runningfool2007 Marathon Training Blog

Well, it looks like I have recovered from the Marathon!!!  I feel like my old self again.  They did say it might take up to a month to recover.  “They” were right.  The marathon was on June 16, and it is July 15 today.

My wife is the pastor of our church, and she’s away for some continuing education courses.  We had a 20 year old from the congregation who just started seminary fill in.  Very strong sermon.  Very rough, but, with training, he will turn into a great leader.  He definitely has the call of God.

Last night after I went to bed, I had a craving for a Dairy Queen.  I’ve been avoiding Dairy Queen ever since I started my weight loss kick.  I’m going over for a small cone tonight.  Should taste good!  I’ve done a good job today avoiding the “nervous” eating.  Every time I felt that I needed to eat something, I had a glass of water instead.  Seems to work!

For those that don’t know, my 16 year old daughter suffers from a condition called POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome).  Basically, what it means is that she’s got an abnormally fast heart rate.  Then, at times, without warning, her autonomic nervous system realizes there’s a problem and tries to correct it by slowing her pulse down to less than 50 beats a minute.  this results in not enough blood getting to the brain, and ends up in a syncopic episode.

Well, we had another spell last night.  I was feeling good just getting off of work going into my vacation.  I walked in the door, Rebecca didn’t look too good.  She didn’t say anything, but I was just uncomfortable with the way she looked.  We decided to go out to dinner.  Just as we were getting in the car, she passed out again.  We brought her to the ER again.  they put two bags of fluid into her, and let her come home.  She’s resting today.  I’ve got a headache today.

Probably won’t work out today.  I may go out later. I’m doing tons of nervous eating today.  Not good

BTW, my wife just left this morning for two weeks away, so…

Well, the new office will take some getting used to.  They have all of us shoved into a space 1/2 the size of what is really acceptable.  We’ll deal with it, but, there is no ventilation to speak of, and the carpeting is new, so we are enjoying the wonderful “new carpet” smell.  I left work with a terrible headache today.  I rode my bike home in the sun.  that seemed to make my headache worse (of course it did).

I popped a couple analgesics, and decided, against my body telling me not to, to go out and get a run in.  I got out about 1 1/2 miles, and my stomach said “Go Home…NOW!”. OK.  I listened to it.  Glad I did.  I just made in the door when my body decided to protest it’s mistreatment.

We’ll try the run again tomorrow.  I’ll make sure I take plenty of breaks at work tomorrow to get out of the work area to get fresh air!

Wow.  I work for an employer that has about 50,000 employees.  We have our own fitness facility.

I just received an email from somebody over there.  They want to use my fitness story on our company newspaper!  COOL!

I’ll sit down in the next couple of days and post my story here for all of you to see.

This just made my day

Health:

• Date: 06/30/2007
• Weight: 177.4
• Mood: Normal
• Resting Heart rate: 60
• Sleep Hours: 7
• Sleep Pattern: Normal