tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67033896729009320612024-02-20T16:59:54.876-08:00Finishing Full of AwesomeFinding a way to put some awesome in every run...Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-83602253479009604462017-06-16T13:10:00.004-07:002017-06-16T13:10:34.950-07:00What I know know to be trueSo I was reading Oprah's book- What I know for sure and was inspire to start write a vlog called -<br />
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These are things that have held true for me. These are the things that life has thought me. These are guiding beliefs that are true for me. </div>
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I am sure to find more truths along the journey but is what I have learned so far.</div>
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Our belief systems sculpt how we see and feel about not only ourselves but what we allow into our world. </div>
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What I know to be true is that when you have a belief system that you hold that says "<b>Hey, the world is a beautiful, fun, safe, kind place and everyone is helpful and kind to me</b>". You experience the world very differently than someone who says "Hey, the world is sucky and unsafe and people are rude and selfish".</div>
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About 5 years ago I went to New York City for the first time ever and alone for a conference. I am use to going on big trips to big places with my husband and family. I often rely on the safe feeling of being with my husband in unknown places in territories but I also had this belief system that I will be supported as I try to navigate through subways, streets and taxis of New York to get myself safely throughout the city. I was super surprise at how many times I was lost and found in NYC that weekend. Whenever I hoped on the subway I had people going out of their way to get me to where I needed to be and always pointing me in the right direction. I remember on the last day of the conference, I had to rush to my hotel to get bags and than rush to the airport. It is was pouring rain and not many taxis were stopping. I asked the doorman at the conference I was at to hail me a cab. He was beyond happy to help me. I remember saying to him how impressed I have been with New Yorkers they are all so helpful and kind. He laughed and said It must be you cause New Yorkers aren't helpful and kind. </div>
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This sunk in. You experience the world the way you see the world.</div>
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Whenever I (we) travel I can look back and see how many people went out of their way to be helpful and kind. How many awesome things have happened from people doing really nice things for us! How many extraordinary experiences I (we) have had by being open to a world that wants to bless you with its beauty, wonder and kindness.</div>
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-51612401900485262152016-08-29T12:33:00.001-07:002016-08-29T12:36:08.125-07:00Inspiration - What comes next?<div style="text-align: center;">
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In the last year I have so many false start about getting back to my running that I am hesitant to say anything to anyone or be excited about signs of hope that I will return to myself as a runner.<br />
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I took the summer off mostly with occasional runs but with it being so hot. I didn't feel bad at all about taking the time off. I started to notice in July more time and more times that I was feeling pretty good overall with no more weird symptoms that I had been experiencing most of 2015 and into 2016.<br />
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By the end of July right before we went on vacation, I jumped on the treadmill to test how I felt.<br />
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So running gives me the best indication of how my body is functioning that is why I decided to test it. I ran 2 miles easy than a strong tempo averaging 7:25 for 25 minute pace and than a short cool down. I wasn't struggling, no weird clammy feeling or feeling out of shape. The pace came easy almost so that I thought I could press but I didn't want to push too hard out the gate.<br />
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It gave me hope that my fitness is under there waiting to be taped into!<br />
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Than I planned my comeback after vacation and kids back to school only to be thwarted by a turned ankle 30 minutes into an easy run.<br />
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I took two weeks off! I kept positive!<br />
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Today I tested the ankle with a workout on the treadmill!<br />
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Wow I know it isn't blow your socks off fast but it came super easy. I had no hypoglycemic issues and no low dips in energy. Smooth Sailing!<br />
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I am really not sure what I want to do running wise. I have yet to be inspired to sign up for a race. I think being burned by signing up for so many races last year and not being able to run them has me gun shy.<br />
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So I will keep running, training, doing yoga and writing until I find something inspiring that inspires me that I just have to do. I will wait on the universe to line something up for me but until I will keep working. Sometimes is okay not to know and just wait but you have to be motion for that inspiration to find you!<br />
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I promise I would write in to try to document my journey back to whole health. As I wrote in my last post. I am really feeling the energy return to my body. It's like a switch took place and my body seems to be processing energy differently.<br />
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Maybe my liver is functioning well now? Maybe we have manage to lower the viral load? Maybe my hormones are naturally balancing out?<br />
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I have taken so many small steps over these past 3 weeks.<br />
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I think all the steps together are moving me in the right direction.<br />
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I not sure what is going on but things are moving in the happiest direction. I have had 2 runs in a role where I am felt really good. Yesterday just an easy 4 for that I didn't want to stop because I felt so good and today a workout of 4 x 1 mile at 7:30 to 7:40.<br />
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Really pleased with how today went! I never felt strained or liking I was reaching for something that wasn't there. It was there and it felt good! Gives me so much hope for regaining not only my health but my that I feel good running and love running feeling that I have missed so so so much.<br />
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I have dreamt of what it would feel like running with ease again. That is what is pulling me through. That day when I can get on the road with my energy and my soul and spirit in higher.<br />
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It feels like it is coming back. Part of me is scared to acknowledge for fear that it shall pass through my fingers. Part of me wants to scream and tell anyone that will listen.<br />
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My energy is back! My energy is back! My body is working again! My body is working again!!<br />
