A mere two days ago, I ran 3km at a snails pace and felt terrible. It was my first run since being healthy again. Compare that to tonight, when I went for a 6km run in 45 minutes. I felt great from the very beginning. The temperature was perfect at -4 degrees C and the [...]

After being sick for over two weeks, I did my first outdoor activity today: I ran. It wasn’t very long or far, but it sure felt good. It’s nice to use my legs again and get my heart pumping and the sweat flowing. Tomorrow I’m going to swim and go bike riding, but I think [...]

I really have nothing to report. I have been sick since Wednesday night. I caught a chest cold and have decided not to train until I have recovered 100%. Last year a friend of mine trained through a chest cold and it developed into pneumonia. She was out the whole season. So I’m erring on [...]

2007 is definitely going to be one for the books with Ironman, marathon, biking, and lots of training! I’m excited to train hard and be prepared for this year’s triathlon season.

This morning I went on my new year ritual run solo-style. It felt good running today. I really like new beginnings and I look [...]

I started my bike workout today thinking it would be a piece of cake. 1 hour?! No problem! However, about halfway through the workout, my legs were really fatigued. “What is going on?” I asked myself. Then I remembered that I haven’t even been on a bike in a week. A whole week! Usually I [...]

I thought that I would do a lot less training over the holidays than I did, but it still wasn’t very much. On Boxing Day I went on a 6-mile run. It was one of the best runs in the past little while. I was at my parent’s farm in middle-of-nowhere Saskatchewan and my dad [...]

Yesterday was my day off. My hamstrings were still a bit sore, so that was good. I didn’t do a lot of anything, except walking around trying to get Christmas shopping done. This is what I have found to be most difficult: juggling work, training, AND getting ready for Christmas. Really, it’s ridiculous! I’m so [...]

I wimped out yesterday. Yep, I did.

I did yoga in the morning, but was so extremely tired after work that I could NOT make myself get on the bike. It really didn’t help that I had a brutal commute home and was almost hit twice and had a verbal altercation with a guy driving [...]

Monday:
Breakfast: 2 c. oatmeal with 1 apple, 1/4c. soy milk, 1/4 c. hemp seeds, and 1 Tbsp brown sugar
snack: 1 orange
Lunch: 1 black bean burrito (homemade with tomatoes, lettuce, vegan cheese)
1.5 c. lentil soup (with potatoes and carrots)
snack: 1 orange
1 Cliff bar
Supper: organic corn chips with [...]

I found a trick to drinking protein powder:
BANANAS!
Tonight I tried the berry-flavoured Vega protein powder (I bought the sample packages so that I could see what I liked best) with a banana, and some soy milk. It was actually pretty tastey. I would recommend throwing a banana into the mix if anyone ever [...]