Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Training Set Backs

My Spartan and marathon training haven't been going well.  It looks like the Spartan race is at least postponed, and probably cancelled due to Covid-19.  I haven't heard anything about the marathon yet.  We have continued to do some workouts (mostly Beach Body and elliptical), but I haven't been outside running for over a week.  I'm going to try to get back into everything.  Even if the races aren't on I would still like to continue the training.  Hopefully things will get back to normal eventually and we can sign up for some kind of race.

I don't have much else to say.  Everything kind of got off track because of the shutdowns and depressing news.  Hopefully I can snap out of it soon.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Spartan Training

I haven't been working out nearly as much I should be.  Last week my wife and I took our kids and ran/walked down to the kid's school.  They have a pretty nice set of monkey bars, some rings, and some other equipment to climb on.  We stayed for a while and played on those and let the kids play on the slides and swings.

Today we road our bikes to the school and did some of the same exercises.  They also have some tires buried half in the ground.  We climbed on and over those a for a while for wall climbing practice.  The monkey bars are about seven feet tall.  I have been trying to jump up from the side and climb over, but I can't quite do it.  I can get my elbows up on the top, but I can't lift myself from there.  I'm going to practice some more on the wall that we have at home (I put in a 4 ft and a 7ft wall to practice on).  On the wall I can do it, but with nothing to push my legs against I can't quite get up there.  I'll keep trying.

In between these two workouts I have only been doing a few pushups, pullups, and situps here and there.  I need to get started working out daily again.

Sunday, March 1, 2020

The Marathon Book and Eating

As I mention previously I have been reading this book (Marathon You Can Do It! by Jeff Galloway) https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004I6D6WG&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_LyVuEb2THE86S

In the early parts of the book he mentions food a few times, mostly just to say that you could run into problems if you blood sugar gets too low when you are eating.  Later in the book he has several chapters on eating.  The advice he gives is almost the opposite of the way I have been eating.  Not that it is his fault, the advice he gives was and maybe still is the advice given by doctors and many other people.  He advises eating a low fat low sugar diet, but at the same time most of the foods he recommends have large quantities of sugar.

I will be continuing to eat the way I have been eating.  This includes lots of fat and very little sugar and carbs.  This has been working very well for me.  I started eating this way after reading Deep Nutrition https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Nutrition-Your-Genes-Traditional/dp/1250113849.  In that book she advises avoiding sugar and vegetable oil as much as possible.  Sugar I already knew caused a lot of issues, but most of what she said about vegetable oil was new to me.  I feel much better and have less health issues for sure though since changing my diet.

I eat more fish than I used to.  I tried sardines recently for the first time.  I have been using bone broth and sometimes just drinking it.  Beef broth is pretty good just warmed up with some salt and pepper.  For chicken broth I add some coconut milk, or recently I found that it is very good with some butter melted into it.  I have also been making my own sauerkraut.  Sauerkraut is a very good probiotic if you make your own, or buy fresh sauerkraut that is refrigerated.

That's all for now.  My plan is to keep posting mostly about the training as I am able to run further and faster.