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December 12, 2012
You Win This Round Flu…
I knew this was coming but I didn’t realize how lousy it would feel. I’m in bed, wrapped up in half-a-dozen layers trying to stay warm in a house that I bet already feels like a sauna. A flu got me, and it is all my fault. For the last month, I’ve been doing a lot of rotating shifts for work. That means I would work during the day, then come in at night, maybe get a day off, then go back to either nights or days. This went right through weekends so I lost all concept of day of[…continue reading]
November 6, 2012
Nutrition Rant
This post started as me questioning some conflicting ideas about food and ballooned into this epic rant about fitness and the state of nutrition culture. Oh dear… Feeding The Athlete Fitness is sometimes defined by four elements: Endurance, Strength, Flexibility and Balance. I realize that speed isn’t on that list, but I think it’s a combination of the four. CrossFit seems to think there are 10, but they’re really just combining these base elements into slick marketing. There are many, many elements to a training program, and they seem to complement the elements of fitness nicely: Running Form: the[…continue reading]
October 22, 2012
Detraining Guilt
It’s been over a week since my back-to-back marathons and I’m feeling very guilty. I’m guilty of enjoying my detraining too much! The wear on my body after the two full marathons was much worse than what I have experienced in the past. Among other extreme pains, I was unable to use my right hip flexor for over a day. I had to lift my right leg with my arm to get into my car! So, after 18 weeks of training and races it was finally time to recover and “detrain.” I did some unthinkable things during detraining this week:[…continue reading]
