20 miles is the key

20 years ago

I was at the dentist yesterday (yuck) getting my teeth cleaned and about to get the bad news that I will need to have a large cracked silver filling replaced with a crown (double yuck) when I happened to pick up a Runner's Magazine in the waiting room and read something interesting.

According to the "latest research", you have to log in at least TWENTY miles a week running to see a weight loss benefit! Further, they claim that, if you stomp out 20 miles per week, you do not have to "alter your present caloric intake" to lose abdominal fat.

Would you have ever thought that? It surprised me....I was always of the school of thought that "any exercise is beneficial and any calorie burned is a plus".

I am going to put it to the test. I am going to up my weekly mileage from 12 to 20-24 and see what happens. It will mean cutting one cycle class at the gym and adding a 5 or 6 miler on a weekend day I don't usually run on now, but I am curious to see what will happen.

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chickadeedeedee
20 years ago
Running huh? I'm doomed. Unless "running around" at work and carrying 120 pound anesthetized Great Danes or "running around" at home and in between with real life stuff counts too. ........ Probably not.

If you use more calories than you take in the weight comes off but you can't tell where the weight will get burned off. Isn't a lot of that heritability?

C3D
wanna_run_faster
19 years ago
I can vouch for it! When I trained for my last marathon, when I hit 18 or 20 miles in the once-weekly long, slow run...I dropped about 6 - 8 lbs every 2 weeks. (we would do 18, then drop back to 10, then do 20, drop back to 10...) I'm starting another marathon training group soon (Jeff Galloway for the Feb 2008 Breast Cancer Marathon in Jacksonville!) and I'm hoping to lose all this extra weight I have put back on since the last marathon (50 lbs in the past 2 1/2 years!)
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chickadeedeedee
19 years ago
WOW! Fifty lbs? Good for you! :-)

*CRAP!* I can't do a marathon. Some days I'm lucky to be able to just walk around in the house! I have multiple stress fractures in my ankle and now lower leg because of severe osteoporosis and keep getting them for years.

Time for me to go to the curb, me thinks. LOL! ~Well~ ... sort of.

C3D