scorpio516 Member

Got 7" of snow yesterday. Ran anyway

+1 And like running, there isn't bad weather, just bad clothing. I've already put my road bike away, and I'm riding 1.65 miles to the train station on a mtb. Lobster gloves work better on a mtb vs drop bars for me. When it gets snowy enough to stop a mtb, the governor has probably shut down the state ;) . it's happened…

I have a scar on my palm from going down in a wet corner in a race 8 years ago. I've been very hesitant in the rain since. Cheap trainers work fine (the $150-250 ones from performance are great deals). Expensive ones do cool stuff. All the wheel-off ones and most of the $500+ ones very resistance via ANT+. So if you are…

Don't know about swim. Bike, 20km in about 45minutes I think would be comparable. 40k in 60minutes is a really good time trial, imho a 18 min 5k.

Or injury. I had IT issues after getting sideswiped by a car.

Fastest burn is either running or swimming. Swimming burns more per mile, but you are so much slower, per minute is comparable. At lunch tuesday, I burned about 500 Kcal in about 35 minutes. If you don't weigh 180 pounds and don't run sub 8:00 miles ymmv

I was looking a little bit ago: Someone makes a new action for the Ruger 10/22 that gets rid of the semi-auto changes it to a thumb toggle. Someone makes biathlon stocks for the Savage Mark 2. Eastern Sierra something or another. Still a regular bolt action though. Neither of these are going to cycle as fast as an…

Depends. If they are eating less that 1600 Kcal/day, 500 less than that isn't healthy or sustainable. But if they are eating 1600, they'd have to eat back a lot of the calories.

Shoes. How are they? How old are they? Did you get them fitted? I know when mine are done cause the next day I feel like an old man, sore everywhere. That takes me 300 miles.

I really want to try some biathlon. There's a couple places within 2 hours North of me in New Hampshire or Vermont. Otherwise, I spend some time on ungroomed trails around here, all classic. I'm not coordinated to skate ski B)

+1 if I ran 15-20 miles or biked 50 miles a day, I'd be really hungry

I haven't heard of one yet. Samsung watch maybe, but it sucks as a GPS watch. Apple watch yes, but if he's using google music, he probably doesn't have an iphone which is required, and it's meh as a running watch. Garmin doesn't do music at all. Polar and everyone else does pre-loaded songs, and don't have a cell chip to…

Lol. That's what I get for typing on the train at6 am. 3:00 per 500m is the right number

If you've only had our for 3 weeks, it can take a while for the vo2max calculation to normalize. A number of runs.

Start closer to the front, less traffic to dodge. Not too far that your in the way of the sub-20 people, but dodging eats time. Hit the apex of every turn. Run the least possible distance. If the course was certified, the least possible distance through the apexes is 5000m, any time you deviate from the ideal line you run…

Scosche Rhythm + It doesn't get really small if you have skinny arms

A 180 lb person will burn 1000 Kcal per hour running 8.8 miles. That's not elite level ;) but it's a point of comparison - it would be really hard to do that much work in an hour lifting

I'm pretty consistently 157-158 spm. Have been for the last 25 years. IMHO the cadence studies are hogwash. They didn't study what was best, but what top athletes do. It wasn't a study of cause and effect, but just what people do.

zones based on LTHR

Then you don't want zwift. It's all about the social. Trainerroad would be much better for your needs. After download, everything can be local, and nothing is social (it can sync with strava, training peaks, and iirc Garmin connect)

Regular mid weight Asics tights work great for me in Boston. They run long, so unless you've got very long legs, you don't need the tall size. I'm 72" and the regular length still bunch up

New England winter - warmer than midwest winter, but snowier and windier. Below freezing: Tights. Mid weight Ascics for me Long sleeve tech shirt Hat. In high school in Michigan, it was just a knit hat. Now it's a knit with fleece liner, or fleece hat for athletics - got a decent Nike one. Gloves. Again, used to be the…

A 15 month old just finished a flip flop thru of the AT! A flip flop is starting in Harper's Ferry, WV and going to one end, then traveling (drive, fly, not walking) back to WV to go to the other end

N=1 I spend no time in the gym. I run. I bike a little. I'm usually in the top 5% of finishers in a 5k. I can squat 2x my body weight. I can bench about 50% of my body weight. I carry almost no fat on my legs. But unless you are my brother, I can't tell you how you'll adapt to running.

I have a watch, a mp3 player, and a key. That has worked great for the last 20+ years As for actual accessories I have 3 different pairs of gloves - temperature dependant - 2 caps - warm vs cool - 3 stocking caps, and a couple pairs of sunglasses

I used to work with a guy who went to the world championships this summer on an 8 boat. He rows 7 days a week. Work up to it. Take breaks as your body asks for. It is something you can do a lot.

A few years ago, I went to the gym 4 lunches a week - twice to use the shower after a run, twice to lift. No issues. Two other guys went to their gyms thrice a week to swim or run. Last office, I had a corporate gym on the first floor of the building. I spent three lunches a week dodging pedestrians running through…

If your training pace is your race pace, you are training too fast

Bottom edge. Facing the floor as you are standing. Nothing helped for me so I got a Scosche Rhythm + arm band. Polar just came out with one too. Just wear them on the meaty part of your arm

Will 5 days off lose fitness? Yes. Will you be able to notice it? Probably not. Daniels has a chart for adjusting your training paces based on time off. Under a week is almost nothing