Thanksgiving Long Run
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CadenceGuy posted 51 weeks ago.
I did my first dinner last night and then a run a few hours after, I was in pain then and I couldnt of ran this morning if I wanted too!! I say run before and use the meal to replenish. Just my $.02.....
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beads1985 posted 51 weeks ago.
I have been running a Turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning for the last 6 years.
I get home and do the dinner thing and then play with the kids in the afternoon.
The run in the morning will burn off some calories and speed up your metabolism.
Playing outside in the PM will help.
Most of all watch what you eat.
I will also run on Friday morning and saturday morning as well.
'Nothing to it, but to do it!'
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Anton posted 51 weeks ago.
I'd use the dinner to replenish... Gives you a goal and something to look forward to!
BTW...see ya at Disney!
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KitKat posted 51 weeks ago.
Replenish! I'm running 15 or 16 Thanksgiving morning.
**Pain is weakness leaving the body**
*Smile, it does a body good*
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Socket posted 51 weeks ago.
Totally replenish. It's leg day at the gym for me, gunna need all that lean protien :-)
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TRI_LOVE_518 posted 51 weeks ago.
Replenish. I have a rest day scheduled, but I'll probably do a long swim workout and core/upper body work
"The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen." ---Nike
:So I'm in training for the Disney Marathon and it looks like I'm due for an 18-or-so miler this weekend. This timing works out pretty well, being able to burn off a few thousand calories to cancel out the gluttony that will be my Thanksgiving dinner. I'm not sure what would be the best way to go about it: Should I go for this long run on Thanksgiving afternoon, and using dinner to replenish (and then some) what I burned off? Or should I wait until the day after, using my Thanksgiving dinner as fuel?
I'm leaning toward the former, since it seems easier to adopt a positive attitude about: the pumpkin pie at the end of the tunnel might help motivite me on my run, and having just finished a long run will make dinner seem like a reward.
The other option seems more gloomy: my run will feel like a kind of punishment, or atonement, to make up for the sin of having eaten too much pie.