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AHHHHHHHHHHHH yes the uncrustable I dont eat it as a recovery food. I eat them when I am riding long on my bike. You need to consume calories in order to go the long distance. Many people use a combo of gels and liquidswith calories ( infinit, perpentum...) but I perfer to EAT. So I have an uncrustable, and a cinnamon/apple gel every hour on the bike. Its a little over 300cal/hr. I drink 1/4 strength gatorade because I dont like sweet liquids. This works for me and I have not become dehydrated or run out of steam. I will say that I have a stomach of steel so pretty much can tolerate anything. You have to find what works for you.

As recovery I will have chocolate milk, then I eat. Did I mention that I love food???? I often will have an omlet with spinach mushrooms onions and cheese and a whole wheat english muffin. I make the omlets with egg beaters to avoid the cholesterol but keep the protien.I will eat a yogurt as a snack often. I try to get as much protien as possible. If I am still hungry I will have fruit as my body craves the carbs. I could eat a whole loaf of bread but I try to avoid that temptation

I must go and eat now...I'm hungry!!!!

Hey folks...I am back.....sorry to be gone so long....after my trail run I had a physical scheduled for that Monday...turn out I had a small Tufts fracture in my giant toe on my right foot but the doc said since it was not in the joint if I could stand the pain I could run last weekend in the relay....I took the week very very easy and ran with my team.

Check out the Texas Independence Relay....203.2 miles of pure Texas running....we finished 12 of the open men's teams even though we had 2 women, we couldn't be coed because you need three women to be coed.  We ran an 8:26 pace for the entire run and finished in about 28 and a half hours.  Let me tell you, we had a team dinner at our house on Friday night, had 10 people crash at our place, got up at 3 to get everybody moving, the vans packed and roll to the start about an hour and a half away and THEN I only slept one hour Saturday night....I have spent the whole week trying to catch up as I have been travelling and it has been a tough week.  I ended up running about 20 miles of the relay and it was wicked cool running at 3am in the pitch dark....I turned off my headlamp and just enjoyed the dark countryside.  You could hear the cows moving about in the pastures around us.  It was a very cool experience and I will definitely do it again next year.  Since I am all about the bling....the medal was a replica of a cannon barrel...three dimensional - very cool

Hopefully I will be able to post more regularly now.  By the way, if you are on Facebook, ask to be my friend, I posted several pics along the way during the relay but couldn't get this thing working on my phone....aaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!

sTRIve

Gary - last spring I had the same experience...I thought all that trainer and spin class work had really changed my life.....and then I turned around....S    L    o     W    ..... ouch

Diane, nice ride!!!!! Glad you had fun.

I went out riding the other day( did 40 mile) and when I came home I ran for 30 mins. I thought...boy two years ago I would have been on the couch for the rest of the day. Instead I showered and went to work. It all has to do with building a base and working at it each day. It will get easier...enjoy as you gain greater fitness.

I went to an awesome swim clinic today. I had a great time and learned alot!!!! Two swim instructors, both are triathletes. There were only 5 participants. We swam different drills for an hour and they critiqued our stroke. At the end we were videotaped from above and below the water. Then we watched our videos while the instructors gave us feedback. It was an hour from my house, but worth every minute!!!

I agree with Mav - a base is critically important.  It is interesting that I have done several events already this year with minimal training.  I am not trying to necessarily PR but doing the events to do something fun with my fitness.  As that base builds you can get away with some of that.  However, now it is back to serious training for me....the season is beginning.  My next event is a half marathon in April.  We will finish on the field at The Cowboys Stadium and our finish will be projected on that huge screen....I can't wait to see me that BIG.....

sTRIve

by the way, Deb says hi