<p>BC and dadII:</p>
<p>If you need something really warm for running, you can pick up poly fleece quarter zip pullovers or full zip fleece jackets at TJ MAXX for under $20. </p>
<p>Heck, I grabbed a couple of Marmot thin power stretch fleece quarter zips for $25 each – this is a thinner (older?) version of power stretch fleece that is fuzzy on both sides. Wicked comfortable to wear as shirts!</p>
<p>To the basement for my Friday workout, a day late. One of those random workout videos I found on the internet. End of the third week on these two workouts, so I’m better at them. Still getting sweaty and breathing hard. These high rep sets 15 reps or (worse) 15 reps per side are the most difficult for me, which probably means that I need to keep doing them! Tons o’ squats in this one, including goblet squats and bodyweight squats for the four rounds of 20:20s finisher. My legs were burning on that one.</p>
<p>DadII- yes, I think it is very doable. I’ll respond more when I am on a real computer. I am not a huge fan of people doing a marathon just as a bucket list item, and back in the day a runner would spend years doing shorter races before attempting a marathon, but I know times have changed. Running outside is going to be important, though. I think you like running enough to get through the training, and your family will have to accept the idea.</p>
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<p>DadII: You might also think about ebay. I have purchased some used but still in great shape LLBean fleece items for less than $10 a piece.</p>
<p>5.6 miles. A little over 40 miles for the week. I find it very hard to do 40 miles in a week and it’s a fair adjustment going from 4-5 miles to 5-6 miles a day. I’m going to be traveling to Boston three times this week and MA once so my schedule for running won’t be so good.</p>
<p>I have a trip this fall and my guess is that I’ll be lucky to get in a mile per day so I need to bank some miles ahead of time. I can envision my body getting used to 5-6 miles per day but it will probably take a month.</p>
<p>I have already found two nice fleece quarter zips from my son’s left over when he was on the XC team. But I don’t think that will be warm enough for 7:00 AM in January. </p>
<p>Saw an Adidas climawarm full zip hoodie at Fleet Feet at 50% off - still over $75. Perfect size and color, but will have to pass. </p>
<p>Cut the grass today for an hour and then go out run the usual 4 mile loop with two big hills. felt really good. </p>
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The truth is, I hate running and I can’t really run any faster. But I have to do something so I don’t have to take pills every day.</p>
<p>BC, people typically do relatively short runs in weekdays and a long one in the weekend. Also, you will need at least one resting days. </p>
<p>I run Tuesday (Fast and short) , Thursday (interval), Saturday (easy) and Sunday (long). In Monday and Wednesday, I will do stretch and weights to add muscles.</p>
<p>My schedule dictates what I can do and when I can do it and this year so far has been tough. Things will get a lot simpler in a few weeks. I rest by sleeping 9-12 hours, usually Friday night to Saturday morning. I can always crank out some number of miles everyday. Losing weight makes it easier and easier - both in terms of cranking out miles and decreasing recovery time. I’m staying around the same speed (typically 6.3 - 7.5 MPH) range and not trying to get faster - just building up miles.</p>
<p>I do need to loss some weight. I am at least 10 lb more than the lowest I have achieved in Feb.</p>
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<p>I wish I could run that fast. My typical speed is between 5.8 - 6.2 MPH. I would love to get it up to 7 MPH range.</p>
<p>For those interested, I just posted a blog post about my kettlebell class… I believe you can find it thru my profile page…</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t pay $75 for an addidas hoodie. You can buy addidas stuff all day long at TJMAXX and Marshalls. They get a ton of it. TJ/Marshalls is practically an addidas factory outlet store. And, the pricing is fantastic. I never shopped for a hoodie, but I would be shocked if you couldn’t buy them all winter long for under $30.</p>
