Running to Safety

Apologies in advance to my Personal Health Coach for my slacking on keeping up with my blog. All the time she devotes to helping me and others to get and stay healthy, the least I can do is keep my blog current....so here we go.

After last night and the wonderful experience of receiving my patriarchal blessing in the mail, I felt I needed to celebrate by making a legit run this morning. I thought maybe a change of scenery would help reduce some of the boredom a 4-5 mile run can provide. Even with new music in my I-pod it can get tedious...

This morning I got a quick hello from Coach and a smile and thumbs up! Tooootally made my day! I know she's dedicated to seeing me through my transformation and that inspires me because I was a trainwreck when she found me.

I took off on my new route sort of making it up as I went along. This time instead of running west then south, I ran north then west to PCA road until it crossed the highway onto the north part of town then west toward were Walmart and the movie theater are located. Its a challenging run with a few decent hills and I was feeling really good the first 3 miles of the run and then I started feeling a little bit tired. I'm happy now that I drank my morning smoothie of ashuaghanda, chia, maca root and morenga powder along with half a cup of coconut milk, a T xylitol and 2 T of raw cacao powder. Also sampled about 3 T of red beans and rice prepared overnight and they tasted AWESOME!!!!! Great recipe Coach!

I ran the whole 5.44 miles and finished in 44 min 45 seconds. just under 9min/mile pace. I have to do better. If I'm going to run a sub 50 minute 10K in the near future I have got to step up my game. I have to do better than I have but I also realize I'm working thru siatic nerve issues and a sore left hamstring (sore from a 7 yr old hamstring tear while serving in Korea) issue so I'm not pushing as hard as I can in order to prevent making things worse. For the first time in my life I'm acutally listening to my body.



Overpass Loop

Coach has been riding me like an old stubborn army mule about quitting coffee. I love her for it. It's the hardest vice I have to overcome. Dang it! Beer and bourbon weren't this difficult. I havent' had any today and it's past 11am so there won't be any later. I can do this!

Thank you, Coach for keeping after me and encouraging me. I love you and only want you to be proud of me. If I can do that I know someone else will be proud of me too.

Cheers!