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next race SHONAN MARATHON nov 3rd, 2012, OSAKA MARATHON nov 25th, i am aiming for nyc!
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900 calories!!! The minimum you would want to eat for a day at your weight and still lose weight would be around 1250. You really need to watch your diet closer and even if you aren't starving eat something healthy especially within 10-30 minutes after a decent run.
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The short version: I don't think its medically possible that your glycogen was depleted. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to confirm or contradict that statement, but if memory serves, your stores are replenished when you sleep; an 11 mile run one day might leave you tired or sore, but I don't think it'd affect glycogen stores. And I'm pretty sure you can't technically hit "the wall" that soon. Here's my question: why the @%@#$% are you going on 11 and 14 mile runs on a total daily caloric intake of 900 calories? Am I reading that right or am I misunderstanding? I think its safe to say that's a recipe for all sorts of disaster.
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The short version: I don't think its medically possible that your glycogen was depleted. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to confirm or contradict that statement, but if memory serves, your stores are replenished when you sleep; an 11 mile run one day might leave you tired or sore, but I don't think it'd affect glycogen stores. And I'm pretty sure you can't technically hit "the wall" that soon.
I suspect what others said: you were hungry. Or tired from your previous day's run.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
You can run head first into the glycogen depleted wall and bonk bad during a hard two mile run if you start with no glycogen and run hard. Glycogen is not restored (during your sleep, during work, during the recent Giants/Pats game) unless you take in calories. If you do not take in sufficient calories, your glycogen will not replete. Next time, JK, stay in a Holiday Inn express. And grab some biscuits.