<p>Congratulations to the entire Wild Child family and to blankmind. Those are some running speeds of which the ol’ (formerly) fat guy is not familiar!</p>
<p>I did go out for my usual 5K walk/jog. Boy, did I look the fool: oversize Brooks running pants, oversize flourescent yellow half-zip top, flourescent yellow Brooks beanie, and lightweight fleece gloves. Made a playlist of country Rolling Stones covers and rocked out up and down the hills of the state park. </p>
<p>Came back, stoked the fire on my turkey (lookin’ seriously good!). Now it’s time to shower and think about making gravy and prepping the green beans.</p>
<p>Speaking of wild children: talked to my daughter who is missing Thanksgiving at home for the first time ever. She is at a boyfriend’s family’s house with his parents, so I imagine there is a certain amount of trauma involved in that new experience! When I visited my wife’s parents during college, her father never said one work to me the entire weekend. :)</p>
Yay!! Older son showed up at 11:00 in the morning. We were not expecting him to make it home at all, as he just started a new job and only has 36 hours off. He even brought a pie. And was a wonderfully mannered, mature young man at the friend’s house we ate at.
<p>Results are up for my race, they have me as running at a 9:08 pace :(. I like what my garmin says better. I still got 3rd place in my age group though, so I guess that’s good.</p>
<p>Now, they’ve taken the results down. Hmmm, must be some issues. Ah well, I’ll just wait and see.</p>
<p>Well, my turkey is eaten, my dishes are washed. Fantastic turkey and stuffing if I do say so myself.</p>
<p>I was a pretty good boy. </p>
<p>Lunch: homemade beef vegetable soup (actually, sauce and remants of a pot roast doctored up to turn it into a soup). Skipped the saltines.</p>
<p>Afternoon snack: a handful of pistachios</p>
<p>Appetizers: none</p>
<p>Dinner: a huge pile of my world-famous smoked turkey, a huge pile of carbs (stuffing), and a huge pile of fresh green beans. No cranberry carbs, no potato carbs, no creamed onions. Honestly, the stripped-down plate was surprisingly good.</p>
<p>Dessert: none</p>
<p>Big carb blowout with the stuffing, but at least I didn’t pile carbs upon carbs upon carbs.</p>
<p>I’m right at 1800 calories for the day, figuring 12 ounces of cooked turkey and 3 cups of the stuffing recipe I entered in My Plate. Heavy carb day at 40% of my total calories (140 g net carbs), but not too bad, all things considered.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Stuffing and gravy for breakfast, now there’s an idea!</p>
<p>blankmind, it is possible there was some timing system malfunction. Is it your gun time or your chip time that was posted? In the race I ran, one of the timing pads did not register some runner’s chips, so the time they got was their gun time. Some missed qualifying for Boston marathon by several seconds due to that. When I ran, that was my worst fear: I made sure that I stepped on every timing pad in my way, even though I was in the front of the pack (my times were only a few seconds apart).</p>
<p>I only saw those things at the beginning and end of the 5Ks but I just ran over it; not on it. I assumed that there was some short-range transceiver that sent out and received a signal.</p>
<p>Coolrunning usually posts gun time and elapsed time - if they’re the same then they may have used the gun time.</p>
<p>The 5K I ran had 2 pads at the start and 2 at the finish. Some longer races have chip readers along the route. The 2012 Boston will even use some high tech timing that will “tweet” times to pre-registered ATT cell phones. Sweet. My marathon was pretty low tech with only 2 pads at the start and 2 at the finish. Because the pad malfunctioned, initially everyone got only gun time; later, the race managers were able to manually “extract” chip times for some runners. I was one of the lucky ones. Depending on the crowd size, the difference in times can be huge. For example, my coworker who ran Portland, had 9-min difference in her times. Even for a marathon, that is huge.</p>
<p>I think our Thanksgiving meal was the healthiest it’s ever been. Some of our people are avoiding carbs so I made stuffing but not potatoes. Veggies were peas, red cabbage, and kale…so colorful and yummy! I totally forgot to put out the cranberry sauce, so that was one sweet thing missing. We had cranberries in the wild rice pilaf, however. :)</p>
<p>And we had the sweet potato casserole for dessert, 2 hours later.</p>
<p>4 miles, 8:51 pace. I was short on time today so I didn’t get in my extra quarter of a mile. Also did an exercise that I don’t do very often. Get some steel wool, grab a pan and rub the steel wool on the pan surfaces over and over and over again. Pretty good hand and arm workout.</p>
<p>The run felt very good today. I had 1.5 servings of steel cut oats and stuffing (whole wheat fiber bread) and a half a sweet potato for breakfast and ran about four hours later. That’s generally a good combination - carbs and fiber and three or four hours before running. I frequently can’t control the schedule that well on a regular workday though.</p>
<p>I read that oatmeal was a very good pre-run food back in a running book from the 1990s. It appears that oatmeal is still considered a good pre-run food and it seems to work well for me. It’s especially nice with the cold weather.</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting for me. Kind of a punch the clock workout, which is pretty good for the day after Thanksgiving and my fifth workout of the week. Turkish Get-ups were better today. I’m just trying to do two reps on each side for a set with a very light weight and get a little more fluid with the movements.</p>
<p>The rear foot elevated split squats were solid.</p>
<p>Big improvement today was that I actually did the [one-leg</a> deadlifts](<a href=“One Leg Deadlift - YouTube”>One Leg Deadlift - YouTube). Not particularly well, and I was cheating a bit by putting my knee on the pad at the bottom a bit too much, but at least I felt like I was able to do the exercise for the first time. Something to build upon.</p>
<p>Is it common to get an itchy blotchy red rash across your upper chest (collar bones) after running? This keeps happening. I’m assuming heat rash? It’s not hives. I know hives. It’s just little red itchy patches that go away in a day or so. </p>
<p>Maybe I need a new sports bra. One that wicks.</p>
<p>90 minutes of doubles, lost two, won one. I wasn’t revved up today - it’s been about 8 days since I last played and the longer times between matches is making me a bit rusty. I ran a mile at an 8:38 pace afterwards in tennis shoes. I need another 1.25 miles to get to 25 for the week. I don’t know if I’ll have an opportunity to do that or not.</p>
<p>sewhappy: it could be a release of histamines. I get it sometimes around my waist. Nothing harmful; an antihistamine will make it go away, but I find after about 20 minutes it goes away on its own.</p>
And was a wonderfully mannered, mature young man at the friend’s house we ate at.
When I ran, that was my worst fear: I made sure that I stepped on every timing pad in my way, even though I was in the front of the pack (my times were only a few seconds apart).</p>