I have decided to train for the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis in December. I have only run 13.1 miles in my life! But I often get knee pain even when I am not training hard. It feels like there is not padding in various places in my knees. Last year I
Read more…Hello, this is my situation. I'm 230 and am new to both vegan life and running by about 6 weeks. I'm immensely enjoying both. I know that most of my improvements will happen from lowering my fat weight over the next two years. I have started runn
Read more…Running was the only sport so far that I didn't like. I loved biking, yoga, swimming, climbing etc. I liked everthing I tried except for running.
But after watching Freelee's videos I just felt like giving it a try. Even if it might look funny when I
Hi guys, I seem to have developed (what I think is) plantar fasciaitis. Basically my left heel in the middle of the base hurts (but only at certain times). It doesn't hurt at all when I run - go figure. It hurts if I tread on pebbles in bare feet
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I am thrilled to say that I managed to stay completely raw for my marathon training and it made a huge difference.
My first marathon was in Rome in March this year (I hadn't done very much running at all before starting to train for it, in fact
Read more…I am about to start training for a marathon and wanted to know what is the best training plan or person who makes them? Also how many months ahead should I start training?
Read more…How long do you wait to digest? and if you were going to do a triathalon, marathon, race ect. what would you eat the night before and the day of your race?
Read more…I started running in minimalist shoes a few months ago (after a year+ of not running due to pregnancy)
I have been gradually working up my runs, but I have been having ankle pain.
Is this common? Do I need to slow down or just do some ankle strength
Read more…do we have any elite athlete among us? :)
if you have experience in this field, feel free to comment
i have trail running national championships in 1 month and top 4 runners qualify at trail running world championships too
since november 2011 i did a lo
I saw this video this week, about drinking the juice inside a pickle jar against muscle cramps, I asked a bit around and it seem to be legit. Now we don't do fermented foods here, so I assume also not the juice around them. But does anybody know how
Read more…Yesterday, after my daily 6.5 mile workout at the high-school track, I took off my shoes and socks and ran 3/4 of a mile on the turf field. The last time I ran barefoot was at least 40 years ago. I had never run that far barefoot without stopping in
Read more…Does anyone know where can one buy fresh dates in bulk in your area?
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I used to run 5K every day or other day. Haven't been running for a couple of years, so I'm building it up again. Ever since I can remember, being a little girl even, my head is always red like a tomato when I exercise, especially running
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I'm very new to running. I'm starting out slowly, trying to take a sort of couch to 5K approach. I tried running (Okay, more like walking really fast while holding on to the bars) on the crappy old treadmill that's down in the basement and I n
Read more…Do you eat during a half marathon, if so, what? My longest recent run is 8 miles and i didn't need to eat, i drank 32 oz of orange juice before my run. I was thinking about bringing 2 bananas, or some dateorade.
Can you use the restroom during a hal
Read more…My non vegan friend is preparing for a marathon and i want to recomend him what to eat before marathon and what do drink on the marathon. He wants to replace a gel that he buys from drug store with something. He is not a vegan but this might be a gre
Read more…Someone wanted me to add this as a discussion here instead of asking about it elsewhere so I decided to join this group despite of not being a great runner or anything like that, well not yet anyways. ;)
1) How do you guys "time" your meals when it c
Read more…For you that didn't know I am recovering from a bad runners knee and after more then 2,5 months of not running I slowly started running again 5km>8km>10km>16km>21km in a few weeks of time. I am trying to use new running techniques that seems to work
Read more…I'm lookin' around for some kickass long term raw vegan athletes (80/10/10 type) to offer up as examples to my Orthopoedist who is very skeptical of this type of diet. I can think of plenty how about women?
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