WORK HARD. DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO STAND OUT & TO SHINE. KEEP LEARNING EVERYDAY. GIVE OUT GOOD ENERGY TO THE CHALLENGES YOU FACE. WHEN I FIRST STARTED OUT I HAD NOTHING BUT DREAMS & WILD AMBITION. I REMEMBER EATING TOAST & MARGARINE FOR MONTHS BECAUSE THAT WAS ALL I COULD AFFORD. I'LL NEVER FORGET THE KINDNESS & WISDOM FROM BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WHO TOUCH POINTED MY LIFE. IF YOU WORK HARD YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING & GREAT ANYTHINGS. STAY POSITIVE & USE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THE NOW AS YOUR LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE. DO EVERYTHING WITH A GOOD HEART. TREAT PEOPLE HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED YOURSELF. GIVE YOURSELF LOVE & SUPPORT. BE THANKFUL FOR THE GUIDANCE & FLOW THE UNIVERSE OFFERS YOU. & MAKE YOURSELF PROUD THROUGH YOUR WORKING HARD. OFFER LOVE & COMPASSION TO THE WORLD AROUND YOU. & WORK HARD FOR THAT EFFECT.
By me. Today. XOX
My ULTRA MARATHON run training, health & fitness diary to inspire & exude amazing energy. Sharing my creative adventures in veganism to power me through the distances. & quoting my spiritual enlightenments along the journey...... With my musings & motivation thrown in the healthy trail mix. Gotta keep righteously running like the wind to be free!!! XOX
Monday, 31 March 2014
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
raw eating & running
I'm thinking of a raw eating month. RAW.
Radical.
Action.
Wild.
There are a few raw food restaurants in my vegan friendly vicinity which I think I can really make use of! I was inspired by this crazy cool couple..
What an amazing adventure, beyond inspirational, an ultimate challenge of strength & for a truly awesome cause - Animals Australia.
& in honour of the pair I'm going to follow a vitamin packed diet of rawness too. Starting from right now.
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/running-raw-around-australia-world-records.php
Radical.
Action.
Wild.
There are a few raw food restaurants in my vegan friendly vicinity which I think I can really make use of! I was inspired by this crazy cool couple..
What an amazing adventure, beyond inspirational, an ultimate challenge of strength & for a truly awesome cause - Animals Australia.
& in honour of the pair I'm going to follow a vitamin packed diet of rawness too. Starting from right now.
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/running-raw-around-australia-world-records.php
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
give me strength!
My mam used to look up to the heavens & proposition to the sky this quotation, most likely when my brother & I were raving & misbehaving! Now I am asking the exact same - please give me strength - because I'm all out of the sacred stuff!
I'm feeling sad. Feeling slow. Even my run to work is hard work. So after a week of wallowing I'm accepting my slump as a step back but from now on I'm making only forward motions.
I've lost a little confidence - you're only as good as your last run so they say (they don't really I just made that up but that's just how I feel) & so I've got a plan to propel me back onto my happy fitness vibin' planet. I need a rocket up my ass!!!
So they do actually say 'it's a marathon not a sprint' (who the hell are 'they' anyway!?) & with marathon training we know you have to build, increasing the distance & dynamics each week. I am going back to basics. I'm going to start at the beginning again with a training plan that I can see results to give me my belief back.
I'm starting with PT tonight. & a speed hill set tomorrow (sounds scary but something I could smash out six weeks ago!!) I'm going to listen to my body, be attuned to my anatomical cries for help! & I'm going to get back to mountain stampede fitness slowly but surely - just like running an ultra! Hope to feel fine for a Sunday morning long(ish)run...
I've got a lot of mileage to make up - there is a 250k desert run looming in the hazy distance. I need to focus. Now where did I put my 3rd eye?
