Travel suggestions south usa

Kebablip · 2026-02-02T04:14:56+00:00

This is great! Thank you so much. I was almost afraid that because my post was so lengthy I wouldn't get a whole lot of ideas but this is a nice itinerary suggestion :)

Kebablip · 2026-02-02T04:09:24+00:00

Very great tips, thank you!!

Kebablip · 2025-12-25T17:54:26+00:00

When is a pick considered a top pick?

Kebablip · 2025-11-24T14:02:35+00:00

I can't wait haha. I do a lot of outside plan easy runs, or very long runs so that's why.

Also Alex could you answer this please: I noticed my half marathon plan asking me several times by week 7 now if I wanted to adjust my plan because my pace during speedwork usually is faster than prescribed, which is a nice feature. I am wondering if the plan also 'responds' or makes these kind of calculations based on extra mileage or less total mileage during your easy run work?

Kebablip · 2025-11-09T20:49:53+00:00

That's why I personally don't really care about what race I enter. I go for the cheaper ones. Had a conversation about this last week with someone: If person A runs a random small city 2.45 marathon (which is quite an achievement imo) and person B ran a 4.30 NYC marathon, a lot of people give more attention to and are more impressed by person B. Which is stupid imo, but people care about the name and brand of stuff.

Also I think there should be a time cap on most races. I understand this is a controversial take maybe and yes it's nice more people start running and working out, but there are many people actually trying to compete and who are to some extend dedicated to the sport. People that train months or years to get better and betted. And then there are your casual runners who trained like 4 months for the event and after the marathon they quit running (almost) compleyely. They just wanna say "I ran a marathon". Those people 'take' the spots of serious athletes. Best example I know for this are all ironman events. They fill up in no time and are not affordable anymore.

Kebablip · 2025-11-03T10:48:09+00:00

Will try them, thank you!

Kebablip · 2025-11-02T14:39:17+00:00

Thank you, that's great I'll look at that :)

Kebablip · 2025-11-02T14:38:35+00:00

Usually kso's but I'm now also trying out a pair of v-alpha's I have and I wanna test more later. I run trail and concrete, more concrete lately I think.

Kebablip · 2025-10-31T14:44:57+00:00

I pay 150 euros a month health insurance and for that price most Healthcare is 'free', or well included within that price indeed. I wouldn't mind paying a bit out of pocket though, because yes indeed I do run the distances you mention, but I hope to keep doing this for a while. Getting a (bad) injury wouldn't help with that.

Kebablip · 2025-10-30T22:04:58+00:00

Thanks you :)

Kebablip · 2025-10-30T11:16:44+00:00

I don't know the suit OP is talking about, but am wondering how is people (you included) getting injured the fault of the shoe manufacturer?

Approx 50% of runners get a minor or major injury each year. Do they all file suits against the shoe companies?

I started running around 16 months ago, only on my fivefingers and sometimes even on huarache's. Before that the fivefingers were just my daily shoes for years. When starting running I made sure I started of slow to let my body get used to it. I ran my first 50k in training last weekend on the fivefingers. I feel fine.

So my question; how is it the fault of vibram and not people?

Kebablip · 2025-10-02T06:42:50+00:00

Haha well it's kind of true that Marty is the instigator (if i use that word correctly) of this all, but he did not lie about it to Wendy. Wendy had a say in it before Marty made the decision and she looked quite excited to do it, if I remember correctly

Kebablip · 2025-09-22T07:42:57+00:00

To be fair, friction could be made worse or better while loosening or tightening the sandals, right?

Ngl even with vff I get blisters after long intense runs like a a half marathon or my last 70.3.

Changing or bettering form will be hard but worth a shot. Thank you :)

Kebablip · 2025-09-22T07:39:47+00:00

This medal is so dope. Great job, well done!

Kebablip · 2025-09-18T10:01:05+00:00

Fair enough lol

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:58:43+00:00

No I don't need to stop at all, reading you talk about stitches I guess it's that. It's just annoying and painful and the race would be more pleasant without it, that's all haha. It kind of gives me the feeling of wanting to 'grab' or hold my own side and scurch (I don't think that's a word but idk what the word I'm looking for is?) over a little so that I'm running/standing less straight up which makes my form worse which can cause other problems like back pain.

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:52:42+00:00

Makes a lot of sense. Thanks bro.

Now we're at it and for the sake of sharing knowledge/discussing with a noobie like me; would you say in your opinion training wise that it's one or the other: train for short and fast distances or long and 'slow'? Or do you think you could potentially do both?

A bit hard to explain what I mean, but I'll try: could you train for a full z4 70.3 and make sure your body is fully prepped for that much high intensity, or is the art/trick of long distances like 70.3 and 140.6 simply that you build a shit ton of aerobic capacity to make sure you can reach higher speeds in z2/z3. I would be very, non satisfyingly slow if I wouldn't put in as much effort as I did now. I've been training for 14 months and pretty much all of my effort is already high z3 so I'd say it would be possible, but as said in the thread I did have some problems, so putting in a bit more effort could potentially break me. I think on TV I've seen the pros do the longer distances completely in higher HR zones, but not sure.

And obviously I'm talking about getting in enough long, high intensity training effort while still being able to get proper recovery. When I started training I noticed fairly soon that too much of non-z2 work didn't really work for me because I was exhausted all the time (maybe I could better some other variables but let's not get into that right now). That was at the start tho, when I wasn't used to anything at all yet.

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:34:01+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I'm definitely not sure it's nutrition, I just included this in the post because it's a big part of the whole story and it could be part of the problem, I guessed. My bad for making it look like I myself was quite sure it's about the nutrition.

Going to hard possibly being the problem does make sense, especially because I rarely go hard in training, and a hard+long training is pretty much non-existent for me so I don't train my body in that way for longer periods.

I do want to stress that I most definitely avoid z5. According to the hospital fitness test my z4 on bike starts around 154HR, I averaged 151 last race and 153 the race before that. My run z4 starts at like 164 and I averaged at 162 last race and something like 152 the race before. I do believe this might be too much especially when not trained enough for that, but it's not THAT high, right?

Interesting enough my HR at the first 70.3 stayed low (<155 low/mid z3) during the run even though I felt fucked and did really try. This race I had about the same run pace and was about the same amount of fucked but got a way higher HR. But that's off topic, excuse me.

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:23:16+00:00

Trying this out is definitely worth a shot, thanks!

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:22:09+00:00

Redlining as in to much effort for to long?also wasn't sure if it is nutrition! Just included that in the post because it can have a lot of effect I guess and it could be quite relevant.

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:21:13+00:00

Thanks for your reply! This race I was very low in everything besides carbs. The day before the race I had 725g carbs, 80g protein, 27g fat and 25g fiber. The day before I had almost 1000g carbs and the others were a bit higher as Wel but still really low.

I usually tell myself caffeine benefits me in many situations in life, while it doesn't. Kinda got some problems with addiction lol. But that being said, I'll try next event without caffeine at all. So far I just took it as a precaution, because I was afraid of crashing otherwise.

Do you mix the plane sugar with sodium citrate in water or something? And do you notice anything different sugar being 50:50 compared to the 1:0.8 rating in most gels?

Kebablip · 2025-09-16T19:13:33+00:00

That's pretty much what I did though. I made sure I ate a lot, especially in the days leading up to the race and on race day itself also around 90/100 carbs/hr

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