It was a big day for me over the weekend in my postpartum journey. I went for my first run since having baby number two. I have been seeing pelvic floor physiotherapist on and off since about 8 months after having my first daughter. It has been almost two years now. After my first baby I jumped right back into running after the “6 week” all clear and ran decent half marathon by around 4 months. My body was not ready to be running at the volume and intensity. I was having a lot of floor issues; cramping and leaking with running. It sucked. I thought it would improve but…
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25 weeks and Running = Peeing A-lot!
When the pandemic started I was training to qualify for the Boston Marathon. The training I was doing was more planned out, higher intensity, more training days than I had done in the past. It was with peak performance training and I honestly loved it. Once the pandemic started and it was clear that all races for the year would be cancelled and I wouldn’t actually get to see if I could run the time, I stopped the training program, mostly because I no longer had a goal race for the season and I wanted to give my body the natural rest period. At this time Jake and I also…
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Pushing Through – Running
Today was a good day. It was the day I decided enough of the excuses; I thought to myself “I am going to get out for a long run.” Through the fall and the winter months, I have struggled with being motivated to run. I continued to battle the desire to get back into the regular five to six days running routine. This lead to weeks where I ran five times a week to weeks where I did not run at all. The lack of inconsistency some days has been more frustrating than the lack of running itself. I found the long run during the week was the run holding…
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The Grind: Running Is Not Always Easy & Breaks Can Be Good.
Running the last couple months has been continual uphill battle. The lack of motivation; or I should say the paralyzation of not being near my best running self makes me not want to go at all. The downfall of perfectionism. Running drives my competitive nature; not just simply with other runners but more so with myself. I know that I can be stronger and faster if put into the work. It is one the great things about running; is the results are reflection of the effort that is put in. Over the past year, as I have spoken of many times I was training for to qualify for Boston marathon…
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The Virtual half – Reflecting
It has been around two months since I ran the virtual half marathon. The virtual half was to replace the cancelled Vancouver BMO marathon on May 3rd. The virtual half did not go as I was hoping that it would go. It left me feeling unmotivated and under the running weather for a few weeks. I am happy to say that in the past 2-3 weeks I have been feeling back on track with running and dived back into marathon training at full force. The virtual race day was here and I started day the same as any other pre race morning routine. It was a slightly overcast, cooler day…
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Running when you Can’t Race
It has been something out of story book the last couple months. Sometimes I can not even believe this happening. It has definitely has not been easy. I am lucky my sport is one that can be done totally solo. That being said it has come with challenges and uncertainties. When I found the races were cancelled or postponed I initially really did not know what to do with that information. My emotional reaction was disappointment and anger. Not only is it hard to feel as if your training is going to waste but this was also the year I decided to fully and completely commit to running. To make…
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Run Run Run
Training to get a Boston Qualify time is in full swing now. I did end up hiring a running coach. I am currently working with Peak Run Performance. This is the first time I have not been in control of my own running schedules and in a lot of ways it is really nice to not worry about planning it each week; and making sure I’m getting the right number of intense run days, easy days and rest days. My new training plan has me running 6 days a week. The program is focused on effort and time based running verse pace and distance focused running. This has been a…
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A Year of Running: 2020
It’s a new year, it’s time to start a new training program! This is wonderful time of year that everyone is planning their spring and summer races, setting goals for the seasons. With my mom going to Boston this Spring, and I will turning 30 next year I really want to focus on my running. I want to turn my running fantasies into realties. I am making this year of running. It is going to be biggest personal priority of the year and I am really excited about it. I have also discussed this with husband to; that I really want to focus on running goals this year and I…
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Summer
Sorry for the hiatus on the running front. I have been taking a break from the training aspect of running. I also have been feeling a bit of the post marathon blues. I want to capitalize on my good result at the Calgary Marathon this year. Yet, the timing with my work schedule and other commitments has not aligned for me to run any other races this summer. Not being signed up in race has left me somewhat unmotivated to follow a training plan. Not to say that I do not have goals for the rest of and next season. I do have big goals for the up coming season. I…
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Race Day and Recovery
Pre- Race Day My parents decided to come watch me and my husband run. I love having my parents around to support me on race day, mom has run so many races that I find her presence to be calming, and she just gets it without having to explain. The day before the race Jake and I went for light 4km run with a few strides to finish. The strides were 200m: we built to max effort throughout the 200m, then brought ourselves back to easy pace between each one. The goal is to warm up the muscles, and get rid of the stale feelings from the last week of…
