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.

Continue reading "Today is the day I've been training for"

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.

Continue reading "I did it! I completed my training"

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.


Continue reading "It's time to run off the sluggishness and shake that booty"

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!


Continue reading "So back to my RMR testing"

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.


Continue reading "What is a Body BluePrint?"

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.


Continue reading "Just when things were going well..."

So you may be wondering how the running is going?

Well last week was pretty much the week from hell which meant that not so much running as eating chocolate was accomplished, so this week I tried a new tack. On a large white board in my office I wrote a training program for the week.


Continue reading "Running can be fun with a bit of mental bribery"

This week I've been struggling a bit with ensuring that I drink enough water during the day, and especially on the days that I exercise.

I've covered the whole drinking enough thing in Are you feeling thirsty? before so you probably don't want to read the same old stuff again. But, and it's a serious but, if you are not drinking enough you are putting your body under enormous and uneccessary strain, and could be harming your health.

But this week in the news has been the sad story of a radio station in the US who held a water drinking competition, to win a Wii.


Continue reading "Too much water can be a bad thing"

Why did I end up sitting in A&E for 3 hours this afternoon?

Well leaving off a vital piece of equipment is why.

Having purchased ice skates for the first time in our lives we decided that rather than sign up for lessons at the local arena we'd have a free go at the town pond, which is cultivated and maintained as an outdoor rink all winter by the council.


Continue reading "Nope it's not Friday the 13th so..."

Today is my day off, and what better way to spend it than downhill skiing.

Lots of fresh snow overnight at the ski resort means that it's irresistible to my other half, and we're joined by a friend who also is in the skiing mood.

A short 30 minute drive and we're in the car park, with not a lot of other people. The day is murky, windy and snowing, which has probably put a lot of people off venturing out onto a restricted visability mountain.


Continue reading "Skiing muscles just aren't the same"

This morning I woke up to the bruises from hell. And a very painful big toe across the joint where it joins the foot.

No running today then.