<p>MOfWC, sorry to hear about your daughter running on a mis-measured course. Counting in the extra distance, she did ran a PR, so she should be proud of herself!</p>
<p>Well, for 13.1 she was over her PR, but she wasn’t quite as pumped for this race. The police actually blocked the street where the runners were supposed to turn, which caused the error. Course as measured was correct. About 2/3 of the runners were affected. Like my daughter said, “It happens, but I can still be mad.”.</p>
<p>2 hour brisk walk on asphalt trail in my vibrams. So comfortable, no issues and I have ran about a mile on the treadmill a bunch of times with no problems, but I am still scared to wear them on a longer run.</p>
<p>MOfWC, ah, my bad. Your D did very well! Mental component in racing is just as important as physical. During my race one of the starting timing “rugs” malfunctioned, and the race organizers had to use gun time for every runner who did not register chip time at the start. Imagine trying to qualify for something and not making the cut by less than a minute in a race that lasts close to 4 hours! I deliberately stepped on both rugs, so I had both gun and chip times (which were less than a minute apart anyway since I positioned myself in the first 1/3 of the pack).</p>
<p>DH and I are going for a bike ride. Cloudy and cool, but no rain so far. My butt is really sore from the session with pt. The verdict is in: my running looks more like racewalking than running.</p>
<p>BB- Since you are a distance runner, you probably keep your feet pretty low to the ground.</p>
<p>One thing about yesterday’s half marathon. It’s a popular local race, but they are a little full of themselves. It’s in Murfreesboro (home of Middle TN State U), which is the geographic center of the state. The race opens for registration in the early spring and fills up in May! To me, that is ridiculous. It does need to be capped and it sold out in 11 days (2500 I think). However, I am not going to sign up for a local race 5 months in advance. Who knows if I will be injured? </p>
<p>Also, the communications are very annoying. No humor, just a lot of barking orders. The streets WILL be closed at 6:30am. You CAN NOT transfer your registration or defer. You MUST have your driver’s license at packet pickup. NO ONE can pick up your packet for you without a notarized statement and copy of your Driver’s License. Geez- it’s the Murfreesboro Half Marathon- not the Olympics! </p>
<p>It is a nice event and a fairly flat course for this part of the country, but they really lost some fans with the course error this year.</p>
<p>I’m going for two private swim lessons at the nearby Jewish Community Center next week. I’m pretty much a self-taught swimmer and want to figure out how to really improve my strokes. It’s a great facility. Two salt water pools. The outdoor one has a glassed in covering in the winter. Looking forward to mixing up run/walking, weights with swimming.</p>
<p>We have a rental dumpster, clearing out furniture and junk from basement, garage, and attic. My workouts this weekend consist of carrying heavy stuff (like old bureaus and stuff) up stairs and around to the dumpster.</p>
<p>The scale has been been giving me nothing but happy talk here lately. Down to 156.6 this morning. If this trend continues, I wouldn’t absolutely rule out another “five pound celebration”. I’ve been averaging 6/10ths of a pound a week over the last month. Weather?</p>
<p>Wow, MOfWC, holy cow. No one asked me for my DL at the packet pick up even though this was a Boston qualifier race. My H is excited about me running the Napa to Sonoma half (there will be no full marathon):</p>
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<p>DH will sign up for a 5K walk (all finishers get a wine glass and a t-shirt).</p>
<p>Unless it is still hot there, which I doubt, I wouldn’t say weather. It’s just all the good work and not letting up at all on your good eating that is keeping the weight dropping. Amazing.</p>
<p>Your race sounds a little like the beer mile, only better!</p>
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<p>Amazing!!</p>
<p>Scale is a slooooooow go for me. I have been transitioning from strict paleo to low carb this last month and a half. Definitely averaging less than 100 g of carbs a day, and those almost exclusively from non-starchy vegetables.</p>
<p>The only thing non-paleo I include now is dairy. I will have the occasional whole milk latte when out and about, have some goat cheese in my omelette, and a splash of cream in my tea.</p>
<p>Scale was down a few, then up a smidge, settling into the lower number, but very, very slow going, definitely less than half a pound a week. I am currently still about 15 lbs. away from “awesome”, and about 2 pounds up from when “slow disaster” struck about 3 1/2 years ago when the pounds starting accumulating. On a positive note, I can wear almost all of the clothes I wore pre-disaster comfortably, so I don’t think those extra two pounds are affecting the fit of the clothes/they seem to be redistributed since they are not on my hips, thighs, butt or waist.</p>
<p>I am trying not to focus on the “numbers”, but the weight drop so many experience with the kind of changes I have incorporated, I am not getting :(</p>
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<p>What’s curious is that this is the second time this year that my weight loss as stopped for a month or two, without making any changes, leaving me convinced that I had hit equlibrium, only to have it accelerate again, out of the blue, also without any real changes. Perhaps pure coincidence, but both times my weight has started dropping a month or so into New Rules of Lifting for Abs, with a little more focus on weight lifting.</p>
<p>It could be that there are simply plateaus where, after a sustained period of weight loss, the body just won’t let go any more fat for a while. I dunno. I don’t think anyone really understands metabolism and body weight. Kinda crazy – last week was probably the lightest workout week I’ve had in months. Took four days out of the last seven off, did two NROL4A workouts and one 5K walk/jog, so it’s not like I’ve been doing a ton of exercise.</p>
<p>Wow, idad. WOW! Great job.</p>
<p>Rode on the beer trail (did not stop for beer) for an hour. Encountered a flock of armstrongs who became very ticked off when DH passed them on his mountain bike. They started pedaling harder, but DH was not going to give up his imaginary yellow jersey :)</p>
<p>^^ Love it!</p>
<p>sewhappy- I am jealous of that pool facility!
Since I no longer am a full member in my chi-chi health club, I haven’t found a good pool substitute. I actually don’t really need all the frills the place offered, but I am somewhat of a pool snob. I can’t stand looking at the rust stains and lost band-aids at my community pool, and I hate being crowded in the lanes.</p>
<p>I took a master’s swim class a few years back as part of my triathlon training, and would love to pursue swimming as a regular form of exericse, but haven’t been able to make it work.</p>
<p>BB, I’d be very happy if my running could qualify for Boston, no matter what it looked like!</p>
<p>Today was a distance day, but I only had to run 2.5 miles. I was supposed to run it at about 10 min/mile, and I did 2.53 miles in 25:14. That feels like a good pace for me, I’m not sure how much faster I can actually go.</p>
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<p>When you have as little weight to lose as you do, it’s always going to be a long, slow drift, I think. It’s going to be especially slow on the scale when you are doing strength training and building muscle.</p>
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<p>I can tell I’m doing something right. I spent all weekend carrying heavy stuff up and down stairs and my legs are sore instead of my back. I’m really seeing the payoff for all these workouts.</p>
<p>here’s some inspiration for all of us…
[100-Year-Old</a> Man Completes Marathon | NBC Chicago](<a href=“100-Year-Old Marathoner Denied Place in Guinness Book of World Records – NBC Chicago”>100-Year-Old Marathoner Denied Place in Guinness Book of World Records – NBC Chicago)</p>
<p>See, it’s people like this that keep me thinking I could someday run a marathon. If I just keep up my current level of running and live to be 100, I could be just like him :). I love the “Sikhs in the City” tee shirt.</p>