<p>I love Gary Taubes story about watching one of his kid’s PE classes and seeing the kids running laps. The gazelle kids out front, running like the wind, lapping the fat kids at the back end of the pack, lumbering along, in total distress, just being tortured. And, thinking that the current fitness/diet thinking is that, if you just tortured the fat kids enough, they would turn into gazelle kids! :)</p>
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<p>That requires money and advanced knowledge. Neither of which will many school districts support at this time. It’s not “on the test.”</p>
<p>Gonna go get a workout this evening. I was just out at the clinic working with a junior high kid this afternoon.</p>
<p>For my 37th birthday, today, I did Cartwheels and a few roundoffs! I can still execute them pretty well and it helps I have lost some weight. Going to indulge in the best pizza, Coccia House in Wooster Ohio. Woot woot!</p>
<p>Excellent, mspearl. I have never in my life managed to do a proper cartwheel. Such a joie de vivre move! Have you looked into adult gymnastics? My running friend (competitive marathon runner) has just started back up in gymnastics after not having done it since college. She loves it.</p>
<p>You’re 37? </p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>I’m – ummmmm – older than that. Like, old enough to be your [gasp] mother.</p>
<p>Do they still do the Presidential Physical Fitness award? You did the standing broad jump, shuttle run, 50 yard dash, pull ups, 600 yard dash and softball throw if I remember correctly.</p>
I remember one gazelle in my older son’s class who every spring was miles ahead of every other kid. Even in second grade you knew she’d be a runner. She was beautiful to watch. She became one of the fastest in NYS.
Will I finish the race?
I have signed myself up for a 3.5 mile race in June. I run a comfortable 9-10 minute mile. I have never run more than 2.5 miles in a race, and no more than that in practice.
I want to finish this race with a respectable time (under 30 minutes). D (the aforementioned gazelle) will be running with me. If her past times (which were achieved in wind, rain, and mud up and down hills that would challenge anyone) are any indication, she should come in @ 20 minutes or less. I’m hoping for 30 minutes or less.
What should I do to train? Run faster, or longer, or both? When I run on the treadmill, I feel fine @ 9 minutes/mile, but a little challenged at an 8.5 minute mile. When I run outdoors, I sometimes feel not ok (heart pounding, a little winded) so I slow down. I am in perfectly normal good health (low BP, slender, fit) but there’s nothing like running to show you if you’re fit or not.
I think if I run more, or longer, or both, I will last longer at the comfortable/slightly challenged level.
Any tips appreciated.
<p>Good workout! I put together two workouts a week ago that I will do on alternate days for two weeks, so I’ll end up doing three or four outings with each of the two. It’s an approach that keeps it interesting because it’s never the same workout two times in a row, but you get to do each exercise enough times to start to get better at them (or increase the weight). </p>
<p>Changed up the sideways med ball wall throws – did them half kneeling – back knee on the ground, front foot on the ground. More barbell clean stuff – jump squats with the (empty) bar on my chest and front squats with the (empty) bar. Neither of those is as heavy as I’ve been doing with DBs, but it’s heavy enough and a chance to work on form with the bar on the chest.</p>
<p>It’s warmed up a lot here: 29 degrees. It was 6 this morning. Yeow. I’d rather ride the Airdyne that go out for very long in that.</p>
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<p>Leftover pot roast for me. I made it yesterday – more or less Marcella Hazen’s recipe with a second batch of veggies added for the last 45 minutes.</p>
<p>I’d increase distance over speed if you are going for a 5K and want to finish under 30 minutes. You really have a lot of time to train. My approach is 1/4 mile more per week or two.</p>
<p>7 miles today, pace was around 8:50. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to get a run in as my schedule will be crazy.</p>
<p>Workout tonight:</p>
<p>4x10 each in a circuit:
–TRX Inverted Rows
–Snatch (15 pound bar)
–100 foot walk with 50 pound KB overhead</p>
<p>4x4 Hang Cleans 120 pounds</p>
<p>hops_scout: what’s the overhead kettle bell walk do for you? I’ve always seen people use them in place.</p>
Wow. Nice workout hops. Did anyone ever tell you that you are an animal? 
All of these farmer’s walk type exercises are a massive core challenge, especially when you have a heavy weight on one side or an unbalanced load. The weight is trying to bend you and you’ve got to stiffen the core to stay upright. The version hops did with a heavy weight overhead is brutal because the weight is on such a long lever arm to the core. I don’t know how it is for him, but when I do something like that, I’ve got to take small steps and really pay attention just to walk upright. 100 feet is a long way. I’d be breathing heavy for sure.
