Happy Thanksgiving! Run Eat Sleep

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Got a 4 miler in this am, before the onslaught of food. It was cold out but it felt refreshing! We ran through Glacier Ridge Metro park, the trails were awesome and not to mention it was inspiring running by 500K houses....Ill definitely do this every year. Great event for families or anyone willing to do something active on Thanksgiving morning.


M3S Sports has partnered with The City of Dublin, Columbus Metro Parks, Giant Eagle, Keller Williams, EPPA Red Sangria, Glazers and Fleet Feet Sports to produce the Seventh Annual Flying Feather Four Miler and Kids' Gobbler Chase to Celebrate the Active, Healthy Lifestyle and support a great cause: the 2nd & 7 Foundation.


"People tend to save themselves for the big dinner that's coming up so they'll skip breakfast or lunch," says certified nutrition therapist Jen Marshall. "I would disagree with that. The healthy way is to have normal breakfast and maybe a normal workout early in the day."
"If you have a regular breakfast, you are stabilizing your blood sugar, and when you finally do get to that meal, you are more likely to have an appropriate-sized meal," Marshall says. "It's the overeating that tends to make people feel sick at the end of the day."

"Exercising before the big meal is much better," Marshall says. "That will rev-up your metabolism and help you burn calories all day long."

Tips & Pearls:
Most people operate under the assumption that the more they run, the more weight they'll lose. That's true, but only to a point. Running is an incredibly effective and efficient form of exercise for burning calories. (You burn about 8.5 calories a minute when moving at a comfortable pace.)

Problem is, the more miles you log, the more efficient your body becomes at running and the fewer calories it burns, says Wayne Westcott, Ph.D., fitness research director at Quincy College in Massachusetts.

SNEAK IN SOME SPEED: If you work out, you've probably heard of intervals—short bursts of intense exercise with periods of recovery in between. Here's why they work: When you chug along at a comfortable pace (as most people do), your body gets energy easily from the oxygen you inhale. But once you switch into high gear, your muscles start working harder to process that O2, so they expend extra energy recruiting other chemicals in the body (adenosine-triphosphate and phosphocreatine, in case you're interested) to get the job done. "Your body likes to be on cruise control, because that's where it's most gas efficient," explains Westcott. "But when you push on the gas pedal, as you do in intervals, your body becomes less efficient and has to burn more calories to do the activity." (Active.com)

And these quick-but-killer efforts may be the closest thing you'll find to a magic calorie-burningbullet. You not only log less sweat time (which is kinder to your body) but also continue to incinerate calories at an increased rate even during the walking or jogging recovery periods, says Westcott. (Active.com)

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