Slug blog

So I guess y’all want to know why I’ve got a stump for a tail?

Well according to my new vet it’s a birth defect, not an amputation. But tail or no tail I can still wag my stump at high speed when I want to. I’m told I should really have a big bushy raccoon-like tail, well I have a big bushy stump, makes me all the cuter.

So I’ve been here in the mountains for about a week now and I’m gettin’ into the swing of being a Prairie kitty in the Rockies.

It’s true what they say about timekeeping in the mountains. There’s time and there’s Canmore time.

With registration for the Terry Fox Run starting at 8.00am I wandered over to the registration point, and no-one was there.

I diligently trained for 7 weeks, not missing one single training session and not cutting one second or one metre off my training schedule.

Did I enjoy it? Well the days when the sun was shining bright were easy to do. I was champing at the bit to get out in the sun, running alongside the river with the mountains, sometimes snow tipped, all around me.

After an obscenely long break from slug blogging I thought it was time that I got back into it. I’m pleased to see that people do read these blogs. They don’t post comments to them, but they do read them.

My training targets for 2007 were blown completely out of the window by my husband’s cancer diagnosis in March. Boy is it hard to train effectively when you think that the most important person in your life might die.

So I guess that I can safely say by now that LifeWorks, Canmore doesn't want to do my Body BluePrint.

If that's the case, then why did they bother putting an advert in the local paper?

Still no phone call.

Still no phone call.

Still no phone call.

The results were not what I expected, nor I think the instructor.

After running the results through the analysis program it came up with an RMR equivalent to 2,260 calories per day. So that means that I can burn 2,260 calories per day simply by sitting still and not moving a muscle all day. Yeah right!

Well the advert leapt out at me from the local paper. It said "Do you finally need a PLAN to achieve your weight loss goals?" "Then you need this. Body BluePrint. Building Bodies in Balance." And so conveniently located at LifeWorks just a few minutes from the house.

It seemed like fate. My weight, despite the running and calorie controlling, was not budging even the tiniest bit in the downwards direction. This advert was promising to give me a 7 day dietary assessment, a Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) assessment, nutritional plan & consultation, exercise metabolic profile, 6 week exercise plan using heart rate zones, all for the special price of $259.

I got a cold. I'd just started ramping up my mileage, at the recommended level of an additional 10% per week so as not to pound my immune system into smithereens or injure myself, and what happens? I get the sore throat from hell which lasts 3 days before it started to wane.

Just as I thought I was getting better the sore throat came back, and with it the runny nose, and a potentially rib cracking cough. This is seriously not fair. Yet again something has stopped me from running, I'm getting quite depressed about all the holdups in my training.

At this rate I'll never even start my first real race, let alone finish it.