Blue Moon run!

RUN 5 miles in 46 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 12.4 miles, twice to work

Had home inspections and vet appt, so in and out twice today. Totally ineffective day, distracted and too much going on. On top of those errands I sent out the first offer on my new home, but spent the day looking forward to response.

The run was great, mind was calm for that.

I weirdly keep thinking this was a 20-miler...

RUN 13 miles in 2:06

Funny thing -- this was my first half marathon time! Now it's a comfy, hot-weather casual pace :)

The goal was to hit a midweek total of 20 miles, since I'm not able to run Thursday. So I combined and hit a total of 20 yesterday and today. But for some reason when I think about this run, I think "I did a 20-miler!"....Um...NO!

Great run, water only, no fueling. Hot but not terrible for me. My clothes were saturated with sweat!
I looped around TGP and the neighborhood before running into work. Parents gave me a ride home!

That's why I missed the Thursday run :)

I was only going to do 4, maybe 5...

RUN 7 miles in 67 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

The original plan was only 4-5 miles, but as I was running I realized I might miss the Thursday run. Then I realized that if it feels good, do it. So I did it :)

Since the plan was only a short run, I was in my Kinvara 2's, and didn't even notice over the longer distance. I usually run in these shoes only on the track or <5 milers.="" p="">

Run, Interrupted, AGAIN

RUN 10 miles in 1:36

In the first 1.25 miles of this run I had multiple texts, calls, and emails. Ugh. But once I got through them I was left alone. Alone, indeed! I ran the Meremac Greenway with the plan of visiting Shoogie when I got done.  There were two showings on the house today, some open houses I might visit, and I was helping TV move some furniture. BizzyBee!

The run was great, I was sorta sluggish going out the door probably because I didn't have Sugar to get me moving. Once going, it was steady. Light rain and 99.9% humidity. The greenway had flooded recently and the path was cleared with a blade, leaving a wall of pushed-aside mud with a layer of slick mud in between. Hot, sticky, and quiet :)

Sugar and I went for a short walk, she was tired before we looped around the parking lot and back to the building. And there's a contract on the house! WHOOP great way end a week of stress and bad news.

Yesterday's gel didn't seem to have any effects. Another WHOOP.

NUMERICS
RUN 45 miles --- 5 mile increase over last week, can I hit 50 this next week?
BIKE COMMUTE 37.1 miles
WALKIES 1.39 miles

Run, Interrupted

RUN 11 miles in 11:46

and Gawd knows how many stops for phone calls, texts, emails, ugh. I usually don't run with my phone but between the dog being in the hospital and the house being on the market, I go even more crazy not carrying it.

But the extra phone use this weekend was worth it! Sugar is much better and recovering, and last night we got an offer on the house. OMG if the house sells, that sets the ball rolling fast for my next few weeks!

TV and I were going to run Greensfelder, but I needed to either stay local or run Sunday. We chose to run local, running one of his "roots" (that what I thought he said at first, LOL) around the UC area. A brief bit of trail, otherwise sidewalks and greenways. I was all a-chatter, so much to say and think and share and work out in my head. He's so patient!

The goal was 20 miles, he was able to finish that but not me. Not today anyway. I was off to go house shopping, the next housing priority!

I ate a potato last night with no problems, and ate a gel in-run today. See how that goes!

Potato success

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Potato test successful! At least so far. I'll have another tonight to test for tomorrow. Or should I just test gels...?

Going to visit my Shoogie soon! Trying to get stuff done at work and get caught up a bit.

Two a day, twice? And my first 2015 group ride!

RUN 7 miles in 59 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles
RUN ~2 miles in ~20 mins, with RM
BIKE RIDE 11.5 miles to RM's and back

Sugar is still in the hospital, my little Battletank Basset came through the surgery but looks terribly rough. My visit was short and full of tears.

To keep from being home alone, I joined up with RM for a run. Sick of riding in the truck I decided to ride over there. Then we rode back to the house with CM. I rarely do anything like this in the afternoon/evening because I feel guilty leaving the dog behind. So glad I did it!

