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I did the Hal Higdon beginner marathon plan for my first..Was a great plan for me to just get the first one under my belt... it's a matter of committing the time to do the plan in its entirety and not getting injured in the process! Good luck!

I will usually buy a rotisserie chicken during the weekend and carve up the white meat to use in salads or wraps as lunch items throughout the week. It's handy to just have it ready to go and it's versatile to use in salads/rice/eggs or sandwiches.

I quit chewing tobacco and focused all my energy into running..Been about two years and I've lost weight through it all. For me it was important to have a healthy outlet to focus all my energy on.

I feel your pain. Dealt with PF last year while running. If you continue to work through the pain, it will just get worse. I had to take about 4 weeks off and did some deep tissue work to break it up..It was not quick to go away. My wife also had it worse than me this past year, she ended up having a cortisone shot and…

Go to your local running shop and get fitted..one shoe that works for one person may not for another..

More of a collection of runs, but recently went to europe for work and was able to do a few runs in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. It was a great way to see a part of the world up close.

We are all different, but if it were me, I would calculate that at about 275-300 calories

If i'm doing a steady run (9 min mile) I calculate about 500 calories an hour. I understand everyone is different, but I would seriously question a burn rate of 1000 calories over a 10K walk, I don't burn that much racing a 10K.

Have you tried wetting the strap first or using some gel? I will get huge swings like that if I don't get mine wet.

who gives a crap if you get weird stares..I work a routine that works for me.

Have four pairs I rotate depending on conditions. 1 for faster road racing (newton) 1 for trails (kinvara's) 1 that is a trail shoe and extra half size larger for longer runs (cortana's) 1 trail shoe with screws on the bottom for snow/ice running. (Higher mileage cortana's) The kinvara's have been great shoes for me (good…

Best advice I could give (and wished I would have listened to) was to stick to the plan! Some days you feel great and want to run an extra mile or two, this eventually had me on the sideline injured. Take your time and use patience while you are building up to that 15-20 miles per week base..

Just like Reggie said, all depends on current level of running and what the goals are. There is no single best way for everyone.

when i'm between races, I will typically cut my mileage back some (not very much), but do 1-2 days a week of either speed or hill workouts. I think it's really what your preference is. I'd like to get faster over time, so I add those workouts in my routine. Some people are happy doing steady state runs. I still run 5 days…

As everyone has said, get the shoe that fits you the best. I love Saucony shoes myself. I rotate through a few different pairs of the Kinvara 3's and Cortana's. They seem to be well made and hold up well to trail conditions

Shin Splints is usually a sign of heel striking. I would go down to your local running shop and get fitted. One pair of shoes that work for one person may not work for you. See if they also offer some kind of good form running class, this showed me how to run properly, once I did that, running became fun and pain. (also…

Eugene Marathon on 4/28 Couple of trail half marathons Cascade Lakes Relay (36 hour 216 miles split between 12 team members) Mckenzie River 50k is on my list or some other 50k if I don't get in

I use iSmoothRun on my iphone, if it ever drops GPS signal it will automatically switch to accelerometer while it acquires signal again. Has a bunch of additional benefits that I like (exports to all the major tracking sites, metronome, cadence tracker, intervals). not sure if it's made for any other platforms.…

Thats amazing! Congrats. I will end up 2012 with just over 900, and a goal of 1200 for 2013

I think the elliptical Maunf. and MFP really do a disservice to individuals with how horribly inaccurate they are. Precor has one machine that claims i'm burning 15 cal a min..this is after I enter my weight/age into it. My HRM is about 8 Cal a min, much more accurate. In general I calculate calories burned about 8 cals a…

I think it's mostly diet for me, but the exercise gives me something to equate food to. Knowing how hard I worked to burn those 300 calories makes me think about what I eat. Exercise for me today is almost more about my mental health than my physical health..kinda weird how that's changed.

I personally don't count caloric burn from weight lifting. If I try to, I feel like i'm micro-managing things. Same reason I don't count the walk from my house to the mailbox, just part of my every day living.

Nice, I also try to do the random abs workout a few times a week.. can usually knock it out in a quick 5-10 minute break. http://www.randomabs.com/today/

Have one as well. Works awesome. The strap is comfortable to wear on my longer runs and doesn't rub. Plus it also will sync up with my garmin watch. (I'm a gadget freak)

Congratulations! The first of many.

Agree here also! HIlls, Intervals and tempo runs are all good workouts to increase speed.

I wasn't a fan when I first started, so I quit then decided to give it another shot. Things I did differently. 1. Took a free good form running class from my local running shop - what a difference for me! Learning how to run properly increased the enjoyment I got out of it. 2. Proper fitting shoes. Spend the few extra…

The biggest thing for me is to request a to go box when they bring the meal and immediately put half in it. What I eat is typically not the problem, just the quantity that I eat; this allows me to order what I want, but no go crazy on the portion sizes.

On longer runs, your feet will swell more than shorter runs. When I started to hit 90 min + runs I was having bruised toenails. I ended up going to a shoe size 1 complete size larger with a slightly larger toe box. I will wear my smaller shoes on sub 60 min runs and larger on anything longer. Go to a running shop and be…

After using a HRM and comparing it to machines and MFP, I pretty much just base my caloric burn based from my perceived effort. At the very peak I may burn at a rate of 600 calories per hour, my typical workout is maybe 80% of my peak so I guesstimate in the range of 500 calories per hour.