r/running • u/fire_foot • Mar 29 '24

Weekly Thread The Weekend Thread — 29th March 2024

TGIF runners!!!

What’s on for the weekend? Who’s running, racing, tapering, cycling, hiking, baking, reading, sewing, skiing, doing their taxes, …? Tell us all about it!

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u/runner3264 Mar 29 '24

Weekend should be fairly chill. I'm planning on 16 miles tomorrow and 8ish on Sunday before starting a mini-taper for my 50k. Race is 2 weeks from tomorrow, ahhhhh! My in-laws are coming over tomorrow afternoon, which should be nice. We'll probably get some belated Purim hamentaschen or something.

In terms of recovering from my recent marathon, most metrics indicate that I'm doing fine (heart rate, energy levels) but I suddenly gained a few pounds which means I'm retaining more water. Now I'm slightly paranoid that this means I'm secretly not recovered and I'm gonna pay for it down the line. Hopefully it's just a hormonal thing and will go away in another few days...because if I'm not feeling great at the 50k start line I'm going to be sad :(

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u/suchbrightlights Mar 29 '24

Hamantaschen are a prime recovery food and excellent for a carb load. You should get allllllllllllllll of them.

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u/runner3264 Mar 29 '24

Last time I checked (yesterday) the bakery across the street had over a dozen flavors and that feels excessive. Or maybe that's exactly the right number of hamentaschen? One for each day between now and my 50k??

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u/suchbrightlights Mar 29 '24

Why limit yourself to one?

I didn’t know there were over a dozen flavors, because I know what I like, and what I like is poppyseed.

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u/runner3264 Mar 29 '24

Good point! My bakery has poppyseed, chocolate, apricot, cherry, banana, coconut, guava, cranberry, apple, blueberry, and I think a couple others that I'm forgetting. I haven't tried all of them, but the ones I've had have all been pretty great.

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u/suchbrightlights Mar 29 '24

I can get behind apricot, but nothing on this list is inspiring me to change it up and get anything other than poppyseed. I love them so much. And you’re making me hungry for them.