Pammie’s No crisps or Coke Diet

Two of my favourite things. But not good for you.

Today i weigh 10st 1½ lbs i have been trying to lose the fat for the last 4 weeks via this website http://forums.ausrun.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=47226#47226 it has been encouraging but i haven’t been successful well 2½lbs to date. So the time has come for drastic action. Last Year i did weigh around 8st 10lb (i’m 5′4″ , or rather just a little under) have a small frame so that was quite an ideal weight which i was happy with. But when i stopped running after the Dublin Marathon, till April the weight crept on and have been trying to lose it again. But sensibly

I started the thread on 18th October 2003 and weighed 9st 13½lb Body fat 35% heres the thread here http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/forummessages.asp?UTN=23336&URN=4&dt=4&srchdte=0&cp=1&v=1&sp= the purpose of me looking back on it is to look for clues to what i did

Main things it seemed is giving up coke and crisps and running long distances (well about an hour most days) i have noticed i did do it in 2002 with no running and lost 10lb lb 6 weeks so guess i have a lot to learn from that.

I’m back running 30-40 minutes 3-4 times a week i need to omprove on that and give up my bad habits

Biking rowing and running

This week hasn’t been too bad, training wise. So things looking good. Have decided am going to try and get to the gym 3 times a week (4 visits this week) and use the rowing machine and use it to compliment my running, hopefully this will make me stronger, its low impact so less weight bearing, good for my joints. The running i’m going to do is now going by Heart Rate try and keep it under 70% WHR keep my runs easy, i want to get back running for an hour most days if i can (this worked for me before) and then when i can do that i’ll introduce some quicker stuff. At the moment my Hard Training to coin a phrase will be on the rower. Another decision made when at the gym i will do my warm up on the bike i’m sure that will help too. So here is what i’ve done this week

Monday Bike 7.34km Row 4043metres Run 3.2km

Tuesday Bike 6.7km Row 2518metres

Wednesday Run 5.1km

Thursday Bike 7.65km Row 6405metres

Friday Run 5.09km

Saturday Bike 14.7km Row 4914metres

Sunday Run 5.1km

so 36.39km bike, 17880metres rowing (thats just over 11 miles) and 11½ miles Run

What did i say

Ok what did i say i was going to do today. Oh that was it 2 minute run walk 1 min repeat for around 20 minutes. What did i actually do i ran 2 miles in  about 22½ minutes. It was on  the treadmill. It was slow, 8.5 km/hr upping it to 8.6 after the 1st km. felt ok no adverse reaction from ankle truth will be told tomorrow morning, but it feels ok, not 100% but a whole lot better than it was.

Of course it being in the gym 7½km warm up on the bike folled by 25 minutes on rower about 3543metres, rested and did a further 500metres concentrating on form. As my form isn’t perfect and with the right form i can get further on  each stroke than i currently am.

Baby steps

Baby steps, thats my new phrase, motto whatever you like to call it, taking small steps don’t run before you can walk and all that.

On Thursday about 12 days since my last run i went out to test my ankle planned on running 1 minute, walking 1 minute (x 10) i managed about 6 before decided to leave it for the day. Ankle was hurting slighyly. That afternoon i went to a running shop that does a video gait analysis, to see how i run. It was interesting watching my running on the tv screen. Yes my right foot does over pronate but only slightly not much to worry about i’ve come to the conclusion that the cause of my problem is a pair of shoes shoes i did my interval session in plus the 5km race in. So i’m not wearing them anymore.

On Friday i went to the gym and warmed up on the bike for 20 minutes, moved onto the rower for another 20 minutes and finished on the rower for (10 x) run 1 minute walk 1 minute. Mission accomplished. felt good easier on the treadmill no reaction from ankle till i accidently hit the speed button making the treadmill go at 9km/hr.

Tomorrow back to gym, will try 2 min reps, but will try and keep up with the rowing even when ankle is completely healed

still no running

Today is my eighth day of no running. But have been able to walk about a bit more still hurts a bit but not as much as yesterday which was better than the day before. I think the combination of  rest plus the inserts (gel heel cradles) have been helping. At least today my calf hasn’t been reacting have been giving foot and calf self massage don’t know if thats helped it seems to though.

Been practicing on my wobble board too which has been  a lot of fun determined to get strong and get running again but i know i have to be patient and hope i’m not off running too long. Well thats all i can think of to say I guess the best bit of advice i can give myself is wit till i can walk pain free before even starting to run. That is what i have to do.