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Re: How do you add events to 'saved events'?

guest — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:35:11 GMT

any action on this? I used to use it quite a bit and I'm trying to plan my 2011.

Re: Anyone carry a camera?

guest — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:50:33 GMT

I just carried my cell phone in my spybelt. I really just did it because I'm very slow, it was cold out, and my mother-in-law is on heart medication. My husband was running too so we had it worked out for them to go inside and I'd send them a text when I hit mile 24 so they could head back out to meet me. It was the first time I took my phone on a race and instead of just texting when I got to mile 24 I started sending some really random pictures to them along the way. Clearly I wasn't worried about placing though.

Re: Plantar fasciitis started with 3 weeks to go to first maraton, what to do?

guest — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:56:57 GMT

Get to a podiatrist asap. Preferably one who is also a runner. I had PF a couple of years ago and ended up with orthotics. I made it through my first marathon earlier this month. There is not a shot of my having pulled that off without my orthotics.

Re: Gu or Jelly Beans?

guest — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:33:33 GMT

The first time I tried Gu I was at home about to go running. Good thing because I could not swallow it and ended up spitting it into the sink. It was all very lady like. I go with the chomps now. Those work great.

Re: 2009 Highlights!

guest — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:21:45 GMT

that's awesome

I love neighbor support and also fear that I'm the harmless crazy neighbor.

Re: 2009 Highlights!

guest — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:15:02 GMT

I'm afraid that mine is the same race. I finished a half marathon last week, worst time ever on a half but I was sick and look sick in the pictures. I'm just smug about actually finishing. The same race was my husband's first marathon. He did great. I'm proud of him for lasting through the whole training program as much as I am for finising the marathon.

Re: Runner Bibs: What do you do with yours?

guest — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:54:09 GMT

The generic looking ones with just a number on them I toss, but if it's cool I save it. The really cool ones, like the half marathon ones with my name on them I tack up on my wall at work.

are races getting bigger

guest — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:52:47 GMT

I've been noticing that a lot of the races I'm running in lately have started capping registration. At first I chuckled about it because the numbers were much higher than the previous year but oddly enough they are in fact maxing out.

It just seems odd that if you read the papers, more and more Americans are fatter and fatter, no one has any money and yet there are more and more people running road races.

I thought maybe the story is that more people are running as a means of saving money on expensive gym memberships, but if that were the case then they probably wouldn't want to pay the race fees.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Re: Slowing Down

guest — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:50:51 GMT

Hey if people were made to live at those climates we'd have engine block heaters

Re: Slowing Down

guest — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:33:32 GMT

I run faster when it's cold because...it's COLD and I am not a fan of the cold.