Training with crows and nearly raw food

Good Morning.

I hope that you all have enjoyed your weekend. I certainly did. Well, what I did on Saturday, you could read in my previous post, except that I stepped on my scale in the morning. I wasn't exactly happy to see the number (66,5 kg), but it didn't down my mood anyway.

Yesterday I slept in, I got up exactly at noon and I wasn't really amused to see it was snowing (growl), but I didn't let it bother me and made my breakfast and put on my running gear. When I finally went out for my training session it was 1 o'clock and had stopped snowing. I walked fast to the track as warm up. Unfortunately the track wasn't completely free of snow, so I was shuffling/walking down the first straight around the curve and to the end of the second straight turned around and walked a bit to get my heartrate down. While doing this I also gave the crows a workout, since they always flew up when I ran in their direction. So we trained together. *grin*

I did some drills too and made an interesting experience. You know this drill where you run sideways switching your feet from front to back? Well, running to the right wasn't a problem. But when I did it to the left my legs and the mobility part of my brain were totally surprised and didn't know what to do. hahaha.

I really had the feeling that the electric impulses were frantically looking for ways to get where they should be, but oh no there were no paths... (Imagine the looks of pure horror on their faces, ahahahaha.) I nearly fell, because my body wasn't ready for these moves. Well after another normal shuffling "lap" I did this leftsided drill again but this time really slow, to get my body and brain to remember the movements and build the necessary neuro paths.

Yesterdays stats (beware: my watch didn't measure right in the first 15 min)
time: 54:36 min
in Zone: 21:36 min
heartrate: 143 bpm

This morning I walked to school, so I already got 5k for this week. Wohoo. And since this is Monday it's SCAL(R)E DAY:
weight: 64,6 kg (wohoo, much better than Saturday, though I probably only lost water)
fat: 29,4%
muscles: 34,1%
water: 51,3%

This is was

yesterdays raw meal.

Salad made of Pastileien salad (the green stuff, I don't know the english name), tomatoes, mushrooms, hemp seed, grinded flax seed, spices, olive oil, pumpkin seed oil, aceto balsamico cremoso and grilled salmon (yeah, I know grilled isn't raw, but have you ever tried deep frozen salmon? Not that good.). Yummy.

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

A track covered with sparkling diamonds

Today Chris and I met at 9:30 AM on the track, to do some track drills and a bit of running. My muscles were still sore from my Sunday sessions and I slept like crap last night. So when I had to get up I was in a foul mood. I got out there anyway and I even wore only my long running tights, not the winter tights. Only? Well, it was just -4° C =24.8° F, which seems warm considering how cold it was on December 20th. Everything was covered with rime, when I shuffled (my slow "run") to the track the gravel looked like some pictures from the scanning electron micrograph.

Then I got to the track and oh this beauty! The sun shone directly on the track which was fully covered with hoarfrost. It looked like it was covered with diamonds or crystals. It was absolutely amazing. I'm so grateful that I was abled to see this. Things like this are a runners reward for getting up, when you could also stay in bed with your sore muscles. I mean, I can say that I practiced on a track of diamonds and Chris too.

Sorry, but I didn't take my ixus with me, so you have to imagine this. A track surrounded by gardens gleaming in the sunshine with millions of diamonds. Just stunning.

The work out went surprisingly well, considering that my muscles were still sore from Sunday. I didn't take my amino acids then, so this is probably the reason for the longer recovery AND that I ate carbs in the evening. I took the amino acids today and what can I say, my body feels better with it. I also found that when I pinch my nose shut, the taste isn't that disgusting.

We marched some laps, did some strength drills I found yesterday on youtube and ran some straights to get our muscles used to the feel of real running. After that we marched some more laps and then departed. She got in her car and I shuffled home. Interestingly, just these two track sessions have already changed my movements when I shuffle (run slow). There is a lot more spring in my steps, if you know what I mean. To me this means I'm on the right track, literally and metaphorically.

Here are todays stats:
time: 1:10:25 hrs
in zone: 36:34 min
HR: 130 bpm

And to make up for the missing diamond track, this:

I took this picture on Christmas Day in front of my Grandmas house. It's not photoshoped, this is how the sunset looked like on that day. Pure beauty.

Keep Running and enjoy natures treats.

Good news post! (edit)

Hi everyone.
The new track training definitely works. I've got sore leg muscles. It's weird, but I'm glad about it.
Today, I'll eat a lot of protein, to help my muscles to recover. Chris will run track with me tomorrow. I'll look up the Runners ABC later, then we can start with it tomorrow too.

Today is Monday, so it's SCAL(R)E DAY.
I don't know how you ate on your holidays, but I ate too much and mostly bad stuff. Which would normally mean that I gain weight.

BUT NOT THIS TIME!

San proudly presents her AFTER-X-MAS-WEIGHT-STATS:
Weight: 63,5 kg (- 1,3 kg! = - 2,87 lbs!) = 139,99 lbs or 979938.2716 grains (hihi)
H2O: 51,8 %
Fat: 29,0 %
Muscles: 34,3 %
Bones: 7,6 kg = 16,75 lbs

WAHOOOOOOOOO!

(new)
I finally got around to do a spreadsheet for this whole scale thing. And what I found in going through the numbers was this: I got rid off 2,4 % of body fat since November 27th!!! Which I consider really good news!

(old)
Chris and I watched "Bright Star" yesterday. I'm sorry to say, but this movie sported a lot of lengths. Though it was beautifully made and the actors were good and Fanny's dresses were great.

Keep running!