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When Your Running Nutrition Fails…

Saturday: 15 miles (2:41:33)

My workouts have been full of breakups lately… two weeks ago it was the breakup with BodyPump.  Pulled my left calf muscle during lunges and have been trying to get it back to normal ever since.  This weekend? My breakup with these …

I LOVE the tropical Shot Bloks! What happened?? We had such a good thing going this year and I thought I found a winner for the marathon! Lets go back and recap the 15 miler yesterday morning…

Colby and I drove to the railtrail to run our 15 miles yesterday morning.  It was raining when I woke up and slowed down a bit by 10:30 when we got to the trail and about 50 degrees.  Amy and I rocked some awesome baggy rain jackets and baseball hats and set out for her longest run ever! (I promised her I wouldn’t take a picture of us) We decided to take it easy and aim for a 10:00 min/mile pace so we would feel good, especially with my calf.  I took my 7 mile mid-week long run off on Thursday and I think it definitely helped.  The flat trail running also was great for my calf and it wasn’t much of an issue.

Amy and I love those Shot Bloks. Since a pack of them 2 servings, I was aiming to take one blok every 2-3 miles.  This probably isn’t enough, but I thought for a 15 miler, it would be fine.  We love taking these because they are so easy to swallow and taste great! Little did I know, they were all just sitting in my stomach the entire time and I wasn’t digesting them at all…

I started feeling really dizzy and light-headed around mile 11 and we started taking walking breaks.  We walked almost a half a mile during mile 12 and 15 but Amy was patient with me and we were just so happy our legs felt great.  I was kinda confused on why I was feeling so light-headed.  Since Colby finished so much earlier than us, he drove home and Amy drove me home.  On the ride home I started feeling super nauseous.  About a mile away from my house (sorry for the TMI) I yelled for her to pull over and got sick in someones front yard (oops).  None of my blue shot bloks digested and they must have been sitting in my stomach during the entire run :(  I felt absolutely horrible, but we could not stop laughing as we pulled into my driveway.  It was just such a ridiculous situation :)

I don’t think I can chance it for next weekend’s 16 miler and need to go buy some GU’s.  Last year I used them during my training runs and the marathon and took a chocolate or vanilla every 40 minutes.  I guess I’ll see how it goes next weekend…

When I got home, it took everything for me to shower and get in bed.  I put a towel over my pillow and laid there with wet hair hoping my stomach would calm down.  I drank a ginger ale and it helped a little. After a few minutes Colby asked what he could get me to eat that would make me feel better.

I wanted salt. And LOTS of it and knew that McDonald’s fries would taste soooo good.

I also really wanted a sprite from McDonald’s.  Something about that paper cup and the straw that makes it taste so good when you are sick!  I inhaled my fries and sprite after being home for about an hour and passed out.  When I woke up, I felt SO much better and a little hungry so I was happy to have dinner at my parents and go to see The Hunger Games with my mom and Colby.

Colby just finished the first book this past week and my mom and I read all three books.  I like them, and thought the movie did a good job of fitting almost everything in from book one.  It did seem to go pretty quickly for a movie that was over two hours.  I liked it, but I’m not obsessed.  Not like I am with Twilight… :)

What running fuel do you use? GU? Bloks? Did you ever get sick after a long run?

Did you see The Hunger Games this weekend?

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Skipping A Run

Tuesday: 4 miles (38:56)

Wednesday: 3 miles (29:26)

When is it okay to skip a mid-week run?

For me, I guess it is okay if I skip my 7 tomorrow.  I absolutely HATE to skip my mid-week “long” run.  All I can say is, “whyyyyyyyy BodyPump whyyyyyy?!?!”.  We had such a great thing going for almost a full year! I wrote about it in a previous post, but I definitely pulled a muscle or something in my left calf at BodyPump last Tuesday.  I just just lunging my little heart out and then something didn’t feel right.  I thought it was getting better because it was okay for my 10 mile run on Sunday, but it hurt again yesterday.

I had a really good time running with Amy through an unfamiliar park.  The new scenery was so nice, but it was kinda hilly and every time we ran up a hill I could feel a strain on my left calf.  You wouldn’t be able to tell from the elevation chart Garmin has on my upload…

Come on Garmin!!! What is that?!? How am I supposed to tell anything from that?? Yeah, cause I obviously need to see -200 to 600 ft on the chart…

We ran 3 miles today after school planning to run 7 on Thursday this week.  I just don’t think that 7 is going to happen.  We ran through a different park today with some hills and every time we ran up one I felt like I was limping when I ran.  Probably not the best thing and I should have told Amy (sorry!!) but I thought it wouldn’t be so bad for just a short 3 miler!  I got home and did some hot tub, shower and compression socks that are not coming off until the next shower! I’m just going to take it easy and hope I feel better for my 15 mile run on Saturday!!

Anyone else reading them at the last minute like me? I finished the first two books over the past few days and I’m now on the third.  I even got Colby to read the first one and he is really liking it.  I figure if I can run 15 miles Saturday morning, my reward should be to go to the movies that night!

I really am liking the books a lot and I am excited to see the movie this weekend… but I don’t think they will take the place of my beloved Twilight :)

Is it sad that I’m really excited that the full Breaking Dawn II trailer will be shown before The Hunger Games??  I’ve watched this 15 second clip a bunch of times :)