<p>Thanks, BB! I knew I had discussed the handhelds before. I have pretty good luck carrying mine, but the one time I carried it on the 18 miler my arms got sore! My daughter prefers the waist pack with the smaller bottles.</p>
<p>I would suggest that your (NMinn) daughter plug some of her times into the McMillan pace calculator. (google it) If she has race times, she can start there, or just estimate. I think McMillan gives a really good breakdown of what pace to run for easy, long and tempo runs. It could be that she is just a lot faster than she thinks she is which is why the paces feel too slow. There is nothing wrong with doing the long runs really slowly, though, and it’s GOOD to feel fresh at the end (I never do). She can get some speed going on the shorter runs.</p>
<p>I hit 1000.4 miles for the year on this morning’s run. Not much room for error on the 2000 goal, but I’m still in the hunt! We are having some VERY hot weather- 104 predicted for Fri and Sat, which isn’t much fun and brings back memories of Dallas.</p>
<p>So I ordered a second Brooks mesh cap (the neon green one) from Zappos at 4:15 yesterday afternoon and it arrived today, packed in cardboard box inside of a ridiculously large cardboard box. I’m so glad there was no chance of my polyester baseball cap getting damaged in shipping! :)</p>
<p>Heading to the basement for NROL4LIFE. Don’t really need a ball cap down there, but I may wear it just on general principle and to look cool…</p>
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<p>You are an animal!</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’ve even driven that many miles this year!</p>
<p>^ that was my exact thought today, as well.</p>
<p>Speaking of looking cool, maybe this belongs in the “dressing young” thread, but…</p>
<p>When I started exercising and got fancy new Brooks sneakers, I went to Marshalls to get some new white crew socks (even I won’t wear black socks with white sneakers!) and got dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century when I realized they don’t even hardly make crew socks for sports anymore. So, I went with the “quarter height” socks. It was a big adjustment, mind you, but even an ol’ (formerly) fat guy like me will go the extra mile for fashion.</p>
<p>So, I’ve pretty much worn out that first batch and picked up some new ones this week. I decided to really walk on the wild side (so to speak) and went with the low cut – even lower than the quarter height. Not the no-show height, but darn close. So, when I do my carioca across the parking lot now, in a lime green reflective mesh cap, at least nobody can laugh at my old-fuddy-duddy socks! :)</p>
<p>^^^Good choice on the socks! The problem I have is that in the winter I like higher socks for under running tights and they are hard to find! I don’t like bare ankles in winter.</p>
<p>Amen. I hate the short socks with long pants, even with the lightweight Brooks running pants. I just can’t stand feeling the cuff of the pant against bare ankles, plus… it’s cold hear in the winter. If it weren’t cold, I wouldn’t be wearing the long pants in the first place! :)</p>
<p>Truth be told, you can still buy white cotton crew socks at TJ MAXX. Timberland makes some really nice ones – in both black and in white. They occassionally have some thinner synthetic blend crew socks as well, but those are hit and miss.</p>
<p>idad, you live in ****ing New Hampshire!! I think you need to find some crew socks, fast!!!</p>
<p>I have SmartWool and Balega higher running socks for winter. Low Balega for summer, and some really thin Nike socks for racing.</p>
<p>Hah…even though I moved from MA to NH, I didn’t actually move north. Just west and maybe even a tick south.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I am equipped with plenty of winter socks! Crews (thick and thin) for workouts and my favs – warm Timberland wool blend socks to keep my tootsies toasty!</p>
<p>Those of you with less than a 1000 miles driven in 6 months, it’s great you’ve found a way to make that work!</p>
<p>says she who took the car in to get a tire plugged today (nail in it) and left with two new tires and, gulp, lighter pockets, so to speak…</p>
<p>“idad, you live in ****ing New Hampshire!! I think you need to find some crew socks, fast!!!”</p>
<p>My ROFL of the day! VH, thanks for the much needed laugh. :)</p>
<p>Looking to the future. </p>
<p>Want to go jog over at the hilly park where my daughter used to run. That should whup me pretty good in no time. :eek: Out of the way, though, so that won’t likely turn into my regular jog/run. </p>
<p>Other possibilities: Week 10 - 32 mins, week 11 - 35 mins, week 12 - 37 mins, week 13 - 40 mins. Or somehow try to get a gauge? for how fast I’m going, other than, hey, I’m in the groove, and try to gradually increase speed. Hubby wants me to go out to a track and time myself. :-)</p>
<p>Deborah, it’s time to spring for a Garmin, and look into the 10K training plan. You are now a runner ;)</p>
<p>My feet hurt. They are definitely not made for wearing dress shoes for 2 hours, much less 10!</p>
<p>Idad, I wear low-cut ankle socks every day. They are either Under Armour or Starter probably 90% of the time although I have some others too. I wear them with golf slacks, shorts, athletic pants, etc. All the time :)</p>
<p>Lots of walking again today. It is HOT out there. 107-110 today here in the St. Louis area and we’re all out there wearing pants and lots of guys wearing long sleeves. Yes, we’re athletic trainers and we’re supposed to deal with heat illness prevention ;)</p>
<p>Also spent a significant amount of time on a V-Force vibration machine. That 20 minutes more than made up for my workout for today…</p>
<p>Hops_scout, will your gym be getting the vibration machine?
My gym, that I am no longer a member of, but take classes at from time to time has a bunch of these and I actually really like using them. I find them very effective for certain stretching exercises, in addition to resistance training.</p>
<p>3.6 miles in 30 min followed by weights. No t-pushups today, though. I was too tired to even think about them. :)</p>
<p>This story is the Dallas equivalent to our parents walking 5 miles to school uphill both ways…</p>
<p>In 1980 we had about 45 consecutive days well over 100 degrees. It was a record and it was simply awful. It was “dry heat”, which meant when you tried to breathe your throat burned. Well, yesterday (in TN) we were up to 105, which is VERY unusual. I was supposed to run a couple of miles after work and I decided to see what it would be like to run in that heat for the first time since 1980.</p>
<p>Not good. I wasn’t in a place with any shade, and it was pretty brutal. 2.1 miles was all I could manage, and I went right home and ate a bunch of watermelon with salt. I won’t be doing that again. Supposed to be as hot today and tomorrow. I will start my 10 miler very early tomorrow, even though I don’t like to get up as early on Saturday. It’s too damn hot.</p>
<p>Was checking out paces and came across this site. Looks like there were a couple of speedy 79 year olds. </p>
<p>[Average</a> 5k Pace By Age and Sex - Pace Calculator](<a href=“http://www.pace-calculator.com/average-5k-pace-by-age-sex.php]Average”>Average 5k Pace By Age and Sex - Pace Calculator)</p>
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<p>We have two of them. One in our office I work out of and one in another PT clinic. They don’t get used very often, but that shall be changing! The sales rep spent about 25 minutes with me and my friend talking about it and demonstrating it…</p>