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I want it to be so bad. Not only for me though but for my family and for I one day meet that I can help with my story and being able to share with them how I healed.<br />
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As I heal and rise again, I know my struggle had purpose and serves as part of my special journey. My pain turned my heart to becoming more and helping others find their way through this struggle.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-1187080923427719042016-05-05T07:45:00.001-07:002016-05-05T07:45:44.372-07:00Finding JoyI am having a really good week! I can feel my body and energy returning to my body.<br />
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More than just my the energy returning it feels more like life, happiness and joy are returning which is the surest sign I am healing. I can feel the happy buzz and light filling the places that were dark just weeks ago.<br />
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It has been a slow steady thing over the past few weeks since Boston.<br />
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What's crazy is I am happy and feel the joy even though I am not yet where I hope to be. I have yet to lose the weight gained from my time spent on thyroid meds. I no longer care how long it will take me to lose the weight.<br />
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What is more important than the losing the weight is finding that sparkle of love, joy and happiness in me every day when I wake in the past week.<br />
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I feel connected to myself again! This is the most important thing ever to me. To access to myself again.<br />
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When the dark days were surrounding me the most discerning thing was the not the weight gain, the bloating, the sadness, or the anger but not being able to connect to that happy buzz of warm energy that is me and that is god.<br />
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I know I will be okay and I will heal fully if can feel that part of me.<br />
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No matter how tired I may feel in my recovery and healing I know I will be okay when that warmth is surrounding me.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-14149544880814369132016-04-29T11:36:00.000-07:002016-04-29T11:37:08.721-07:00Standing up again Wow I can't believe that it has been almost a year since I was writing in here.<br />
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I was pondering to myself about how can I an reignite the fire that burned so brightly for so long. This dream has been weighted down my health dilemmas over the past year.<br />
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Do I even want to chase this dream anymore is a big question I have been asking myself?<br />
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I am pretty sure I do because I can't stop thinking about it or picturing myself achieving it. The vision is still there. It is the first thing my brain locks on to when I wake up in the morning or when I go to sleep and want to think of something I really want.<br />
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The thing my brain wants to dream about it running free and strong again and running my dream race where I feel so darn good and floating on air and so much emotional and love in my heart.<br />
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That is what pulls me. It is what weighs on me, It's what my hearts wants. It is what I can't seem to let go of.<br />
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Am I suppose to let go of it? Is it that what the saying let it go and if it was meant to be it will find its way back to you.<br />
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Well how do you let go of something that calls to your heart, soul and mind. The fills your mind when all is quiet. It literally naws at me.<br />
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I let go of my goals for a time being but my dreams are still an every present knocking that is like saying rest, do other things for a while but please do not forget about me. I need love, attention and nurturing if I am to come alive again.<br />
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This is what my dream is telling me. Remember Me. Mend Me. Nurture Me. Grow Me,<br />
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Please, Please, Please don't hide me or hide from me. I am still here! Forget me not!<br />
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I seriously thought I could take a month of running and free my mind of this dream. Focus on healing and just being. Of course a week later I am running. Slowly but I am running. I am not going very far but I am running. Sometimes it feels so good and sometimes is doesn't. With the running comes the dreaming..<br />
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Can I get back to where I use to be? Can I run better than I use to run? Will I ever feel that light effortless stride that felt so good to me? Will running feel easy to me again?<br />
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My goal is to unearth my dream, let the voice of it be stronger than the doubts and fears that have threaten it.<br />
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Try to listen to the whispering s and follow the feel of it.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-79707462419926840432015-06-28T17:20:00.001-07:002015-06-28T17:25:57.518-07:00Charlevoix the Beautful!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When my thyroid is off particularity when I am hyperthyroid - my body is working so much harder because more thyroid hormone is floating in the blood stream. You would think like that would be a good thing. In fact, it is not at all. For 2 reasons, the increased thyroid hormone is elevating my heart rate which makes the running a 10 minute mile feel like 7 a minute mile effort. Essentially, I have to run a 10 minute mile which for my body feels like a 7 minute mile. Secondly, the extra thyroid hormone raises my normal body temperature from 98.6 to 98.8+ which may not seem like much but the slight .1 percents are significant to the body. I feel hotter and the body has to work harder to cool itself. </div>
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Thank you God for giving me something that would challenge me to become a better version of myself, to force me to see myself as incomparable, to see my journey in a different light, to know that my timetable is unlike anyone else's, to find that voice in myself that says I LOVE ME, I AM PROUD OF ME, I AM WONDERFUL and I do not need others to validate what I know deep in my soul. That I do not need the world to approve of my journey or the whens or the hows or the whos. That I am the creator of my dream, that I am decider of my thoughts and actions, that I am the master of my fate.<br />
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Thank you God for giving me a talent and passion that would endure hardship, hurt, disappointment and heart ache. For this passion and mixed with my strong inner voice is always guiding me, leading me, coercing me to move past the struggle into the light.<br />
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Thank you God for always meeting me on my path with a light that comes with encouragement to keep going and keep seeking.<br />
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Thank you God for bringing very special people onto my path to journey with me, some have stayed with me for longer and some have helped me navigate different parts of my journey and than have moved on and some are brief encounters but nonetheless impactful.<br />
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Thank you God for the sights and places I have got to experience along the way.<br />
