<p>iDad will come out and join you! It sounds fun but hard.</p>
<p>Go for it, CJane. It’s 3.2 miles. How bad could it be?? Do you know anyone who’s done it? Are you going to do it with a friend/spouse/significant other? Not a runner, but it looks like it might be fun. </p>
<p>Given my enforced resting, I was watching morning tv and saw (rerun?) of a stiletto heel run in NYC. Talk about an accident waiting to happen!</p>
<p>After reading about one death and one severe injury at a triathlon this past weekend, I’ve decided that extreme sports are not for me. BTW, I’ll play three hours of tennis in hot and humid weather but tennis has regular breaks for water and/or food and it is relatively easy to quit if you don’t fell well. With races, I think that there’s some drive to finish which can override your body telling you to stop.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know about “excellent fitness level”. I still can’t run a quarter mile without panting like a dog.</p>
<p>I do think that the hundreds of days over the last year and a half that I’ve pushed my heart rate up over 90% of my max has made the heart muscles stronger, just like doing curls pumps up the biceps. As I understand it, that’s what drives down the resting heart rate.</p>
<p>Mud, sweat, and beer, huh? I dunno. That’s not sounding like it’s right up my alley. I did finally drink the last Sam Adams from the 12-pack I bought when my daughter was home at Christmas.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, I got the most annoying survey from the Mass. Dept of Public Health. it was one of these phone surveys designed primarily to waste tax money, that went on and on and on. I don’t know why I decided to accept.</p>
<p>It got off to a rough start with the very first question:</p>
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<p>How many servings a day of fruit juice do you drink on average.</p>
<p>None, never. That stuff will kill you.</p>
<p>No, we mean real fruit juice like orange juice or apple juice…</p>
<p>Yeah, I never drink that stuff. It’s horrible for you. Makes you fat.</p>
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<p>Later, I finally had enough on the 37th question about whether drinking alcohol had caused any of the following problems, yada, yada. I finally said, “Good lord. Just answer NO to all of the drinking questions and let’s move on. I’ve already told you that I barely drink. I’ve had one beer since Christmas and, no, it didn’t cause any problems!”</p>
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<p>I did, however, find out that, at least to government bureaucrats, salad does not count as a serving of green, leafy vegetables, unless it’s romaine lettuce, and then it counts. I forgot to ask about arugula…</p>
<p>Idiots.</p>
<p>I think the resting HR thing does vary from individual to individual and may have a genetic component. Just sitting, driving etc. my HR is in the low 50s. Doing the resting the way idad measured his, mine is in the 40s as well. This has been the case for a long time, even prior to marathon training, just having done regular, cardio exercise. Lancette, I am not.</p>
<p>My biggest problem right now in deciding on the Hell Run is what shoes am I willing to trash. And what would I wear. I am not in midriff-baring mode at the moment and it looks like shirts would start to get really heavy with all the mud. I do have some one to do it with, my former boot camp instructor. I am most afraid of having to hoist myself over the hurdles. I have done “dirty days” at boot camp that involved crawling around in the mud – you get used to it, but the clothes and shoes never recover.</p>
<p>Oh, mud, sweat and beer – I will be passing on the beer, as well – but don’t forget the KISS tribute band!</p>
<p>BTW, I finally broke down and got a copy of Gary Taubes epic, [Good</a> Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2]Good”>http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2)</p>
<p>I’m still reading the lengthy intro section detailing the evolution of the anti-fat, anti-cholesterol campaign, starting with Ansel Keys and the 1977 McGovern Committee report. Wow. That’s all I can say. No wonder Taubes is attacked so resoundingly by the public health establishment.</p>
<p>He goes through major study after major study after major study commissioned by the NIH or the Surgeon General or others to finally “prove” once and for all a connection between low fat diets or low cholesterol diets and better health. Study after study failed, up to and including the massive Women’s Health Initiative study, finally published in 2006.</p>
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<p>Even more frightening, quite a few of these studies suggested a correlation between lower fat/lower cholesterol diets and higher mortality rates, specifically a correlation with higher rates of colon and other cancers. It makes me think that the government should probably get out of the business of telling us what we should eat. Just close down those agencies put the money towards reducing the federal debt.</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting prognostication: Phillip Handler was head of the National Academy of Sciences’ Food and Nutrition Board. Taubes describes his testimony thirty years ago about the government low-fat recommendations in 1980:</p>
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<p>Workout today was interesting I guess…</p>
<p>Supersets
2x15 Lat Pulldown
2x15 Upright Row
2x5 Snatch</p>
<p>For time:
50 Pull Ups
40 TRX Squats
30 KB Swings
20 KB SUMO Deadlift High Pulls
10 Thrusters</p>
<p>Time: 8:32</p>
<p>Then co-worker decided she wanted to go for a run so I decided to join her. Mistake… Ended up traveling not quite 4 miles, but I only ran about 1.5 miles before I had to walk. I tried running again, but my foot wouldn’t have any of it. I ended up walking most of the way back with some jogging mixed in. 47 minutes total. </p>
<p>I don’t know what’s up with the foot… just started hurting today when I was running. My 2-3-4 toes on the one foot. Hurt every time I stepped down after about the first 1.25 miles. Gonna find me a bucket and some ice and stick my foot in it here shortly…</p>
<p>CJane – I’ve seen folks finish the Muddy Buddy (run/bike in teams of two) and you could not even vaguely tell ethnicities of the participants.