I ate a baked potato with dinner, see how it goes!

Ramp it up baby, looking good!

RUN 10 miles in 1:34
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Sugar is still sick, as I type this she's in surgery. Sounds awful, I'm holding it together with moments in which tears threaten. To my surprise, I slept OK last night. Woke up a lot, but fell asleep OK.

The run was great, a much needed release of stress and it got me out of the quiet and lonely house. Kept it easy pace, no up or down of energy, no mental staleness. I seemed to have turned a corner in energy? 37 days into SCD. Also didn't feel the need to fuel in-run. 90 mins isn't long, but over that I fuel. Wonder if I need to?

And speaking of that, normal this morning!! First normal BM since Saturday morning. If all goes well tomorrow morning, then I eat a small potato to see what happens Friday.

The popping left hip seems to have resolved. My legs are as swollen today. And my back is tired, but I keep slouching!

More on this SCD test since I need to keep distracted. Last few days I've been wondering if the starvation step worked or not. If the bacteria were starved off, then what caused the reaction? So maybe it's not SIBO? Or not just SIBO? What about fructose malabsorption? That gets back to FODMAPS, which I know already cause problems. In the past few days, especially over the weekend, I started eating a lot of fruit to fuel the runs. Even though fruit is not the best option for this! I munched (mindlessly!) strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and sipped OJ. On top of that I ate the potato, chestnuts, and gels. Bacteria feast!

Reading a few papers of FM. Turns out zucchini is higher in low DP FOS! And I ate a lot of that lately! I'll have a zucchini with a meal, but over the weekend I made a 1000g zuccy-gelatin and ate half one day, half the next. Is one with a meal OK?

I printed off my meal logs for the past week, wish I was more diligent with this, but it's a start. I color coded fruit, dairy, complex carbs, and unknowns like peanut butter and zucchini. Hard to find a solid pattern! But most likely I had a thresh hold effect? Some is OK, but too much is not?

Get more diligent with logging both times and amounts.

Sugar is out of surgery. Whew!

Sugar is sick again!

RUN 5 miles in about 47 mins, LP with a 'pushed' mile around LP

Distracted day, missed work and just tried to keep everything together!

I was going to register for races, but that's on hold for now.

Saw a cute townhouse on Wyoming, loved it! Gotta sell first...

Relapse day 2

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Another not-good morning. And since it's an "off" day training, my nutrition is all I've to talk about today.

Woke up to another rushed T5-6, and after the dog walk had another T6. Ugh.

I've outlined some reset goals
1. Revert to Intro until 2x T4 days.
2. Limit fruit to only 2x daily
3. No food tests until #1 reached
4. Next run, test only a potato
   4a. Test potato night before
   4b. Test potato morning of run
5. No more layering (as in, potato + gel + chestnut all in one day)
6. Slow down when eating
7. No dairy until #1 reached.

I've learned a few things from this relapse at least, but it also has me confused.

1. It wasn't coffee or veggie salads or too much raw veggie
2. I was stressed, but can't definitively blame stress.
3. After last Saturday's post 13 miler T7, it might be tempting to blame running. But I was having this problem in both on and off seasons. So I don't think so.
4. This problem isn't limited to summertime, so I can't blame the heat.
5. I ate gels and potatoes a lot prior, can't pinpoint those.
6. One thing that hasn't changed yet, and something that even TV pointed out on the Saturday drive home, is that I tend to eat a lot of one food at a time. I do that! I'm still afraid of food and when I find something safe I stick to it.
7. Another thing that also really needs to change is HOW I eat, because that's also a factor. On busy or stressed days I tend to eat in a conveyor-belt style at random. It's not a meal, it's a little of this and a little of that repeated for the day. I eat good foods but I couldn't possibly say how much or that I chewed it or that I enjoyed it! I just pop n chop my way through cooking. I stopped doing it when I started the SCD but have relapsed on that too. But I've been doing that a lot more lately, not just this weekend.
8. Too much fruit! I am eating a lot more fruit these past few days and that's a likely blame. Most anyone can eat too much fruit and have problems.
9. The new yogurt and dry curd cottage cheese I was making, new probiotics and dairy at the same time?
10. Overall, I layered way too many variables onto a key weekend and blew up my own experiment. I know better! But I felt confident. Now not so much. I need to be more careful of overdoing a lot of things -- too much of one thing, too many new things, and not eating in a relaxed, mindful way. Those are all factors in this equation.