I did a simple one in my workout today. Just a single 55 lb DB in one hand, walking maybe 60 feet for each side. Even that wasn’t easy.
<p>It’s a core stabilization exercise. You have to concentrate and work to keep the 'bell overhead…</p>
Hops, great job. BC, you are more than ready for your 10k. I bet you can do 8 min miles in real races.
My workout tonight: dragging away the branches that DH chopped off the big cedar that fell into our friend’s driveway. After taking care of the tree, DH decided to pedal his bike, but I’m resting and will be back in action tomorrow. We are being slammed by a witer storm, which means more treadmill running for me. Yipee. Not.
Classof2015, do you know how fast you run outside? I bet it is much faster than your top treadmill pace. My 8:30 pace on a treadmill feels like 7:45 pace outdoors. Does your gazelle D have a Garmin? Borrow it and experiment with your speed. Do you feel like you are running out of breath while the rest of your body is fine? You might have a mild EIB. Have you ever been diagnosed with it? As far as your training questions go, I think you need to slow down when running outside to your comfortable pace and work on your running endurance by upping the distance. I hope MOfWC will post some answers to your questions, she is our running expert.
<p>Thanks BCEagle – I’ll start running longer when it gets a little warmer. And yes, BunsenBurner – that’s exactly it – my legs are fine – I just can’t breathe. I know whenever I have my physical, the one thing I do really poorly at is blowing into the plastic tube and making the little red ball go up. And D has asthma – she uses an inhaler before each race – maybe it runs in our family.</p>
<p>D has a Nike watch/band she uses to time herself then she plugs it into her laptop to record her training. I’ll ask her how she likes it. Is Garmin a version of that?</p>
My only current plans for a race is the corporate 5K in August.
I suspect that I could do one 8-minute mile right now. Beyond that would require a lot of training.
It sounds like your knee is pretty close to 100%.
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<p>That’s it! Exercise-induced bronchospasm. That must me what happens to me doing Airdyne intervals. That’s my story from now on, and I’m sticking to it! And, here I thought it was just because I’m an ol’ (formerly) fat guy! :)</p>
<p>Seriously, though. After 38 years of smoking, VO2 max is never going to be my “thing”…</p>
<p>BCE- nice running!</p>
<p>Classof2015- You might need some kind of inhaler. Some people do better on treadmill than outside. I don’t. Also, treadmills can be mis-calibrated. I think you will do fine in your race. You run much faster/better in races provided you don’t go out too fast. I would increase your distance and keep your pace comfortable to gain confidence. I do not believe the Nike devices are very accurate. One of my running friends recently did an experiment with NikeFit and a Garmin at the same time and the Nike was all over the place and kept adding and subtracting distance. I know iDad has had good luck with his, though. </p>
<p>My increased motivation from the Olympic Trials lasted until 5:30am with the wind howling- gusts up to 32mph. I HATE wind! I tried to figure out a way NOT to go out and run, but it was 57 degrees and due to drop into the 20s, so out I went. The wind was awful, but was only from two directions. 6 miles and I’m done for the day. I figured out that doing the 2 runs a day, even though they were short, was getting me tired. I will still have to do it, but I’m trying to have more days where I have a full 24 hours or so in between runs. I over-dressed a little (I seem to say that a lot), but with the wind and possible rain (it drizzled some while I was out there) I didn’t want to be chilly.</p>
Dr. Michael Eades reports that a new study appeared last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine. This is a follow up study on the massive Women’s Health Intitiative Study that followed 160,000 post-menopausal women and has already rocked the medical world with findings that low-fat diets didn’t improve health and there are serious health risks with hormone replacement therapy.
This [new</a> study](<a href=“http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/archinternmed.2011.625]new”>http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/archinternmed.2011.625) looks at the 150,000 women who did not have diabetes at the start of the study and compared the 7% of those who were taking statin drugs to lower cholesterol with the 93% who did not take statins.
Here’s Dr. Eades [summary[/url</a>] of the findings:
Here’s a video of the lead researcher at Harvard Medical School discussing the findings with Dr. Eades commentary embedded in the video. This is pretty entertaining:
[url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbSnE5ald-s]Statin”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbSnE5ald-s]Statin</a> drugs and diabetes - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statins/statins-and-diabetes/#more-4789]summary[/url”>http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statins/statins-and-diabetes/#more-4789)
Look for a major pushback from pharma on this one. Statins are the biggest selling dollar volume drugs in the world today. Huge money-makers.