So I'm weaning myself off of glasses again. The dizziness flares up, I go on glasses, it starts going back down, I wean myself off glasses, go on for however many months without. I'll probably hook my glasses to the number belt this weekend and see if I need them or just go with the sunglasses, doesn't add that much weight, and I guess the motion sickness pills can't hurt so why not just take them before the swim. Decisions, decision. I want to race "natural." No pills, no glasses, just me. But I also want to do well and I'd hate to start running and find out I can't right in the middle of a tri. I guess I have a few days, but I can tell I may even need the pills for tonight's five miler. Sigh. But I did run yesterday "naked" :)
So there's a thread at BeginnerTriathlete about swimming and exhaling under water. I've known I'm supposed to exhale under water but I don't, I hold my breath and exhale/inhale when my head comes out. I'm just gonna have to tough it out and put myself through it and become comfortable with it. I feel it takes too much concentration and effort to exhale under the water. It's funny because there's things like that you do that no one can tell you do (or don't, in this case). I wonder if it makes you faster... I think it's mostly it clears out the carbon monoxide and delays the onset of tiredness.
Dizziness dizziness go away I got plans!
Registration still not open for Texas, still going through permit, might be weeks, sigh. Why do some companies make it so hard to give them $625!?!?!?
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Just call me Forrest.
WHOOOOOO I was able to run today!!! And it felt so good :) Still dizzy, I would say 60%, 20% being normal, 80% being last week, and 100% being bed-bound. I'm wearing my glasses. I never use them and I only have sporadic flare-ups. The glasses don't keep it from happening and don't make it go away but they help the symptoms somewhat (although I was reading this morning and the words just went full on blurry even with the glasses on and I couldn't read even after taking the glasses off). But they make me FEEL a little bit less queasy. I've been stumbling a bit with the dizziness around the house and I'm sure I wasn't running straight, but I managed not to run into somebody :)
Made an appointment for another eye test tomorrow and contacted my doctor's office to get a referral to the other balance center in town, The Balance Center. The one I went to when I was going through the testing was the Werner Center and they were no help. Waiting for word back whether the doctor has to see me or will sign off on the referral. If she won't give it without seeing I have an appointment two weeks from tomorrow with her. Darn vacations. They should not have vacations during my flare-ups :)
I took some dramamine and some other stuff that's recommended for motion sickness (can't remember the name of the other one, but it's a natural product), and that helped along with the glasses, enough to allow me to run. I think I can make it through the easy six miles tomorrow.
I started the run and I KNEW I was going to finish. Sometimes I just get that feeling that I know I'm going to be running, the same feeling that first time I ran thirty minutes straight, where you just throw your head back and laugh you're so happy. Sometimes you KNOW you will run.
What's funny is that there's this guy at a weight maching and I just had a feeling he was Blurry Guy from Sunday lol I almost asked him, are you Blurry Guy? ha
My hamstrings hurt alot, they just rotate, quads, hamstrings, butt. And I've been having this pain on the lower right corner of my back during the last couple of runs, no idea what that's from, but I can get through it and it wasn't the whole run.
So glad to be able to run and if I can't I know I can take it to the AMT elliptical.
Had a bike scheduled for tomorrow but the MINIMUM winds are 17 MPH upwards of 30 MPH+. Hell to the no. And Sunday the HIGH winds are 5 MPH. So doing the six mile easy run tomorrow and then a pool swim. Have a tri next week with open water so I think I won't do open water this week with the dizziness and all and just stay in the pool. Then Sunday I can do my 25 miles.
I just feel so appreciative when I can work out, the dizziness has given me through the past year and a half a new appreciation of being able to move (along with the weight loss) and that's what I take from it. Everything we go through is there to either teach us something, make us appreciate something, alert us of something. The dizziness teaches me the importance to enjoy the good when you can and appreciate how lucky I am to be able to do whatever I want physically most of the time. Hopefully the flareup is on the way out, it's been six days.
Oh, and I did 11:09mm average. Hell to the yes :) Decent run.
Made an appointment for another eye test tomorrow and contacted my doctor's office to get a referral to the other balance center in town, The Balance Center. The one I went to when I was going through the testing was the Werner Center and they were no help. Waiting for word back whether the doctor has to see me or will sign off on the referral. If she won't give it without seeing I have an appointment two weeks from tomorrow with her. Darn vacations. They should not have vacations during my flare-ups :)
I took some dramamine and some other stuff that's recommended for motion sickness (can't remember the name of the other one, but it's a natural product), and that helped along with the glasses, enough to allow me to run. I think I can make it through the easy six miles tomorrow.
