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Friday, May 13, 2016
valmaebel
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The thread starter is a good reminder for me. I've been haphazardly doing my training and thus it has not been very consistent.
Laura - saw your posts about your dad. Glad he's doing better! Good luck on your long run!
April - I have been on a plateau for about three years now. I was really frustrated but I finally started putting things in perspective. I can run marathons, I made it to the Usat nationals this year. I'm physically fit. For some reason, my body doesn't want to drop below where I am. Looking at health issues, all the studies are now showing health issues are not so much connected to weight as they are activity level. So if I'm active, eat at least relatively well, I'm far more likely to have fewer problems than someone who weighs less. So that's what I focus on and my stress has gone down considerably.
Sherry - I'm praying for you! How did counseling go?
My counseling session went well. My counselor did a good job of asking questions to get me talking and didn't make me feel weird which is what I was worried about. She basically just asked questions to get a general idea of personality and history. I'm meeting with her again next Thursday. I did an open water swim yesterday for about .6 miles. We were hanging with friends so we didn't do a long one. But it felt good as it's only a few hundred yards shy of what my actual race distance is and it went fairly well. It wasn't super fast, but I didn't get overly fatigued and I worked out some stroke issues I have in open water. The waves made me overcompensate and start veering to the left. When I worked that out, I swam in almost a perfect straight line.
I have a party tonight and a party tomorrow. I told both that I could only be there for about an hour. I don't want to get overwhelmed. I also plan to have a conversation with hubby this morning. Nothing serious. I moved my training to the evening so we could see each other more. The result is my training is about half at night and half in the morning. He trains at night and is not getting out the door quickly so I'm stuck either not training or not sleeping. So I do a weird mix of both or end up getting up early to train. So I want to place before him my conundrum and get his input on which he would prefer. I could workout completely in the mornings again, but have to go to bed early. Or work out completely in the evenings...but then he needs to get his workout stuff prepped in a more timely manner. Because if I go after him, it can't be crazy late. If I go before him, he needs to get the kids ready for bed. I'm fine with either choice, but I can't bounce back and forth anymore as I'm not getting enough sleep AND I'm not getting my training in. Hopefully, whatever the results of our conversation are means I will be back into a bette training schedule by next week.
I'm off to face the world.
Happy Friday the 13th!0 -
On way too airport hotel. My older daughter is sick again and having more tests. Hard not to worry.
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