Can’t believe it has been such a long time since my last blog, time sure does fly! 

At the moment, I’m planning my running summer. There will be a lot of running. I can’t wait. I’ve been diagnosing my issue with training, the fact that I always start strong and then give up after several weeks or months. I think I’ve found the reason. I always start with a bang, way too fast and ambitiously and my training ends up being way too difficult too quickly so I give up. No wonder, I suppose. So now I’m taking a different approach. I’m starting very slowly. Too slowly, maybe, but I will stick to it and see if things turn out better than in the past. I found a great little running program for beginners that I’m following. I am pretending never to have run more than 1 km before in my life and am starting as if I’m a total beginner. This week I’ve had 3 runs, 3km each. Easy peasy you might think. Well, I am embarrassed to say that it is not so easy actually! My running form seems to have forsaken me completely in the last few months (no wonder, I might add!) so now I really am in beginner form. I still feel like I want to run further and faster than I do, feel a bit silly actually. But I will stick to this plan. This coming week it will be 3 runs, 2x3km and 1x4km. This plan does, however, only include running, so I’m thinking to add a little bit of strength training. Will be careful not to overdo it, so I will not be too sore to run, but my muscles are in need of some workouts so I have to include that. Anyway, I’m excited about this summer and have already 10 km runs on my plan, Reykjavik marathon and Oslo marathon. I’m also planning to join a running group through Runners World Norway and hopefully will find some more fun runs to join. It is necessary to have such plans and something to work towards during training, otherwise it just gets boring.  My goal is to run either or both of my 10km runs in 55 minutes or faster!! Ambitious but doable!

Food, food, food. I’m back to eating gluten. It felt very good to be off it but I found that so many gluten free products have sugar/sweeteners in them so I prefer to remove the sugar and keep the gluten. When possible, I remove both. Now a days I keep to a super healthy diet in my everyday life and don’t worry too much about having sweets or other delicious food items on occasion. No extremes any more. I did learn a lot during my extreme weeks, and feel I’m much more able to make good choices when it comes to food. Yesterday, I made ovenbaked salmon with oven roasted vegetables (sweet potato, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, red peppers, garlic and jalapeño), delicious with coconut oil!!! I´m having the leftovers for lunch now J