I’m
injury free and back on track with my running. Did a fantastic 8K run on Monday
as prescribed in my training plan. Went for the run thinking that I would just
see how it feels, walk a lot and just take it easy, but I just felt great the
whole way through and was even somewhat surprised when it was over. Went on a
second run yesterday, felt great in my body, but had not taken the weather into
consideration before I went out. I started just past 11am and it was way too
hot. We are in the midst of a heat wave here in Scandinavia and I sure got to
feel that in every fibre of my body. Stopped after 6.2K in a 8.2K run, and
walked the rest home having already walked a great deal during the run. So
today, I’m waiting for it to cool down a little more before heading out for my
6K tempo run. It is already almost 10pm so I’m not sure if it will cool down at
all (temps are still in the high 20s), but as I don’t have to get up early tomorrow, I suppose a midnight run
will be perfect. The perks of being on summer holidays! Saturday I will have a
long run, and I’m planning to go running in the woods north of Oslo. Should be
around 13K run. Can’t wait.
Earlier
today I was watching the Forks over Knives documentary, and finally managed to
find my vegetarian project motivation again. Yeah! So, now I’m back on track
towards veganism. No meat, no fish and no eggs. They call that
lacto-vegetarian. Lacto meaning dairy. I still have a couple of pieces of
chicken in my freezer that I will eat before I’m 100% back on track, but
basically feeling very good about it. I guess I needed the break to give my
head a little breathing space to process everything. Changing one’s lifestyle
isn’t an easy task and there are going to be bumps in the road and I’m just
happy to be over this bump, at least for now. We will see how this progresses.
One of my
biggest challenges these days is my serious jelly addiction. The photo below
shows my fix. My drug of choice!
That
moment when you open the bag, and you don’t know if it’s a bag with lots of
yellows and red ones and just a few black ones, or if there are more black
ones. Combining the colourful ones with the black ones, OMG, it is pure heaven.
So good! Now, there are three main reasons as to why I should not eat my
jellies. 1) NO ONE SHOULD EAT JELLIES! No one!! There is nothing good in them.
Nothing at all! You should not eat them and you most certainly should not give
them to your children. They are only bad for you. You could just as well have a
smoke or a joint or give your children some cocaine. Seriously! This is some
horrible stuff, people. Do you know what they put in them? Really? Disgusting,
horrible, sickening stuff!!! I still just love them. 2) As a person training
for a half-marathon and a person with a full marathon ambitions, and a person
working hard on losing weight, eating jellies is not a good thing. I’m sabotaging
my own hard work by succumbing to my sweet tooth. Not that I’m eating this
everyday. It’s like every 3-4 days, I just have this insane cravings and I just
can’t resist. Very weird! 3) As a vegetarian, I obviously should not be eating
jellies as they are made from ... (it is too disgusting for me to talk about it
here, youtube it if you must!). Anyway,
this is my life at the moment. Fighting the jellies!
Love
being on vacation. Even if I’m not travelling much. Just spending my days watching
running documentaries (in the last few days I’ve watched Spirit of the
marathon, Run for you life, Running on the Sun:Badwater 135, The Ultramarathon
Man and Running the Sahara, plus a couple of documentaries on Everest, as well
as some films featuring crazy running/climbing people). Lots of motivation
there. I also bought two marathon training books for my Kindle and am finding
even more motivation there. Got a love having all the time in the world to do
just what you want. I hope you are all enjoying your summer as well.
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