November 28, 2009
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. I am thankful for all my bloggy friends who have supported me this past year in my training. Thank You! Speaking of bloggy friends… Trishie is doing Ironman Cozumel tomorrow – I wish her the best of luck! Her bib number is 862 if you are following the race at Ironman Live. A few weeks ago, she had a Wordle cloud on her blog. I thought it was pretty snappy, so I made one for myself. It reads your latest blog posts and then creates a word cloud out of them. In other news, my couch potato plan is going great. Hahaha. I think I gained at least 5 lbs since my race, probably more since the holidays. I am afraid to step on the scale. I have worked out a grand total of 5 hours since my Ironman race. Working full time really makes fitting in workouts a challenge. On top of that I can’t run because of my foot injury, and I can’t swim because of my tattoo. I love biking, of course, but it’s kind of hard to fit that into a workday. My challenge for this upcoming season will be how to balance work, life and workouts. I will figure it out, as I am HTFU girl, right?! Any advice will be greatly appreciated! I am looking at joining a gym near work so I can squeeze in some lunchtime workouts. That should help alot. And I am encouraging my teenage daughters to help more with things like grocery shopping and running errands. That will be good for them as well as for me. I went to the orthopedic guy about my foot. He took x-rays of my foot and did not see anything ‘worrisome’. He noted that stress fractures do not necessarily show up in an x-ray this soon, and sometimes not even at all. He poked around at my foot and asked me how different spots felt. The main area of pain I have is an arthritic bone spur on the top of my foot. He said that is not a common area of stress fracture. He thought that my painful Ironman run simply irritated that spot on my foot and some time off would heal it. He said that NSAIDS do not get into the feet very well, so he gave me some topical anti-inflammatory gel called Voltarin. If things don’t get better, he said come back and we can talk about getting a cat scan, orthotics, and other options. Check it out : TRAKKERS – The world’s most robust web based athlete tracking system. …if you found this post inspiring, please help fight Hunger by supporting the Gatorade G Movement! Here is no comments yet by the time your rss reader get this, Do you want to be the first commentor? Hurry up
November 27, 2009
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November 22, 2009
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November 2, 2009
The Good news is that I am not stressing over all the details of my race preparation. I also completely forgot about the blister on my heel until just now. Took the band-aid off and it’s looking pretty nasty. The Bad news is that I woke up with a terrible sore throat today. I’ve been gargling with salt water, getting lots of rest, drinking Gatorade G2 and taking Airborne (some vitamin thingy). I hope this doesn’t turn into the full blown cough that my family has had for three weeks. I’ll post an update tomorrow how I feel. I tried so hard for the past month not to get sick. I have about ten bottles of hand sanitizer around my house. Oddly, I’m not stressing about this too much. I mean, what I can I do besides take care of myself and hope for the best? Still, I feel like saying “Wah. Somebody call the Wahmbulance!” Only because that is fun to say! Check it out : TriVillage … Triathlon Gear and Triathlon Clothing Super Store. …if you found this post inspiring, buy me a coffee! Here is no comments yet by the time your rss reader get this, Do you want to be the first commentor? Hurry up
October 30, 2009
The Fog Has Lifted Ready, and Raring to Race Energy Abounds! …a haiku by me Last week I wrote about being in a Negative Space , which I attributed to a ‘Recovery Fog’: a state where your body sort of shuts down forcing you to recover from months of hard training. I finally feel like that recovery fog has lifted. I woke up this morning bursting with energy. I did a short swim and a short run today, according to my taper plan*. I kept it easy, held myself back, and yet still made my desired paces. And, I am still bursting with energy. ‘Save it for race day’ will be my mantra for this coming week. Oh how I wish my race was tomorrow instead of in 8 days! To tell you the honest truth, I liked the months of hard training much better than this tapering business. I want pain, more pain. * I am following Gale Bernhardt’s taper plan now, rather than Matt Fitzgerald’s training plan (Level 3 Ironman). Matt’s tapering just has too much at a time when “less is more”. Since my body was screaming for rest last week, I pulled out Gale’s book. Even so, I am ONLY doing the workouts on Gale’s plan if I feel like it. Otherwise, I sit on my duff and take it easy. It’s all good! Check it out : Recommended Training Plan Book: …Triathlete Magazine’s Essential Week by Week Training Guide by Matt Fitzerald …if you found this post inspiring, buy me a coffee! Here is no comments yet by the time your rss reader get this, Do you want to be the first commentor? Hurry up
