Good luck saturday 
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Thanks man!!!
Just tried eating an rxbar with my oatmeal this morning, not sure about it… about to do a light walk. Stomach is rumbling a bit from it. Was thinking about having one before tomorrow’s race, just to get a bit more food in me, but now i’m not sure. Might just go with my tried & true oatmeal + TONS of honey + TONS of pink salt and that’s it. Was going to also have the rxbar in addition to that but, dno yet.
peace!!
Well I would never do anything new come raceday.
Try it a couple of times before, just to get a feel.
Oatmeal and honey 
I used to drink a carbodrink just before, not 30 minutes but 3-5 minutes or so before. But try it out first.
Your body will use the stored sugar first. If you take the drink too soon you’ll raise sugar levels in the blood vessels and use all sugar to fast. But drinking just before, the sugar levels won’t raise. And the sugar you got just before will be ready to use in the later stages of the raise. OR so is the theory
Good luck come raceday
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Yea exactly, i’ve learned that the hard way. That’s why I at least wanted to try it today, but I think some of the initial stomach rumblings ruined that idea.
Yup! But the secret ingredient, tons of pink salt aka prison creatine. Seriously, lots of salt before runs/races has helped me considerably, I feel.
damn 3-5 minutes? I definitely can’t do that. Very sensitive stomach. Have to be very careful. Thanks for the info!
Thanks again man!!
Hoping to crush my previous half marathon PR by like 7 minutes!! LMFAO. 
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2nd straight day of rest!
pre-race resting, recovery.
legs feel bionic … dunk level bionic. Right big toe/PF felt a little weird in the morning but disappeared completely later on. Hoping I don’t feel it AT ALL tomorrow. Would be magic…
Tomorrow’s half marathon race course:
Tomorrow’s weather forecast:
Tomorrow’s half marathon race strategy:
Go for top 3. Don’t get sucked into a crazy fast person’s race, but still hit a solid pace … try not to “simultaneously” hit the breaks and hit a pace, that seems to be a major problem of mine when i’m pacing myself. Stay loose, relaxed, and let the pace happen.
I really just want to hit a very hard 10 miles… hardest 10 miles i’ve ever done. so as close to 10 miles in 1 hour as possible. That’s my main goal. If I do that, I put myself in position for top3.
We’ll find out shortly!!!
03/23/2018
bw = 144
bw before bed last night = ?
soreness = none!
aches/injuries = right big toe/PF barely
cramping = none
morning quad flexibility = loose
morning hamstring flexibility = loose
morning calf flexibility = loose
feel = great
hours sleep: 8
wakeup = 05:00 AM
log:
05:15 AM: food: oatmeal + honey + pink salt, rxbar, water
- i think the rxbar janked my stomach up a bit
06:56 AM: workout:
very light morning recovery walk (legs good, feet improved, right PF improving): 1 hour / 3.2 mi @ 20:XX-18:XX ::: Coral Springs Half Marathon tmw - should be perfect weather (~58-60F)
08:30 AM: food: rxbar, 3 x banana, water
10:30 AM: food: 4 x egg sandwich on sourdough rye, water
11:00 AM: water
02:30 AM: food: 10 chicken wings, large beet juice, focaccia bread, water
05:00 PM: food: rxbar, prunes, cashews, beet juice, water
08:00 PM: water
no food after 5! trying to have most of it digested by 5 AM the next morning.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgrfJcFhex9/
workout:
very light morning recovery walk (legs good, feet improved, right PF improving): 1 hour / 3.2 mi @ 20:XX-18:XX ::: Coral Springs Half Marathon tmw - should be perfect weather (~58-60F)
feel great! need to sleep soon.
4 AM wakeup time!! gn!
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Good luck tomorrow!
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Good luck man!
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Thanks man!!
Thanks alot man!
Will try hard to bring some top3 hardware back to the forum!
peace!!
Oh also… I took a morning “physique shot” (upper like usual).
Holy shit I look ripped af.
Will post when I get back, if i’m still alive. :d
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Good luck man
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Kill it today brotha!
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Thanks my dude!!!
Thanks dude… did! haha!
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Crushed it today … long story short:
Was in a 3 person pack (top3) for nearly 10 miles before I couldn’t hang anymore. Nearly hit 10 miles in 1 hour, which is close to sub6 pace for 10 miles!! Fell off after an hour as expected, just don’t have the fitness for 13.1 hard.
Was on 1:18:XX half marathon pace up until 10 mi … then faded and entered safe mode, ended up getting 1:21:40 official (1:21:24 watch).
3rd overall !!!
1st finished with 1:18:48, 2nd with 1:19:28.
It was a real race. The 1st place guy (someone i’ve trained with a few times recently), said we pushed him hard. I was expecting him to slow up at some point, but he just kept his foot on the gas and got it done. This was the 2nd place guy’s first half marathon, so he had no idea what to do either. He’s a former D1 collegiate runner (5k specialist). So the 1st place guy literally lead for the entire race. Props to him, that’s a serious performance.
Oh also, I ran without looking at my watch until I faded (around mile 10) … that’s pretty awesome. I just said, no reason to look and even know how fast i’m running, just stick to them like glue and that’s all you worry about.
The lead cyclist took this photo (with a potato-cam) at mile 8 with the caption: “Mile 8 from the lead and the front 3 racers are battling it out!!”
I’m third from the left.
Also, a little running battlescar from clipping myself with my sharp af tread shoes:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BguB5HihJjk/?taken-by=andrewdarqui
^^ Strongman style!! lol.
I’ll post more later, data & some other stuff about why this race meant so much to me to begin with.
Oh, and my previous half marathon PR was 1:27:11 … So, 1:27:11 - 1:21:40 = nasty PR. lmao.
When you really care about a competition though, you can dig deeper. That was this race for me. You can’t do it all the time, it’s too draining. But for those competitions that are most important, hitting an entirely new level is possible. I entered that next level and tried to stay there. I mean, my 10k PR from 2 weeks ago was 37:13 official (37:04 watch), and today I hit 37:21 official (10k split) and kept going. It was absolutely brutal but I just kept thinking about what I was running for (my mom who passed from cancer last year, and this was a women’s cancer support race, which I told her I wanted to win for her when she was still alive & enjoying my race results).
Going to post some physique photos first tho, koz i’m looking ripped af. shredded. lmfao!@$!@$!
peace!
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A few “physique shots” from this morning. Changed from blue shorts to the grey ones (I raced in) cause it looked like I was packing heat.
Oh. I shaved my chest/stomach a few weeks ago … First time I ever did that in my life… LMAO. Didn’t really like it at all, BUT, knew I would like it as some hair started growing back in. heheehe.
dno looking pretty lean from those shots. Leaner than the last few months.
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Nice race man.
Congrats on the PR and 3rd place.
And yeah ripped af… the right word: race mode.
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Thanks man!!
And ya exactly, race mode lean. I can still afford to get a bit leaner, and thus a little bit faster just from body composition changes, but I won’t be doing anything special to achieve that. My increased mileage is just naturally addressing it. No more fasted runs either: though I like them, the risk of me wrecking my stomach is just too high. So, no more of those. Don’t need them anyway.
peace!!
That’s awesome! Great work.
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Lean and mean!
Good stuff! Nice half and finish. Glad the body is feeling mostly good. Very impressive with your volume!
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Thanks so much dude!!