I'm not discouraged, I did learn a few things.

And as I'm typing this, my stomach burbled...

Gut relapse! And my stool chart guide for runners.

RUN 5.6 miles in 53 ish minutes, from home
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles (yes, on a Sunday)

I knew before I fell asleep last night that I was going to have tummy troubles by the characteristic burbly sounds. And before I fell asleep I noted that my stomach area felt hard or tight. Not sure what that was.

When I woke up, it was the classic symptoms: gotta "go" right after I wake up, fluidy/burbly sounds, and no "waiting" needed (or allowed, as in GO NOW). T5.5, I'd call it.

DAMMIT!

I got the run in with some burbly-ness and spent part of the run mapping out the Bristol Stool Chart in running terms. Starting with constipation: Dead stop, trudge, shuffle, walk, jog, run, sprint. LOL!

Came back from the run, had a T6. Or a run, if you will. Hee hee! Except it sucks.

So analysis time. Factors that could have contributed:
-the run
-the heat
-the potato, gels, or chestnuts,
-the kabocha I ate friday
-all the fruit I ate friday
-yogurt?
--> most likely a combination

To make matters worse, I didn't come up with a plan until later in the day, was rushed, had to go to work, and had a last minute request to see the house -- so I didn't eat much better today either. Tomorrow might be a replay.

NUMERICS!
RUN 40.1 miles in 7-8 hours
BIKE COMMUTE 51.3 miles
WALKIES

We're BACK!

RUN 15.5 miles in 3.5-4 hrs, Chubb

It's our first run back on the trails since KM100, and a big test for me. I've been having energy swings, up and down, high and crash,...so I wasn't sure what I'd get today in terms of having even stable and reliable energy. It's now 33 days into No Starches, no wonder I'm flagging in energy, but what happens today? The outcome of today and next weekend could be the deciding factor for what I sign up for this fall.

We stayed with our initial plan to run Chubb, even after TV heard that the trail was flooded last weekend. On the drive out, I suggested a plan: Over the bluff twice, first time no walking, second time power walking the hills. We parked at the RR crossing, put on some bug spray, and took off.

Happily, I was able to run The Wall and run the entire first 8 miles! No energy crash, no mental break. The second loop was as planned with me working on walking faster. Really gotta work on that. Gorgeous warm day, with some cloud cover. Hot, maybe, but not terribly.

I stopped the Garmin at the picnic table (so did TV!) and forgot to turn it on again until Chinkapin, that's why the time is a guess. It was at least 3.5 hours and I missed 2.5 miles worth of running. Maybe I should just round up to 4 hours.

Today I reintroduced a small russet potato, 2 gels, and a serving of boiled chestnuts as sugars. I was planning to eat the potato last night, but didn't feel like it. Ate too much for dinner, so moved it to brekkie. To my disappointment, it didn't taste good! Was it mental? The gels didn't taste good either. Neither did the chestnuts. Hmmm..

Thursdays are the best. Why is that?

RUN 7 miles in 57 mins

Two minutes faster than last week, ran with new-to-the-group S and DC. I asked DC a few questions about a recent race, got him worked up (in a good way), and we ran fast!

It's my 3rd run in a row each week, yet it's usually my best run! Is it the social? The fact that I'm 'warmed up'? The peer pressure? Mental stimulation?

Whatever it is, it's why I go!

30 days done!

