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25JAN21 PILOT/NFO BOARD

PontusPilot

PontusPilot

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Coffee & JP8 said:
For longer runs (45 min+), I highly recommend using electrolyte tablets or powder pouches to mix in your water. I get Propel electrolytes at my grocery store. Ive seen a huge difference in performance and recovery after adding in electrolytes into my program. I sip on my water mix every 10 minutes, or so, for long runs and it boosted my endurance exponentially, in my experience. Normal Gatorade is fine too, even though everyone hates on the sugar.....but in the middle of the run, its actually great for performance to have simple sugars like that to boost your body
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My preferred drink during a long run is maurten 160 or 320 mix.

Good starter pack for maurten. WARNING VERY EXPENSIVE

usually get all my workout stuff from the feed.com
 
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Howler24

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Ghost SWO said:
Running progress is so painfully slow compared to weight training.
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I read in pain during these running discussions. I go to my CrossFit gym 4-5x weekly. Because of you freaks (it's endearment), I've had to start incorporating runs 1.5 mi, 3 mile, and/or 30+min runs 3 days a week out of fear of being made an absolute fool in the future. Endurance is fine, times are eh.
 
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Marmaduke123

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Caffeine dehydrates me like a raisin and give me too much of a BPM boost for cardio related stuff. Only thing non-water I touch is matcha "tea". Back in college wouldn't notice 3 red bulls now I'm skeptical of holiday egg nog.
 
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Prin

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Ghost SWO said:
Good info, I didn't know about the top runners using it. Most of my runs are sub 30 minutes right now at the moment so that'd be perfect for the time being. Do you know the caffeine dosage size by chance? I agree about the energy drinks, I don't drink them but maybe as a small boost for the run training I'd sacrifice the "healthy" of it for some short term running performance/training.
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200mg tablets. I only take them for big efforts like races and long interval sessions like 12x1000m or 9x1mile
 
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Marmaduke123

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El Diablo said:
I read in pain during these running discussions. I go to my CrossFit gym 4-5x weekly. Because of you freaks (it's endearment), I've had to start incorporating runs 1.5 mi, 3 mile, and/or 30+min runs 3 days a week out of fear of being made an absolute fool in the future. Endurance is fine, times are eh.
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With running the borders on those two blend. You can have guys blasting fast times but that's because they are comfortable red-lining for extended periods of time so it wouldn't really mean they are actually "fit" running-wise, just good at punishing themselves (which is also handy).
 
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Prin

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Ghost SWO said:
Good info, I didn't know about the top runners using it. Most of my runs are sub 30 minutes right now at the moment so that'd be perfect for the time being. Do you know the caffeine dosage size by chance? I agree about the energy drinks, I don't drink them but maybe as a small boost for the run training I'd sacrifice the "healthy" of it for some short term running performance/training.
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Best to use 45 minutes to an hour before working out
 
Ghost SWO

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El Diablo said:
I read in pain during these running discussions. I go to my CrossFit gym 4-5x weekly. Because of you freaks (it's endearment), I've had to start incorporating runs 1.5 mi, 3 mile, and/or 30+min runs 3 days a week out of fear of being made an absolute fool in the future. Endurance is fine, times are eh.
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Oh I totally get it, but when I see someone say "Just went out and ran for the first time in forever, did a 7:30 pace for four miles", I'm sitting here reading it like.... How? I'm a comfortable ~10:30 per mile pace but that's not enough to pass the test in the 30-35 category so I'm out here running 3x a week doing intervals and whatever else to get my pace increased. Being able to go out and pass the PRT without run training is mind-blowing to me lol.

I think I just need to get used to not being able to breath very well while I run lol. I hate running and feeling like I'm about to run out of air. It probably doesn't help I'm running at 5,000ft on a route with constant little hills.
 
jpham89

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Ghost SWO said:
Oh I totally get it, but when I see someone say "Just went out and ran for the first time in forever, did a 7:30 pace for four miles", I'm sitting here reading it like.... How? I'm a comfortable ~10:30 per mile pace but that's not enough to pass the test in the 30-35 category so I'm out here running 3x a week doing intervals and whatever else to get my pace increased. Being able to go out and pass the PRT without run training is mind-blowing to me lol.

I think I just need to get used to not being able to breath very well while I run lol. I hate running and feeling like I'm about to run out of air. It probably doesn't help I'm running at 5,000ft on a route with constant little hills.
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Actually, at 5’5 I’d say once you’re at sea level your time would go down significantly, no? More oxygen available = run faster
 
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Prin

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jpham89 said:
Actually, at 5’5 I’d say once you’re at sea level your time would go down significantly, no? More oxygen available = run faster
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I don’t exactly know the conversation but it pretty significant. Similar to a 200 meter flat track time converted to a 200 meter banked track. You subtract 12 seconds for 5k and 4 seconds for a mile.
 
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