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As I put in week after week of work, I become more satisfied with my decision to take 6 months off of racing and just train. The consistency of 6 months of mileage should help get me really strong for my summer marathon and than early fall marathons and November 50 miler I have planned.<br />
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Going this route really takes patience. I am a girl of adventure and always looking forward to my next exciting adventure. So taking the time just to work without the imminent goal race on the horizon is stretching me a bit and makes me a bit antsy.There is not much exciting or glamorous to tell about just putting in mile after mile, day in and day out. But it is also so freeing just to enjoy the process and not be getting wrapped up in thinking "Am I fit yet" or "Am I there yet". Just enjoying each run without needing to be wrapped up in how my fitness is progressing is so so so nice. It makes my soul peaceful. </div>
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For the most part, I am loving and finding lots of peace in the miles. Looking to build the miles even more in April and May before backing off in June. The extended day light of spring will set me up will with getting in the seconds runs of the day. </div>
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Here is how this past week looked - </div>
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Monday 7 easy </div>
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Tuesday <b>AM</b> - 12 with 4 x 1.5 mile repeats @ 6;18 to 6:25 pace with 90 sec rest <b>PM</b> - 3.2 Recovery miles</div>
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Wednesday 10 miles easy</div>
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Thursday 11.50 miles easy</div>
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Friday <b>AM</b> - 10 miles with 5 @7:16 pace <b>PM</b> 3.5 Recovery miles</div>
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Saturday 7 miles easy</div>
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Sunday 8 miles easy </div>
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Miles - 73 miles </div>
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-44946458649984555872015-03-13T20:41:00.000-07:002015-03-13T20:41:42.106-07:00Doing the work every day and loving it...<div style="text-align: center;">
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I was just reflecting on my choice to take 6 months to just run with no races and no goals. Just training...<br />
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My goal and what was in my heart to do was to spend 6 months not getting distracted from race goals but just to put in consistent week after consistent week of higher mileage and quality training.<br />
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Looking back on my last 11 weeks I am pretty proud that I have keep on track with my goals and plans. I have put in 11 weeks of consistent running with a couple days off sprinkled here and there averaging 67.7 miles a week. I am pretty pleased!<br />
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Especially given that I am listening to the voice of my own guidance and knowing that is the way to where I want to be. I am so pleased that I shut out the voices of other peoples opinion and thoughts and listen to my own knowing.<br />
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It is feels like when you get lost and you shut out the noise of everything and intuitively know which way to go even though the GPS says one thing or your driving partner says one thing but you know which to go and it feels good to make that turn.<br />
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That is how this path feels to me!<br />
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I know it is the path I am suppose to be on. I am happy!<br />
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I am truly just enjoying where I am even with a few bumps in the road in the last couple of weeks I feel I am over those bumps and on my way to even higher mileage.<br />
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Over the past few weeks, I have learned some things that can only help me as I continue to move forward. One of thing I learned is that I have been running on extremely low blood sugar (blood glucose) levels and I need continuously work on getting in more carbohydrates daily if I want to be able to maintain high mileage. This is my key area of improvement that I will be focusing in the coming months and of course enjoying this time of "sowing".<br />
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For one day, it be harvest time for all the sowing I am doing now :-)<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-65207358743703147072015-03-04T07:31:00.001-08:002015-03-04T07:39:18.493-08:00Small Steps <div style="text-align: center;">
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Okay I keep promising myself I will get back to writing daily as it really helped me stay focused on my goals and work through things that have been going on in my head and training.<br />
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So today even if it is a little post I am honoring a promise I made to myself to continue to document my journey and get back using my blog as a sounding board.<br />
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For the past 9 weeks, I have been diligently logging my miles mixed in with some super solid work outs. My mileage is not as high as I hoped but given the Topsy turvey February with sick kids, snow/weather days and a Itband/Knee that cropped after a hilly run. I will take it and celebrate it!! 9 weeks running consistently with no break and just building mileage and workouts on top of each other.<br />
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I am pleased that I have manage to run consistently over the last 9 weeks averaging 65 miles per week. If I had my way that number would have been more in the 70s but I think the universe has a way of saying I know better so I am going to trust that where I am at right now is good.<br />
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Generally, I have felt really healthy thyroid wise. In the last week or so, I have had a hyper surge so my last 2 workouts why they were super efforts were a bit slower but mostly it is not affecting me other my body temp running high. When some feels my forehead or face they say I feel like I have a fever and I have been very warm in general.<br />
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In January after some blood work I had done, I found out my blood glucose levels were super low which is called reactive hypoglycemia. It is really is my own fault for not taking in enough carbohydrates to support my training. This is something I have been diligently working these past few weeks. I hoping the my increase efforts to get in more carbs will not only help me train better but eventually race better. Racing on low blood glucose levels really sucks!<br />
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I know that one day my patience and persistence it will pay off and it will all be worth it.<br />
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I was listening to an Interview with Pitbull and he said something that has stuck with every since I heard it. It is a Cuba saying.<br />
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<b>Small Steps. Long Vision</b><br />
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I have remember that every day!<br />
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Here was my small steps from last week.<br />
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Monday 7.5 easy<br />
Tuesday 10 total - 3 x 1 mile @6;55, 4x400 @ 6:27, @ 4 x 1 minute @ 6;00 flat<br />
