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Carb Loading and Calories Burned
To keep the question quick and simple, a lot of carb calculators out there are giving me 4-500g of carbs for a 3 day load. However, the days leading up I’m still trying to eat at maintenance and burning 1000-400 calories of exercise. When eating these back, do you further consume carbohydrates or stick with the specific…
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Short Daily Commute Activity Level Question
Hi guys, So I just moved states and now bike commute to work about 6 miles round trip. Probably a few miles more throughout the day buying groceries daily and getting to coffee shops and such. I was wondering what you would consider this activity level to be? I’m an educator during the day so not sitting 100% but not…
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Completed first 50k
First mountain trail 50k race complete with 3500 calories burned and a remaining 2500 from yesterday. The real question is . . . What beautiful few indulgences do we get to have today MFP fam?
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Left over 1500 calories from heavy training
Because of very heavy back to back weekend long runs, I find I'm at 1500 calories short from the combined deficit of Saturday and Sunday. With today as a recovery day, what is your opinion on eating more than my regular 0 exercise calories added goal? Would you eat about 1/3 of that more back? half? I understand when…
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2 Day Hunger Delay - Post Race
I recently ran my first ultramarathon, where I burned about 3,000 net calories but consumed only 600 or so additional on top of maintenance. Does anybody understand or can explain why the extreme hunger hasn’t set in until 2 days later? I’ve already experienced the bloat from too much sodium and water consumption and am…
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Day after long run
What’s your guys’s favorite things to eat the day after a long run? With an extra 1000 calories or so to work with I’m always down for a blizzard from DQ
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Recovery Runs and Calories Burned
Hi guys, first time poster here mostly just lurking around and I was curious do you Runner’s out there that run doubles eat your calories burned back from recovery runs? Those seconds runs or doubles that are slow enough to warrant some recovery but are relatively short compared to the rest of your mileage? Example: run 10…