<p>A full zip hoodie is going to be too hot for running most of the time. A bunch of us got Power Stretch fleece hoodies this winter. EMS had them for $59 if I recall. I found some of Marmot’s version for about the same price on closeout deals. PowerStretch is PolarTech’s latest whiz bang fitness fleece – fuzzy on the inside, smooth on the outside, stretchy, athletic. I don’t do any winter running, but for snow shoeing and hiking, I was too hot in Power Stretch fleece hoodie over a single layer of long-sleeve tech shirt unless the temp was in the 20s or the wind was howling.</p>
<p>A set of this stuff (hoodie and tights) would be warm enough for running in Antartica…</p>
<p>[EMS</a> Men’s Power Stretch Full-Zip Hoodie - Eastern Mountain Sports](<a href=“http://www.ems.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11101579]EMS”>http://www.ems.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11101579)</p>
<p>Hops, I couldn’t find it. I’d be interested in reading it, however, so please link if you’re able.</p>
<p>I need to stop hosting or going to parties if I’m to make any further weightloss progress. I didn’t drink a zillion calories last night and left to my own devices, I generally behaved with dinner. But our host kept personally serving treats and shots and toasts thereafter and he was so happy and it was all so delicious I just kind of had to go “wheeee” as I was falling off the wagon. </p>
<p>Then again, one day of decadence here and there will at least shock my system into never thinking it has to dial down my metabolism due to starvation :)</p>
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<p>Unfortunately they wont let me just link to it. We’ll see if they let me do this instead…</p>
<p>Have supplemented these in my core/ strength routine:
<a href=“Hearst Magazines”>Hearst Magazines;
I have trouble with “runner touch” as I seem to have trouble with stability/balance.</p>
<p>Strength/stretch/core and 20 minute spinning intervals. </p>
<p>I’m pretty positive I’ve got plantar fasciitis with my right foot/heel. Been icing and pulling toes up. Going to buy the Strasburg Sock to see if it helps. So far the only real problem is bad heel pain when I wake up. So far it hasn’t affected running. Any other tips?</p>
<p>I used a homemade night splint which is similar to the sock but it’s rigid. Fixed 98% of my problems overnight.</p>
<p>When you wake up in the morning. Gently pull your toes towards your body to prestretch before putting your feet on the floor. Calf stretches every day. Morning and night if you can do it.</p>
<p>Heel cushioning helps.</p>
<p>Arch support can help too if you have high arches.</p>
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<p>Take a plastic bottle (Gatorade bottle, soda bottle, etc) and fill it about halfway with water. Freeze it. Now you have a cold roller. Take a towel and set it on the floor. Put your bottle down on it and roll your foot over it. Now you’re getting a massage AND you’re getting cold at the same time.</p>
<p>BCE - how did you make your splint?</p>
<p>Long travel day yesterday. Glad to be home. Gorgeous day in Tennessee today and it was nice to be out of the humidity! I loved St. John, but there’s no place like home (especially for running). Comfortable 10 mile run this morning in the sun- 53-58 degrees.
33 miles for the week, so I only gave back 5 miles to the 2000 mile pace bunny on my vacation week. I’m a good bit ahead of him at this point anyway.</p>
<p>Well I just stepped on the scale. I don’t know how I did it, but I’m down 5 pounds since I weighed last. I don’t get on there often, but I’d say it was probably 10-14 days ago. Now I need to just trend it down!</p>
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<p>Four pieces of plexiglas from plexiglas supply store, shelf bracket from Home Depot, strapping tape and old diapers. Tape plexiglas to shelf pracket to form the L. Used diapers to hold the foot to the plexiglas. This was back in the 1990s before night splints were commercially available. It’s a lot easier to just buy one (typically plastic covered by soft material with Velcro straps) these days.</p>
<p>A coworker had PF and her doctor was useless so I told her what I did. She made a plaster cast over her foot and had her husband cut the front of it off and she just used cloth ties to hold it in place.</p>
<p>My solution worked as did hers but my solution was pretty heavy.</p>