Low carb and endurance running -- results of my experiment

wrote:

I highly doubt that fat people would want to belong to a running
club...

How wrong you are!! I'm the membership owner for my club(about 500) and
a 15 year member and we have many people that started heavy and many
that are still heavy. The majority of new runners are out of shape
either physically or aerobically. They join to make a commitment and
seek help. The club has group runs aimed for runners of all paces. Did
you really think that only svelte people join running clubs? Scottie,
beam him up.

Like Donovan's club we also have a selection process - $15 for an
individual or $20 for a family and it gets you race discounts and my
monthly titillating newsletter. It's how fast you write the check that
counts.

I do organize some runs that have strength/speed requirements but not
limited to club members. It's for those that want to take their running
to another level. As a side bar, I can assure you no one in this group
would even entertain LC. Without 60-70% coming from carbs they would
never recover and get stronger and likely end up in a fetal position on
one of my runs.

-DF

wrote:

I highly doubt that fat people would want to belong to a running
club...

How wrong you are!! I'm the membership owner for my club(about 500) and
a 15 year member and we have many people that started heavy and many
that are still heavy. The majority of new runners are out of shape
either physically or aerobically. They join to make a commitment and
seek help. The club has group runs aimed for runners of all paces. Did
you really think that only svelte people join running clubs? Scottie,
beam him up.

Like Donovan's club we also have a selection process - $15 for an
individual or $20 for a family and it gets you race discounts and my
monthly titillating newsletter. It's how fast you write the check that
counts.

I do organize some runs that have strength/speed requirements but not
limited to club members. It's for those that want to take their running
to another level. As a side bar, I can assure you no one in this group
would even entertain LC. Without 60-70% coming from carbs they would
never recover and get stronger and likely end up in a fetal position on
one of my runs.

-DF

"Ignoramus7876" wrote in message
...

My attempt at running a half marathon on LC is a semi-scientific
experiment,

Umm, no. It's not scientific in the least.

Jenn

"Ignoramus7876" wrote in message
...

My attempt at running a half marathon on LC is a semi-scientific
experiment,

Umm, no. It's not scientific in the least.

Jenn

"Doug Freese" wrote in message
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wrote:

I highly doubt that fat people would want to belong to a running
club...

How wrong you are!! I'm the membership owner for my club(about 500) and
a 15 year member and we have many people that started heavy and many
that are still heavy.

That was the way with the running club I belonged to a few years ago as
well. Perhaps ig would like to join a running club and actually see how it
is. : )

The majority of new runners are out of shape
either physically or aerobically. They join to make a commitment and
seek help. The club has group runs aimed for runners of all paces. Did
you really think that only svelte people join running clubs? Scottie,
beam him up.

heh heh.....Again, he might want to consider joining a running club, they're
lots of fun.

Martha

"Doug Freese" wrote in message
. ..

wrote:

I highly doubt that fat people would want to belong to a running
club...

How wrong you are!! I'm the membership owner for my club(about 500) and
a 15 year member and we have many people that started heavy and many
that are still heavy.

That was the way with the running club I belonged to a few years ago as
well. Perhaps ig would like to join a running club and actually see how it
is. : )

The majority of new runners are out of shape
either physically or aerobically. They join to make a commitment and
seek help. The club has group runs aimed for runners of all paces. Did
you really think that only svelte people join running clubs? Scottie,
beam him up.

heh heh.....Again, he might want to consider joining a running club, they're
lots of fun.

Martha

"Doug Freese" wrote in message
. ..

wrote:

I highly doubt that fat people would want to belong to a running
club...

How wrong you are!! I'm the membership owner for my club(about 500) and
a 15 year member and we have many people that started heavy and many
that are still heavy.

That was the way with the running club I belonged to a few years ago as
well. Perhaps ig would like to join a running club and actually see how it
is. : )

The majority of new runners are out of shape
either physically or aerobically. They join to make a commitment and
seek help. The club has group runs aimed for runners of all paces. Did
you really think that only svelte people join running clubs? Scottie,
beam him up.

heh heh.....Again, he might want to consider joining a running club, they're
lots of fun.

Martha

"MH" wrote in message
...
heh heh.....Again, he might want to consider joining a running club,
they're
lots of fun.

And he might learn a bit about nutrition.

-DougF

"MH" wrote in message
...
heh heh.....Again, he might want to consider joining a running club,
they're
lots of fun.

And he might learn a bit about nutrition.

-DougF

On 17 Sep 2004 14:15:47 GMT, Ignoramus474
wrote:

In article q5C2d.1$9l1.0@trndny09, Tony wrote:
Ignoramus26859 wrote in message ...
In article , PlacidBull wrote:
Here is an interesting article ... and interesting recipes too

http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/lowcarb/exercise.html

thanks, good article and in line with my experience.


The article says moderate exercise. "Keep in mind however, you should avoid
high-intensity and high-duration exercise..." For me, running is *always*
high enough intensity that I need glycogen to help fuel it. Walking is

I used to need glycogen to run also!

You still do. Through training you can begin to use fat as your
primary fuel source for low to moderate intensity efforts.

I would run and by the end of half an hour run I would be extremely
tired.

I don't know what this has to do with a low carb diet. You are not
going to "bonk" or "hit the wall" after a half hour low intensity run.

Now, though, I run for 1 hour 35 minutes and I was not tired, my legs
were "as good as new".

Great, I certainly did not come into running immediately going for 90
minute runs without being tired, but after training and my body
adapting I certainly can now.

Again, I ran at low intensity.

That's good if you are on a low carb diet. However even the slimmest
of athletes have enough fat to burn to get them through any endurance
event. If you don't have carbs though all that fat stored on your
body is not going to do any good as fat is the wood and carbs are the
kindling.


I think that it was a fascinating experiment (for me anyway).

If you say so. Your conclusions of it are wrong.



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