Training Log Archive: barb

Same scale that said 135 last week said 128 this morning. I must be dehydrated. By 10:30 this morning I'd had two cups of herbal tea, four fruits and half a pack of rice cakes. I think I might be a bit of a binger. Especially while sitting in front of the computer.

I did have some dairy, caffeine and wheat this weekend: decaf ice coffee with cream for the long drive each way, and a corn muffin to go with the coffee on the return trip. Having gone without caffeine for a few days previously, the residual caffeine in decaf was apparently enough to wake me up at 3:30 am Saturday. Maybe decaf Dunkin Donuts coffee has more than the supposed 3-4 mg of caffeine per cup.

Anyway, while this all was off my exploratory diet, I did avoid regular coffee, an enticing glass of wine offered at the Moosewood restaurant Saturday evening, several attractive opportunities to ingest wheat and/or sugar and/or dairy, and other miscellaneous evil temptations. And I feel good about that.

C • How was Moosewoods? We were in... 2

Blue Classic at CNYO A meet.
Worst error was where you flip the map over at 13; it was raining and I didn't expect that so didn't have a hat with bill and my glasses were a Big Problem, and I pulled a 180.

F40 Green Classic at CNYO A meet.

Classic - Blue - Splits

Classic - Green - Splits

Event: CNYO A meet
 

Blue Middle at CNYO A Meet

Sprint at CNYO A meet. Got stupidly stuck in green early on, took a while to get out. My thighs are covered with angry red poke marks from the thorns.

F40 green middle at CNYO A meet. Prerunner; felt slightly useful as I could report that the GO control wasn't out yet. Otherwise, despite my efforts to make running twice easy on the organizers, I felt I caused way too many small problems. The shortened start window and on-the-fly start times made this endeavor particularly challenging, I think.

We were fortunate to be able to stay at Theron's uncle's pond-side property, with his grandparents Jean (science teacher) and Mike (radio astronomer), who tried orienteering for the first time. The boys and I were treated to accommodations in the "Spartan Mansion":

Middle - Blue - Splits

Sprint - Strong Lungs - Splits

Middle - Green - Splits

To work and back

I have been thinking lately, from time to time, about getting older and beyond the having-babies-and-small-children phase.

I was awoken by my alarm this morning, from this dream: I have a baby, a third child. It is a wunderbaby: in a matter of days, it can walk. I show Dave; I'm pretty psyched. We are at some crowded function with other families. I show another mother. My baby has one weird leg, kind of flattened, but no matter - she can walk fine on it. Then I have a realization: that my baby may be different in another way. I ask the other mother if she can see the baby, and she says, no she can't. She's been humoring me. I realize that the baby is an elaborate hallucination. I sit there, holding this very real baby, reddish hair, wide open eyes, sweet little baby body tucked in my arms, knowing that she is a hallucination but experiencing her just the same. I ask Dave if he sees her, but I don't remember what he said.

Yesterday at Tufts I listened to a lecture that touched on the effects of sleep deprivation, including how the hypothalamus might send signals that put the brain into a mode having some of the characteristics of sleep while still awake. That must be where the hallucination element came from.

work-home

Clarity of thinking was a side effect cited to me by my friend who tried this elimination diet thing, at least for the first couple of weeks where you are eliminating things from your diet. I guess people fasting claim the same thing, but I'm unlikely to ever find that out. Well, I don't feel particularly clearer, but I did have what might have been an unusually cogent conversation with a coworker this morning. I even remembered some of the science presented in two of the talks I attended yesterday, including actual gene names. That might be unusual. Forgetting has been my strong suit lately.

Day two. Ate quite a lot actually, just no caffeine, wheat products, etc. Rice cakes, that green juice, herbal tea, sushi, rice/chicken/broccoli dinner. Feeling kind of hefty.

OK, so today so far I've had no caffeine, no alcohol, no chocolate, no wheat or dairy products. I'm really hungry. I have a slight headache. I've ingested an orange, orange juice, oatmeal, salad, and lots of herbal tea. Too early to see the positive effects, I guess. Goal is to do this for 2 weeks and if by then I don't experience clarity of thinking and/or lack of the symptoms I'm trying to address, then I am barking up the wrong tree, because I'll have no baseline onto which to add possibly problematic foods. Woof!

To work. Out to Tufts. Back home.

Uncomfortable.
Getting closer to the threshold for going on an "elimination diet" to figure out what is causing the discomfort. I am supposedly going to go two weeks without caffeine, alcohol, most sugar, wheat, nuts, chocolate, dairy - and then try adding one thing at a time to see what it does.