Wednesday 8.5 easy<br />
Thursday OFF - Kids home Snow Day<br />
Friday 16 miles - 2 x 6 miles @ 7:16 & 7:14<br />
Saturday 7.5 miles AM 3 miles PM<br />
Sunday 10.5 miles<br />
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Total - 63<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-74784579679100573202015-01-29T06:40:00.000-08:002015-01-29T06:40:49.643-08:00Operation - Get my Swagger Back <br />
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Well Operation - Get my Swagger Back is well underway!<br />
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I am not quick sure where to start with this since I am out of the habit of writing and this all seems like a long time in the making.<br />
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I think it goes back to when I started coaching and than stop coaching and than started coaching again but than you have to factor into the 2 year battle with Hashimotos. In all this I lost my swagger, my confidence, my sassy self that liked being a competitor and show up to races and events full of herself. I slowly starting tucking her away as I a runner till I no longer resembled the feisty, firey, sassy, mischievous and very confident runner that I was 5-6 years ago.<br />
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Why did I slow let her go away? Many factors I am sure but icing on the cake was the confidence that got totally derailed and thrashed from the Hashimotos. The up and downs of never knowing when I was going to be healthy to race that I just started to play it safe. Run races and put out efforts that were safe. Always of afraid of the big bad wolf - Hashimotos. Afraid of the DNFs and to be honest others criticism or judgement of my downward spiral that would ensure after Hashimotos started.<br />
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Well no more! I am healthy and I have fought super hard to be here. I no longer want to play it safe. I want to race, I want to fight hard, I want to be me more fully when I race. I want to stand up, show up and not giving a flying fick about other peoples opinions or observations of my running performances.<br />
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In doing so I have find my Swagger that I lost a bit of - well to be honest a lot of.<br />
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I need to shine again! I need own my light and not be fearful that my light will cause others to feel uncomfortable in my presence.<br />
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I feel excited and hopeful as I work to find that fiesty girl that I once shared space with.<br />
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-73201178463213657182014-12-07T10:35:00.002-08:002014-12-07T10:35:47.156-08:00Week in Review: Be Happy Where you are on the way to where you want to be<div style="text-align: center;">
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This is me tapering for Kiawah :-) Still putting in some miles but mostly keeping them easy. I was feeling off at the beginning of the week with low body temps (thyroid) so I pushed my workout till Tuesday and was rewarded with feeling fast and smooth on my fartlek reps. I could have done several more with ease which is great sign. I needed that one extra day of recovery.<br />
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So this is my 2 weeks out from Kiawah taper week which I think it is great. Not going overboard on tapering and making myself crazy without the miles. This is sort like a 10 day steep taper which I feel better suits me.<br />
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Week in Review<br />
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Monday 11.50 easy<br />
Tuesday 11 with 8 x 3 minute fartlek at 6;18 with 2 minute easy recovery<br />
Wednesday 7 miles easy<br />
Thursday 8 miles easy<br />
Friday 10.20 easy<br />
Saturday 3 miles easy<br />
Sunday 7.50<br />
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Total - 59 miles<br />
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6 days to the Kiawah Island marathon - Basically this quote below is my state of mind regarding it.<br />
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I am always dreaming of that day where I can run feeling amazing! I hope it is that day but whatever kind of day I still will enjoy the hell out this part of my adventure.<br />
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-20254571075146489362014-11-30T09:48:00.000-08:002014-11-30T13:56:19.618-08:00Weeks in Review - It has been too long - I know!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I am going to do that last 2 weeks in review in one post. I need to keep writing in here as I am really feeling like I am growing a lot not particularly in my running per see but mental shifts I have made that are exciting me. Even huge emotional and personal growth since Chicago which feels really good.<br />
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I have gotten to that place of surrender and completely content with where I am. I know no longer feel that angst about feeling like I should be in some other place with my running.<br />
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Right here, Right now, what is here and happening is the only important thing to me.<br />
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It is sounds cliche and I have written about it before but my soul and spirit really get it now!<br />
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Focus on the journey and not the destination! How many time do you see this written or piece of advice given? Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - It's the journey not the destination. Right?<br />
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Well I get it now! I see the value in just enjoying myself where I am at and getting there isn't why I am going on this journey. I am going because I am suppose enjoy the process of becoming and be happy with adventure of it all. The people, the places, the experiences....<br />
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I am learning, growing and expanding!<br />
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This is why I set out on this journey in the first place.<br />
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It is the becoming and journey that makes the story so wonderful and beautiful!<br />
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How many times does a story start with I decided to accomplish this goal and than I did - The End.<br />
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NO!! Boring! Really??? Who want to read a story like that? Who want to live a story like that?<br />
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It is the pages filled with hope, hurt, determination, obstacles, joy, happiness, and the overcoming that make the story beautiful, wonderful and worth the journey.<br />
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This blog and my life story is about all that.<br />
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My mental focus will be on making the most out of my adventures and opportunities and one day I will arrival at my goal, Until than I plan on making the most delish, fun, happy, adventure that I can!<br />
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Last weeks of miles -<br />
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Monday 9 miles - 7 x 3 minute fartlek at 6:18 pace with 3 minute easy running recovery<br />
Tuesday AM 6.50 easy PM 6 easy<br />
Wednesday 11 easy<br />
Thursday AM 7.5 easy PM 4.5 easy<br />
Friday AM -16 miles (10 at 7:30 average) - PM 4.5 easy<br />
Saturday 6 easy<br />
Sunday 10 miles easy<br />
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Total - 80 miles<br />
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This week of miles -<br />
