So, I had a very interesting experience this weekend I want to share. A few weeks ago I decided to finally get it together and race a 4 miler. I have been lifting like a maniac for the first time, and despite being stuck on a treadmill for the past few months, I finally feel like I am starting to get some speed back. Well, the race was a gigantic cluster-f. I felt terrible, and got bumped from second to third female in the last 400m. Walkers totally got in the way of the front runners, and had a shit fit when I gave them the customary "on your left". A group of women actually did the mean girls style "Oh My God! She said 'Runners on left' What a bitch!". Seriously, you are a WALKER. Get out of the way.
I finished with an okay time of 25:08. I get that this is a 6:17 mile pace, and many people would die to be able to run that fast, HOWEVER, it felt terrible, and it was just a poor race in general.
So, my dumb self decides to post my time and place on the page of a certain running group (of women no less) and gets absolutely ripped to shreds. Mind you, this is a group where women post all the time about their accomplishments and get serious accolades for doing things like "running for a whole 5k-no walking", or placing in an age group at a 5k. So, apparently, when I posted a fast time and followed it with the comment that it was an "ugly race, but getting better" that pissed some of them off. I got "you should consider the audience of the group and not post times like that", and "the time that you are complaining about many would love, just saying'". Wow. High school style much? I guess it doesn't matter that I work out super hard, live a clean lifestyle, pay for races, coach, volunteer, etc. I guess I am just a show off and a bia-tch. I like to refer to this conundrum as "fast shaming". We are supposed to praise the 45 minute 5k runner for such a wonderful accomplishment, and the six hour marathoner for "sticking with it", but if you run a fast time, even not as fast as you feel you could have, you shouldn't boast of even speak of it for that matter.
I have certainly learned my lesson. No longer will I put up times in a group of women. They can wallow in their own self-rigeousness and keep congratulating eachother for their "accomplishments".
I'll just post on the pages of my FAST friends.
Keep running.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Life is not easy
Hello again friends.
As you may or may not have seen, my blog has changed directions a bit from being recipe/vegan based into more of an all around training/advice format. Just trying something new.
Let's take a minute to address reality. At least once a week, I hear someone say, "I'd get in shape if I had the time", or "I really want to..."-but THEY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. Talk is cheap. I am a mom to a four year old, and a four month old, I work, go to graduate school, volunteer, keep a clean house, cook, and a zillion other things but somehow I still find time to break a sweat almost every day. Everyone is busy, but if you are too busy in your 20's, 30's, and 40's to get your shit together, you might not be around to enjoy your 60's, 70's, and 80's. I'll be the first to admit that there was a time in my life when my priorities were a hot mess, but I decided to take action and make a change.
I am not sure who came up with the mantra, "trust the process", but that is what I do every day. Life is a journey and if you can make a goal and a road-map that you actually follow to get to your goal, the possibilities are endless. By saying that, let's get real. I am 5'3" and no matter how hard I work at it I will never be a pro basketball player, so keep a realistic perspective and make your goals attainable.
While coaching I have tried to instill "positive optimism" in all of my athletes. Visualization of winning a race (or finishing a race) can be extremely helpful. If you believe it, it can happen. Trust in your own abilities and gifts and find the strength to keep moving forward. This is not the time for excuses. Get up off your ass and be the change in your life.
That is all, next week I'll start adding some pretty sweet-ass videos so check it out.
As you may or may not have seen, my blog has changed directions a bit from being recipe/vegan based into more of an all around training/advice format. Just trying something new.
Let's take a minute to address reality. At least once a week, I hear someone say, "I'd get in shape if I had the time", or "I really want to..."-but THEY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. Talk is cheap. I am a mom to a four year old, and a four month old, I work, go to graduate school, volunteer, keep a clean house, cook, and a zillion other things but somehow I still find time to break a sweat almost every day. Everyone is busy, but if you are too busy in your 20's, 30's, and 40's to get your shit together, you might not be around to enjoy your 60's, 70's, and 80's. I'll be the first to admit that there was a time in my life when my priorities were a hot mess, but I decided to take action and make a change.
I am not sure who came up with the mantra, "trust the process", but that is what I do every day. Life is a journey and if you can make a goal and a road-map that you actually follow to get to your goal, the possibilities are endless. By saying that, let's get real. I am 5'3" and no matter how hard I work at it I will never be a pro basketball player, so keep a realistic perspective and make your goals attainable.
While coaching I have tried to instill "positive optimism" in all of my athletes. Visualization of winning a race (or finishing a race) can be extremely helpful. If you believe it, it can happen. Trust in your own abilities and gifts and find the strength to keep moving forward. This is not the time for excuses. Get up off your ass and be the change in your life.
That is all, next week I'll start adding some pretty sweet-ass videos so check it out.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Hello again friends!
Sooo, I took a little hiatus to birth a child and all of that fun stuff, but now I am back and better than ever. Or something like that. For this post I want to address the ever-elusive "New Year's Resolution Monster".
At the beginning of December every year I start to dwell on the fact that another year is waning and I obsess about everything I said I was going to do at the beginning of the year. Typically, I make a dumb resolution like eating better or going to spin class every week, and like most people I give up on that around March-ish. Luckily this past year was completely different.....My goal was to see how much I could do in 2013. And shit, I did a lot.
My husband and I started off the year by finding out we were going to have another rug rat. At first I was totally overwhelmed and wished black death to his man-junk, but eventually I got over that and semi-enjoyed getting gigantic in the midsection and peeing every second.
Next we bought a jeep. This might not seem note-worthy to some people, but it was my last hold out before becoming the suburban-SUV driving-soccer mom.
We actually went on a for-real family vaca to Arizona where we hung out with family, had multiple heart and panic attacks at the Grand Canyon, and I got to ride on a plane with a three year old. All things considered, it was a great trip.
THEN I finally graduated from college and got accepted into grad school.
And we bought a new house. In the burbs. Now I really am THAT mom.
So that was 2013. Any-who, back to my original point....instead of failing at another resolution I am resolving to "GSD" (getting shit done). Please join me and let's make this a year for the books.
Keep truckin friends.
Sooo, I took a little hiatus to birth a child and all of that fun stuff, but now I am back and better than ever. Or something like that. For this post I want to address the ever-elusive "New Year's Resolution Monster".
At the beginning of December every year I start to dwell on the fact that another year is waning and I obsess about everything I said I was going to do at the beginning of the year. Typically, I make a dumb resolution like eating better or going to spin class every week, and like most people I give up on that around March-ish. Luckily this past year was completely different.....My goal was to see how much I could do in 2013. And shit, I did a lot.
My husband and I started off the year by finding out we were going to have another rug rat. At first I was totally overwhelmed and wished black death to his man-junk, but eventually I got over that and semi-enjoyed getting gigantic in the midsection and peeing every second.
Next we bought a jeep. This might not seem note-worthy to some people, but it was my last hold out before becoming the suburban-SUV driving-soccer mom.
We actually went on a for-real family vaca to Arizona where we hung out with family, had multiple heart and panic attacks at the Grand Canyon, and I got to ride on a plane with a three year old. All things considered, it was a great trip.
THEN I finally graduated from college and got accepted into grad school.
And we bought a new house. In the burbs. Now I really am THAT mom.
So that was 2013. Any-who, back to my original point....instead of failing at another resolution I am resolving to "GSD" (getting shit done). Please join me and let's make this a year for the books.
Keep truckin friends.
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