I've been enveloped in a month of helping my husband prepare for his medical school boards in between semesters at school. During this month I've jumped from mission to mission but none has stuck so much as my desire to go the distance. I've begun reading about running, pain all being in my head, mind control, and obsessively reading about nutrition because I have quite a food obsession, passion, issue. A few things have stuck out: barefooting, high raw vegan diets, and mindfulness and mind control. I beat myself up on a daily basis for not taking more time to focus on this while I have the time, before I start my full time fellowship, so I thought this blog might help me really do it and start working towards my goals.
The Veganish is what I call myself. I do not eat cheese, drink milk, eat eggs or consume any other animal products besides the following three items: organic from non-hormoned cows greek yogurt, a dressing that has anchovy paste in it (Galeo's Miso Caesar to be exact), and fish oil supplements from wild caught small fish that I pay a boatload of money for at Whole Foods. I tried to give up these three things to fit the official "vegan" label but then decided that was stupid, since I didn't really want to give them up. I tell everyone I'm vegan anyway, so they won't harass me at restaurants.
The Barefootin' comes in because while I was reading about injury prevention all this new material was available about this trend in the running community. While I'm experimenting I thought why not? I reckon I can become a big old barefooted hippie! Actually, the folks here find that "trendy" and I'm game for fittin' in, since I am in a big city I got some Vibram Five Fingers and will be livin' as much of my life and runnin as much as I can as close to barefoot as I can muster!
The Mindfulness training was brought to my attention by Dr. Joseph Sarno who wrote the book: The Mindbody Prescription. I then read about it through other endurance articles, in Dr. Tim Noakes research, and through reading about mindfulness and meditation. I don't know why it is like pulling teeth to get me to stop watching Top Chef reruns and focus. However, I will try. I also need to get to the bottom of my drive to run Ultramarathons and multiple marathons because I've had it for the past 10 years. I'm just now acting on it, but, better late then never right?
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