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Monday 11 miles fartlek - 4 x 8 minutes at 6:30 pace with 3 minutes if easy running between<br />
Tuesday 10.5 easy<br />
Wednesday 10 easy<br />
Thursday 10.5 easy<br />
Friday 18 easy<br />
Saturday 7 easy<br />
Sunday 10 easy<br />
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Total miles -78 miles<br />
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-31613682301730630932014-11-06T09:30:00.001-08:002014-11-11T14:09:34.317-08:00And she writes again....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">You know one of the hardest things about having a thyroid disorder and being a coach is knowing the training works but not being able to run to my potential in race. I do not like explaining myself to people that I have a thyroid disorder. Most people have no idea what that means anyways. I do not want to have a reason not to run well. I do not like explain myself away on day I had when I race and it wasn't there or I felt bad thyroid wise. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">I love finishing no matter what knowing that whatever that time it says on the clock - I fought hard physically and mentally for it and being happy with whatever that days brings. It is always discerning to me when someone wants to know I didn't run faster or to their eye I didn't ran a great race.</span></span><br />
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Having the hormonal fluctuation that makes counting on being able to run to my potential is the most difficult part of my journey. I know without a shadow of a doubt how fit I am - I have had glimpses of the amaziness during my training cycles. </div>
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I have played around with every variable when it comes to marathons and tapers such how much time I need to recover from a work out, how much of a taper I need into to recovery both glycogen stores and T3 levels. When to do acupuncture and when to take iodine and when not to get acupuncture and when not to take iodine. </div>
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Trying to figure out if my T3 levels dip to much in the later miles or the mild asthma is at plan when I have a hard time closing well in a marathon. These are just variables I am working on...</div>
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I am constantly experimenting with how my body (thyroid) will react to training, mileage, intensity and nutrition and treatment (thyroid). </div>
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I am constantly keeping my eye on where I want to be! What is my goal? Remember, Jamie, your goal not your obstacle.</div>
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Would I love to be able to run 3-3;10 hours like my training paces suggest I can run!! Hell Yeah! I am happy that I can run at all! Hell Yeah! I am happy that I am putting myself out there many times over to try! Hell Yeah! I am happy with every opportunity I have to run! Hell Yeah!</div>
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While my progression may not look likes yours or anyone else does - that is okay! I am making progress because I learn new things about myself and my body every time I try! </div>
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The most important part of all this is keeping my dreams and hopes alive. Nurturing them with belief and hope!</div>
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Mostly I dream of the day when all my hard work, commitment, passion, perseverance, and determination come together in divine timing and I run so fast and so free! I imagine what it will feel like to run without thyroid yuck and very feel strong and knowing that it is my day!! </div>
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I know that is possible so I will keep dreaming of that day.</div>
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Keep Dreaming of your possibilities,</div>
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-48320390577522264242014-09-29T15:50:00.001-07:002014-09-29T15:51:54.053-07:00Week in Review: 2 weeks to #Chimarathon<div style="text-align: center;">
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So I am very excited to say the least about going to Chicago and having the opportunity to run the marathon. So awesome!! I am happily tapering too! No taper madness or crazies with the reduction of miles.<br />
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I think my body was screaming for the taper last week as I developed a few aches and pains that I normally never have to deal with - one ITband and a very tight quad. I was able to run through it while having it worked on but it was touch and go. I admit to being slightly concerned. I had one ART treatment on it and a very deep tissue massage on both that left them quite sore for 3 days. By Sunday, I was feeling okay we are on top of this and everything is going to okay.<br />
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It was completely my bad I had done way too many miles on the roads and sidewalks. I needed to be getting a lot more of miles on soft surfaces. So that is my goal this week to run on all soft surfaces so my muscles can bounce back and be ready to take the pounding 26.2 miles.<br />
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Week in Review:<br />
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Monday 10.25 miles easy<br />
Tuesday 16 miles with 2 x 6 miles (7:15 first step & 7:10 second set)<br />
Wednesday Yoga class<br />
Thursday 10.5 miles easy<br />
Friday 16.25 miles moderate effort & Pilates Class<br />
Saturday OFF<br />
Sunday 13.75 miles<br />
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Mileage - 66ish miles on the week<br />
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Very happy with the taper mileage! Enough to keep the aerobic system up and enough to allow for some recovery on my legs. Very thankful for where I am right now!<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-21634849853800840702014-09-21T13:49:00.000-07:002014-09-21T13:51:31.577-07:00Week in Review - Just keep running cause life is pretty awesome and funny!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Such a big and awesome week for me! I got a last minute entry into the Chicago Marathon. Truly amazed and feeling so blessed by this amazing opportunity to run my dream marathon. I have actually registered for it 2 times before and things just prevented me going and running. Life is amazing how when you least expect it a miraculous twist of fate has you doing something you have always wanted to do!<br />
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This week was a great last week of training before I taper for Chicago. I felt pretty strong all week. I did have a bit a achy arch on one foot after one of my long runs. I got a deep tissue massage on it and haven't heard from it since. And I will admit to feeling a bit snackered this weekend but still got the mileage in so I am happy.<br />
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Here is the week:<br />
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Monday (AM) 8.5 miles easy (PM) 4.5 easy<br />
Tuesday 16 miles @ 8:01<br />
Wednesday 18 miles @ 7:59<br />
Thursday 8.5 recovery<br />
Friday (AM) 14 with 3 x 3 mile reps with 3 minutes rest in 6:47, 6:45, 6:39 (PM) 5 miles + 1 hours Pilates Class<br />
Saturday 7 recovery<br />
Sunday 11 easy/recovery<br />
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Mileage Total - 93 miles<br />
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I am still standing - 2 weeks in the 90s! Yeah! Definitely gives me some confidence! I am mostly in awe that I am not smackdown tired at all. I am have been sleeping well and trying to get enough carbs too this week.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-54225162982110747652014-09-14T10:07:00.002-07:002014-09-14T10:13:10.889-07:00Week in Review: Biggest Week Ever<div style="text-align: center;">
