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Owl's Roost Rumble 3.5 Mile Trail Race Report
The Good: The course wasn't muddy like I had feared after yesterday's storm. It was nice and cool at the start and altogether a beautiful day to be out in nature! The Bad: I was in no way physically or mentally prepared for this race. The Ugly: I got passed by someone that was apparently suffering from an asthma attack and…
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Any way to increase fitness in 2 weeks?
So, I'm a little disappointed in my race today. It was my slowest race yet (with the exception of my longest trail races). Seriously, my first 3 races (pre-marathon) were all 1 to 2 minutes faster per mile. I was even almost 2 minutes per mile faster while pushing a stroller in a 5K last year. I don't know how much of…
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Owl's Roost Rumble Trail 3.5 Miler
So, I just posted a blog about my race this Saturday and was wondering what some of y'all thought: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/tappae/view/owl-s-roost-rumble-on-saturday-652279 TL;DR version: I'm not as fast as I would like to be and I'm not sure how to pace this one.
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Running Can Kill You!
"Dr. Schmidt says jogging can loosen the linkage between the sacrum and the hipbones, cause slipped discs, contribute to varicose veins, dislodge the uterus from its "perch," produce droopy breasts and, in men, bring on inguinal hernia. Jogging, he asserts, can even harm the heart by causing it to "tug" on its blood…
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Strength Training Questions
So, I'm just starting back doing body-weight exercises and I have two questions: I'm using the twentypullups.com plan to develop my pull-ups. Since I can only do one good one, I started on week -2 and am doing mostly negatives, but just one per set. My question is: wouldn't I develop faster if I did 5 negatives per set, or…
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24 hours until my first ultra!
Tomorrow morning, I'm running a 40 mile trail race! There are a few paved miles early on and one of the shorter trails is quite wide, but the rest of the course is on single-track hiking trails. The race uses a total of 11 different trails that skirt our local water supply lakes. My training hasn't been sufficient to…
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"The best shape of my life!"
So, my main goal this year has been functional physical fitness. I wanted to get into "the best shape of my life," and I've been defining that as beating my PRs at every distance I've run and also at several feats of strength: push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups. The story of my running PRs is found on my blog:…
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50 pounds lost!
When I started trying to lose weight almost 3 years ago, it was several weeks before I established a regular routine of consistently weighing myself in the morning. I didn't even own a scale. So, my starting weight was fully clothed, in the evening, at work. Last night at work, I weighed myself and I had lost just over 50…
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Calling all musicians and music fans!
So, as I'm increasing my mileage in training for a marathon, something has become very apparent to me: I need more music. Now, before you start telling me all about your favorite song, please keep reading. I'm looking for something very specific. I'm not looking just for great beats or awesome riffs or inspiring lyrics or…
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Need training advice from experienced distance runners
So, the biggest revelation to me while beginning to train for my first marathon has been that I was running too fast. Before I started using a training plan I found in a running magazine, I usually just ran as fast as I could for the distance I was doing. I would decide how much time I had, pick a distance and then run it…
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Running NSV - 1000 miles!
So, two and a half years ago I decided to change my life by eating better and exercising more. Since then, I've run over 1000 miles! I ran 300 in 2010, just over 400 last year and almost 300 already this year.
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Question for those running hundreds of miles per month
How do you fit all those miles in? I'm just starting to train for a marathon and I don't think my schedule will allow me to follow any specific training plan, but the few I've looked at have me getting my long run up to about 20 miles. With that, and a rest day, to get 60 miles in a week, I would have to average 8 miles on…
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Little LOTR quiz
So, I just started re-reading LOTR (I'm a little frightened to take my godzilla of a toddler to the library to find something new) and I have a question for any of y'all that have read it: Who is the most powerful character in LOTR and why?
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What is your favorite workout?
Yesterday, I got to do my favorite workout for the first time this year. There's a greenway near my house that has a series of exercise stations along the trail. From the end of my street to the end of the greenway and back is 5K. It took me just under an hour to run it, stopping to do 6 hanging leg lifts, 12 chin-ups, 13…
