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I guess North Carolina is a popular place to be...  Thats where my wife is going this weekend.     She is going to Asheville.   Have a good weekend

Josh

A word about nutrition. If you are trying to lose weight based on calorie deficits, shoot for no more than 500 less per day.

If you aren't trying to lose weight, just maintain, make sure you are eating enough. I ran into this problem last summer during Ironman training. I was starving all the time and energy stores were low. I started eating more (a lot more!) and things turned around for me.

This is a pretty good calculator for figuring out how much you should eat per day. It estimates your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), and it mutilplies it by an activity factor based on how much you are working out. So you can basically take your number and keep it the same if you are maintaining or subtract up to 500 if you are trying to lose.

Based on what it figured for me, I need to be eating no less than 2600 calories per day to maintain. That's a lot for this guy, but I can tell that I have more energy when I hit that number.

Not that I have that dialed in, I'm using the BT nutrition logging to watch what percentage of calories I'm getting from carbs, protein, and fat. Trying to reduce the amount from fat and get more from protein.

So, it's Monday again. Had a pretty rough weekend visiting my wife's terminally ill (pancreatic cancer) grandfather. He probably has about a week left. It was tough being there, but it was good for closure.

Trying to get back to business now. 90 minute run on Wednesday. Slowly upping my volume. Slow and steady.

Here's something fun. Had an idea when I was looking at Josh's log. Everyone post a pic of themself (race or non-race) so we have an idea with whom we are talking. Here's one of me and my wife after my IM.

here is a picture of me... from my half mary last weekend.  It was at mile 12 or so and i was hurting a bit.

Heh, it's been 6 years since we last went skiing. It's a soreness that is only exceeded by a half marathon or longer race.

Welcome back! Enjoy the run.

This time of year, I would say you would have an easier time finding a 5K.

Welcome back Nino!!!  It gets hard when life gets in the way, but the key is to keep at it.  Keep working hard and you will see the benefits.  

Your job probably has somewhat of an inconsistent schedule with traveling and such, but make sure that you are flexible with your workouts.  Even if you cant get all of them in, thats ok, just try to do a little something everyday and you will lose weight and improve your health.  Whether its taking a walk or stretching or taking the stairs an extra few times, each thing you do will help.    Again welcome back and good luck.

Josh

 I would first try some body glide.   You can find it most running and biking stores, maybe even at Dicks or REI.    I had some issues before i lost some weight.  It also may be wearing when running..   Not that i really want to know what type of underwear you wear, but if you wear boxers or boxer briefs with your gym shorts you may see some chafing issues.   You may want to try running specific shorts that have a brief built into them.  Asic and Pearl Izumi make some good shorts like that.    You could also try wearing tri shorts.  Those would help because no skin would be rubbing together, just spandex on spandex...   Just a thought.     Hope that helps

 Josh

Charleston,

Though your name obviously tells me where you are from, I didnt really catch on until i looked at your logs and saw that you are going to do the Charleston sprint tri series.   My father in law's business owns a beach house on Edisto Island and I pretty familiar with the Charleston/ Low Country Area.   Our family basically goes there every summer.   I dont know if we will make it down there this year because we have alot going on but last year my father in law I did one of the Charleston Sprint Tri series races.   It was pretty fun, though i didnt place well in my age group. 

Are you a member of the Charleston Triathlon Club?  You should look into it if you are not.  I dont know much about them, but i would recommend a checking them out and see what kind of things they offer, ie group training sessions, discounts at local stores, and other stuff.   

Talk to you later

Josh

Another vote for Body Glide. Just a few swipes of it and you should be ok. May want to try some compression shorts under your running shorts as well.

Going from 3 to 5 in a race shouldn't be too bad. For my first half marathon, my longest run was 10 miles. For marathons, most folks say you shouldn't go longer than 20 miles. Adrenaline will kick in at some point and you should be able to finish without too much of a problem. Go for it!