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I am sort of stunned at how good I feel! I keep wondering how in the world I had the energy to complete this week. Totally in awe of the energy level and rhythm in found I high mileage.<br />
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I am getting better at fueling (eating enough) but still have room to really get this right running higher miles. I can really feel it on some runs and end up having to really knock back a few more gels that I thought I would need. I found out that I can get a terrific amount of carbs from black beans 41 grams of carbohydrate per cup! So I will be eating lots of black beans and rice to keep my energy stores high in coming weeks as I build to 100 miles a week.<br />
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I set the goal to hit 90 miles at the beginning of the week, never really doubting I could do it but run by run, mile by mile I felt so good and happy. Totally celebrating hitting this huge milestone for me and I ended up running 92 miles total!<br />
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Here is how it went:<br />
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Monday 10 easy<br />
Tuesday 16 @ 8:07<br />
Wednesday 16 @ 8:00<br />
Thursday AM 8.50 Recovery PM 4 Easy<br />
Friday AM 14.5 with 10 at 7;10 PM 4 easy & Pilates Class (1 hour)<br />
Saturday 7 Recovery<br />
Sunday 12 easy<br />
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Total miles - 92<br />
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I keep thanking God for the return to feel great running again! I am so blessed to be able to run this much and I keep thinking about how far God has taken me.<br />
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My goal is to keep my eyes on the stars, dreaming and believing! And enjoying the work as I so love running!<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-74249481436828334662014-09-09T12:22:00.000-07:002014-09-09T12:22:16.573-07:00Week in Review: Keeping on Grooving<div style="text-align: center;">
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I had a great mileage week and a few workouts tossed in to keep the legs moving. I am pretty happy with the week as I felt strong for most of the miles and still feeling fresh after 3 weeks in the 80s and moving onto 90 this week.<br />
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Here is how my week looked overall:<br />
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Monday 8 easy<br />
Tuesday AM 12 miles with 16 X 400 @ 6;18 pace PM 4 miles recovery<br />
Wednesday 10 recovery<br />
Thursday AM 8 with 2 x 2 miles @ 6:50 pace with 3 minute recovery PM - 5 easy miles<br />
Friday 10 easy<br />
Saturday 20 easy<br />
Sunday 6 recovery<br />
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Total - 84 miles<br />
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I had hoped to get to 88 miles but with traveling for work/Running Camp and such. I will take it!<br />
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Feeling optimistic and just loving the groove of training.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-61655361429084241042014-08-31T08:34:00.001-07:002014-08-31T08:34:55.989-07:00Week in Review: Found my Groove<div style="text-align: center;">
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Well this week was fabulous running wise! After getting Acupuncture done on Monday and some cooler less humid weather I was feeling amazing running this week. Put in the mileage I had hope to hit and everything feels good. I think I was able to eat enough to support the runs as I felt pretty great in all my runs this week.<br />
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I got in my first back to back long run this week as well! Ultramarathoning, here I come!<br />
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Monday 11 easy<br />
Tuesday 16 @ 8:18<br />
Wednesday 16 @8:11<br />
Thursday 7 recovery<br />
Friday 14 with 5 x 1.5 miles @ 6:40-6:55 with 60 sec rest<br />
Saturday 7 recovery treadmill (slow @9:39)<br />
Sunday 13 easy<br />
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Mileage total - 84 miles<br />
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Sleeping and Eating has been great so I need to keep up with the little things to stay healthy. My energy level was high this week so that makes me hopeful. I really hope to hit 12-14 weeks of high mileage like this before my marathon and 50K.<br />
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Here in a couple weeks - we'll get some cooler temps and I just know I will feel amazing! I have never started a fall training cycle this strong before so I my hope is the strong and consistent mileage will help me breakthrough in the marathon and than help me be really strong in the 50K.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-53604433026450977032014-08-19T09:32:00.002-07:002014-08-19T09:32:19.782-07:00Week in Review and Trying start a fire<div style="text-align: center;">
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I will first do a week in review for last week. After feeling pretty behind the 8 ball with training, I was able to rally last week and put in a solid week.<br />
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Monday 8 miles recovery<br />
Tuesday 10 miles with 5 tempo @7:16 average + Pilates Class<br />
Wednesday 7 miles Recovery<br />
Thursday AM 5 miles easy PM 4 miles easy<br />
Friday 18 miles easy - slow and Hilly/hot<br />
Saturday 6 recovery miles - treadmill<br />
Sunday 13 miles easy<br />
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Mileage total - 71 miles<br />
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I had a few really good days and a few really slow days but nothing to build momentum off of so I went into this week feeling mentally and emotionally lackluster about training and the fall season. Keep trying to "fake it till you make it" but deep down I have not been feeling it. The pure excitement of training hasn't been there. I keep thinking I will find it if I put the work in and it will find me out there working the motivation and inspiration.<br />
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Well today I finally found some inspiration and mojo doing work! I had woke up to do my first speed work session in my training cycle and since the blood donation. I wasn't totally into it which concerned me a bit. I was sort low on energy and enthusiasm this AM. I keep thinking what is wrong with me - where is my totally usually happy chirpier excitement.<br />
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Well it wasn't there at all. I listen to a podcast of Joel Osteen in my warm up and that at least got my mind in the right space. Than during my workout and the music I just got happier and happier and more confidence that I will rise again and be stronger.<br />
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By the time I completed the workout, I was happy and positive and more me! Funny how running hard can bring me back to myself. I found my excitement for training and running and motivated to run and train.<br />
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I will let todays run breed excitement and hope for all the good to come this fall.<br />
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-61317110726832301552014-08-09T20:29:00.002-07:002014-08-09T20:40:17.779-07:00Doing the best I can in Summer<div style="text-align: center;">
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Geez..I have so not been writing in here much lately. Why? I have no idea but summer is sort of a distracting and demanding time.<br />