I've got to use all of my motivations to find my luv & joy for the act of running again, I know it's in there & I know when I am out on the trails again I'll find my happy place. Here's some motivation for your day from me to you & I'm looking forward to getting to the guilt free chips running days ahead!! XO
Monday, 10 March 2014
Mount baw baw baw
I am compelled to share my story of mount baw baw. The mountain where my spirit was crushed to mush. But ever the optimist I have taken many positives from my experience - you can't win 'em all - or even finish them in fact.
Now I'm not going to make excuses but I'm going to take the lessons learnt & put this race into my personal perspective to ensure that my next endeavours are given the best possible preparations & intentions.
So it was only a week after I touched down from my globe galavanting with only a few training runs, with little yoga, less sleep, much jet lag, flying through the worlds' time zones on flights takes it out of your legs as well as feeling physically drained & emotionally strained.
Well, I had the (slightly ambitious) idea to run a marathon in the mountains on my first weekend back!
I would honestly say my emotions were feeling fraught I found my solace in secret 3am cookie fests! The sugar cravings & lack of routine aren't conducive to good energy & feeling light, bright & breezy. & then throw in a stress fractured fashion filled full week at work. I was playing catch up on finding fitness & with restful sleeps proving elusive I knew that this was not the best way to ready myself for an intense trail run challenge & so the mental lack of confidence starts to eat away at your soul with negative niggles.
We arrived up at the alpine ski resort late on the Friday night & with a 5.30am start to the day there was not going to be the much rest needed but that's pretty standard in pre-race sleep or lack of shut eye! We got the bus to the start line, an hour down hill from where we would finish - a long way up! Now the nerves start with verve.
I am always excited at the start of the race, I am learning not to get too carried away with early energetic enthusiasm & to slow to a comfortable pace until I warm up. & I have in the past had a sense of a slug, slow to get it on, but this morning I just felt heavy & my heart felt unsteady.
I ran 6 min k's for the first 10k, an easy pace for the normal me. I was running through stunning undulating trails with a light drizzle, it should have been a perfect race & pace. Hell I managed to avoid the leeches lurking in the misty midst of ferns & bush I fought throughout.
But at 11k when the ascent started to test & try, I tried. I slowed to keep my heart rate down, had a gel & power bar, lots of water & put my mind over matter hat on. That hat fell off somewhere on one of the steep stretches. My legs burned. My head turned to stopping. I got to the point when I couldn't hardly walk, even digging deep with motivating meditations my pains reverberated. I soldiered on as I reached the end of the trail I found some fortitude.
With 2k on a track to the 22k checkpoint I thought I could compete. That was until I tried to pick up my feet. I found a severe lack of strength & stamina in my tired legs & with broken spirit I resigned myself to withdraw as I hobbled downhearted down to the tent to where I could take myself out of this trauma!
As soon as I stopped I knew I had made the right decision for my body, you must listen to your body, no mind was going to get me through another 20k.I was pretty ecstatic in fact that I had managed a tough half marathon. I didn't irreparably injure myself & I recovered to enjoy a luvly glass of Pinot noir.
& I also got up on the Sunday to run in the 13k mini trail in the morning sun. I'd luv to say I had a great run, the setting was beyond beautiful but I still felt frustrated with my lost fitness & I wasn't feeling fabulous but I still struggled with condidence & only just coerced myself to finish. I have a long way to go to get my movement & mojo back. But I am going to keep getting up early, putting my runners on & stretching it out until I get there, wherever that may be.
My education from this exercise - training & preparation, rest & relaxation, appreciation & consideration of fitness. I look forward to visiting mount baw baw again sometime soon to show some respect to the awesomeness of the alpine mountains....
Now I'm not going to make excuses but I'm going to take the lessons learnt & put this race into my personal perspective to ensure that my next endeavours are given the best possible preparations & intentions.
So it was only a week after I touched down from my globe galavanting with only a few training runs, with little yoga, less sleep, much jet lag, flying through the worlds' time zones on flights takes it out of your legs as well as feeling physically drained & emotionally strained.
Well, I had the (slightly ambitious) idea to run a marathon in the mountains on my first weekend back!
