P10 run tradition

Pool bliss

Yumzo

Lunch plate

My new favorite thing is...raw kale.  Acquired taste I know but it is so fresh and lovely.  I eat it wrapped around apples by the handful.  I used to feel bad that I don't necessarily enjoy drippy salads or stirfry's with kale but now that I know what I do LIKE, I feel better :-)  Just took my 4.5yr old eating handfuls of kale to show me the way, go figure.

Melon, mint, kale~Awesome

Catz

Coffee Catz...yum. Bean & cheese, salsa & avo. Hard to say no to the sour cream & more cheese on top but it's little things like that, which make me feel like I'm 'trying' to be a bit more aware of stuffing my mug.

Food for Thought

I was swimming today & realized how confident I feel in the pool. I am slooooow, steady & boring (freestyle baby) but... Over the past year or so I have become a swimmer. I go to the pool in rain, wind, cold, I make myself go if I only have 20 min (better than nothing, always worth it!), I get in lanes with 1-2 people, ask forcefully " ok if we share or circle?" I play the game & know the rules.

Same with running & biking, and now with Bar & Zumba. I muster the hutzpah and make myself GO & enjoy it. I don't let nerves, anxiety, fear, shyness, or dissatisfaction with my ass in spandex or bathing suit stop me. I try to overcome excuses (too hungry, too tired, headache, too busy...) by keeping food & water in my car, advil too. I am a master of flexibility...too warm to run, I swim. Too rainy to bike, I go to Bar, too crunchy to run, I walk.

I am here to play the game, to sweat & feel the burn, the rush, the strength, the bliss during & after... Put me in Coach, I'm ready to play. This is the only life I've got (that I remember), I'm not going to spend it loafing on the bench. Well, I do love to loaf... but only AFTER my workouts when I'm exhilarated and spent!

Change Up

Super Duper

I love the church of run swim bike.  I also love Barsculpt.  I super duper love Zumba, tonight reminded me of that.  I just feel like it is one big dance party, no work & all fun.  I really need to try and get there a few times a week (I wish it could be daily).  What a rush & the best music. Fun Fun Fun.

Options options options

Changing it up...

Less boxes & packages... More whole. Need to move in that direction.

Awesome...life

Life is sweet.  Just trying to find my groove in river of life and also in fitness.  Calf muscles so tight lately (feels like mile 24 of a marathon on mile 2 of an easy jog, yikers!).  Trying to stick to my new model of a weekly Perfect 10: 3 runs, 3 lap swims, 3 Annadel Fitness Classes and 1 bike ride=Perfect 10.

Also trying to get my eating and family meals in synch.  I love the Paleo philosophy of "if it has a label it most likely isn't healthy or Paleo."  I really wish I (and my family) could be that clean.  No dairy, sugar, wheat, salt.  Oh man, sounds so healthy but...sounds so difficult to achieve.  Ponder Ponder...

Life Happens

Yup, agreed.  In the end, I just want it to all be a fun, loving, amazing journey.

Ben Does Life...it's going to be a lifelong journey

An eggcellent idea

I love eggs.

Green machine

I need more greens...decided to start a daily smoothie with 2 cups greens, berries, pineapple & water. Icy but yum!

New Day

Back on track after a fabulous spring break.

Life, what you make it

Pondering what I want to do. I'm not a bucket list person, I like to live more by 'feel' than by goal. So thinking of a few things I hope to accomplish in the near future... I'm not one to do something I have zero interest in, regardless of it 'broadening my horizons' or some other notion. For example, I have no interest in: learning guitar, dramatic readings, writing poetry, knitting, watercolor painting, excel programming, performance art.

I am interested in possibly:

Marathons
Triathlons
Ultra running (30+ miles)
Swimming events
Centuries
Bike treks, like 3-5 days long
Camping
Bike repair (learning how to fix my own bike)
Reading some of the classic novels
Seeing classic movies
Building something (out of wood)
Zumba
Bar strengthening
Martial arts
Canoe/kayak
Hiking
Dog walking
Dancing
Counseling

To be continued....

Getting back in the groove

A few thoughts from my last run. I have calf & achilles aches for sure but I think SO much of my difficulty in finding my groove for running post marathon is emotional/mental.

To get to the start & finish line of a marathon, I suck every last bit of mojo, energy, fuel & passion from my bones to do it. So the weeks following it's not a surprise that I am physically & emotionally depleted. I just forgot that. On my Saturday run it came rushing back to me as I was wiping away tears from aches & pains but more so an overwhelming sense of 'where's the joy!? The lightness!?' now that I've felt that lightbulb go off in my brain, that the mojo from my bones is depleted, I do feel lighter. Go figure. Ready to build it back up, one run & motivating thought at a time!

Mojo after a marathon...

If you find my mojo, let me know.  I've lost it somewhere.

Pantry Pain

This is the pantry...I need to wean the kiddo off this crap for sure but like the Buddhist story of telling the kid not to eat sugar, "I need to do it for myself first before I can lecture."

Have been on gluten/wheat light all week & felt fine....and tonight had a few slices of artisan garlic bread....right now I'm dying. Belly in so much bloated, churning pain.  I think I felt like this a lot before but never realized it, I just thought that's how I felt after eating sometimes. Wow. Ugh. Never again.  Really going to think about how gluten, wheat, dairy, sugar...makes my body feel & how I function when I eat it or don't eat it!