Thread Drift

[Lise]

I went out for a quick run. Felt good at first...ran further than I have so far... then hit a virtual brick wall and walked like a slug back to the house. Peachy.

So it goes sometimes. I've hit that wall at various points and cursed the fact that I had to get home under my own steam! At least on the bike you can pedal-pedal-coast!

[DrBee]

Lise - I know - it was awful. I felt like I could barely get back. It was really lousy to feel so good and then feel sooooo bad. We need retractable wheels on our running shoes for times like that, don't you think???

[Nanci]

I had a run like that once. I was out on some trail, at about the furthest point, at 12 miles or something, and it was in the afternoon, and I was hot, and I just ran out of energy. I had to trudge back _so_ far...

Nanci

[DrBee]

Luckily I didn't have to go that far. I run laps in my neighborhood, so the house wasn't too far away. I've been dragging all day, though. I had chocolate milk when I got back and just had a yogurt at my desk. Hopefully that will perk me up. I'm feeling a need for chocolate and my candy jar is empty... and I only have 1 quarter...crud. I think I'm going to run to the grocery store and get a banana and chocolate.

[Lise]

I don't like carrying water with me, but if I don't, my route is constrained to where there are water fountains. If I forget and deviate, I'm in bad shape. I have a water bottle with a mesh handle thing that makes it easier to carry. A pack of Sport Beans fits perfectly in the little zipper pouch it has. I don't know that the "bonk" would be instantly remedied by 100 cal of sugar + a bit of salt, but it couldn't hurt. Anybody here use those "fuel belts"? I hate the feeling of anything bouncing on my hips/back/belly, but I also hate carrying stuff in my hand. So I may get one, though I don't like spending the $ if I'm not going to use it...

Anyhoo, fish, maybe carry a pack of beans for use as needed next time. I do like the wheels idea. Makes me think of Phillip Pullman's books, His Dark Materials.

[Nanci]

http://tinyurl.com/pbanc

I was reading in the What Animals Do You See thread about someone's DH who saw a condor in the wild. I've been thinking about them all day. This link is to the story of the last free birds before they were captured and taken into captivity to try to save the species, and what happened to them in captivity, and how they all ended up. It's pretty short. I should feel happy for them, but it really makes me feel like crying, too.

Nanci

[DrBee]

Wow Nanci. I just read the condor article. I see what you mean. Happy that they are being released, but sad at the same time. The last line is a doozy.

I'm sure you're familiar with the ivory-billed woodpecker stories, right? Thought to be extinct, but a few credible sightings have been made. Oddly enough - my postdoc's husband is one of the people that has made a credible siting! They live in the Atchafalaya, which is where he saw it - 3 times! Now that's happier, eh?

Lise - I'm so new to running that I've seen the fuel belts, but haven't tried one. It looks uncomfortable to me. RunningMommy should have a solution to this, right? She's got to have a way to carry water with her in AZ! I don't know if she's lurking in this thread or not.

Got chocolate - have you noticed how expensive candy is these days? I bought Hershey's kisses. Bleh - I haven't had them in a while. They're pretty bad.

Gee, NPR reported this AM that MS is the unhealthiest state in the country and the the MS Delta (where I live) is the unhealthiest place in the state so therefore the unhealthiest place in the country. Isn't that just lovely...

Enough drift for now - I have a paper to write!

[DrBee]

I don't like carrying water with me, but if I don't, my route is constrained to where there are water fountains. If I forget and deviate, I'm in bad shape. I have a water bottle with a mesh handle thing that makes it easier to carry. A pack of Sport Beans fits perfectly in the little zipper pouch it has. I don't know that the "bonk" would be instantly remedied by 100 cal of sugar + a bit of salt, but it couldn't hurt. Anybody here use those "fuel belts"? I hate the feeling of anything bouncing on my hips/back/belly, but I also hate carrying stuff in my hand. So I may get one, though I don't like spending the $ if I'm not going to use it...

Uh Lise - look at the running threads - there's one about carrying water on long runs. I just saw it - good info. Nanci's carrying device looks pretty cool!

Good advice - I am going to pack some sport beans. I picked up some cheap-o shirts for running in that have wicking material (by Danskin) at ......the dreaded Wallyworld for $9 - they actually have a zipper pouch in the back that works great for sport beans! I wear them for some of my rides, too. They don't wick as well as the jersey's, but they're sleeveless and I don't have a sleeveless jersey. Sometimes it's just too hot to have something on my shoulders.

[Nanci]

Yeah, that Ivory Bill news is a pretty big deal. I saw the video and heard the recordings- I'm convinced. Now what we really need are some photos. I wonder how many there are...I hope enough to make a recovery.

I wonder how the adult condors felt, being released after so many years in captivity. I was reading about how they try to make the released captive-bred birds averse to human contact by capturing them temporarily and putting them in "timeout!" It said that juvenile condors get in trouble because they are curious and not afraid of humans, so back in the old days when there was a wild population that had never been in captivity, they would still get to close to humans and get shot or whatever.

Lise, was your heart rate really high? That's what makes me feel like puking is a high heart rate. Hard to avoid in the afternoon in the summer. You might try taking an electrolyte cap _before_ you start, and putting a bandana of ice around your neck.

Nanci