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Thursday, 24 May 2012
Friday, 11 May 2012
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Training hard for Half Marathon
Today Jiansen and I did a hard training run for the Half Marathon coming up on Sun 20th May. We ran 12 klms in 1 hour 15 minutes. It was a good pace just below our "pain limit" and we kept pushing each other hard.
For me it was a victory because I have been nursing a mild strain in my ITB in my right knee for the last 3 weeks and have had difficulty running more than 7klms over that time, so it was a great feeling to be able to run without pain again. Thanks to Rob Mair (Podiatrist), Kane (Massage Therapist, Claire (Massage Therapist), Toshie (Massage Therapist) and Jiansen (Chiropractor Extrordinaire!!) who helped me treat and manage the injury whilst continuing my training program. It's great owning a natural health clinic.
I am still nervous about the 21 klms of the Half Marathon but I am sure we will make it.
Please help me raise money for the Australian Spinal research Foundation by sponsoring me to complete the race. www.everydayhero.com.au/Doug_Eldred
For me it was a victory because I have been nursing a mild strain in my ITB in my right knee for the last 3 weeks and have had difficulty running more than 7klms over that time, so it was a great feeling to be able to run without pain again. Thanks to Rob Mair (Podiatrist), Kane (Massage Therapist, Claire (Massage Therapist), Toshie (Massage Therapist) and Jiansen (Chiropractor Extrordinaire!!) who helped me treat and manage the injury whilst continuing my training program. It's great owning a natural health clinic.
I am still nervous about the 21 klms of the Half Marathon but I am sure we will make it.
Please help me raise money for the Australian Spinal research Foundation by sponsoring me to complete the race. www.everydayhero.com.au/Doug_Eldred
Sunday, 22 April 2012
A commitment to training
Hi everyone,
I've found myself slacking with my training. I have struggled with finding the time and motivation to train. I was more and more overwhelmed by having 3 jobs and undertaking an extra program. I was starting to sacrifice my training times for things that I thought at the time were more important, like bills and cleaning and other random problems of life that seem to get in the way.
From training 1 hour every 3 days per week, my exercise diminished into a rushed 20min workout every Monday evening. It didn't dawn on me until I was faced with the opportunity to run the SMH Half Marathon in May, and I realised I had not run seriously for many months. I also noticed how much passion I had lost. I had no drive.
Then I was brought back to why I am here. My purpose in life is to empower others to be empowered by their own health and well-being. For a while I had thought it was fairly simple and straight forward. I had contemplated following in a certain personal trainer's footsteps and going out and eating loads of crap foods and not exercising. Then after gaining 40kgs of fat, he would then train hard and eat healthy to prove that it is possible to lose all that fat. I got scared and didn't try it. Little did I know, I was actually on my way there, not because of my work commitments, but because of the lack of commitment I had to what really mattered in my life.
Right now it isn't clear how I will get back into my original training regime. But I do see some time I have every day. So I am making the commitment to do 50 pushups every night. I had done this for 2 nights already, and tonight I was about to skip it because I was tired. But I had declared this commitment to a friend this morning, so in order to give power to, and honour my word, I did. And I feel GREAT!!
I've found myself slacking with my training. I have struggled with finding the time and motivation to train. I was more and more overwhelmed by having 3 jobs and undertaking an extra program. I was starting to sacrifice my training times for things that I thought at the time were more important, like bills and cleaning and other random problems of life that seem to get in the way.
From training 1 hour every 3 days per week, my exercise diminished into a rushed 20min workout every Monday evening. It didn't dawn on me until I was faced with the opportunity to run the SMH Half Marathon in May, and I realised I had not run seriously for many months. I also noticed how much passion I had lost. I had no drive.
Then I was brought back to why I am here. My purpose in life is to empower others to be empowered by their own health and well-being. For a while I had thought it was fairly simple and straight forward. I had contemplated following in a certain personal trainer's footsteps and going out and eating loads of crap foods and not exercising. Then after gaining 40kgs of fat, he would then train hard and eat healthy to prove that it is possible to lose all that fat. I got scared and didn't try it. Little did I know, I was actually on my way there, not because of my work commitments, but because of the lack of commitment I had to what really mattered in my life.
Right now it isn't clear how I will get back into my original training regime. But I do see some time I have every day. So I am making the commitment to do 50 pushups every night. I had done this for 2 nights already, and tonight I was about to skip it because I was tired. But I had declared this commitment to a friend this morning, so in order to give power to, and honour my word, I did. And I feel GREAT!!
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Monday, 2 April 2012
Friday, 9 March 2012
Feeling Great
So before I took on this healthy way of being I used to wake up hungover and guilty. Guilty because I wasn't being responsible for my health, guilty because I had drunk too much and eaten rubbish the night before and most of all guilty because my life was a paradox - all day long being the health professional and coming home and doing the opposite.
Well these days I wake up fresh and feeling rested and full of energy. I wake up excited about going running and I actually really look forward to my workouts.
The best part is that my life is free from guilt and I really like who I see in the mirror these days.
This mornings run was the longest and the hardest I have done so far and I did it without walking. It hurt like hell but I felt soooo good afterwards and have been on a high all day long.
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/73495794
Well these days I wake up fresh and feeling rested and full of energy. I wake up excited about going running and I actually really look forward to my workouts.
The best part is that my life is free from guilt and I really like who I see in the mirror these days.
This mornings run was the longest and the hardest I have done so far and I did it without walking. It hurt like hell but I felt soooo good afterwards and have been on a high all day long.
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/73495794
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