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Thankapalooza Thursday

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Well it is Thursday again. Even though I think a few Thursdays slipped away with out me posting why my life is so wonderful for the rest of the world to read!

  • My family is freaking awesome even though they are all total crazies. Rather than explaining them I shall just post photos as evidence. Luff you all and you are welcome for me sharing these photos with the world. I can not find any funny photos of my parents so I can just say they are the coolest people in the world. Ever.

  • I have been racing the spring Wednesday night cross country races. I have been beating my times from last year by a lot. Great success. Training is paying off.
  • I am going back to Vegas in June. I am so so so so so excited we are staying at the MGM signature and it is so fancy and so much nicer than where I stayed last time. I am going to get my serious tan on and shop.

Oh HAI Vegas.

In other news

Life is pretty dandy. My job is amazing and the weather is finally stabilizing in poo hole Edmonton. I have been training 30km plus a week. Last week had a bit of well A) a really shitty week and B) my body felt decrepit. Everything was sore all the time and I did not even want to move. So I only ran 20km and took three days off. I had a minor heart attack because I wasn’t making mileage and thought I was going to get fat and die. WELL none of those things happened and that taught me a very important lesson. Take time to rest and listen to your body. 3 years ago I tore my right quad really badly. I was out quite awhile, arguably I came back from training too soon but it all worked out. That was the crappiest thing ever because I couldn’t run at all. So last week I just kept telling myself, rest or injury? Obviously rest was the best thing for me this week I am back in full swing and my training times are banging fast. This week of training looks like this,

  • MONDAY 5km TUESDAY 5km WEDNESDAY 4.5 xc race THURSDAY lift FRIDAY 8km SATURDAY 5.4 xc race prerun SUNDAY 10km 30×1 w/1 intervals = 37.9 km

Well that is all for now

BYEBYEBYEBYEBYEBYE

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.

Life and the Edmonton Hypo Half

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Life has been CRAZY lately! But really positive crazy; and I love crazy lezbehonest.

Quick catch up of training.

Training has been going extremely well with one hiccup that has been raining on my parade a bit as of late. I have been hitting my weekly mileage goal (30-40k) or surpassing it; since it is March soon I will be adding hill training and regular intervals back in to my schedule to start building up for trail racing season. I have built a solid base as part of my winter training schedule so I can put a big ass check mark beside that. Had a great 10km trail run in Jasper last week; the run was actually brutal and my legs were like rocks from snowboarding the day before but it was good none the less. The hiccup I have been fighting has been my hip; a few (2) weeks ago my hip started to hurt when I was training like it popped out, but like a true stubborn athlete I just fought through the pain and have not stopped training. Then it has started to get a bit worse and sometime I hobble around like a strange cave creature, and to add insult to injury I ate shit on a training run last week on that hip. Karma I tell you. So this past week of mileage was in the big old pooper because I took some time off to try and heal it and to taper for the Hypothermic Half in Edmonton.

Now for the Hypo Half

Honestly there is nothing I enjoyed about this race. It was really expensive. It had snowed over 20cm in the last day before this race which, was well crappy. The course wasn’t plowed at all and the mushy slurpee-oatmeal like snow was really hard on my hip. I wore compression socks, 2 pairs of pants, base layer, base tank, lulu zip up, XC dry fit, and a wind breaker along with hand and head coverings, I felt like the Michelin man. I did something that I have only done 2 times before in my life and that was quit a race. The first two races I dropped from were because I was going to poop my pants and well we all know what that looks like when runners do. If you don’t Youtube it. I started the race knowing I shouldn’t be running on my hip so to “cure” this I took two Aleve (the best pain reliever in the WORLD EVER) But despite that I could start to feel that weird muscle burning you feel when you know you’re hurt at about 4km. I dropped at 10km managed that out in 55 minutes which, is a good time but my body was not having any of it and I did NOT want to risk getting hurt further at a stupid “fun” race. I do not regret dropping it is hard because I am competitive but I know its for the better. As half marathons go I think I will stick with the real Edmo half, the Victoria half, or just major events in general..much much better.

AND Now

Back to normal training and life things. I bought new Inov 8′s (Terraflys) and loving them. I have a serious running shoe addiction but that’s okay these are a great minimalistic trail shoes. I have also been lifting like normal, focusing on major muscle groups and hip stabilization. I saw the movie Act of Valor LOVED IT.

Week of Training

Monday – 5km
Tuesday 5km
Wednesday – Off
Thursday 8km
Friday 6km
Saturday – Off
Sunday 8km

Next week we do hill intervals..oh babay.

I also saw this photo and it is SO SO SO TRUE for runners and made me laugh! Check it!

Story of my life..Totally addicted to my garmin

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

5 Peaks Devon

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Last Saturday was 5 Peaks Devon; the last of the series! Kind of a bummer because the 5 Peaks races are AWESOME. For the 100th time and last time this year I will say this but the course was marked amazingly, great volunteers, great overall production.

The first 4km of the course was tough a ton of elevation change and great hills. Very few races make my ass hurt the next day but this one did big time. The last few km of the course were easy and fast; I had a great run.

Here is a crappy screen shot of the elevation map of the course.

Now I really enjoyed the 5.5 km mark because I LOVE running down hills; I run very fast down these hills to boot so I pass lots of slow pokes who are worried about their knees! Just zooming away.

Now back to the part about me having a great run. IT WAS AWESOME. This is the first run of any sorts race, training, LSD, you name it that I did not feel like shitting my pants, rolling over and dying from pain, and or puking. Stomach problems are finally at bay for now, which benefited the crap out of me Saturday. I did not run 100% because I was being cautious about my stomach but I ran hard and well. I finished 11th overall in my age category and was like 1 minute away from being 6th or 7th. It is amazing how much seconds matter in some races. After the race I had so much energy I could have run it again I was bouncing all over the place; Jesse thought I was crazy. I also raced in my new Saucony A4′s since my Fastwitch ones died and the new Fastwitch’s are not as nice; they are equally awesome. All in all such a great race, day, and people.

My training has been focused on cross country/trail as of late. My stomach has also put a damper on the long run training. The next races I have coming up are 2 Wednesday night races (XC) and the Victoria half marathon. Since the half is less than two weeks away so I will try to throw in a few long runs on road before we get to Victoria next Friday.

Week of training

Monday – 6km of hill repeats Keillor Road hill
Tuesday – REST
Wednesday – 6 km George Smith Special Wed Night Race
Thursday – 16 x 1 w/2 Trail
Friday – 8km tempo
Saturday – Rest or 5km road OOKS are in Calgary racing – I am there coaching
Sunday – 15km LSD

Here are some photos from the race on Saturday some good suffer face in some of them!

Suffer faceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ^

 

As the 5 Peakers say…..

Get off the road!