lizard_brain

How about one of these? NkAbGHz7xUQ

Quality vs. quantity is one of the topics frequently covered by distance running training manuals - it used to be a matter of just putting in as many miles as possible to train for a marathon. Now it's broken down into different types of runs during the week - long runs, tempo runs, recovery runs, etc. - it's possible to get better training from running 40 miles a week than it is running 70-80, depending on how you do it. And lifting weights - I just started a couple of months ago, and I'm surprised at the difference it makes. I've gained a few pounds in just 8 weeks or so, and I'm already planning on cutting my routine in half in another month or two. (Marathon training starts.) Core strength is good for running, but each pound added takes .84 minutes off of a marathon finish time. So each pound of muscle I add, I feel like I have to lose that much fat - but on the other hand I've already lost at least 25 pounds in the last year - but now that I'm gaining the muscle I feel like I still have to loose a little more fat to compensate.

I drink a LOT of coffee, but I always stop around 9:30am. On the occasions that I do drink it after that, especially in the afternoon, I feel a jolt fairly quickly. I don't notice much difference when running, but I do use it a lot outdoors in the form of Gu as anti-bonk. I assume you've looked this up in other places - if you haven't, take a look at it on Wikipedia, and look at the external links. Some of the marathon training books I've read say that caffeine is listed as a perfomance enhancing drug, and is banned by the International Olympic Committee: "Because caffeine enhances performance in many individuals, it has been banned by the International Olympic Committee. But ironically, the level at which caffeine is banned far exceeds the amount needed to enhance performance. Higher, illegal levels are generally attained with caffeine supplements, since a 150-pound athlete would need to drink 3 to 4 large cups of coffee within an hour before activity to reach the upper acceptable limit. Just 1.5 to 3 milligrams of caffeine per pound of body weight (225 to 450 milligrams for a 150-pound man) is enough for an energy-enhancing effect. That's as little as one 10-ounce cup of coffee! (THE PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE)

No, I think abs of steel are a waste of time. In fact, I'm thinking of trading in my washboard for something useful, like a huge blob of fat that I can use for training weight - something practical. Maybe use it to take a bullet at the downtown ATM, you know, self-defense. But seriously, been working more on them, and discovered that just plain crunches are good overall and for upper abs, but the leg lifts are a good follow-up, and work the lower abs too. But gymnastics - no interest or time. Just want to run and lift weights.

I've been touched by His Noodly Appendage!

Blaspheme.

They have a couple of military contracts ahead of him first, too...

I bought my last car new about 1 & 1/2 years ago, so I'm not gonna trot out and buy one of these, but I'd consider it for my next car unless the Outback made some serious changes in the next 10 years. What the hell, it gets 24-26, they claim the Smart gets 40, so I assume that means 35-37.

The Church of the FSM website I suggest you go to the FSM website, and read the Open Letter To Kansas School Board. That will explain how it all got started. Many describe it as a politically fueled take on Russel's Teapot. Believe your Noodly Master.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 16, 6:41 PM ET WASHINGTON - Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.

This was dicussed at length in another thread last summer, but lately, especially along I-90 trailheads, it's not always the valuables in your car that they're after. If you're obviously a hiker/climber and going to be gone for a day or two, they take not only what is in your car, but your registration, with your address on it, and clean out your house while you're gone. It's happened to one or two people on this forum. Keep a copy of your registration in your car with your address blacked out, and the original at home. I even take the copy with me in my pack instead of leaving it in my car when it's parked at a trailhead. I figure whatever I leave in my car at any time is fair game.

Good answer.

C'mon! These jokers had these shirts out and selling in no time, and cashed in in no time! You've been talking for months!

base price: $98,000 I'm out.

Stop smelling my fingers.

Where do you get them maintained around here? What's that cost?

From today's PI: Conspiracy, bribery and money laundering, the federal charges levied Friday against an Army captain from Tacoma, sound more like a mob crackdown than a complaint against an Iraq war veteran. Cedar Lanmon, an officer who has completed two tours of duty in Iraq and who faces multiple charges in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors in Iraq to steer Army contracts to them. The contracts included heavy construction at military installations in Iraq. Lanmon, 30, also is charged with illegally bringing a piece of ancient pottery back to the United States from Iraq. The artifact appears to be from an archaeological dig in the city of Ur at a site believed to be the home of the biblical figure Abraham. Lanmon was based at Fort Lewis from December 2002 to August 2007, base spokesman Joe Hitt said. He is now part of a student detachment at Fort Jackson, S.C. Hitt said the military is unlikely to take action against Lanmon until the federal case is resolved. Lanmon made his initial appearance Friday in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Kelley Arnold and was released pending a preliminary hearing next month. According to the criminal complaint, Lanmon accepted bribes from two Iraqi citizens and an Albanian contractor in exchange for awarding them government contracts. He allegedly took $25,000 from the Albanian contractor in exchange for a $250,000 contract to build berms at a military base in Ballad, Iraq, and accepted $5,000 from an Iraqi man in exchange for getting him on the base and introducing him to a contracting officer. Lanmon also is accused of accepted $1,000 from an Iraqi in exchange for the contract to build a tin roof on a military facility. According to court documents, the case came to the Army's attention in September when Lanmon's estranged wife came forward with accusations that he had accepted about $40,000 in bribes during his two Iraq deployments. The documents indicate that Lanmon told his estranged wife that he'd married another woman while in Iraq and "wanted them all to engage in a polygamous marriage." He later recanted and said he had not actually married the woman but that she was pregnant by him.

Actually, I have.

You'll get over it. :kisss:

pic? That's my line!

What's that smell?

That fat is way thicker than the Kevlar.

They mean the media captures them looking stupid.

I've been paying my landlord's mortgage and property taxes for years.

Here, here. (-Mildly impressed with the protesters myself, just still can't figure out why they're blocking them from coming back.)