty sure I'd be even geekier if my budget allowed :smile:
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:smiley: IMHO Geekery==Fun. :smiley:
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For me it's no bother. It makes it all like a game. I can certainly see how some would see them as added complication or frustration - but for me it just adds fun.
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Well - as my posts from today make it clear - emotional situations do not make motivate me to run - nor do I run well, even when I get myself up to do it. However, I always come to the end of the run feeling better. It's pretty clear to me that the "runner's high" is a real thing - definitely for me, anyway. What annoys me…
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I'm sure I'm breaking some sort of Netiquette rule by quoting my own post... However - I got out there and did the 6. My motivation was really wrong. Basically I was back to eating "emotionally" today and realized MFP would ding me for not hitting my calorie goal if I didn't run. So I ran. Then I added everything I've…
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8 miles of Fartleks on the treadmill at the hotel yesterday. I'm back home and supposed to do 6 easy today but woke up to a bit of a row with Mrs 419er. Emotional situations really sap my running energy. I don't want to go.
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I've seen lots and lots of Garmin fans here on MFP. I wore the Nike+FuelBand for 3 years before getting my Apple Watch. I love it. I can start/stop my runs - change my music - and read the "Go!!!!" texts people send me during my runs without taking my phone out of my RooSport. I use the Nike+Running app and everything…
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The question may not be "is 40 weeks enough time on the calendar?" but "do I have enough time in my life?" Training for a marathon is a time commitment that you need to be sure you can make, and that you work out with anyone/anything important in your life. Consider this - you've been running 3-4 miles, 3 times per week.…
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Okay - I'm going to color slightly out of bounds here, but I'm going to recommend the Bose SoundTrue in-ear earbuds. They're wired. I know you asked for wireless/Bluetooth but I am so sick to death of the crappy Bluetooth interfaces on most consumer gear that I decided to stick with the wire. One less battery to worry…
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Today was day 1 of week 4 on my "crush your PR" training program, and I'm still 100% on plan. I'm amazed (although I shouldn't be) at how well my body is responding to doing the plan as written, rather than assuming I know better than Alberto Salazar - who wrote the plan - which is what I usually seem to do...(oh - I…
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12 miles yesterday in Yakima, WA on the smelliest trail I have ever run. Whose idea was it to put the trail by the sewage treatment plant or whatever that was. And TODAY is a rest day in Spokane. Man I love those. Three full weeks of my Nike+Running "crush your pr" coaching plan and I am 100% following plan. 5 weeks to…
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@7lenny7 Thanks for all the amazing ideas, but flight troubles yesterday left me with not enough sleep and a horrible 'fueling' situation (I usually eat 6 small meals, yesterday was pretty much only 1 big one) so i didn't get to try any of them. I will give it a go next time I'm in town. As it was I ended up jralking 6 on…
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I'm staying less than a quarter of a mile from the mall. I will *not* have a car available, but if Uber is available early enough in they day I could catch a ride somewhere close. I do need to leave for Willmar fairly early.
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Another 7 done today. This is the longest I have been 100% on track with my Nike+Running coaching program - 2 full weeks plus 1 day out of 16 weeks. I'm traveling again this week, which always messes with training. I may end up with 6 on the treadmill Tuesday, although I'm hoping to find a nice trail somewhere around Mall…
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For most of my life my wife had a yearning for missionary work, and I thought missionaries were weird losers who dressed funny and showed up at church every few years to show pictures of their vacation and beg for money. Needless to say, my attitude changed :)
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@ddmom0811 Thanks. It's been nearly 4 years since I started my journey - dropping 70lbs (60 of which are still off) and went from not being able to run a mile, to having finished 3 marathons. @melaniefave41 and @Elise4270 I was a missionary in Nigeria for 7 years - most people know Nigeria as home of those letters from…
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You know, I suspect that no one here actually is keeping track of me - but there is still some satisfaction, and accountability, to get out here and post my updates every once in a while. As of today I'm done with the 2nd week of my 16 week Marathon training, and I'm 100% on track for my monthly goal. It's also worth…
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I'm always amazed at how many "serious amateur" runners end up in Brooks. I absolutely love mine. FWIW: I put another 4 on them today. Still on track.
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Before I give way too much detail - my simple response is 400 miles. I run in the Brooks Adrenaline GTS, Right now I have a pair of GTS 12s that I just relegated to "hiking and yard work" at about 450 miles. one GTS 14 with about 300, one GTS 15 with 150 and another GTS 15 with about 50. I run them to about 400 miles. Most…
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Looks like lots of people are staying on track, which is awesome and inspiring. Today was supposed to be a cross-train for me, but I decided to define "cross training" as watching the final 6 Episodes of Star Trek:Voyager. I never did make it to the gym to cross-train, but ate as if I had spent a couple of hours there.…
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Joining late, but just started up MFP again. I'm training for my next Half in August and Full in October. My coach (and by "coach" I mean my Nike+Running marathon training program) says I'm going to run 164 miles in July. So far: 01-Jul: 3.9 02-Jul: 4.0 04-Jul: 10.0 05-Jul: 4.1 06-Jul: 6.0 07-Jul: 5.0 09-Jul: Plan 4…
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Not that I didn't believe you, but I had to go see it for myself! Yep - The Intermediate 2, Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 both have weeks with a 10mi on Saturday with a 20mi on Sunday. Whew. My Nike+Running app coach has the spread out the long runs a bit more. At the peak the long runs are on Tuesdays and Sundays - 16 on…
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I'm training for my 3rd - still hoping for under 4:00. My training has been thwarted the last couple of times toward the "really long run" phase of my training. I've had conversations with my wife this time about me being ruthless about my training and realizing it's going to be 4 hours or more on every weekend morning as…
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2 weeks, 9.1 this time around. 3 months 35 was my biggest drop. Right now I'm removing a month and a half of not caring, plus the last 2.7 I never dropped last time around. 8.3 to go.
