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The way I understand it, the faster runners are all gone, then they start the 2:00 group and with very little delay, the 2:15 and then the 2:30 because they will create their own gaps that get bigger as time passes. I guess going at the end of the 2:00 group might be a good strategy; I only wonder how many others will be…

For my first one, it's more about the shirt, the medal (all finishers get one) and being able to put a 13.1 magnet on the car with some legitimacy. :bigsmile:

I am not sure I understand. I am not a racer as far as this being a half where I try to get faster or better than before. I plan to run non stop like I have been training to do, but wondered if I might find a faster or slower pace more natural when running at an event with lots of others.

Talking turkey... Sounds like you are happy with that, but just as an FYI if those are ground in the store, you can ask the butcher about mixing them for you or you can get a package of each and do it yourself. That's how they make the 92 at the store I find it at anyway.

If we have a difference of opinion (not sure we do), it would be what "hard to work with" means. What you described is pretty much what I meant. I usually get 92/8 or so (depends on where you are shopping as to what the mix is) and don't have to add olive oil and can cook the burgers on the grill because that is what men…

Ground turkey comes in different levels of fat content and quality. The 99% fat free stuff is hard to work with and the cheaper brands tend to be grainy. But if you get good "mostly lean but still a little fat" ground turkey, it will make patties and meatballs just fine.

+1 on that. It only takes a little fat, but it does take a little. there are ones made from 2% that are pretty good. Also try substituting the lower calorie cheeses - I use mozzarella sometimes when other cheese is called for and it often is fine.

One thing I didn't do was truly intense exercise during that day. I did a few minutes of vigorous calisthenics, but I did not sprint; I have had a bad history of tendon flare ups when I sprint.

I tried upping carbs all of yesterday and for an early breakfast this morning and then ate lighter but high protein today. I ran 10 miles tonight and did fine; felt like I had more than enough energy left for another 5 miles, so I think I will repeat that when I run my first half next month. If it's a false positive and is…

And again, with respect to the study we are primarily discussing, the numbers are in the 10% - 15% range as far as the effect of AT on metabolic rate. If you see more than that, I think something else is going on. There is only so much efficiency to be had. Hauling the body around, digesting food, pumping blood, breathing…

I am also planning my first for October and have purposefully avoided running a practice one first purely for personal psychology reasons. I have run over 12 and wasn't beat, so I am not too worried. I have run 10 or more about 5 times now and 8 or more several times. For me, all miles past about 5 are about the same.…

The study that most of this discussion centered around did see resolution of AT, but it was over months to years. There was a single case study mentioned somewhere in the last couple of pages where someone resolved a really bad case in only 6 weeks. But worst case, if you have to just deal with it, I don't think it is that…

Yes, there is a lot of discussion on avoiding AT by going slow or ignoring it and pressing on because it only slows loss a little, does not cause stalls, and then hoping it will resolve itself over time (in the studies,it usually does). Both ways have their adherents and stories of success and failure. You just have to…

You did a pretty good job of speaking for me; I used the same calculation during the initial part of my loss. I had 55 total to lose and lost the first 40 in roughly 20 weeks, but I had a lower TDEE and deficit. I have complicated things as far as describing what I do to others by simplifying them for myself. I logged food…

I strongly agree with the last statement. The reason I debate for high deficit weight loss as a reasonable option for some of us is because I think it is a reasonable option for some of, not all of us...

There is educated guesswork going on here that may have some validity, but you are speculating about the possible history of a hypothetical subject. The case study is interesting as it my shed some light on MR recovery, but the amount of variance and recovery is way outside what is found in most of the studies. The reason…

Guilty as charged. I think far too people use this kind of information to come up with reasons to give up instead of things to consider that might happen and can be dealt with if they do. There are problems (IMO) with your example. Losing that much weight, the person should recalculate during loss and not expect the cut…

I have seen nothing in any of the research to say it gets worse. That is pure conjecture and I don't think it is logical. The body adapts by expending less energy, not doing some non essential things and somehow being more efficient with the essential things. This is not something the body can just keep doing. You cut your…

Yeah, I hate it when I start out slow instead of REALLY slow... :laugh:

Remember that the glycogen stores act as a buffer between provision of energy (metabolizing consumption or stored fat) and burn. So you can exercise with some intensity while you are eating at a high deficit. I did C25K while eating around 1200 total while I still had over 50 pounds to lose. That's not an amazing amount of…

I replied to this earlier, but yet another thought occurred to me. I was at my current weight for decades until I started gaining slowly in my 40s. I have now lost back to where I was. If I were to eat like I did when I put the weight on now, I might lose weight. It would probably be close to even at worst. I am eating…

This is just the calorie math, ignoring macros completely. Under a doctor's supervision, bypass patients often go below 700. Anyway, to get the energy needed to sustain your hypothetical person, the answer is yes. But the point I mentioned about metabolic rate dropping would almost certainly happen and the person would…

You are still trying to use a constant (1000). That comes from the general rule of thumb that 2 pounds is the most you can lose per week safely. A daily deficit of 1000 gives you a 2 pound per week loss. But obese people can lose more than that while they have a lot of fat and people near healthy weight cannot lose that…

A couple of things to add into the mix... Your fat stores can release 31.4 calories per pound of fat per day. You can take your BF% and weight to determine how much fat you have, multiply that by 31.4 and you will know how large a deficit is possible to support with fat loss. Staying under that number does not guarantee…

I run about 3 days a week and currently run a couple around 7 and one around 10 miles.

I also use nasal pillows. I have been on CPAP for several years with no troubles. I was rather bummed to learn that weight had little to do with my apnea; I have reached goal and have a healthy BMI but still have apnea.

Officially, it was a few days (less than a week) earlier right after my 54th birthday, but I didn't really get serious about it until after New Year's. My user name is 55in13 because I planned to lose 55 pounds in '13 (which I have done :bigsmile: ) and because I turn 55 in '13 (which I still hope to do :happy: ). It took…

It certainly can be. I don't go that often; I mostly run. When I do go, I feel driven to always be doing something. I flit between open machines, paying attention to getting some core, chest and shoulder centric machines in a rotation of sorts so that I am switching to a different muscle group every time I go to another…

I liked this layman's summary in the first article: 90% !!! Wow - that is pretty serious. I was pretty excited by that until I got to the end: That is confusing. I am not sure what the author means by performance. If it's time, then the loading still makes sense for endurance. That is a bigger concern for me because I am…

Funny; after seeing the other replies I guess I am more middle of the road than I thought. I use my phone mostly just to keep a log of runs. No HRM and I don't go back and slice and dice the data other than looking at the trend of individual run lengths and total mileage over time. I do have it tell me my last pace at each…