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Its an individual thing depending on your foot for type of shoe. As for how long they last, that depends on the shoe too. Most people change them at 300 to 500 mi. I use minimalist shoes and change mine when my toes stick out, usually between 1500 and 2000 mi.

The body of an average person stores enough carbs for around 90 min to 2 hours of steady (fairly hard) running. So really, there is no physiological reason for anyone, elite or not, to carb load for a 5K race. All it will do is leave you with a little extra weight that you don't need.

What you are doing will prepare you well like everyone has said. It's a good idea to get in as good a shape as possible before you arrive just to have one less stressor with everything else you will be doing. Wishing you the best on this and welcome to the club. :-) U.S. Army (Infantry) Retired

The informal rule of thumb is that you can get 3 sec per mile faster for every pound you lose. At 30 miles a week you have a good base. To maximize your benefit try to make your weekday runs around an hour with one 2 hour long run each week (or at least not less than every three weeks). Walk run intervals will work nearly…

My apple health sends my burn to MFP although it is not sent to apple health from basis but from another device.

Whether you need to carb load or not for a HM depends on how long it takes you to run it. If you are going to be out there 2 hours or more then carb loading will help. But as was mentioned above you need to start at least 60 hours before the race. Eating a lot the night before doesn't do the job.

Yes, but how easy that will be depends on where you are at now? How long have you been running? How much do you run right now? Do you have any weight to lose? Losing pounds will automatically speed you up.

Its not overtraining but it is caused by overstressing yourself with inadequate recovery. It has happened to me many times when I first get started after a break. A day or two off will fix it. As your body adjusts back into the routine it will stop.

I haven't showered with my apple watch but I have run in a hard rain with it, sweated all over it every day for nearly a month, and rinse it off in the sink every day or two and it is still working perfectly Step count seems to be roughly about 3% under Fitbit. Maybe this is because it doesn't count steps when I'm driving…

Get yourself a night splint and use it for a few nights when you feel the symptoms coming on. Also proactively treat it by folling your foot hard on an ice bottle and a golf ball. Night splint - http://www.cvs.com/shop/home-health-care/braces-supports/foot-ankle-braces/futuro-foot-support-night-skuid-431339

Agree with everything posted above. Additionally, at your age 140 is a very good HR to exercise at for any fitness goal.

I have had mine since April 20th. It’s the best money I’ve spent on anything lately. It tracks calories differently than other trackers and calls them active calories, those you burn above your BMR. So the numbers look lower than wirh other devices. For the total daily count or combines them with resting calories for the…

Yes, your symptoms are from pushing too hard too often. Back off a few times a week for recovery. In time your exercise capacity will grow and you can do more..

I would agree that if you can extend the easy runs closer to an hour that you will get faster improvement. In general, easy running gives faster improvements as you increase volume to the maximum you can recover from each day. This is a good read. http://www.fitnesssports.com/lyd_clinic_guide/Arthur%20Lydiard.pdf It sounds…

Height is not a limiting factor. Mizuki Noguchi is 4'11" and won a gold medal in for the marathon in the 2004 Olympics with a time of 2:26:20. That's a pace of 5:35 for 26 miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuki_Noguchi

You are way healthier. 132/85 was borderline high blood pressure and a resting HR of 85 is pretty high too. Your blood pressure is now normal and your resting heart rate indicates a much healthier aerobic system.

The Galloway race predictor which I have found to be accurate says you can race a 10K at a 10:21 pace. So go out at that pace and don't go any faster until the last mile. Then if you can, speed up.

They all hurt. They just hurt differently LOL. Really, I like training and just running a lot more than racing. I did one ultra-relay though and that was a lot of fun. Maybe ultras will become my favorite in time.

It looks similar to an eliptical so you can probably use that.

Make sure you choose cycling versus running before you start. Mine gives 30 to 40 calories per mile generally when cycling.

Nobody can get enough air through their nose to run at faster paces.

Its worth the wait to have your own personal Dick Tracy watch LOL. I was lucky and got mine at noon on Apr 20th.

During workouts the apple watch heartrate is very accurate and will display continuously when you look at it. During the rest of the day though it only samples HR every 10 min and does not display continuously. You can however make it check your HR on demand.

When that happens to me I take Arthur Lydiard's advice. Listen to your body and when its done for the day stop. Walk to the finish to get your time on feet if desired but pushing past exaustion in training just messes up your recovery cycle and affects the remainder of the training week.

Hot weather stresses your body since some of the oxygen carrying blood is diverted to the skin to provide cooling for your body's core. This leaves less blood available to carry oxygen to the muscles. So, running in hot weather is harder for everyone. The way to cope is to simply ensure you drink enough water and to slow…

My McMillan times up to HM were pretty accurate 2 years ago predicting a 1:33 while I ran a 1:35. Unfortunately, for the marathon 8 months later it predicted a 3:15 and I was 17 min slower despite many months above 300 miles. My problem I think was that even though I had a lot of miles I was running mostly too hard and my…

Unless you have developed COPD the feeling in your lungs has nothing to do with having smoked before. It is simply your body having a lack of aerobic fitness. That feeling will go away with training. My lungs hurt too when I first started. The hurt went away after a few weeks even before I quit smoking.

I found those pace relationships on the letsrun forum a few years ago in an article by a coach named Hadd. Here is a link to his article. http://www.angio.net/personal/run/hadd.pdf

A neon colored helmet and goggles is a must.

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