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This coming weekend (April 28/29) I'm participating in the Relay for Life at my school on my dorm's team. Relay is an event to raise money for the American Cancer Society, where participating teams work together to walk around a track over a 24-hour period (from noon Saturday through noon Sunday). The idea is that only one or two people from each team need to be on the track at any particular time, so if you have a good-sized team, each person should only *need* to walk a couple hours.
However, if last year is any indication, college students are too lazy to actually do this properly. :) Most of the people on my team barely walked at all, and weren't so concerned if anyone from the team was on the track... uugh. Anyway though, a couple of us really got into it and walked MANY hours. I believe I ended up walking 10 of the 24 hours... a friend of mine (who weighs well over 300 pounds) walked at least 12 hours... it was just amusing that WE were the ones who walked the most, since we were by FAR the least "athletical" people on our team! It was really really fun though.
And so this year, since I've actually been jogging regularly, I'm really looking forward to the exercise aspect of this event. I'm even contemplating working some jogging into the laps... not sure if I want to actually work one of my Cto5K workouts in there (25-30 minutes straight jogging), or if I just want to do something like "jog one lap every hour" and try to do make sure I get in Cto5K workouts on Friday and Monday.
One thought I had was that if I'm actually jogging some of these laps, I'm going to get sweaty, so hanging out in the same set of clothes for 24 hours would not be so fun. :) So I'm planning to bring some changes of clothes and shampoo/soap and make use of the showers at the pool building which is right next to the track.
Another huge consideration (and actually the reason I wanted to start this thread) is FOOD - somehow I have to figure out how have food available for 24 hours... and since I'll be walking for several hours, I need to take into consideration a huge increase in caloric needs, it seems. They do have food available there, but if it's like last year's, the majority of it is NOT stuff I'd actually want to eat (pizza, cookies, donuts, etc). They did have a HUGE amound of salad available at one point last year, which was great.
So I'm going to borrow a cooler and try to stock it with a bunch of food so I have good things available... tons of veggies, meats, cheeses, nuts, etc... Here's one question: I am still in an early stage of Phase 2 (doing one fruit, one grain per day)... I'm sure carbohydrates will be pretty essential, so I'm wondering if it would be reasonable to increase these amounts for this time without it somehow "throwing off" my eating plan. It will be difficult to use dairy as a carbohydrate source without proper refrigeration, and I'm not a huge fan of beans in anything that isn't heated... might have to try out some sort of cold bean salad dish. I also know I'll probably need to have tons of water with me....
I guess my main goal here is to try to get some ideas on how to incorporate this huge "exercise session" event into my current eating/exercise scheme. Any thoughts? Thanks so much! |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:37 am |
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| oldpjams
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| 10 hours at 3.5mph is 35 miles. Based on your weight that's ~2900 calories burned. Assuming you wouldn't mind having a deficit of 500 calories for the day, that gives you 2400 calories to play with. Provided you're not going to be uncontrollably tempted by the brownie tray, I wouldn't overthink your food. Eat what you like. I'd have a tremendous breakfast and I'd bring a pb on ww sandwich, a couple of Clif Bars, a banana or two, a turkey sandwich if you have ice, etc. I wouldn't be afraid of an extra slice of bread. |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:34 pm |
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| DarkChocolate
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Well.... the couple times I've checked my daily calories, I've been around 1500 for a day... so having 2400 EXTRA to play with is going to be interesting indeed!
And 35 miles........ wow. I may have to keep track of laps somehow for curiousity's sake :)
This may be a good excuse to try out the Larabars I keep hearing good things about... |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:42 pm |
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| oldpjams
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| Larabars are good and they are organic with simple ingredients. I like them. Clif Nectars are the same thing. They are relatively low in calories, tho, for a bar. 150ish. Regular Clif Bars are more like 250. Honey Stingers are 350. If you are trying to keep your calories up then it matters, because you can only eat so many Larabars before getting a stomach ache. Trust me. |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:47 pm |
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| DarkChocolate
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Haha, understandable. I will check out these different types next time I'm at the store, thanks for the info!
It's still so hard to believe I could burn that many calories... this is NOT an everyday sort of activity by any means though, so it does make sense that an "everyday" amount of calories would be insufficient... it's really quite dramatic though. :) |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:03 pm |
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| oldpjams
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I used this calc:
http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc1.htm
A different calc may give you a different number, but 290cal/hr seemed reasonable to me. |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:10 pm |
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Oh it probably is right, I'm just new enough to this exercise thing that I have no concept of how many calories different activities burn! That calculator is amusing, however... Romulan Ale, Klingon Gagh, etc. :)
Even though the combinations of food are obviously just randomly generated and therefore bizarre, the vast quantities of food suggested are just dizzying... This will be an interesting non-typical weekend, for sure! |
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Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:51 pm |
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