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Today I got the bug to get my thoughts out. So I thought should write a bit about what I have been doing and where I am intend to do this fall. I am so excited that I am going to do a 50K and than a 50 miler in the early spring.<br />
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Very excited by these new goals and looking forward to the adventures that they will bring.<br />
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I will have 2 marathons in route to the 50K and than hopefully be ready for the 50 miler by early spring. That is what has been in the planning stages.<br />
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I just now have to get really rolling on towards my goals. Summer is always so distracting and hard to stay focused due to vacations and kids being home and the frickin heat making running higher mileages so difficult.<br />
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Additionally I got a bit more behind on mileage due to recently being diagnosed with an Blood disorder where my body is holding on to Iron. I had my iron levels checked due to a routine blood work up and they found too much Iron in my blood stream basically Iron overload which is dangerous and high levels of Iron in your blood is toxic and can result in tissue and organ damage.<br />
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Anyway they only way to address is through blood donation. I knew going into the blood donation that giving blood would definitely affect my running for a couple months but I also knew that it was the only way to correct this iron overload. Hopefully I will also feel way better too with all that iron out of my system and will feel better running wise down the road in a couple of months.<br />
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I donated blood on July 21st which is almost 3 weeks ago. It takes the body 56 days to regenerate blood levels to pre donated state. It was especially difficult to run the first week after blood donation so my mileage was lower. Last week, I started feeling better and got my mileage up 59 miles and this week will be like 51 miles which is a bit low but acceptable given we were on vacation at the beach and I took 2 days off.<br />
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In just over a week, I will have my kids back to school and hopefully the heat and humidity will keep going down for the next two months. I got through 3 months of heat and humidity and only 2 more to go.<br />
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I hope to really start building mileage and getting back into the routine of life and working towards my goals.<br />
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This next week I will try to enjoy the last few days of summer break but also really focused on getting my mileage up into the mid 60s. I have 12 weeks till my first marathon this fall and that is going come up pretty quickly.<br />
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<b>Week in Review</b><br />
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Monday Off<br />
Tuesday 8 miles (10 X 1 minute on, 1 minute off fartlek)<br />
Wedneday 7 miles easy<br />
Thursday Off<br />
Friday 16 miles with 9 @ 7:20-7:53<br />
Saturday 8 miles<br />
Sunday 12 miles<br />
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Total - 51 miles<br />
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Next week I get on track!! Yippee!!<br />
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Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-83187092587945756122014-07-23T12:29:00.003-07:002014-07-23T12:50:50.402-07:00What up! The Waiting Place<div style="text-align: center;">
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So it has been so long since I wrote something and this is a long overdue entry into my blog.<br />
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I was just sitting staring at my laptop trying to think of what to write about but what is weird is I really do not know where I am training wise. Sort of lost boat afloat.<br />
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Recovery post Grandmas went well but I started really experiencing heavy legs when I tried to resume training. I took a full week off and that started back with easy runs than I did a workout and a steady run which left me feeling gassed and trying to recover and feel good for the half marathon I ran last weekend.<br />
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Just days before my half, I got blood work from my check-up that would add insight to my not feeling great in marathon as well as why I was feeling gassed post Grandmas. My thyroid function was off but importantly I had developed a condition called hemochromatosis. My blood tested review my Iron levels were way off in a bad way but the opposite of anemia. This condition is when your body starts Iron Overloading and I had too my Iron circulating in my blood stream which essential can cause the same feeling of Anemia. Weakness, shortness of breath and muscle heaviness and aches which sums of the last 4 to 8 weeks.<br />
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The only solution for this is donating blood. You can to get rid of the Iron overload and the only was to literally bleed it out of you.<br />
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I knew going into the half marathon that I might not be feeling great and to give it my best effort and I seriously was hoping for the best enough my legs were heavy and weak just going up the stairs.<br />
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Fingerscrossed! I showed to the race with a couple of girlfriends and enjoyed the pre-race excitement.<br />
The half is in the mountains and had some steep downhills and a couple long a grinding uphills but overall net elevation loss so I was excited to see how my legs faired on the long downhill sections.<br />
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Once the race started, I fought the heavy legs for first 3 miles and kept telling myself I would feel better on the downhills. And I did but than came the uphills and I felt gassed. Than the final mile in was uphill to flat but was a dirt road that turned into a very slippery surface in the last mile due to heavy rains. I really struggled to hang on in that mile and sure I lost a minute or more. I felt like I was barely moving.<br />
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I finished in 1:37:46 which was good for a 1st in age group and I think a 8-10 sec PR. Yes, I totally wanted more but considering I felt so bad during the race I will take it.<br />
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I took my butt to the donation center on Monday to donate blood and now will have a 4 to 6 week period of sub optimal training as it takes that long for the blood to recovery the blood cells. So my training will be mostly be easy miles with some strides through this time.<br />
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This week I have been in 100% recovery mode again though as my legs were really fried from the steep downhill sections.<br />
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At least when I start training again, I will be free of all that built up iron and hope that I got rid enough that I will not have to do that again in 6 weeks.<br />
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I am in that place between places where it feels weird and uncomfortable. Where you just do not know what direction to take and hope it comes to you when the timing is right.<br />
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Definitely like the waiting place in Dr. Suess's Oh that places will go....<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-19460116711554486162014-06-26T14:21:00.001-07:002014-06-26T14:33:29.239-07:00Grandmas Marathon Race Report<br />
