Fitness 2014

[mongers]

I started to follow the paleo diet.

Oh you primitive.

[Ideologue]

Ide, I know you are not keen to blow money on stuff like this, but if you plan to keep running 5+ miles it would probably be a good idea to get new shoes from a running specialty store where they can watch you run and match your gait with a shoe. I go to fleet feet, and they apparently have a location in Columbia. New shoes usually run me between $100-$135.

They will try to sell you on socks, which are about $15 a pair. Those socks are good, but $15 a pair. I have a couple pair that I only use if going 12+ miles. There are decent running socks at Target that are much cheaper. The problem is if you are using cotton socks on long runs; they can do a number on your toes.

Yeeg.

[Ideologue]

Sprinted the last mile of 4 today.  You know, for December it's really hot outside.

Wanted to do 8, but 1)my foot hurts and 2)I had to deal with my neighbors for an hour or so, inasmuch as they left a faucet running against a stopped up pipe and, long story short, I've got water seeping down my walls.

[Ideologue]

Yet still my corpulence haunts the underside of my expansive hide, seeming to vanish one day, only to return the next in spongy deposits of shame about my hips.  WHAT IS THIS ACCURSED FLUX?

[Legbiter]

Why do I always hurt my back while doing overhead press?!

Difficult to say without eyeballing. You could be overarching the back, it could be shoulder mobility issues, you could be pressing too much in front of your body, etc, etc. Get someone to check your form.

[Legbiter]

Yet still my corpulence haunts the underside of my expansive hide, seeming to vanish one day, only to return the next in spongy deposits of shame about my hips.  WHAT IS THIS ACCURSED FLUX?

Your body composition is made in the kitchen.

Eat meat, fish and fowl with a salad on the side. Throw in a sweet potato on your Lift Heavy Things day/s and observe the results.

[Ideologue]

Yet still my corpulence haunts the underside of my expansive hide, seeming to vanish one day, only to return the next in spongy deposits of shame about my hips.  WHAT IS THIS ACCURSED FLUX?

Your body composition is made in the kitchen.

Eat meat, fish and fowl with a salad on the side. Throw in a sweet potato on your Lift Heavy Things day/s and observe the results.

Meh.  I ate the same thing I always do, I just ran twice as far as I ordinarily would (8 mi).  In fairness, I am plugging about 75g of protein per day now, although it's difficult to know how much is being used structurally.

I don't have a Lift Heavy Things day since I fucked up my shoulder apparently forever.  Push-ups and curls are strictly limited and I'm kind of terrified to even try a military press with any kind of weight.  And yes, I know I should go see a doctor, but I'm broke and don't have health insurance.  Although since I'm broke it wouldn't matter anyway.  Thanks a lot, Obama.

[Ideologue]

Anyway, Running Diary, Jan. 5 2014: just because your core temperature is elevated and you're sweating, doesn't mean your reproductive organs aren't cold.  Do not panic.  You were not placed under a hex.

[alfred russel]

I dont know what you are talking about.

[mongers]

I dont know what you are talking about.

Ide went for a run and was amazed that his bollocks shrunk due to the cold.

[Ideologue]

Little late, but penis, actually.  I think my testes remained the same, but I didn't measure.

In other emasculations, I met a pseudo-setback today.  My goal was 11.7 miles--three circuits around the neighborhood.  I actually ran further than ever--about 10 miles straight, with the only break of any import for the first 9 to pop back into my house to put on chapstick, have a sip from a can of delicious People's Cola, and text a girl I'm talking to, all told about two-three minutes.  But starting around that 10th mile, I started seriously losing feeling in the toes of my left foot.  I probably stopped four times during mile 10 to fix my sock, which made precious little difference.

Right foot: absolutely fine.

Wound up walking mile 11, and running maybe five hundred yards' worth of the last .7.

I'm really disappointed, because I wanted to be able to possibly exceed the 11.7 and hit a half-marathon's length.

On the other hand, I burned about 1000-1100 calories, so certainly my primary mission is accomplished.  Meh, it's just kind of a bummer.  I mainly post about it because I want to know if it's a shoe thing, or if I just have some kind of problem with my left leg, or I need to do more squats, or what.

[mongers]

Just managing to catch, here and there, the occasional 10-15 mile trip on my shopping bike. 

[Eddie Teach]

Just managing to catch, here and there, the occasional 10-15 mile trip on my shopping bike. 

Jeeze, what a slacker.

[mongers]

Just managing to catch, here and there, the occasional 10-15 mile trip on my shopping bike. 

Jeeze, what a slacker.

Sadly I'm in a real decline, for each of the last few years my milage has been declining by 700 miles each year. 

[alfred russel]

Little late, but penis, actually.  I think my testes remained the same, but I didn't measure.

In other emasculations, I met a pseudo-setback today.  My goal was 11.7 miles--three circuits around the neighborhood.  I actually ran further than ever--about 10 miles straight, with the only break of any import for the first 9 to pop back into my house to put on chapstick, have a sip from a can of delicious People's Cola, and text a girl I'm talking to, all told about two-three minutes.  But starting around that 10th mile, I started seriously losing feeling in the toes of my left foot.  I probably stopped four times during mile 10 to fix my sock, which made precious little difference.

Right foot: absolutely fine.

Wound up walking mile 11, and running maybe five hundred yards' worth of the last .7.

I'm really disappointed, because I wanted to be able to possibly exceed the 11.7 and hit a half-marathon's length.

On the other hand, I burned about 1000-1100 calories, so certainly my primary mission is accomplished.  Meh, it's just kind of a bummer.  I mainly post about it because I want to know if it's a shoe thing, or if I just have some kind of problem with my left leg, or I need to do more squats, or what.

Your feet swell when you run, especially long distances. The running shoes I have are a size and a half bigger than what I measure to take this into account. Still, if I tie the shoes tightly, my feet will often go numb at the end of a long run. It is a balance though: if the shoe is too loose at the start of your run you will blister.