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Pushing through a wall

guest — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:40:10 GMT

I am training for a mini-marathon and I've done three long runs of 10+ miles (two 10's and an 11) and everytime, I hit a wall at mile nine. My only thought as to help push through it is to have a gel or something around mile seven because my body is maybe just running out of fuel but I've tried the chews and while they seem to work ok, it's hard to chew something while I'm breathing that heavy. My thought is the gel is the best route but those taste horrid. Is there some other suggestion out there that may be better or do I need to start acquiring a taste for the gels?

Training Question - Start fast or finish fast

guest — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:22:45 GMT

So I've tried both approaches and I always seem to come back to trying to finish harder than I start out; however, I've heard to start hard because you'll tire out and not have as much energy as you think you'll have at the end of the run but my thought is, if you go out hard to start, you'll burn out before you even get to the end anyway. I was curious what other runners techniques are. I'm sure it will depend on the person and everyone is different but I was curious which method seems to be the general practice.

Amount of swimming per workout

guest — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:31:21 GMT

Thanks for the info, confirmed what I was thinking.

Amount of swimming per workout

guest — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:03:41 GMT

I'm trying to accomplish two goals with my swimming. I'm shooting for over 100 miles swam total for the year but also train adequetly for olympic tri's. My question is, I'm swimming anywhere from 3000-4000 yards per workout, usually twice a week, sometimes three. From the tri perspective, is that too much or as long as I'm keeping good form and trying to improve the pace, is that sort of distance ok?