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Not sure why it has taken me so long to write this race report but part of me was still processing how I felt about the race and also enjoying the days disconnected from running and being focused on training.<br />
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I have taken this week off, sleeping in, enjoying my children, chatting with friends, enjoying the Carolina heat and just soaking up the non running life. It has been refreshing in a way I didn't really think it could be. I keep saying wow I am so relaxed and happy. It has been the perfect recharging week.<br />
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I, of course, have mixed feeling about this race. I know I am much fitter than what I been running my last couple of marathons. Why my fitness has not translated into race day results? I do not know but I have a few ideas. One being that I had an especially intense training segment both in mileage and work out load and my body was just not ready to translate into a breakthough race.<br />
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I do know that both Boston and Bayshore, I had some thyroid issues leading up to race day that played into how I felt during the race but that as not the case at Grandmas. I was perfectly healthy thyroid wise. Why didn't I race well? Another 3:32 :-)<br />
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I think it was fatigue. I felt super good through mile 11-13 and than bamb I didn't feel good at all and by 16 mile I turned to someone I was running and said "Okay, this just got real!" from there on I was fighting for every step. My legs felt heavy in a way I had never experienced before and it was taking tremendous energy to get them to move. Lemon Drop hill at mile 22 just about killed me. I was fighting the voice that said walk and my glutes where like bitch we are not pushing you up this hill. Someone I made it though but it took about 30 seconds out of that miles and 10-15 seconds from my next mile trying to recover from that hill.<br />
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I know it was this was mostly due to the fact that I didn't take anytime off from my last marathon and rolled into some hard work outs and a hard long run. In retrospect, I should just been running easy between marathon or maybe just one workout. If I had one more week to taper I also think I would have felt even better. I have done multiple marathons before and always did well in subsequent marathons but I rested a ton between the events. Those races were also 5-7 weeks apart whereas these marathons were 4 weeks which I really think is 1-2 weeks too short.<br />
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I did not at all regret going for it another marathon at all. It was a phenomenal race and day! It was a great experience and I loved every minute of it. Well maybe not that last 6 miles :-) but I proud of myself for fighting and not letting negative voices win on that day. I walked away proud of my effort. I felt a peaceful and happy acceptance at the results.<br />
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I also know that I just have to keep going, never giving up and staying in faith that I will accomplish what I set out to do.<br />
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I recently was listening to a talk where they asked a famous entrepreneur if he knew it was going to be as tough as it was when he set out - he laughed and shook his head probably not.<br />
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Knowing that anything really worth doing is going to be really hard sometimes and you have to have passion and love for what you are doing to get you through the bumps. You have to be willing to keep trying and keep moving forward no matter what appears to the contrary.<br />
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In the words of Jim Carey, I would rather fail at something I love than fail at something I do not love because I wanted to play it safe.<br />
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I will be recovering and enjoying the summer and the moving on in my training for an awesome Fall season!! Life is pretty darn awesome.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-28876301841626673912014-06-08T13:24:00.001-07:002014-06-08T13:24:45.913-07:00Week in Review: Shaking off the Funk<div style="text-align: center;">
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Not sure why but I have been feeling sort of funky. Loving my runs they have been such a great stress reliever for life right now but generally I haven't felt like over top jazzed about anything which so not like me. I usually super stoked about life and just anything...<br />
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I think it is lack of a groove of training and getting excited about the next big workout or run. I am in a place of maintenance where I am not trying to push myself body over the edge with big runs or big miles in prep for my next marathon in 2 weeks. Additionally I always get the taper blues, missing the big miles and workouts and the generally happy groove of training.<br />
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Plus I know after Grandmas I need to go into recovery which is so not my favorite part of training but necessary if I want to have a strong fall training season. I have a few projects I will be working on after the marathon so I am hoping the mental engagement will help me not get the post marathon blues and I can just enjoy the recovery.<br />
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Here is my week<br />
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Monday 10.25 easy<br />
Tuesday 3 w/u, 2 X 5K miles with 3 minutes jog rest - Rep# 1 6:42, Rep#1 6:35 1.5 C/D + Pilates Class<br />
Wednesday 7 recovery<br />
Thursday 9.5 easy<br />
Friday 11 miles - Fartlek - 2 minutes ON @ 6:22 4 minutes OFF @ 7:24 x 6<br />
Saturday Rest Day<br />
Sunday 12.6 easy<br />
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Total miles - 61<br />
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Feeling good overall and energy level has been high. I think that I maybe a tad hyper (thyroid) right now and I am fingers crossed settles down in 2 weeks. Although I have been feeling good running fast so I pray that continues.<br />
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<br />Sunny 2 Runnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08271393542391948544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703389672900932061.post-43268715836174212262014-06-01T20:04:00.001-07:002014-06-01T20:04:30.096-07:00Back to Training: Week in Review<div style="text-align: center;">
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So I did take 2 days off after Bayshore as I was surprised at how recovered I felt both with my body and energy levels. I had planned to take 3-4 days off but energy was high and I was ready to go.<br />
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All week I feel good but kept it easy and mileage light.<br />
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Monday OFF<br />
Tuesday 5 easy<br />
Wednesday 6 Easy & Pilates Class<br />
Thursday 7 with 7 X 90 second fartleks @ 6:30 pace<br />
Friday 5 Easy<br />
Saturday YOGA<br />
Sunday 10 easy<br />
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Mileage total - 33 miles<br />
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Body feels good overall. Just the calves a bit tight and massage next week should help me work through that.<br />
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Looking forward to running more next week! I am excited about the next step in my journey.<br />
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