| | I just completed my 16 mile training run. I'm pretty exhausted, but I finally did it. After talking to some people in Alabama about marathoning (long story short, I had a business trip to Alabama), and they flipped out when they heard me say that when I'd do my training runs, all I'd do is just start running. Kind of like Barney, of How I Met Your Mother - "You don't train for a marathon! You just run it!" But in doing that, I noticed that around mile 14, I'd start cramping up really badly, which would lead me to walk the rest of the way. Not very conducive to training...
Talking to those Alabamans, they said that I should probably drink and/or eat something in the middle of my run to prevent that. In reading up about marathoning, it turns out that, contrary to popular belief, you're not supposed to drink water because it dilutes the salt concentration in your body and gives you even more cramps. Further, if you drink too much, it can really be damaging to your system. So I picked up a bottle of Gatorade from the store, and a Cliff bar to run with, and was able to finally break the 16 mile barrier. I had experimented last week with a 15 mile run around the Los Altos, Mountain View, and Palo Alto tri-city area at my parents house, and that seemed to work well, so I expanded. This time, I ran from Westwood to Beverly Hills, to the border of West Hollywood, down back to West LA, then to Santa Monica on Pico, and back to Westwood via Arizona/Texas.
And now, I'm really tired. So I'll leave you with my Gmap-pedometer map. Enjoy!
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=993388
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| | Posted 5/27/2007 9:47 PM - 3 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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