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A good race organizer will put the location of their hydration stations on their course maps. Look at the map, see what the distance is between stations and decide if it's frequent enough for how you like to hydrate when you run. If it isn't then you'll probably have to carry something with you. The last half I did had…

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Ingredients - Car Cash money Method - 1. Get in car and drive to store. If it's cold outside, pre-heat your car. 2. Drive to your local grocery store. Get out of the car and go inside. 3. Go to the refrigerated dressings (usually in with the produce near the salad mixes). 4. Peruse the selection from Bolthouse Farms and…

Browsing teh intarwebz Drinking a protein shake Watching the Lions and Ravens preseason game and waiting on the wife to come back down stairs so she can tell me why the almost 2 year old was crying.

I could say it, but Steve says it so much betterer than I'm capable of doing... http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/08/16/get-over-it/

I'll give you my top 5 (sometimes I like to over-achieve) - Coffee, brewed from grounds Milk, reduced fat, 2% Bananas, Raw Honey BSN Syntha-6 Strawberries and Cream Protein Powder

Just be aware that there are studies out there that having a high protein/low carb diet can cause some some kind of "damage" (for lack of a better term) to your liver, indicated by elevated enzyme levels. Your liver is the primary metabolizer of protein, so it makes sense that a high protein diet will affect it. FWIW, I'm…

My wife and I get a small popcorn, no butter, and split it between the two of us. It's usually more than enough. Last time we did this (10:30 AM showing of Bourne Legacy on Friday) it was enough that we didn't need to get lunch after the movie. Otherwise I'll bring something healthy with me and smuggle it in.

Oh, how many times I have responded to this topic...search is a helpful thing. Regardless, I can't stand running to music I know the words to, I usually want to sing along, which means I mess up my breathing and cadence. So, I've found alternatives. 1. DJ Steveboy's Podrunner podcast. Once a week you get a new trance/club…

9/15 USAF Half-Marathon, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 10/27 Spinx Runfest Half-Marathon, Greenville, SC 11/25 Spacecoast Half-Marathon, Melbourne, FL 2/3 Melbourne Music Marathon Weekend Half-Marathon Relay, Melbourne, FL (running it with my wife) Need to find something for December and January (and not Disney --…

Was just about to post this, almost verbatim. Literally. For what it's worth, skim milk is almost as high (127mg per 8 ounce serving, 2% and whole milk hover around 100mg per serving, but 4-5x the calories).

SODIUM BOMB! Wings = high sodium Soup = mega-high sodium Pizza = mega-high sodium All the other water weight posters are correct. How to get rid of it? DRINK MORE WATER. It's contradictory, but it's what works. You probably, in those three items, ingested a week's worth of sodium. RDA for sodium is 1500, with a suggested…

This is great in theory, but if you paid attention to his post, his normal running time is 5:00 in the morning, which is why he doesn't typically eat. Race time isn't until 9:30. So, unless you're suggesting he not eat until 10:00 or 10:30, this isn't practical. I would eat breakfast at a somewhat normal, breakfasty time…

Every 4-6 weeks. Four-guard fade, finger length on top, chop straight the back, just a little bit of sideburns. I've got it down pat.

My wife and I like the Bolthouse Farms yogurt-based dressings. We like both the regular ranch and the salsa ranch (45 calories, 210mg sodium for 2 tablespoons). We've had the chunky blue cheese, it's ok. The raspberry merlot vinaigrette is good, too, and only 30 calories for 2 tablespoons. The Bolthouse Farms dressings…

Dukes of Hazzard. At some point that got retired to the garage to be a "generic nuts, bolts and hardware container." Through the rest of elementary school and high school it was a plain brown paper bag. Now I use a neoprene Clemson lunch box. If I have a lot of stuff to bring (depending on what my snacks are, etc.) I use a…

One guess where mine comes from. And for those curious where my progress indicator is, well, it's way over here (I never bothered to reset my goals after I surpassed what I *thought* was my goal weight...) \/

Start surfing websites like pinterest or foodgawker. See something interesting? Build the recipe in the MFP recipe builder and see if you can afford the calories (or what size serving you can afford). Don't want to do that much work? Surf any of these sites for healthier ideas (most have calories and macro breakdowns with…

Every. Damned. Day. I've tried "not logging" a couple times. And I went totally OCD and logged everything from that day. I do allow myself a "well, let's not worry about calories/content/macros" day once a week, but that's slowly migrated to Saturday which is my 1200+ net calorie burn LSD day, so it ends up being a wash.

The Dymatize Elite Gourmet are 125 calories per scoop, 21g of protein and 0g sugar per 32g scoop of powder. They're not bad. The GNC 100% Egg Protein is similar for a 35g scoop, but 460 mg of sodium (that combined with the fact that I think it has a weird consistency means I won't buy that one again). Personally, I like…

1. Plan dinners for the week, knowing that I'll likely have left overs for lunches. 2. Browse the ads, find the good bargains (BOGOs that I can couple with coupons FTW!) 3. Make a list 4. Add the staples we need or anything else we need around the house. 5. Check it twice 6. Hit the store. Like Pinky and the Brain, my wife…

When in doubt, hit foodgawker. http://foodgawker.com/?s=zucchini This one's on my "to try" list for either this week or next week... http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/stuffed-zucchini

Protein and protein shakes themselves aren't going to cause you to bulk up. I take in about 170-175 grams of protein every day (yes, EVERY day) and I have yet to "bulk up." Why? Because I'm not eating excessive calories (which is why 90% of us came to this site in the first place) or putting myself through a ridiculous…

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1/4 cup Quaker Old Fashioned Oats 1 cup Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk 1 scoop GNC Pure Egg Protein 305 calories 31g total carbs 5g fiber 7g fat 31g protein 640mg sodium (the Egg Protein from GNC is about 490mg. Won't buy it again because of this (and the consistency is a little weird compared to the BSN Syntha-6 or…

This. You may also need some kind of orthotic to go in your shoe. Talk to your running store guys. If you have access to one, talk to a podiatrist, who may recommend the same. I have a couple friends that have had foot problems, regardless of the shoes they had, then once they got inserts, they were much better.

Haven't started with him yet! And I want to. Jasper (black lab and bassett hound mix and probably something else thrown in there, too) is only 5 months old. I just had him at the vet for his latest round of shots on Friday (my first vet trip with him since we adopted him from the rescue shelter). Spoke with the vet about…

Don't do anything different than your normal routine. Your body's used to doing things a certain way, if you change things up, you might not respond to it very well. Personally, for just a 5K, I wouldn't worry about carb loading or any of that kind of stuff. Just eat how you would normally eat when you're going to exercise…

If you're worried about adding too many calories, stick with some sweetener (I use honey, personally, but others have suggested stevia or truvia which is calorie free) and some cinnamon added to the plain stuff. Cinnamon is ridiculously low calories (almost but not quite zero), and with the sweetener the yogurt is pretty…

Crushed my 5K PR on Wednesday. Down to a 21:11 (from 21:52). Roxxorz!