Beautiful day today! I learned my lesson from last time and wore two layers of shorts today instead of capris. Appreciate my bravery: I've been freezing inside for about the last week and the only way I can feel semi-not-chilled is to wear tights, pants, thick socks, shirt, and thick sweatshirt! I nearly caved in the first two-minutes to go back for more layers, but I was sweating by the end, so it all worked out. :)
Daisy, however was being an awful running partner today, so that coupled with getting a phone call mid-run kind of screwed up my run/walk ratio a bit. Here's the rundown:
Week 2 - Day 2
1 min run / 1 min walk
Time: 23:30 min
Distance: 2.5 km
Calories: 152.8
Avg. Speed: 6.5 kph
Avg. Pace: 9.3 min / km
I was a little hesitant to mention this before, but I'm hoping I'm out of the woods now, so here it goes. On Friday, I started a (hopefully) 10-day juice fast. Friday's morning run was unaffected because I usually don't eat anything before a morning run, so my body didn't know yet that breakfast would not be immediately following my run. I was pretty worried that I wouldn't be able to keep up my running schedule and also worried about the swim and skills test I'll have to do next Sunday (Juice Fast day 10).
Day 1- Friday was tolerable. The first half of the day was totally fine and I was kind of hungry the second half of the day.
Day 2- The first half of Saturday, however, was AWFUL. For starters, I have to get up at 5 am on Saturdays and juice was
not what I wanted to be reaching for! I lifeguard Saturdays and one of the girls teaching was like, "WHAT are you DRINKING??!!?!" I briefly explained the whole juice fast thing, to detox and give my digestive system a break and she said, "Toes. You are already vegan. What are you detoxing from?!" I said that it was obviously something because I felt like crap. Luckily, the girl that comes in to guard after me is a vegetarian who has successfully done a 10-day juice fast and she was very encouraging. She said if I could just make it through the first three days (notoriously the worst) I'd be okay (although I tried this last October and quit on day 4). I asked
when I would have energy back and she said that by day 4 she had so much energy that she was annoying everyone around her! I talked about modifying the fast and she pointed out that it was my fast and I could make my own rules. I thought about that on my way to the store and decided she was right. And that the teacher earlier that morning had had a point, too. I am vegan. I've been vegan since Jan. 2011 (16 and 1/2 months). And even though I felt crappy, it wasn't nearly as bad as it had been when I tried this last October, so that was encouraging as far as marking a difference in my system in that time span. I decided that in addition to the juices and TONS of water I was already drinking, I'd drink warm vegetable stock or V8 juice when I needed something to warm me up and taste like a slightly more normal meal, and that I would also let myself drink a green smoothie (diluted with water down to juice consistency) a day.
World. of. difference.
Day 3- Today I've felt pretty good. Day 3 is usually the worst for people, but I'm hoping because of my fairly clean diet that it was Day 2 for me. I woke up (like totally woke up, okay let's get going woke up) at 5:30 this morning. It was still too dark to even go for my run and I didn't want to crash later so I just laid there for a while before being able to go back to sleep. When I woke up again at 7, I felt more relaxed. So far so good. Hopefully that will continue!