RUN 7 miles in 69 mins, around MoBot, TG, home
BIKE COMMUTE 9.2 miles

Good run, it was originally going to be a run commute but when I learned my water kefir grains were ready to pick up at LHG I changed my plans. Not sure the grains want to go for a run!

My usual Weds run is upwards of 15 miles so I've got some building to do. But for now the training plan is at 10 miles so I'm not far off. The bigger concern is the weekends anyways, can't jump right into a 25+13 weekend!

So yes the run was good, but as it's been for the past few weeks it was flat in terms of energy. There's a good reason for that I'll get to soon enough. But the feeling is like I could run all day long but no faster. There's no acceleration, pep, spark, and even my mental mood is flat too.

The reason? The SCD! Today is day 30, my first benchmark for this test to see if I can rebalance my gut flora and start to have normal BM's and more varied eating. Research for this started way back in April, and I committed to it in May figuring that the month after the Kettle race was the only ideal time for me to try it. I didn't set an end date, figuring I'd go 30 days at a time or just see how things go.

I started tapering off the illegal foods in late May. Slowly cut back my coffee from 6 cups (not mugs) to 2 cups. Quit buying foods with illegal ingredients. And cleaned out the pantry ahead of the race. The official start date was at the end of my sister's visit a week after the race. That way I could eat out with her and be more recovered from the race.

The foods I had to give up: 

• My favorite ginger/orange tea contained "natural flavors"
• My canned tuna had soy
• Canned veggies are illegal due to potential additives
• My mustard had "natural flavors"
• All potatoes, rice, and teff. My main sources of starchy carbs.
• Coffee!
• Seems there were more, but can't think of them now. 

The problems?

• Every morning a T6  on the Bristol chart. I'd wake up and have a messy BM. You could measure my symptoms by how often I had to clean the toilet :(
• Bloating most every evening
• Slowly but surely foods quit working for me, like turnips and rutabagas, so my foods list was getting shorter and shorter
• My GERD symptoms were getting worse, a squeezing tight pressure in my esophagus and more burping
• I was getting more and more fearful of what I could eat, what damages might be happening, and where this would eventually go
• I was OK in most tests, but Vitamin D deficient. Not sure if diet related, though.

The plan:

• 3-5 days of intro diet: gelatin, pureed carrots, and lean proteins
• Then every 4 days introduce a new food. I started with cooked/peeled/pureed zucchini, then over time I've worked up to ripe bananas, tomatoes, non-pureed carrots and zucchini, kabocha squash, butternut squash, cantaloupe, strawberries, blueberries, low lactose cheese, oranges. 
• I alternated between fruit and veggie, and really worked on spices and herbs in the beginning to keep things from getting too repetitive. 
• Over time I've upped the amount of fat per meal.
• This weekend I'm making yogurt!

What I've learned so far:

• So far, canteloupe is out, for now at least. And kabocha needs to be limited. 
• My energy, motivation, mental clarity all suffered in days 5-14. Those were the worst. I was alive but not awake. 
• Oh the coffee withdrawal. And on top of a sugar withdrawal. The cravings weren't bad at all though!
• Might not have been as fat-adapted as I thought?
• But my BM's quickly turned to regular T4!!! And the bloating is almost non-existent. The cantaloupe caused T6, and kabocha caused a "heaviness" in the colon. 
• I've found that betaine HCl are helpful but not required
• I'm only now just testing probiotic pills, I've been OK so far with water and dairy kefir.

What for the next 30 days?

• I want to race again, for that I'll need more energy. I'm going to introduce small potatoes on Friday and Saturday nights before longer runs and see what happens.
• At some point I need to test gels and bars again. They didn't cause direct problems before, but they certainly fed the bad bugs I've worked so hard to diminish!
• I don't want to slide back into a high-carb lifestyle like I had this spring in which cooking a potato was done before I cooked some protein. So I'll just start with the Fri and Sat potatoes for 2 weekends. But at some point I expect I'll build up to the recommended fist-sized serving of starch each night.
• I need more starch options than potatoes! Chestnuts? 
• I want to become more regular and scheduled on the probiotics, right now I forget to take the pills. 

