I am leaving the UK for the hustle and bustle of Melbourne in late 2012. This blog is to document my journey to improved well being through fitness and weight loss.
I want to leave the UK trim, toned and feeling great about myself!
I'm all about dancing, running, Nike, eating, gossiping and sarcasm :)
Current Challenge: Training for the Edinburgh Marathon 2012!!
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Rest Days.
I have come to realise that rest days no longer mean doing nothing when you are training for a marathon.
They involve stretching and foam rolling and icing and massage and hot baths and easing away the pain of the last run and eating the right foods and taking the right supplements and thinking about the next run.
Not only is this marathon training taking up a lot of my actual time, it is also taking up a lot of thinking time. Am I doing this right? Should I try that? Could I be doing this better? Sacrificing the day to day to focus on me and being the best person I can.
I don’t think there has been any other point in my life when I have felt so dedicated to doing something right. Even when I was a dancer I didn’t stretch properly or eat well and I broke my body down time after time chasing that perfect leap or pirouette, but now as I come up to 30 I am taking some time to do this for me.
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regainingmymoxy said:
I need to roll and steam on rest days!
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daroon-ativity said:
I can’t imagine how satisfying it will be crossing that finish line after all the effort that’s gone in to it!
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jazzie-onamission said:
I was just thinking the exact same thing! It’s fun though, it forces you to learn to listen to your body.
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runningsam said:
It certainly borders on obsession doesn’t it. I think of pretty much nothing else most of the time!
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