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Good post! I'd love to hear your thoughts on humans being motivated by status such as pack animals do. Do we, or are we motivated with our physical "status" to the point that we behave in a pack mentality? In other words, what might be status for one pack - say being overweight and accepting that within the pack - may be…

January 1st 51.6 Miles -- Duration 4:00:09 January 3rd 10.1 Miles -- Duration 00:31:00 January 4th 11.0 Miles -- Duration 1:00:28 January 5th 17.9 Miles -- Duration 1:03:00 January 6th 9.88 Miles -- Duration 00:33:00 January 7th 15.1 Miles -- Duration 1:45:32 (MTB) January 8th 30.8 Miles -- Duration 2:15:17 January Total…

Sounds like you have some things to work out yet in your psyche.

You can use this forum for whatever you desire. Goals. Logging distance, and time. Asking questions. Posting up minutes. It's really up to the individual. There are no rules or guidelines. Nor is there any sort of a "challenge" required.

January 1st 51.6 Miles -- Duration 4:00:09 January 3rd 10.1 Miles -- Duration 00:31:00 January 4th 11.0 Miles -- Duration 1:00:28 January 5th 17.9 Miles -- Duration 1:03:00 January 6th 9.88 Miles -- Duration 00:33:00 January 7th 15.1 Miles -- Duration 1:45:32 (MTB) January Total Miles: 115.58 January Total Duration: 8:53:09

Only if you ate 1000 calories immediately before diving into that 10 minute routine and ralphed it all up as a result. B)

Water and glycogen stores are what you lost. If you sweat like me, I can drop 3-4 pounds easy during a 60 minute HIIT session and from going so hard, and the glycogen stores get tapped. If I don't hydrate like a fish afterwards, eat a nice recovery meal within 2 hours - the scale will read low until those reserves get…

January 1st 51.6 Miles -- Duration 4:00:09 January 3rd 10.1 Miles -- Duration 00:31:00 January 4th 11.0 Miles -- Duration 1:00:28 January 5th 17.9 Miles -- Duration 1:03:00 January 6th 9.88 Miles -- Duration 00:33:00 January Total Miles: 100.48 January Total Duration: 7:07:37

I've had really good luck with Sole Arch Supports. http://www.yoursole.com/us

January 1st 51.6 Miles -- Duration 4:00:09 January 3rd 10.1 Miles -- Duration 00:31:00 January 4th 11.0 Miles -- Duration 1:00:28 January Total Miles: 72.7 January Total Duration: 5:31:37

Well, you still have to manage what goes in, and how much is burned (just like a financial budget, retirement plan, investment plan, how much gas you can put in the car's tank, etc...). Have you read Matt Fitzgerald's book Racing Weight? It's a great book that helps you zero in your ideal weight range for your on the bike…

January 1st 51.6 Miles -- Duration 4:00:09 January 3rd 10.1 Miles -- Duration 00:31:00 January Total Miles: 61.7 January Total Duration: 4:31:09

It's very real - in terms of potential performance improvement - in the competitive field of running and cycling (power to weight ratio). It doesn't matter if it is amateur or professional competition. The mere change of 5 pounds can improve one's performance. Not saying that is the OP's goal, just saw the OP's picture…

Sometimes frustration needs to be bopped on the head. I always suggest reading this brutally honest blog. Somebody suggested it to me a few years ago and it was the bop on the head I needed to reach my goals. Enjoy, and don't take it personally. I point you to it to help you solve the frustration...…

Rob - you'll have to eat at deficit. Please, forget Nutri-System and just do your regular normal eating lifestyle (at lower calories). In other words - eat the same stuff you always do, but less of it to reach your goal weight. As you lose, a lot of the loss is glycogen and water, so you will have to go below 165 by…

Personally, I use Hammer Nutrition to fuel my endurance training. You can take a look at their usage chart, but as mentioned above - it's going to involve some experimentation on your part for fueling as you increase your duration and work towards the full marathon.…

