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Two Interesting Nutrition Links
A good write up by a good writer upper: http://racingweight.com/blog/a-few-rational-words-about-sugar/ And this is pretty good, too: http://racingweight.com/dqs/index.html#/
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One Week of No Training - Impact on Mitochondria
Seeing that I'm working hard to recover from a series of forced interruptions in training, I found this document of interest: http://tinyurl.com/m4uc5p4 I was seeking inforamtion about how a layoff impacts cardiovascular health and the text from one of the slides stood out: "Detraining: Time Course of Changes in…
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"One Man Band" Running Reference Sites
"One Man Band" was about the best I could come up with at the moment but my intent is to share the links to two sites that are "off the beaten track", that appear to be the effort of one dedicated individual, and that provide solid advice. This is an information-rich site that covers a lot of topics and I have a high level…
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Which Blinky Thingie?
With the lessening amount of daylight, I'd like to get a strobe light or a reflector that I can use when I run. I've looked at light on RoadRunner Sports and Amazon and it seems that there are lots of choices so I'd like to get a recommendation from folks here. Living in a moderate climate, I don't wear a jacket when I…
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Compression Sleeves to Tight? Try This!
I'm a new member of the "compression sleeves for life" club due to "venous insufficiency" (blood isn't flowing out of my calves so I need the compression sleeves for help) and I ordered compression sleeves that were at leas a size too small. Talk about a pain in the calf! At first, I struggled to get them on and it hit me…
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Avoiding a Drinking Problem
I was responding to a posting about water during exercise in another forum. Over the past few years, I've collected quite a few links about the absurdity of drink, drink, drink but I hadn't found this document from NIH. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21346332 Very interesting stuff. One statement that really caught my…
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Experience with Shin Splints or Stress Fracture
Bright spark that I am, I'm pretty certain that I've got one or t'other. I'm going to research this on runningwritings.com to figure out what I've got and how to deal with it and I'm hoping that some of you good folks can chime in. What's the outlook for a mild case of either? I believe it's mild because it doesn't throb…
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Kinvara vs Virrata
I've been running in Newton's for a few years but snagged a pair of Kinvarra's last Fall. I run in the KV's from time to time and have really come to like the cushioning on the KV (vs the Newton Gravity). The zero drop of the Virrata is interesting and I'm tempted to give them a try. Can anyone give me some feedback on in…
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Recent Running Times Issues are Superb
Just a comment - the last two issues of Running Times have had a significant amount of excellent content. "How good were they?", they asked! The issue were good that, when I realized that I had left one issue in the airport in Dallas a few weeks back, I wrote subscriber services to get them to mail me a replacement. If you…
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Gait Analysis - Where?
Can anyone recommend a site where I can upload a video and for gait analysis?
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Nice Negative Split or Left too Much in the Tank?
Per the subject, this is a pix from my running the Surf City (Huntington Beach, CA) on 2/2/14: http://cbeinfo.net/running/images/gtcsurfcity2014.gif There's one hill on the course - short, sharp rise at the end of mile 4. The course is flat for miles 6 - 8 and the gentle uphill for miles 1-3 is a gentle downhill finish…
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1¢ Shipping at mcmillanrunning.com
I've been in touch with the folks at mcmillanrunning.com about special offers that they're running. If you navigate over to their site, you'll see that they're offering 1¢ shipping on all orders placed through 12/25. That's a good way to save some $$ because I think the normal charge is at least a couple of dollars per…
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Whatcha Reading?
Based on a comment at runningahead.com, I snagged a Kindle copy of "Running Science" by Owen Anderson, Ph. D. I've read a significant amount of the book and it is packed with excellent information. It has some sections that get into the nitty gritty of biology and chemistry but I found I handled the issues pretty well -…
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201310 Races
Thought I'd post this since it seems that lots of us will be being all we can be this weekend. The format for the Subject line will put this thread in a sortable list if MFP EVER changes to a forum instead of an email list (grumble, grumble but not really) I'm running a half marathon at the Long Beach International…
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Talk about "I Feel Like I could Run Forever"
I've seen the Road ID ads about him and him doing 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states. This provides some background: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever Just looked this up, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Karnazes
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Lock, Load, and Release
Thought I'd pass this along to you good folks… http://www.runningtechniquetips.com/2013/09/observations-on-good-running-technique/ I bought the Kindle version of "Running Technique" by Brian Martin a while back and have found it to be a valuable source of information. While reading (re-reading) a section of the book…
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Runners Spreadsheet
This Excel worksheet it contains a wealth of information for runners: http://www.electricblues.com/html/runpro.html Some of the functions use Excel macros that run only on Windows. The WKS still works, quite well, on a Mac but some of the more advanced features are compromised.
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Spreadsheet for Runners
This Excel worksheet it contains a wealth of information for runners: http://www.electricblues.com/html/runpro.html Some of the functions use Excel macros that run only on Windows. The WKS still works, quite well, on a Mac but some of the more advanced features are compromised.
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Whatcha think of this Training DVD?
I subscribe to a newsletter from these folks: http://runnersconnect.net and they send out a steady stream of promos. I have not purchased anything from these folks so I'm seeking opinions. A promo email came in this AM with a link here: https://improverunningform.com/# It's $69 if I buy it in the next few days. Having read…
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Hot Weather Running Shirt
I read this article a few days ago (http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Under_Armor_Heat_Gear_Top) and decided to give the shirt a try. It doesn't get hot here (I think it hit 83º one day this summer) so the worst conditions I have to deal with are in the 70's for both temperature and humidity. Despite that, I believe that every…
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Favorite Running Site
Yes, it's hard to choose "just one" but what's your favorite site for news and information about running? My pick? This site is information-centric and the host is pretty tweaky. I'm not 100% in agreement on everything he writes but, overall, there's a significant amount of solid information there.…
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New info on Salt
Just read this: http://kfor.com/2013/07/09/cdc-admits-long-standing-error-there-is-no-benefit-in-reducing-salt/ I have hypertension in my family (my grandfather died of a stroke at age 37!) so I did some poking around on this a couple of years ago. My summary of what the actual research said was "BFD" - IIRC, eating a…
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Energy Gels
Good info at this site: https://www.energygelcentral.com I bought a couple of bags of pre-mix (one with caffeine, another without) and will post results as I try them out in the next few weeks. Other than that, no connection with the folks who run the site.
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Link to Energy Gel Site
The internet is an amazing resource and the web can be fascinating to wander around in. There's tons and tons of information about running and I happened to happen across this site a couple of months back. http://www.energygelcentral.com Yes, a site about energy gels is pretty esoteric but I'm starting a training plan in a…
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Stride Length//Foot Strike Discussions
Good links at this article: http://www.runblogger.com/2011/02/stride-rate-stride-length-speed.html?m=1 I'm a fan of Magness and Hutchison. Both of them have excellent blogs and I'm working my way through Hutchison's book
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Calorie Expenditure Formula
I've seen some truly silly calorie counts here on MFP and I know that's impacted weight loss for folks who are "dancing on the razor's edge"*. I just ran across this formula (pardon the pun) and thought I'd share it. http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx…