Minding my P's and R's

RUN 5 miles in 47 mins, LP park with pickups
BIKE COMMUTE 10.3 miles

Today's run had pick-ups in it -- brief spurts of "pushed effort". Not sprinting, just pushed a little more. My running is still stale, whether the heat, recovery, or lack of starches, I don't know. But this felt good.

In a podcast the other day, someone mentioned reflections and projections. Mental time wastes, in other words. Could also be called ruminations and perseverations. I find myself doing this sometimes, wasting mental energies on the dumbest things. I can keep me up at night!

So today I re-wrote the script to minding my pushes and recoveries, pick-ups and relaxes, positives and rewards.

I know the phrase is really minding your P's and Q's, but fuk q (HAHA say that out loud) but Q just doesn't fit. Yeah. Fuk Q.

Finally put numbers into a training plan!

BIKE COMMUTE 10.4 miles, added a TG loop in the morning

Gorgeous morning, and knew it would be too hot to enjoy it in the afternoon, so I squeezed in a TG loop on the way to work. This could become a regular thing.

I've been drooling over the idea of another 100 this fall, specifically the OT in November. But my harried schedule and uncertainties have me questioning my ability to get 'enough' training in. Well, I can keep waiting to see what happens, or, I can just go out and run and hope for the best.

I'd like to sign up for the August 22nd race in IL, the Painful Elimination, love the name!, but I wonder if I might  be moving that weekend? The realtor says to budget 45 days to find and buy a new place, and PE is just over a month from now. So I should be OK to sign up for that. It's only $25, and I can make that work.

Today was the first time I looked at the training plan and was able to envision the numbers I'd need to ramp back up to mileage. I started by looking at TV's training plan, he mapped out goal mileage and long run distance to form a 2-line graph. And something just clicked for me!

I've been reviewing my numbers, here's my weekly mileage since the race: 110, 0, 11, 18.7, 18.5, 34.5. Kinda shocked me to see that it's only been that many weeks since the race, as it feels like months! Looking at what I've done so far, it's been a great recovery and the ramp up started out good last week. Can I do 40 this week? It would look like 4+6+7 and 15+9. I think so!

House stalking

RUN 9.4 miles in 94-ish mins, no garmin

Well I started with the garmin. But since I didn't charge it, it died at mile 1.76.

Another busy day ahead so I was up early for this. The plan was 7 miles, to round my weekend out to 20 total. I toyed with the idea of doing 6.9 miles, but only briefly.

I wrote on my hand the 4 addresses I wanted to run by -- potential houses on my shopping list -- and took off towards LP for some extra mileage. It was in the first loop of LP that the garmin died. This put my plans in a spin for awhile. I started mental-mathing known routes, all concerned about getting my 7 miles.

Honest and for true -- if when I got home I added up the route on MMR and found I was short, I would most certainly go back out around the block to round it up!

So instead of my initial plan, I set onto a known route. I knew 2 loops of LP was 4 miles, and that BP and back was 3 miles. Sounds like a plan!

I wander around the BP area, see my houses, lament the terrible sidewalks, have a brief scare of gut cramps about 1.5 miles from home, sip my diluted OJ, and marvel at how fast it got hot. It was only high 60's/low 70's on Thursday!

And once home, I was surprised at the time -- much more had elapsed than I expected. And the reason? I ran more than expected! I added 2.4 extra miles to my run.

No gut problems, no repeat of yesterday. And another hurry hurry day -- I got home from my run and found a showing request on the phone (the irony that yesterday I carried my phone and got no such messages, then today thinking I don't need it I do get the message!).

One thing to note, is that my left hip is popping still. Not sure if I've mentioned this or not? There's a tight hamstring something-or-other, not sure if it's muscle or tendon or what. I feel it when I bend over and stretch the hammy. And the hip socket "pops" when I walk. Not much of a problem when I'm running, but it's probably the running that's causing it? Or the lack of running? Or a latent race injury?

