re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

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This intrigues me.

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I don't know if you know Rhett Wheeler but he got it done. We are talking a 1:30 half marathoner who couldn't get over the 4:15 marathon hump. He went and got the analyst done and found out he was sweating out like 1,000mg of sodium an hour, ONE THOUSAND.

He has now changed up his nutrition strategy to basically sodium focused 200% and is doing LMNT drinks every hour. For him the sweat analysist was a game changer, for me I think it'll just be confirming what I already know but still want to confirm. (I'm pretty sure I need 130g of carbs an hour and about 250mg of sodium to be in a nice equilibrium)

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the key is to live where there are no hills

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I hate them, I really do, but the way my legs feel today tells me I should be doing these more often. (I would probably stop doing them if I actually took the time to go to the gym twice and week and worked on my legs...)

P.S: A friend of mine looked at my "hill repeats" yesterday and comments, "you need to change your activity name to mountain repeats instead of hill repeats"

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I don't know if you know Rhett Wheeler but he got it done. We are talking a 1:30 half marathoner who couldn't get over the 4:15 marathon hump. He went and got the analyst done and found out he was sweating out like 1,000mg of sodium an hour, ONE THOUSAND.

He has now changed up his nutrition strategy to basically sodium focused 200% and is doing LMNT drinks every hour. For him the sweat analysist was a game changer, for me I think it'll just be confirming what I already know but still want to confirm. (I'm pretty sure I need 130g of carbs an hour and about 250mg of sodium to be in a nice equilibrium)

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I like the LMNT stuff. Is Samford the only place that does it? What's the cost and procedure?

So I did my "stretch out" 10 Miles today, and my 2 days of activity this week are:

7 Miles - 1,000 ft Elevation Gain
10 Miles - 700 ft Elevation Gain

The symmetry between the two made me geek out pretty big after the fact

My elevation gain for the whole week last week was 58 feet

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what i lack in elevation i gain in 90% humidity and 80 degree mornings for 3 months

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Oh, we get that too.

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7 Miles - 1,000 ft Elevation Gain
10 Miles - 700 ft Elevation Gain

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damn son. Last week was a banner week for me elevation wise. over 65 miles i gained 800 ft.

May have to take a L today running wise. woke up at 5 AM and was staring a rain storm down so went back to sleep. next window to run is around 5:30 PM and the outlook looks the same. Oh whale.

Just don't go out too hard. Good luck and post the results.

Which 10k you running?

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vistajay

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I also second what Aubie said, make sure to start out slow enough.

10k's are probably one of the hardest races in my opinion. It's just short enough that you can almost run at your 5k pace but you can't, and boy does that second 5k suuuuck.