I will. No word yet, but I refuse to believe there’s anything wrong with her. 13 year old that acts like a puppy.
Went on a short run. Don’t feel like it was much exercise, but it’s better than nothing.
Wondering, for you long distance runners…how do you stay fueled when you’re running? Gels? My husband drinks this stuff called perpetuem that is supposed to be amazing. I need something that will keep me going, because I don’t eat/drink enough, and run out of energy. I think I’m going to try that perpetuem next.
Gels and Gatorade to stay fueled. It didn’t matter what brand to me. I would eat carb heavy meals a few days before a race and a bagel with PB the morning of. Experiment to see which gels work best without upsetting your stomach and what timing works best. I used to take a gel every six miles, but some people would take them more frequently.
Lacking coordination when on a bike, I used to eat candy corn pumpkins when cycling because I couldn’t tear open those gel packs. In an ultra I would eat real food, not just gels.
For rides under 40 miles, typically nothing. Over 40 miles, Oatmega bars. If doing 50 or more, add in Cliff Bloks and Enduralytes as needed. Hot days, definitely Enduralytes if over 45. Water to drink. Pre-ride nutrition, a couple of hours before, is key to starting with the rank topped off.
Thanks for the recommendations! I was eating those Gu gels, and though they kicked in a lot of energy pretty quickly, they didn’t seem to last very long. I read about those Enduralytes, sounds like something to do before and during a long period of exertion. I will try the Huma gels, and maybe I should stock up on those candy corns, like…right now? Yum!
Humagels for sure. They can be hard to open if your hands are cold or sweaty. I will take sports drink in a race if it is on the course, but that can be risky. Sugared coke or Pepsi can really hit the spot in the late mile of a marathon.
3.7 miles this morning here at the Poconos lake house. Fairly flat. My legs aren’t too bad from yesterday, but I’m definitely tired.
I tried the Huma gels (on recs here from MOWC and BunsenBurner). They were definitely easier to ingest than the PowerGels they give out in the NYC Marathon (which are like a thick Snickers bar with caffeine). They actually also had a banana station at Mile 18 – should have had one of those. Even the Humas for me were a little hard to open, squeeze, eat. Takes practice I think. I didn’t fuel as well as I should have.
4 miles, easy pace, 70 degree weather. Toward the end I tried to run holding my upper body more vertical and tightening my core and it made my leg feel better.
Good luck Sabaray! Hope it isn’t awfully hot for you today.
Risky in that you never know exactly how they are mixed and it can cause stomach upsets.
And there was RockN Roll Las Vega where the water was filthy and scooped out of dirty trash cans.
SO glad I wasn’t running RockNRoll Nashville today. 75 and humid at the start. Lots of medical issues, apparently.
Thanks everyone for the encouragement. Today was brutal. 70 degrees and 85% humidity at the start. No shade. Deja vu for my fall race that ended so badly. Once again, my heart rate skyrocketed and I became very dehydrated, stopped sweating entirely. With support from a good friend, I managed to finish and I was not last. I think long races in the heat are just not something I can do. I’m scheduled for a major medical workup next week and hopefully that will give me some clues as to what’s going on. It was a tough race for everyone today.
I’m glad I finished too. It was ugly but it was a finish. I know most of you are much faster runners, but I’d been training around an 11:30 pace, so hoped to race at 10:30 to 11:00. I didn’t think that was outside the realm of possibility until the heat came into the picture. Spent some time at medical getting some fluids and cooling in the a/c, feel somewhat human now. Running in the sun just seems to intensify everything, and this was really our first hot day. Now I have no races on the schedule - yay!
Congratulations sabaray, quite an accomplishment! I feel your pain about the heat and humidit, been there. Simply put, heat and humidity create great stresses on your thermo- regulation. There are no shortcuts to training your body to cope with such conditions. With progressive incremental training under conditions of heat and humidity and proper attention to event hydration and electrolyte replenishment, your body can acclimate and become much better at dealing with those conditions. Doing a race like you did this early in the outdoor season is bound to overwhelm you so don’t feel that you will never be able to handle heat.
Another great ride today, 42 miles with some hills at a solid tempo pace. April has been a good month for foundational training mixed with time trial HIIT. 2 days/wk time trial training, 2 days longer foundational. I spent the winter doing foundational indoor tides with only occasional HIIT rides and I think it has paid off. You can’t go fast without a cardio and muscular endurance foundation. Today’s foundation ride was at a pace that was 20% faster than at the beginning of April and Thursday’s time trial training was at a pace and volume I wasn’t going last year until June, yay! My training partner and I will be leading one of the faster groups on the Habitat ride in June and I think we will be ready for it.
After doing 2 strength/hypertrophy lifting workouts this week, last night I did an hour and a half of body weight training. It was tough but, for me, nothing beats the Ferlinghetti of moving your body in functional movement patterns against the resistance of your body weight and gravity. It makes you feel you have control and competence over how your body moves that for me just doesn’t get replicated with external reistance weight lifting. The book I’m reading, “Defying Gravity”, is such a fascinating and information dense treatise on body weight and gymnastics training.
Sabaray, There is nothing wrong with entering a race with hopeful expectations of time, etc. It’s what drives you to get to the start line. I’m glad you were able to recover in the medic tent. No race is worth lasting penalty to your body. Put your feet up tonight and sip your personal preference of cold.
Bravo, sabaray! That sounds like a tough race, mentally and physically.
I did what started out as a 10K trail race today, but was shortened because of flooding on the course to 5.3 miles. The only flat trail race I’ve ever encountered, and not even particularly muddy. Ran the last 1.5 miles desperately trying to stay ahead of a woman with lots of friends on the course–and who was 6 years older than I am. It fed right into my competitive side and made for a strong finish. We ended up finishing together…
My training partner and I will be leading one of the faster groups on the Habitat ride in June and I think we will be ready for it.