Anyway, NUMERICS! Haven't done these since the race.
RUN 34.5 miles
BIKE COMMUTE 27.9 miles
WALKIES 17.6
and 1.5 hours of strength training. started that up again.

Running on empty

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles
RUN 13.1 miles in 2:04

Went to work, started a PCR, then ran in FoPa during the PCR. I was dragging in energy with my mind trying to talk me into eating pure sugar for fuel. That's the animal mind talking, the rational side knew that wouldn't be a fix but rather a bandaid. I'm in it for the fix. At least 30 days! This is day 26, I've made it this far, I can do it.

Then to my surprise, the run goes great! It was getting warm but I do OK in the heat. I ran out, looped to the VC for 5 miles, then added an out-n-back on Wyd for the mileage. Got back to lab feeling pretty dang good about how that went.

Towards the end of the run, my gut was slightly crampy but nothing major or new. At the very end, I had the urge to "go", but nothing emergency like. I wrote up a few notes, then followed the urge. And here's a TMI warning!! A total T7!!!! WTH!? All liquid and gas. Holy cow, that saying about "never trust a fart" would have been so true here, cuz I thought I would just fart a bit.

Who am I giving a TMI warning to anyway? Not like anyone else reads this...

So what happened? A few points to consider: I ate a small brekkie before going to work, knowing that I'd be running later in the morning. I'm testing butternut squash in the SCD phasing. I took two probiotic pills yesterday (at once) instead of just one or one at a time like I've done the past few days. It was hot out, maybe I reacted to that. It's my longest run since the race. I sipped diluted OJ for energy from my flask.

If I had to guess, I'd say the probiotics? It was just that episode, no other symptoms the rest of the day.

Regardless, I'm terribly happy to have pulled this run off given my energy lags the last few days. No other on-board fuel, just 2oz OJ and water.

Never trust a fart!

OK so no fructose

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

OK so I left off the last post with a plea for energy in the form of honey. I was taken with the idea of going to the farmer's market held here on Thursday's. But I hesitated, read more, hesitated, and talked myself out of it. Fructose is not utilized by all cells in the body, so that's not my answer.

So I'm back to researching starches, specifically thinking a fist sized potato at dinner, and more specifically starches Friday and Saturday nights before a long run. And maybe a BIG fist for sizing.

Energy was better today, and it was a busy one. Looked at houses in the afternoon after work and had a 630pm showing of the house. Planned ahead, and made it work.

Too tired, too foggy. Gotta fix.

RUN 7 miles in under 59 mins
COMMUTE 6.4 miles

For the pre-run, I ate a banana, egg white, and carrot puree. And I think a few strawberries. The goal was to 'carb up' and see how and if it improved anything. I had a good run, I was emotionally flat but awake and moving at a decent pace.

Then I get home. The weather is super cool, in the low 70's and wet so I got cold. I ate brekkie standing at the countertop (again!) and never felt satisfied with it. I drank more water and some warm tea to see if it helped. What didn't help is that I just wanted to nap somewhere, even though I was in bed for 8 hours last night!

So I ate some more, and got myself sick. Here I am hours after eating and still feeling sick. And still having a brain fog and low energy. Here's a report of the last 90 days. I removed the carb foods from the KM100 race day to adjust the graph. I don't know why I just mentioned that.

As can be seen, the carbs dropped after the race, marked by the last high-carb day in that graph. The red line is some 'daily goal' thing from the program, I don't use it, but it's set to 112 grams, and it provides a nice visual aid. 

Fat didn't change much, and protein went up. Not unexpected since the SCD diet pushes protein in place of carbs.  So there's your trouble. 

