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The Skinny on Running

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I don’t run to be skinny. I do activities to be healthy, and to channel the bouts of extra energy I seem to have.

I use to have a fancy glass electronic scale and every morning when I woke up I would weigh myself and record my true weight in my agenda (such a loser). Why did I record these numbers; good question I don’t know either it was just this weird obsession like “oh everyone should monitor their weight” Horse shit. My scale died when Josie thought it would be funny for me to get on his back and jump on the scale to see how high he could get the numbers; I think he got it over 400 pounds. In doing this fun activity repeatedly the fancy glass scale obviously broke; who would have thought. I use to ride Josie’s ass about buying me a new one but in reality I don’t miss my scale at all. I do not really care how much I weigh I know I weigh 125 pounds and have basically weighed the same give or take 5 pounds each way since, I was oh I don’t know 16.

Regardless of my weight I try to eat healthy because that is where weight loss for most people starts! Exercise helps oodles and kaboodles but I think running and fitness stuff should be things people enjoy and look forward to not a chore. I try really hard to eat healthy(ish) somethings I just can not shake…doughnuts, ice cream, cookies etc; I also try and eat clean(ish) because my stomach has it out for me with some foods, I am sure you could ask my toilet what it thinks after I eat dairy it would be a vivid and oh so lovely picture.

My sister got me this for Christmas, so fitting!

More to the point I read a lot of articles, blogs, and talk to many people who say they started running to get skinny. I think most of those people who continue to run or weight train or whatever see that sport is fun for a reason. Weight loss might be a cool side effect for some but I do not believe it should be the catalyst. Also being obsessed about being skinny IS NOT WORTH IT. Being healthy and happy is worth it. That is why I promote sport, coach, and run myself because I like to be healthy and I want to live past age 90, pending I can still walk then.

Mini Teagan blazing trails. Check out the hiking stick and self painted shirt haha.

You can’t live hating yourself because of your size, but you can live wanting to be healthy and having fun. My parents are amazing people who raised my sisters and I outside doing every sport and activity ever, for this I am so grateful and hope that others discover what fitnessy type activity they like to do the most!

For Example,

Mamahen walks and jogs,
Papakins bikes,
Mdawg Bballs and runs,
Hbanana Vballs
Josie, Lifts hcore and runs
I, obviously run

That is all for now, I am off to Jasper again. Shocker I know.

Winter Training Plan

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Race season is almost officially over for the 2011 year! One last XC race on November 5th at Goldstick then poof all done. This was an amazing race season and I am super excited for next year. I have started and made my winter training plan that will take me in to February. The biggest new and exciting thing on my training plan…..Cross Country skiing! The ultimate cross training for runners and something new for me to try. Over the weekend Jesse and I went on a hunt for Cross Country Ski’s and then realized my father had 2 pairs in our basement that exactly fit Jesse and myself. AMAZING AMAZING! Also thank you father because I know you read my blog <3. I will start training as soon as we get some beautiful white stuff ie snow; then in January I am going to take the learn to loppet course to prep for the Birke. Since I snowboard in Jasper quite frequently on weekends I will move my training around during the week and then hopefully get out running or XC skiing the day after before home time.

February will be a big month since I am going to do the 30km Birke and the Edmonton hypo half marathon.

My new training plan is a mixture of cross training, LSD, speed work, and tempo 5 and 8km runs. I am aiming to keep my running mileage over 30km/week and XC skiing mileage pretty high; well as high as it can go. I have incorporated swim training and my beloved Moksha once a week along with the normal 3 times/ week lifting; I will now be doing legs once a week to build strength; leg day sucks nuts.

This week will look like….

Monday – Lift chest and tri’s and 5km run ( I only did because I feel malnourished and deathly tired)
Tuesday – Moksha and 8 km run
Wednesday – Lift shoulders/bi’s/back and 5km run
Thursday – Swim and Intervals
Friday – would normally be legs but I race Saturday so only 5km
Saturday – RACE 5km
Sunday – OFF or legs but prob snoozing Sunday

Recovery Week and New Training Plan

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Recovery week is over after Sinister 7; I also just had a recovery massage and almost passed out the pain was so bad. I am not kidding I almost died. This past week I only ran and lifted twice to give my body a break and gear up for half-marathon training which, commences today.  My recovery week schedule was as follows,

Monday – bi’s and tris
Thursday – 12 x 1 w/1 intervals
Friday – Complete upper body (high weight low rep)
Sunday – 3km in 15:30

I cheffed up a new training schedule last week that focuses on longer distances and less hill training. Excel is amazing! This schedule will run until August 21st the day of the Edmonton Intact Half Marathon. Then come September the focus will be a mixture for cross-country coaching season and then the Goodlife Victoria Half Marathon in October.

This schedule encompasses all the same stuff as usual but the long slow distance days are 1.5 hours and I will be swimming and biking once or twice a week in preparation for the St.Albert Triathalon.

Below is my training schedule the Tu/Thu/Sat columns have that weird  x  w/   in them; that is because I follow the Fast Trax training interval schedule and add them in every Monday when they are posted! I have planned and scheduled to run up until the day of the race since it is only a 21.1 km distance hence no huge taper period. However, I do play this by ear if I feel like I need a few days rest before the race. I rest.

Legend ( for what all this weird crap means using examples)
20 R 30 L = 20 minute run and 30 minutes weight lifting
6-8 R = 6-8 km run
10 x 3 w/3 = 10, 3 minute intervals with 3 minutes rest. 1.5 or rest is walking and 1.5 is jogging
1.5 LSD = An hour and a half long slow distance run

So that explains all the dashes, numbers, decimals, and random letters in the little squares.

So that is my plan!

For now…..