I would honestly say my emotions were feeling fraught I found my solace in secret 3am cookie fests! The sugar cravings & lack of routine aren't conducive to good energy & feeling light, bright & breezy. & then throw in a stress fractured fashion filled full week at work. I was playing catch up on finding fitness & with restful sleeps proving elusive I knew that this was not the best way to ready myself for an intense trail run challenge & so the mental lack of confidence starts to eat away at your soul with negative niggles.
We arrived up at the alpine ski resort late on the Friday night & with a 5.30am start to the day there was not going to be the much rest needed but that's pretty standard in pre-race sleep or lack of shut eye! We got the bus to the start line, an hour down hill from where we would finish - a long way up! Now the nerves start with verve.
I am always excited at the start of the race, I am learning not to get too carried away with early energetic enthusiasm & to slow to a comfortable pace until I warm up. & I have in the past had a sense of a slug, slow to get it on, but this morning I just felt heavy & my heart felt unsteady.
I ran 6 min k's for the first 10k, an easy pace for the normal me. I was running through stunning undulating trails with a light drizzle, it should have been a perfect race & pace. Hell I managed to avoid the leeches lurking in the misty midst of ferns & bush I fought throughout.
But at 11k when the ascent started to test & try, I tried. I slowed to keep my heart rate down, had a gel & power bar, lots of water & put my mind over matter hat on. That hat fell off somewhere on one of the steep stretches. My legs burned. My head turned to stopping. I got to the point when I couldn't hardly walk, even digging deep with motivating meditations my pains reverberated. I soldiered on as I reached the end of the trail I found some fortitude.
With 2k on a track to the 22k checkpoint I thought I could compete. That was until I tried to pick up my feet. I found a severe lack of strength & stamina in my tired legs & with broken spirit I resigned myself to withdraw as I hobbled downhearted down to the tent to where I could take myself out of this trauma!
As soon as I stopped I knew I had made the right decision for my body, you must listen to your body, no mind was going to get me through another 20k.I was pretty ecstatic in fact that I had managed a tough half marathon. I didn't irreparably injure myself & I recovered to enjoy a luvly glass of Pinot noir.
& I also got up on the Sunday to run in the 13k mini trail in the morning sun. I'd luv to say I had a great run, the setting was beyond beautiful but I still felt frustrated with my lost fitness & I wasn't feeling fabulous but I still struggled with condidence & only just coerced myself to finish. I have a long way to go to get my movement & mojo back. But I am going to keep getting up early, putting my runners on & stretching it out until I get there, wherever that may be.
My education from this exercise - training & preparation, rest & relaxation, appreciation & consideration of fitness. I look forward to visiting mount baw baw again sometime soon to show some respect to the awesomeness of the alpine mountains....
Thursday, 6 March 2014
running inspo
Sometimes a lass needs a bit of inspiration. This is my aspirational body babe. Fit & fabulous! Ab-tastic & awesomely toned. Strong & sexy. Super hot runner. Go girlfriend...
Saturday, 1 March 2014
luvly lemon balls
- I'm entered into the Mount baw baw running festival next weekend, a 42.2k mountain trail marathon on Saturday & a 10k run backing it up on the Sunday just to get myself back into the swing of all things fitness & fanatical running. Having lost a little strength & speed over the last few weeks of flying around the worlds time zones & only 1 run!! I am going to ashtanga yoga this morning followed by a strength training session & with a long(ish) run tomorrow morning - a 30k flat course will put me back on the proverbial track for next weekend, here's hoping!
- & I have a new recipe for blissing out & or powering up - bliss balls with a cashew crunch & lemon lushness. Blend all the beautiful ingredients together, roll into balls & roll in the coconut for balls of fun to help on a run, or for before mount baw baw or as a finishing the run reward!
- 2 cups cashews soaked
- 1 cup dates
- 2 tblsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tblsp chia seeds
- 1 tsp coconut oil
- 1 cup coconut
- Zest finely grated from 1/2 lemon
- 1 tblsp agave nectar
- 1/2 cup coconut for rolling balls in...
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