Now how to fix? For now I need to avoid starches and focus on monosaccharides. I'll get back to starches and complex carbs eventually, just not yet. I'm committed to at LEAST 30 days (today is day 24) and hopefully 60 days. Or by 60 days have more re-introduced. My plan isn't to remain SCD for long or for life, rather I wanted to see if I could improve on the FODMAP limits I had and see if the probable SIBO could be fixed. So the end goal is time to heal, then back to FODMAP with potatoes and maybe rice. Limited rice anyway, for training. I didn't feel mentally good eating it -- set up some weird cravings and fogginess. 

Honey provides the best mono and least sucrose. Bananas, raisins, and strawberries also good ratio of mono's to disaccharide. Oranges are higher in sucrose, so are pineapples. I've already re-introduced banana, raisins, and strawberries. But it's not enough?  

So what next? Well HONEY seems an obvious option! And I just googled a DIY way to make honey stix. Gonna use a FAT straw ;)

Try honey I guess. It's a high FODMAP issue maybe, but that's due to the fructose. I don't know if my problem is with fructose or not. But I've also read that the numbers for fructose are different because over time the honey 'digests' due to the enzymes it has? Look into it. And fat straws!

Wet Wednesday ride

COMMUTE 8.7 miles, extra in TGP

My original plan was to ride longer in the morning, but a soft steady rain kept me from that. I love the rain, but riding the streets in it is not a great idea.

There's been a trend for me lately to run out of energy in the middle of the day. I get a brain fog, I'm clumsy, unmotivated. I think it's a too-low-carb issue with the SCD diet. I'm limiting to one piece of fruit either at dinner or around training, as I'm finding that too much causes problems for the tummy.

Well actually, it's that I randomly munch food lately at dinner, standing at the counter, unsatisfied, and eat some fruit to see if that boosts my energy. So I'm eating poorly (good food, but poor methods) and then attributing that all to the fruit. Sounds like I could test that.

I've been tracking my intake for long enough to view changes. Prior to the SCD I was consuming more like 200 carbs per day, with the caveat that I was training most every day. Now I'm only taking less than 200, and not training every day.

But I'D LIKE TO BE TRAINING! And I'm not because my energy sucks! And don't forget the stress levels, the distractions of buying/selling a house, the sick dog, and etc.

So this needs a fix. I'm reviewing my SCD lists now for sugar options.

Do you need the courtesy shuttle?

RUN 5 miles in about 50 mins, car dealership to work and back

I enjoy "running" errands, this type of errand too. Drop the truck off for oil change and inspections, then run to work. When they ask if I need the courtesy shuttle, happily I don't. And a few minutes later while running I see the shuttle going by and just smile.

Another day, more rain. June was the rainiest on record they're saying, I love me some rain so this this all good. Especially when the 3rd floor door doesn't leak! Basement another story.

The run felt good in the morning, haven't done the afternoon one yet. After work runs are always tricky until I'm warmed up.

Last night I started my strength training 'program', the Nike+ app in my phone! It's basic, simple, mostly body weights, and modifiable. I'm terribly weak at push ups. And it helps to play music from my playlist! I chose 2013 last night, some good Have A Nice Day in that one :)

Goodbye June, Hello July!

Weds I think I biked to work: COMMUTE 6.4 miles
Thursday: RUN 7 miles in 67 mins, not the group run
Friday: RUN 7 miles in ~67 mins, to work and back plus

Typing this up on Monday the 6th, so here I am one month out from the race. I was going to take a month 'off', and well, the the month is up!

And what a month!!!

First off, I started the SCD diet, today I'm 21 days in and finally getting energy back. I'm over the coffee and carb withdrawal I think, but still working out my training fuels.

Sugar is recovered. Thank God.

The house goes "active" tonight, it's ready to go! That prep stress is over, now onto the stress of showing it.

Just saw Dr M, he says skip PT for 2-3 weeks and see how I do with my own strength training. My major problem as described to him was "I feel like I'm losing strength, I feel weak".  I laugh to think he might be testing me, but I don't think so.

Two new songs for the Songlist.
No Doubt's Just a Girl, heard this twice while Sugar was sick.
And Amy Winehouse's Rehab, I said No No No. :)