#galloway method

[rachelfatpants]

W1D2 of training. I think the gps in this app has me going a LITTLE faster than my watch shows, but oh well. So the app has like 20 weeks to being trained for a half. I have my half next month... whoops! I just know I won’t be quite up to my full trained self for my half, but as long as I cross that finish line, I’ll be ok. Time to just work as hard as I can until then and hope and pray my body will let me get through it with a ton of walking. I’ve done it before quite a few times, I can do it again! .... right?

Tonight I’m cramp city, so that sucks. Hoping they’ll be a little better tomorrow, but probably not. 

[rachelfatpants]

So I thought it was going to pour cause the sky was super dark grey, buuuut it didn’t. I went to the gym and decided to try out the jeff galloway training on the treadmill. Whoah man! That’s hard. He wants me to go 5.5 mph for the running bits! That’s fast for me! I think I normally walk faster than the 3.0 he wants for the walking bits. So somehow even though that busted my butt and I had to change my intervals a couple times to see what worked best with the treadmill, but it shows my average being slower than when I run outside. I wonder if that’s because the gps isn’t that accurate or if I make up for running slower by walking faster. We’ll have to see when I run outside next. I don’t know how I feel about continuing with Galloway on the treadmill, it’s such a pain. But we’ll see. 

I went and exchanged my shoes today as well, I got a half size smaller and I think they fit better. The people at the store said that 11 SHOULD fit and my toe might hit in the 10.5 when running, but I felt like my foot was sliding forward in the 11s and my toe was hitting then anyway. So hopefully the 10.5s work, they felt pretty good on my run today! Much better than the 11s did at my 5k. 

[angeloftheshore]

So what's my fitness schedule look like these days?

So what’s my fitness schedule look like these days?

Well, it may seem like I’m doing a pretty routine schedule. But in reality every day there’s a nice variance now. **Les Mills online has new classes that start weekly plus you can do drop in classes live at local gyms around town. Yoga I have a rotation of programs I do including but not limited to; Bob Harper, and Gaiam online with local drop in classes in my community. And run training you can…

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[angeloftheshore]

Stop And Smell The Roses

Stop And Smell The Roses

You’re moving along pretty nicely on your training run and about a mile in your leg starts cramping. Not badly, not movement threatening and not to a degree that it’s going to cause damage. But it hurts. And your mind starts making that little hurt into a big hurt, it’s messing with you. The pain gets bigger and suddenly you know you just won’t be able to finish (in your head). *sigh* so you hit…

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[angeloftheshore]

Rise!

  Yoga Mat By: Gaiam – Hana Singlet By: INKnBURN 

Up off my buns finally. Been in a physical rut/dead stop for quite some time. Struggles are real, depression and loss are real and not always is it easy to bounce back. I tend to shut myself off and hide from the world till I am stronger again. I think it’s because I never want…

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[angeloftheshore]

Training, how's it going?

Training, how’s it going?

INKnBURN Medieval Tech

All this election and post election chaos and I haven’t let myself slip too far off my training schedule, yayy me! Honestly, I’ve needed the distraction and running and working out helps relieve stress and frustration.

I feel I’m starting to get back in sync with the training and have been finding the joy in it again. Depression and stress can kick you on your butt. And…

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[angeloftheshore]

I will call this day, yellow. Because I kicked the dark sides butt!

I will call this day, yellow. Because I kicked the dark sides butt!

Bright sunshine, warm but not sweaty warm, great day to be outside. Great day to be alive. And looking good in my INKnBURN Bee Tech if I may say so 😊

Life is why I train to run. Why I like to walk and hike. Why I strength train. Computers, TV, desk jobs, cars, etc.. I always remind myself if I didn’t motivate myself to get my training in, I would always be on my butt. Sitting will not add…

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[angeloftheshore]

Getting outta my own funk

Getting outta my own funk

Life is a head game.

Running is a head game.

Getting out of our way is sometimes the biggest challenge we will face in life. But to move forward you’ve gotta face the obstacles you, yourself are placing in front of you. Often, they are the biggest mountain you have to climb. Even more so than anything else that becomes and obstacle from other sources. We can be our own worst enemy or our…

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