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The week of so-called “easy”

Diabetes, Running, Training

Easy schmeasy! According to our running program, this week is classified “easy” week, but I think the designer of the program uses that term a little too freely. On Tuesday, we had to run 40 minutes with 20 minutes at lactate threshold pace (for me: between 5:00 and 5:20 min/km) and the only way I can see that as being “easy” is that, unlike the previous week, we were allotted a 2-minute walk break to split the 20 minutes into two segments of 10. While I wasn’t anywhere near puking, and felt I could definitely keep the pace going, I was sucking back wind pretty good. And then there was tonight’s “easy” run, where we ran 30 minutes with 10 intervals of 30 seconds each at 3 km goal pace (for me: between 4:30 and 4:50 min/km) with a 30 second walk between each. The goal for tonight was not […]

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Beer-licious birthday

Personal, Running, Uncategorized

Another year has passed and Big Ring is still alive! Last Thursday was Big Ring’s birthday and we celebrated over three days: presents on Thursday; cake and friends on Friday; and my I-Only-Cook-Once-A-Year Birthday Feast on Saturday. Because this year had beer prominence for us throughout (a craft brewery opened up five minutes down the road; several of Big Ring’s rides with his riding group this summer had beer stops along the way; and when my Belgian cousins (Hi Martin and Cristal!) came for a visit, we designed a beer tasting with several stops throughout the Lower Mainland for them to compare their top-notch beers with our local ones), I decided to make Big Ring’s birthday a beer-themed birthday. What goes with beer? Salty snacks. Cheeses and salamis. Chocolate stout cake. Growlers of beer. Bottles of beer. Even beer floats. Yes folks, we had beer floats! And, last but definitely

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Running roller coaster

Diabetes, Running

For those of you keeping tabs, and thank you so much for doing so, the results of the run vs. sloth week are as follows: Run: 4 Sloth: 0 While I know I am the only one who can truly get me out the door running, it helped HUGE knowing that I’d hear from a few of you if I didn’t. This week could easily have been a one or none kind of running week. There were excuses aplenty to be had: It’s New Year’s. It’s cold. I have no one to run with. I’m tired. It’s raining monsoons. But, your words of encouragement; your words of prodding; and for some of you, your commitment to get out there running with me, either alongside or from afar, meant a world of difference. Seriously, thank you. Four in the pocket for the week is a fantastic way to end my three-week

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Where for art thou washroom?

Diabetes, Running

Eep! It’s 2015, how the heck did that happen? Big Ring and I aren’t big partiers; we rang in the New Year pretty much just like we do any other day. We did have dinner after Little Ring went to bed, which we don’t normally do, but the last day of 2014 was apparently supposed to be a special one, if social media is any kind of indication, so we figured we’d change it up. We had thought about renting a movie, but finding something via iTunes can be frustrating at the best of times (we miss video stores) and before long I had lost my mojo for watching a movie. We finally settled in for an episode of Million Dollar Listings (been binge watching it for the last week) and were in bed by 11:15, lights out by 11:30, one of us softly snoring by 11:33. Happy New Year!!!

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Photographic evidence: death by hills

Running

She was sick! Sick! Like seriously sick. She had a cold. She had a flu. She had a fever, chills, nose red raw from wiping, stomach queasy, lungs feeling as though the weight of the world was standing on them. She had been bedridden for days and was only just recovering. And STILL she came out for a run. “Katie needed me,” she said. Wow. That is not only hardcore, it’s a big, huge slap in the face to the flu gods saying eat this jerk faces! And it was seriously pretty freaking awesome for me too! It was very much the kick in the butt I needed to get me and my sneakers out the door. I am LOVING my new running chicks! YESTERDAY’S HILLS: 6 p.m. BG before: 5.4 Carbs: 1/2 banana, no bolus Temp. basal: -100 per cent (too much) Workout: 8 x 75 second hill repeats

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