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Ran a couple of 5Ks. Then I started training for a 10K, and found that I could run 7.5-8 miles without feeling utterly destroyed. Personally, it did take a lot for me ramp up to 13 miles, but what made me sign up for my first half marathon was the day I finally, very slowly, ran my first 13 mile long run. Once I knew I had…

I am a new convert to going commando. Once I started running distances longer than 7 miles, I just couldn't do underwear anymore with chafing and rubbing in all sorts of wrong spots. I do own some seamless sports underwear as well, which are nice for my shorts or pants that do not have a liner, but if I can go without…

I mix chia seeds into my oatmeal, muffins, pancakes and peanut butter cookies. Pretty easy, can't taste it. You can grind it if you don't like seeds, but I don't grind them because I'm lazy.

Nope. We both have opposing dietary needs, so it wouldn't make sense. My kids on the other hand treat my dinner plate as communal. :cry:

I go way over on my fats constantly. Like, literally almost every single day, and by a significant amount. It has not stopped me from lowering my body fat percentage nor has it made me gain weight or make me softer and fatter or anything like that. :) Since you're not eating potato chips and cookies or junky sources of…

I am a very small person meaning I am sure I am a walking (er, running) target for someone looking for the easiest "victim"... I simply run during the times of day that there will be lots of people out, or on a trail that is popular with runners, cyclists, etc so that I'm always around people. I won't go running on a trail…

I don't have a certain day that is my rest day, though it is usually mid-to-late week that I take it. It just depends on what day I feel the most tired. I try to follow my body's queues on that. If I still feel energetic and awesome on Wednesday, I'm not going to take a rest day just because it says so on my calendar, but…

I lift heavy and/or strength train (doing things like push-ups etc) at least twice per week, and up to 4 times per week (some of my strength training sessions are only 15 minutes and only involve my own body weight, sometimes I'm lifting for 30+ minutes and focusing on power lifting, I vary up my routine to keep it from…

I've been "skinny fat" too. Here's what worked for me to lose body fat percentage but not lbs: Heavy lifting. Like, the kind of weights where the bar is longer than I am tall. Heck, I had to start with just benching the bar because I was too weak to even put weights on it at first. I bought a bench, bars, and weight plates…

I'm primarily a runner, but I also lift heavy (well, heavy for ME!), and I am embarrassed to admit that I stare at my abs in the mirror more than I should. I was a little bit flabby in the mid-section before, but now I have the beginnings of some muscle definition (which is HARD after 4 kids and an undying devotion to junk…

Love my Shuffle. Super light, clips to my shorts or shirt, and it can hold a LOT of music. Mine is nowhere near full and has over 4 hours of music. I can easily fit another 12 hours of music on it if I had the money for that many songs. Mine is 4 years old, and still going strong. No issues. The battery lasts forever, too…

(1) What are the best socks for long distance running? There are lots of different kinds, and this is one of those things that you will have to figure out what works best for you via trial and error (kind of like shoes... the best shoes for me are not universally the best shoes for everyone) (2) How useful is a GPS/heart…

I'd do it! But nothing on me flops, and I can run without any ta-ta support (the other day I ran in a string bikini top and shorts for 7 miles... the bikini was so I could get in the water afterward and then relax on the sand without getting a sports-bra tan-line). With how hot and humid it is, I'd loooooove to run nekkid.

I am not a morning runner either. I always feel better AFTERWARD, but the entire time during, I think, "It's not too late to crawl back into bed, why are you out here, Tracy?!" I wake up at 5:45, have just a little coffee, eat something easy on my stomach like bread with peanut butter, drink some water, and then hit the…

Are you eating before you run? Not saying you should eat a full plate of waffles and bacon, but a little toast or half a bagel may help.

Brooks Adrenaline (GTS for road running, ASR is their trail shoe... I run in both depending on terrain). I overpronate and once I switched to Brooks Adrenaline, I haven't had a single issue or injury, in over a year (I switched shoes due to "runner's knee", which is how I discovered I overpronate). My second choice shoe is…

I live in an area with a lot of hills. Neighborhood runs, even the short ones, mean you're getting at least 400 feet of elevation. I only recently started focusing on hills in my training. I have since learned that the local runners' definition of "flat" or "hilly" and MY definition are very different, because they are all…

My most recent 5K was for 4th of July, and it was a hot, humid race on trail and road (the second half was road though, with zero shade. I wish we could have run the route in reverse!). It was a smaller race, about 550 people, but there were a lot of the local elites there (two different running clubs were battling it out,…

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I like beards and scruffiness on a guy. Men are hairy, and I like it! No chest-waxed boys who spend more time on their beauty routine than I do. I do have to admit that I am not into very very thin men. I also am not into super buff ripped guys either. I like normal. I like average. No gigantic bulging muscles, but not…

I love you guys. Also, in college, I jogged in a terrycloth turquoise track suit. My form was awful, and I only joggled single miles at a time and I justified eating horrendous amounts of junk because of running ONE mile earlier in the day. But terry cloth. In bright turquoise. It's so bad, it almost circles back around to…

Rice of course! Like, the nutritionally less healthy WHITE kind! Om nom nom Oh wait, I eat white rice all the time. Probably not considered pre-run "carb-loading" if I'll eat it no matter what. Morning of I eat a piece of bread with peanut butter. My long run is only 14 miles, but I need to have *something* in my system. I…

I ran my first 5K in cotton. 100% cotton. Head to toe. Don't do that. Stay hydrated, though you really don't *need* to stop for water for a 5K, it's a short enough distance that it's not necessary (you can if you want to, of course!). I skipped the water station for my first 5K. Don't burn through all of your energy in the…

For indoor cardio without equipment, you can run up and down your stairs (if you have them, that is, which I jsut realized that you don't, so nevermind LOL). Jumping rope is also a good one. You can do burpees, too. I used to do Tae Bo through videos, in my own living room. No equipment necessary. I'd still do it if I…

My personal opinion (as someone who isn't super experienced FYI, but regularly runs both, so I am not exactly an authority on this LOL)... I think it's more important to have trail shoes for tails than road shoes for roads. Roads are just easier to run because you don't have those uneven surfaces and rocks etc, and you can…

I use my trail shoes for road running when necessary. I bought both the road and trail versions of my shoe, and after a year of using both on both types of terrain, I find that the trail shoe does just about as well (or not noticeably worse) on pavement and streets as my road shoe, but my road shoe is not as good on the…

Bad Run- 4th of July. I was running a 5K and I was just... really mentally worked up over it. I hate 5Ks. I have been been running for nearly a year and a half, and a month before this 5K, I had finished my first half-marathon so a 5K should be EASY, right? God, this 4th of July 5K was AWFUL. At 8am it had already hit 70…

This most recent one was the first one where I decided to warm up right before the race (for some reason it never occurred to me to run before I run, even though it was obvious to every other experienced runner that THAT was my problem LOL, and I'm glad I took their advice), and I think that's the reason why I got a new PR…

I take fruit strips (the kind made with real fruit and minimal sugars) because they're flat and small enough where I can just shove them into my bra (yes, I use my sports bra as basically a large pocket. I'm flat-chested where I don't really need it for support or anything, it's just my snack pouch LOL). Most of the time I…

I feel the EXACT same way. Give me a half-marathon over a 5K any day! I've run longer distances and averaged out a faster pace than my usual 5K pace. I have been running for almost a year and a half, though I have been mostly too impoverished to enter a lot of races. I've only done 4 races, total, in fact, in that entire…