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A running and training blog by Andrea Hill (formerly runlikeagrrl on livejournal)
Last night I was reading an excerpt of “Thrive” by vegan Canadian athlete Brendan Brazier, and in it he mentions that our cells regenerate every 7 years. We all know that. But how do they regenerate? It’s directly tied to what we put in them. We literally are what we eat.
I take a few supplements [...]
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I failed the first test of Canadian childhood: my ankles were too weak to ice skate! I was okay with roller skates, however, and grew to love the more stable quads, which may have contributed to my new life as a roller derby star.
Years later, however, my weak ankles have come back to [...]
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This was a good month:
I hit over 100 miles, which I hadn’t done since May. I ran 19/31 days, and of course scored a big 3 min half marathon PR in Phoenix.
I liked how I’ve started mixing it up a bit, running some shorter harder days on the treadmill. I think it helps [...]
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This week saw a series of setbacks, but thankfully they seem to be more or less over. A week after twisting my ankle last Sunday, there is still some swelling there, although it feels fine. It did cause me to take it easy this week, however. Then I caught a bug that knocked me out [...]
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This week reality (read: roller derby) set in, and running took a bit of a backseat.
Mon: off (but that’s ok; it was the day after a race!)
Tues: Good morning run, 3 miles in 28:31. AvgHR 152, MaxHR 173.
Wed: 1.3 miles at an 8:38 pace before work; AvgHR 152, MaxHR 175; roller derby after work
Thurs: [...]
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Today was our first scrimmage of the new derby season. Scrimmage practices are held every Wednesday. We get into our teams (everyone cleared for scrimmage is drafted to one of three home teams) and play three periods of derby just like a real game, with refs calling points and penalites. Often, our announcers are on [...]
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This week was spent both recovering a bit from a big mileage weekend last week and getting ready for the Rock n Roll Arizona Half.
Mon: Off.
Tues: Unofficial recovery run: 2 miles in 19:59. Avg HR154, Max HR 167. My hips are a bit tight when I’m not running, but fine when I am.
Wed: off
Thurs: [...]
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2009 was a pretty rough year for me, run-wise. This year I feel definitely renewed and ready to go! Although roller derby hasn’t officially started yet, I did have several meetings in the evenings that kept me busy: hopefully once I start skating again I will continue to get my runs in.
I have [...]
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My knee has started clicking again. Sure, possibly related to the fact I’ve run more training miles in the past week than I have since the Spring?? I feel good though: my knee isn’t sore while I run, it just makes noise.
I found some great stretches to do in the latest edition of Advanced [...]
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The other day when I was at the Boulder Running Company by my office, I saw that they were starting runs from the store on Saturday mornings. Well it was just the other day that I was reflecting on missing my Columbus running group, so I headed out the door shortly after 7 this morning [...]
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