Fat Talk?

That is a great video and speaks a lot of truth... but on that same note I do not believe our blog promotes "fat talk". I think there is a big difference between "fat talk" and unrealistic goals and the term healthy. Healthy means that you are happy in your own skin, your body is functioning as it should, and will not shut down on you in times of need. I think we have goals, healthy ones.

You are striving to run a marathon, which to run you have to train, eat properly, and be healthy. To get healthy sometimes it requires a loss of weight but that doesn't mean that getting healthy is "fat talk".

My goals are mainly fitness goals. I strive to get up more difficult climbing walls and get faster/go further with my bike in single spurts. Yes I do talk about weight loss only because of my ankle and the weight that it can bear having been previously broken. When the doctor told me I will have a permanent disability due to the weight that that ankle was being made to support I vowed to prove him wrong.

That is my two cents...

"You are Beautiful"

I came across this interesting video today via Operation Beautiful. What do you think? So...is our blog fat talk?

I'm an overpronator

Last week I went to the foot doctor to see about orthotics. The running stores always tell me that one foot pronates more than the other (sometimes they ask me if I've broken my ankle before!). I believe that this imbalance explains why my sore ankle changes sides with different shoes (different levels of support).

So it turns out the running store people are not full of it and all they said was true. Apparently I have excessive overpronation. This means that my foot rolls inward too much, the foot and ankle have problems stabilizing the body, and shock isn't absorbed as efficiently.

So I have ordered some orthotics and they should be in in a couple of weeks. I'm excited to try them out but a little worried that its going to hurt and take a while to adjust.

Found a worse hill...

So I had to go pick some things up at the mall today and ended up taking a slightly different route home. So I think  that there can't be a hill worse than the Pleasant Park hill.... oh but there is! The Kilborn hill is a lower incline and longer hill.  I make it up the hill (surprisingly) and think that it would be a good time for a drink of water, so I reach down and realize that my water bottle is still in my backpack (so convenient!)  I think "whatever I am only 2 minutes from home", so I continue and make it back in one piece... for now. I am now dubbing that hill, evil hill of doom because I don't think I will ever be able to do it without thinking that I may die before I get to the top.  

This is me blogging...

See... I am here... still alive... blogging (just not as usual.)

Basically the last two months have been pretty devoid of rock climbing, which makes me really sad, but I have been biking. I have been updating my kilometer log with the daily kms that I accumulate and then at the end of the month I add them all up. In June I did 189.97km and so far in July I have done 131.15 which means I am only 58.82 km off from beating last month's total! Come on... it is the little things you have to get excited about!

Yesterday I went in to get my bike tuned up. I decided I couldn't wait anymore when I really didn't have any back brakes left... The bike was brand new when I bought it so after 3 months of riding it the brakes have stretched. The guy at the store said that was about 80% or more of the stretch that was going to happen so I am happy about that. They also put quite a bit of air in the tires (more than I am used to) so the ride to work this morning was quite a bit more bumpy and rough than in previous mornings.

I will try to blog more... I am just so boring! I do the same thing all the time.... hopefully I will have some fun rock climbing, or high ropes stories soon ;)

14.5km Long Run

Today I finished another 'longest training run to date' with a scenic tour of the south end of Sudbury. Check out the loop-de-loops. The run felt pretty good. My lungs were doing good for the most part. My legs started to feel heavy towards the end. And I got nauseous once again but this time it only happened once the run was over. I really have to get this nauseous thing under control. The first time I thought it was because I was just really really hungry. The second time I thought it was because I had a huge dinner the hour before and it wasn't agreeing with me. This time though I was hungry (I finished at 5pm) so maybe I should look into some gels or schedule my long runs so that they don't end at dinnertime. Suggestions?

Graph It!

Total Kilometers Ran Over Time: Weight Over Time:

Since I love spreadsheets so much I thought I would share my progress to date. As my long runs get longer and my runs become more efficient I expect my kilometers to increse dramatically assuming I don't get injured. But check out that weight graph!! At least it's in the downwardly direction lol.

100km total

Check it out! I have reached a total training distance of 100km! It's kind of insane when you think that some people run further this distance in a single race (ultra-marathons).

I'm happy to report that today's run was back to normal. Which is great considering that my legs are a little tight from yesterday's horribleness. I did a 15min run section at my regular pace, a walk break followed by another 12min run section and a walk break.

Worst-Run-Ever

Last night I set out on my longest training run this year - 13km. It occurred to me that my long runs were about to be true long runs from here on out. I will be running minimum 10km weekend runs from now until the marathon. This made me a little sad because basically long runs really screw up your weekend, which is one of the reasons I was doing my long run on Tuesday since I was out of town Fri-Sun. Mentally I wasn't in the best of places. I was running this run because I had to. I've been slacking lately and I found a new resolve lately to keep at the running/dieting so this meant I really did need to run no matter how much I just wasn't in the mood. All of this thinking may have contributed to the worst-run-of-my-life. I have no idea why but I just couldn't run for more than 5mins at a time even from the beginning. I have been running 10-15min run stretches lately with walking breaks in between. In fact last Friday I increased my pace while maintaining my normal run/walk ratio. So it was odd when I had to scale back the speed 0.2mph and struggled to make 5min stretches. I have never watched the clock on the treadmill so much in my life! I would say that I walked half, perhaps more than half of this training run. Towards the end I began to feel nauseous. I stopped and ate an apple because I thought it would boost my sugar or something. Basically I thought eating would help. I didn't. I finished up my 13km and lay on the floor for a bit. I had to take a break showering because I felt too nauseous. I also had to take a break after toweling and changing. I felt worse than I did after the Rio Half Marathon! But I finished it - it is done. I am in 'recovery week' so it will be 2 weeks before my 14.5km run. Hopefully that one will go better.