Yes - this is the Health and Fitness debate forum. I think you should read the sticky to this particular forum with regard to your post. Access to protected wilderness lands on a bicycle? Sounds like a topic and post way off the mark based on the guidelines of this forum. And I am an avid mountain biker, member of IMBA,…

As many have mentioned, it all depends on your goals and your training stress for each "workout". Major league starting baseball pitchers do not start another game without taking 4 days off between their previous start. On those off days, they stretch and only run on the day after pitching (no throwing), do active recovery…

January 1st 51.6 Miles -- Duration 4:00:09 January Total Miles: 51.6 January Total Duration: 4:00:09

Just a reminder, the ride along the Danube is flat to slightly downhill the entire way. You can coast most of the way when heading from Germany to the southeast along it. Tons of places to stop and eat/snack along the trail. 50 miles per day in those conditions doesn't tax one very much at all if they've got some saddle…

I eat before, during, and after. Today's ride is only 4 hours (probably about 55-65 miles). Big breakfast before I go, and I chow down on something every 30 minutes during the ride, and have a nice post recovery meal.

Correct. The semantics should have said that her sister's heavy drinking of wine was most likely contributing to altering the insulin secretion from her pancreas, at least enough to the point that it was detected as she was close to developing diabetes. Lucky to have been caught early and hopefully righted in a healthy…

Yes, they are related. There will be a range of weights for your height/age/gender that covers thinner skeletal frames vs. wider skeletal frames. As an example, if I calculate my height/weight/gender - this is what the various formulas calculate for my "ideal" weight. Based on the Robinson formula (1983), your ideal weight…

Heavy drinking can mess up your pancreas which is known to contribute to development of diabetes. Too much alcohol can cause chronic inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), which can impair its ability to secrete insulin, ultimately leading to diabetes. It could be that her sister drank heavily for a long period of…

Buy good tasting, lower calorie wines and enjoy as you log your calories and meet your goals. Print This blog explains how to do that quite well... http://www.shape.com/blogs/fit-foodies/best-wines-your-waistline My wife and I love to drink Austrian and Italian white wines which we mix with carbonated water (works great in…

As promised, some photos. These are from June of 2013. The path along the Donau (Danube) is very, very beginner friendly. A lot of retired people ride it every summer (lots of Germans and Austrians). I thought I had more pictures, but that's all I could find.

December 1st 14.1 Miles -- Duration 1:30:33 (MTB) December 2nd 9.44 Miles -- Duration 00:43:48 December 3rd 17.3 Miles -- Duration 2:00:37 (MTB) December 4th 21.0 Miles -- Duration 1:40:34 December 6th 7.52 Miles -- Duration 00:40:23 December 7th 11.5 Miles -- Duration 1:22:40 (MTB) December 8th 9.39 Miles -- Duration…

You'll be fine with some weekly miles under your rear leading up to it. You really won't need to train too much outside of your normal riding, maybe on a few weekends leading up to your trip, do some Saturday and Sunday 25 - 45 mile ride combinations, and then the week before you go back way off so you taper into it. Don't…

Good blog post here on calories in wine: http://www.shape.com/blogs/fit-foodies/best-wines-your-waistline Mix in sparkling water with white wines (great in the warmer months) as you end up drinking less wine while still enjoying it. Some lighter, lower calorie wines I like are Grüner Veltliner white wines from Austria, and…

December 1st 14.1 Miles -- Duration 1:30:33 (MTB) December 2nd 9.44 Miles -- Duration 00:43:48 December 3rd 17.3 Miles -- Duration 2:00:37 (MTB) December 4th 21.0 Miles -- Duration 1:40:34 December 6th 7.52 Miles -- Duration 00:40:23 December 7th 11.5 Miles -- Duration 1:22:40 (MTB) December 8th 9.39 Miles -- Duration…