<p>Experienced runners, do you ever tape an ankle as a preventative measure? Do you feel there is much benefit?</p>
<p>For what reason? And no most runners, from my experience, like tape on their ankles. It limits mobility…</p>
<p>So glad BCEagle is back, and is OK. I have a vivid imagination. Let’s just leave it at that.</p>
<p>Hops, the question was fairly straightforward. If folks who have a lot of experience running are interested in sharing their experiences I’m all ears. If not, no problem.</p>
<p>Day off from workouts today. Recovery from hiking, although I’m really not sore anywhere.</p>
<p>Off the charts for dinner tonight. I’ve got a boneless pork roast on the Weber grill. And, I just made a Cuban mojo criollo sauce to go with it:</p>
<p>1/2 cup sour orange juice (or 1/4 cup orange juice, 1/8 cup lemon juice, 1/8 cup lime juice).</p>
<p>6 - 8 cloves garlic minced to a paste</p>
<p>1tsp salt
Pepper</p>
<p>1 vidalia onion thin sliced</p>
<p>Put all that in a bowl and marinate for a half hour or more.</p>
<p>Heat 1/2 cup olive oil in a large saucepan. Dump the onion, juice, garlic mixture in the hot oil (it will splatter!) and let it cook for just a minute. Spoon over meat.</p>
<p>Awesome with pork. Also good with chicken or seafood.</p>
<p>Deborah:</p>
<p>I think Hops_Scout was giving you a serious answer. He’s a certified athletic trainer and probably knows more about taping ankles than all of us combined. He actually knows how to tape them! :)</p>
<p>I believe the thinking these days, at least for training, is more along the lines of improving the flexibilty/mobility of the ankle, rather than taping it to prevent motion.</p>
<p>I have never taped an ankle, but I’ve seen runners do it. It usually bugs them too much.</p>
<p>Tuesday night intervals–200s and 400s. Citius, Altius, Fortius!</p>
<p>Glad to hear all’s well with BC.</p>
<p>Epic fail on the tracking/nutrition front 2 days running.</p>
<p>Cooking for a crowd yesterday, all food requests from others. Didn’t bother to have a plan for myself. Grilled proscuitto-wrapped figs stuffed with smoked mozzarella, bacon-wrapped goat cheese stuffed dates, several varieties of home baked breads, homemade cheese spreads, caprese salad, breaded macaroni and cheeseballs, chocolate chip cookies, ice cream cake, caipirinha cocktails.</p>
<p>Assembling and cooking I engaged into entirely too much “quality control” testing. My freeform noshing did not allow for any kind of tracking, although I did pass on the mac/cheese balls and sweets. Nevertheless, it was an all day carb fest.</p>
<p>Had to pick up a friend from the airport this morning, so no workout. Then continued to graze on leftovers 
Tomorrow, it’s back to the workouts and the tracking!</p>
<p>That would be irresistable, CJane. I’m amazed you could muster the willpower to pass on the mac 'n cheese. The dates and figs sound fantastic!</p>
<p>My approach is to just be rude. If someone wants to eat my cooking, they aren’t going to get a carb fest. They aren’t going to get boxes of breakfast cereal. Or cartons of ice cream. They’ll get good stuff, but it won’t be heavy on the carbs…</p>
<p>Speaking of good stuff, my Cuban grilled pork roast was awesome. Had my ol’ standby fresh brocolli as a side, to help sop up the mojo criollo sauce. Two more slices in the fridge. Three in the freezer.</p>
<p>Thanks, MOWC.</p>
<p>CJane, that is a feast!</p>
<p>It’s early yet, but posting today’s tally now might be just the little nudge I need to resist the fridge for a bedtime snack! I’ve still got a little half serving of pepperoni slices figured into these totals.</p>
<p>Cals 1720
Fat 123 g
Carbs 71 g
Fiber 19 g
Protein 97 g
Sugars 22 g</p>
<p>Fat 62%
Protein 22%
Carbs 16%</p>
The race for me was a bonk - time was over 30 minutes. I ran the first half fine but just ran out of gas after that. It was a combination of temperature, humidity and not eating enough (I only ate about half the calories that I normally do before running). I had planned to get some more but 4 PM came along before I knew it and I had to leave.
It was basically a bad day for me - there were people that picked up their stuff in the office while I was there and I was trying to chase down those that I couldn’t reach. I had sent multiple emails and tried making phone calls. The people that I couldn’t reach said that they would pick their stuff up at the race and they did.
Just south of Manchester there were torrential downpours going to and from. Basically Manchester was sunny, and humid just at the threshold of thundershowers. But it didn’t rain. So I need to do a better job at this stuff and I think that I’ll try a 5K this fall on a weekend when I have better control of my schedule.
I haven’t gone back and read the posts that I missed and will probably do that over the weekend. I’ve been in the middle of planning a trip for our daughter (she will be away for a few weeks with relatives on a vacation - although I think that she’s going to be put to work as a nanny). Work has also picked up considerably and I have a three months of work to do in one month - I have to get as much done as I can. Given that, I probably won’t be on CC during the day for a while.
I’ve transitioned to playing more tennis and doing more weights and will just try to run three days a week.
Thanks in advance for your concern which I will see when I go through the threads that I’ve missed.
<p>Glad you are OK! I was seriously worried and about to track you down!</p>
<p>I still think you have a fast 5K in you.</p>
<p>We are back home and today was a long travel day. 4 1/2 hour drive from Crested Butte to Denver and a 2 1/2 hour flight. We stopped in Leadville for a quick breakfast and all the crazies are assembling for this weekend’s Leadville 100 mile trail race. The bike race was last weekend.</p>
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<p>I can only dream of a 5K in 30 minutes. :)</p>
<p>That is why I don’t sign up for those races. The day rolls around and it’s too hot, too crowed, too crazy to be an enjoyable bit of exercise. There are so many more pleasant ways to go put 5K in the books.</p>
<p>I haven’t even been out for a 5k walk/jog in a couple of weeks, although I’ve been getting in plenty of walking.</p>
<p>BCEAgle91,</p>
<p>I am glad to read that all is well.</p>
<p>Went for a short run today, just under 15 mins. Ankle felt fine, and that’s the way I want to keep it. We’ll see how it feels this evening. Nice to be out there again!</p>
<p>^^ Yay! Glad the ankle is behaving.</p>
<p>I am so tired from the travel day yesterday. I ran 1 mile this morning to keep the streak, but didn’t think I could do more since I was supposed to go on a driving day trip (3 hours each way) for business. I was dreading it, but fortunately, the other guy woke up sick so we had to postpone. I’ll try to run some after work.</p>
<p>Glad to hear the ankle is feeling better, Deborah.
Hope you enjoyed Colorado, MOWC. Have you ever watched any part of the Leadville insanity?</p>
<p>I caught the tail end of a radio discussion re. the anti-egg guy. Was there anything credible or worthwhile to his research? I have overcome a lifelong aversion to egg yolks-- and now eggs feature pretty big in my diet-- what do I need to know?</p>
<p>Today’s workout</p>
<p>Major exertion in the warm up alone:
400 m run
partner resistance band work
high skip, long skip, sprint, backward run, side shuffle. HR goes way up on these exercises.</p>
<p>200 double unders
40,30,30,10 reps of
OH ball slams
KB swings
200 double unders</p>
<p>I could have done without the 50 shades of jump rope spankings I inflicted upon myself. Managed to whip my ponytail, my legs, etc. They really smart and when I got hope I saw I had left marks :eek:</p>