[Columbia</a> Muddy Buddy Ride and Run Series – What is Muddy Buddy?](<a href=“http://muddy-buddy.competitor.com/what-is-muddy-buddy/]Columbia”>http://muddy-buddy.competitor.com/what-is-muddy-buddy/)</p>
<p>Happy to cheer you on, but I won’t be signing up anytime soon. (Goggles might be your best friend.)</p>
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<p>Do a google search for Morton’s Neuroma. It’s a pinched nerve where the metatarsal bone joins the toe, usually around the middle toe. Shoes that are too tight across the toes are a primary contributor. </p>
<p>Some people get relief with a metatarsal pad under the middle/ball of their foot. I think the New Balance version of SuperFeet inserts has a metarsal pad built in.</p>
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<p>Good point!</p>
<p>Well, I did it. All four sets of the iPod nazi Burn (Week 1) workout. I was probably a little slow to start each 30 second exercise, so I’ve got a little room for improvement, but – overall – not too shabby for the first time out. Burpees followed immediately by stability ball plank rollouts (one of the three hardest core exercises, IMO) is hard as nails.</p>
<p>I pressed on with the strength portion of the workout and did three sets of:</p>
<p>DB Clean/Squat/Press (5 reps, 25lb x 2)
Chin up (3 unassisted, 3 with band)<br>
Single leg deadlift (6 per side, 45 lbs)</p>
<p>I backed off the weight on the deadlifts from the 50 I tried last week and did much better reps. The combo clean (blasting the weigths from the knees up to the shoulders with a hip hinge and jump, then squating, then pressing them overhead) is brutal. Five reps of that and I’m toast.</p>
<p>3.5 miles today.</p>
<p>Wife made a huge pot of chili with small white beans (Goya). Taste is wonderful. Everyone is eating it too. I just hope that we have a way to store it so that it doesn’t go bad. I think that I’m going to pack two of my glass containers with it, one for tomorrow and one for the day after.</p>
<p>Scipio:</p>
<p>Please delete #11708 in its entirety or delete the quotes in their entirety. Where you arbitrarity cut them turned the entire meaning in the two quotes on its head and they are now misrepresentations of Taubes work…</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Did a a 5k farmathalon similar to the mud thing about a month ago. Crossing streams, running through corn fields, muck, under vineyard wires, over hay bales, over bus, wading running through 600 yard muddy steam and crawling through a muck field. A BLAST. </p>
<p>Festive atmosphere.</p>
<p>Definitely wear old running shoes you can pitch. </p>
<p>A regular 5k seems tame now!</p>
<p>^ Sounds great, ohiopublic.
But did they have the fake KISS band 
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<p>I am encouraged by your positive report. Still more afraid of the barbed wire and the wall than the mud.</p>
<p>I’ve scaled enough fences, jumped off enough trees, and crawled through enough mud (mixed with cow pies!) in my youth… I will leave the fun to you.</p>
<p>Ran a very easy 5K today, just to stretch the muscles. I just hope I have not overdone it. :)</p>
<p>Ended my running streak at 67 days and did not run or do anything yesterday. I was going to do an easy couple of miles after work, but I got the terrible news that the economy had caught up with me and my position was eliminated. My last day at the job I loved is next Monday. Our company is in the industry hardest hit by the current economic environment, unfortunately. My prospects for another good (or even not good) in-house legal job are not good, given my age, seniority and the economy. I’m reeling, to say the least. Not good. I get some decent (but not enough) severance.<br>
So- I guess I’ll carry boxes for the next few days as my exercise.</p>
<p>Oh MOWC, I am so sorry!!! You must be shocked! I know you are always on the road with your job and this must have been quite a surprise for you. Hoping you find what you are looking for. Sending {{{HUGS}}} and positive energy your way.</p>