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Another year of Wednesday night races in the bag

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Yesterday marked the final race of the Spring Frank Mcnamara Wednesday night race series. There are 5 races in the series; personally I think the spring series runs are supAr fun. This is my third year racing them and every year seems to get better. This year I beat all my times by a minimum of a minute I also came in 8th in my age category, usually out of 20 plus girls. I’m super pumped about all of that considering my goal was top 10 each race. How we say success. The only pit fall of the series was at the last race my stomach was acting up pretty bad and by pretty bad I mean I was constipated (gross I know). So I took an Aleve to subside the pain? It helped a bit…ish. Now to rectify this little hiccup I am drinking smooth exit tea – YEAH that’s the real name; what if the exit isn’t smooth hmm? It tastes like weird camomile tea. Awesome, we will see how that pans out; even the package it comes in looks all weird organic medicine-y.

Training has been going really well; last week I was in Jasper with work and I got in some great training (in my favorite place super shocker I know). I didn’t take any photos which, was totally my fault but I did hill intervals at Old Fort Point with the sheeps and ran with the elks almost everyday. It’s May so they are out in full force. My interval day I did up Pyramid lake road they were 9 – 3 minute intervals w/ 1 min walk 1min jog. This is my little fancy chart thing from the run to spice this post up.

Interval training day. Woot.

I did a few two-a-days; they are hard but I noticed a difference in my performance when I did an am run before a Wednesday night race. I felt really strong and ready to go. Now that we are in May I have started back training in the pool and on my awesome possum bike because Tri season will start for me in August. I sport my swim cap and one piece bathing suit – I am sexy and I know it. Then I go back to work looking like a drowned rat because I swim on my lunch break once per week. Sew tutes. Back to running training; I have started running more in my 5 fingers so like once a week instead of once every 2 or 3 or 5 weeks. I truly love them but usually just wear them on hiking, adventures, and in the gym. It has been a nice change they are so comfs. (comfy if you didn’t catch my personal abbreviation).

This Saturday will be the first 5 Peaks race of the year! Party on! Can’t wait hopefully I race it much better than last year because I got the shit kicked out of me. No lie but I still had fun because they are that awesome. Then I am gone to Ontario for work for Cystic Fibrosis Canada Shinerama! My people! Then the weekend after that is the Blackfoot Ultra, I will be doing the 25km baby ultra. See there is my training schedule and motivation notes. Nerd nerd nerd nerd. Also the  picture will not rotate you can do some neck stretches to look at it if you wish.

 

The picture will not rotate I do not know why.

That is all.

 

For now.

 

Garmins 1 Year Anniversary

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Today was my Garmins (Garmys) 1st Anniversary. It has been a fantastic year; that addictive watch and I have faced a lot. Investing $175.00 on my visa when I was a poor student was worth it..now that I am all grown up and work full time and such.

In the last year that watch and I have adventured in 3 countries, many provinces, through mountains, on beaches, and here at home. Classic classic.

See on a mountain. Sulpher skyline to be exact.

 

Here is the report from the last year of Garmin runs, this includes everything except 30 or so treadmill runs last winter when its was minus 7905739025 and 905739 feet of snow!

Just my Garmy Stats.

I am very fortunate that running brings a lot of happy in to my life even when sometimes it doesn’t seem fun. I also love to nerd out to my Garmin I think it is just the coolest invention ever. Besides grape flavored nuun tabs my new love in the electrolyte drink department. IT MAKES WATER TASTE LIKE GRAPE POP! Invest.

In honor of Garmins 1st birthday we went on a SOLID interval run fueled strictly by chocolate because it is Easter after all. Did you know Ferraro Roche makes FULL chocolate bunnies. Invest. Todays workout was 30 x 1 minute intervals with 30 sec walk 30 sec jog recovery. My splits were awesome regardless of knee pain! I wanted to put my behemoth chart of my splits here but it is giant and looks stupid. So a quick summary 80% of my intervals were sub 5 min km; the slowest I ever got was 5:15 km. Overall 9.3km. It was a great run and I am very pleased. Runners high all over here.

In bigger news I am washing my running clothing that has not seen a washing machine for awhile….a long while… and the Frank McNamara Wednesday night races start this week. I went and pre-ran the course with Josie yesterday to see how the trails are and they are MUDDY. It should be a fun run this will be my 3rd time racing it!

And that is all. For now.

 

10 Thank You Thursdays

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Thank you and Thursday sound fancy together so I thought I would make a quick list of things I am thankful for. I’m even going to use numbered bullets and photos.

  1. The fact that kilometers are superior to miles for two reasons. km = Canadian and km’s sound way more impressive than miles. “I ran 13.1 miles today, oh really I ran 21.1km” Sounds so much better.
  2. The Nest had an ice cream special on today and I ate it at 10:30 in the morning. I now feel extremely sick regardless of taking lactose pills. But that is okay because it was DELISH. I will also never learn.

    Nomnomnom chocolate and roasted coconut.

  3. The cool new shirt I just bought. I luffs it. Shameless self photo via computer in my office.
    Yes, I took this photo in my office with my computer
  4. The beautiful weather in my less than beautiful city. Its finally in the double digits sometimes which, is very nice 10 and 12 degrees you make me smile!

    12! Like the tropics!

  5. That running has been going pretty good lately. My stomach has been acting up really bad but I have still made it through all my runs and they are all in the sunshine. I even am starting to take my gloves off and hill training twice a week! Holla!

    3km of hills after a 7km run.

  6. I just got a new keyboard because my other one broke while writing this post. The cap locks did not want to turn off and I don’t think people want to READ THIS ALL THE TIME. It feels like typing on magical clouds with spurts of rainbows and kittens running around. I am sure this will up more productivity 5%. Thank you work for the new keyboard.
  7. My big fat tax return. Thank you to my mothers fancy tax program and data input skills for getting me this haha. I doubled my “I might have enough money for a down payment for a house when I am 80″ savings account by depositing my cheque. My tax return was huge and went in to haus One day it will happen.
  8. This magical cheque also means I have a bit of money I am going to go shopping with. Oh Hai Lululemon.
  9. The Wednesday night cross country race series starts soon and they are my favorite races of all time besides Sinister. Just simply amazing and fun. To top that off Mountian Equipment Co-Op in Edmonton is having a race April 15th. I love MEC and races that cost $10.
  10. Finally, I am thankful for Old Spice Game Day deodorant, yes it is mens but it smells SO GOOD. I will not lie to you I, sometimes smell my armpits during the day it smells that good. It is also superior at masking post running/fitness sweat if you don’t want to shower. Story of my life.

    INVEST.

    That is all for now. I am really excited for summer. I downloaded an oceans sound app to help me daydream about my cabin and summer things. Pathetic I know.

Summer I am coming for you. So tanned and happy haha.

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.