I started the run and I KNEW I was going to finish. Sometimes I just get that feeling that I know I'm going to be running, the same feeling that first time I ran thirty minutes straight, where you just throw your head back and laugh you're so happy. Sometimes you KNOW you will run.
What's funny is that there's this guy at a weight maching and I just had a feeling he was Blurry Guy from Sunday lol I almost asked him, are you Blurry Guy? ha
My hamstrings hurt alot, they just rotate, quads, hamstrings, butt. And I've been having this pain on the lower right corner of my back during the last couple of runs, no idea what that's from, but I can get through it and it wasn't the whole run.
So glad to be able to run and if I can't I know I can take it to the AMT elliptical.
Had a bike scheduled for tomorrow but the MINIMUM winds are 17 MPH upwards of 30 MPH+. Hell to the no. And Sunday the HIGH winds are 5 MPH. So doing the six mile easy run tomorrow and then a pool swim. Have a tri next week with open water so I think I won't do open water this week with the dizziness and all and just stay in the pool. Then Sunday I can do my 25 miles.
I just feel so appreciative when I can work out, the dizziness has given me through the past year and a half a new appreciation of being able to move (along with the weight loss) and that's what I take from it. Everything we go through is there to either teach us something, make us appreciate something, alert us of something. The dizziness teaches me the importance to enjoy the good when you can and appreciate how lucky I am to be able to do whatever I want physically most of the time. Hopefully the flareup is on the way out, it's been six days.
Oh, and I did 11:09mm average. Hell to the yes :) Decent run.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Up, down, up, down.
Well, had a dizziness flare-up and actually cut a workout short, 6 mile run turned into 2.5 mile run. It started Friday I believe and it made my Saturday ride hard and then Sunday I just couldn't run, people were blurry and I had trouble focusing on the signs on the wall on the way out. Still dizzy Monday but the strength training somehow helped and by the bike ride Monday night I was feeling almost back to the "normal" dizziness baseline. Right now a little worse than normal but I may be able to run, hopefully cleared by my next run Thursday. Made me think what I would do if I flare up on the day of IMTX. Back to Jillian Michaels, Faint, Puke, Die, or Finish, hopefully finish.
I'm up to about 13 MPH and I need to be 14 MPH by Ironman, hopefully 15 to give me a little breathing room, so hopefully one year is enough time to get there. I'm still running only six miles, and less than 20 weeks left for my Half. I can do 12 MPH and still meet the bike cutoff for the half. That's one part I hate to training, it all feels like the event is just around the corner.
Had headwind from hell Saturday during my ride and I actually thought I was going to have to bail out of a workout (and I sadly did the next day). Very tough ride back. Ultimately it was easier to pedal than to flag down a cell phone (I still don't like to take my cell phone with me but I think I'm going to have to start doing it, sucks to be stuck 17 miles away from the car). I was worried I wasn't going to beat the sunset but I did.
So this morning I was telling my coach that I wasn't progressing and she mentioned I did 40 minutes better in Irongirl and I said that's because I hadn't trained before and she said so see the training's working. I then said well let me rephrase that I'm not progressing at the rate I want to, and she said something brilliant: Nobody ever does. So I'm just going to sit back and enjoy it and whatever happens, happens.
I'm also going to work on being happier with results, whatever they are. I think it does take away from the experience to nitpick your race and time right at the finish line, and I don't want it to be that way, so I will leave that for the computer back home when I upload the data, but the finish is all going to be warm fuzzies. I have to work on being happier with accomplishments before setting a goal of something better.
I'm up to about 13 MPH and I need to be 14 MPH by Ironman, hopefully 15 to give me a little breathing room, so hopefully one year is enough time to get there. I'm still running only six miles, and less than 20 weeks left for my Half. I can do 12 MPH and still meet the bike cutoff for the half. That's one part I hate to training, it all feels like the event is just around the corner.
Had headwind from hell Saturday during my ride and I actually thought I was going to have to bail out of a workout (and I sadly did the next day). Very tough ride back. Ultimately it was easier to pedal than to flag down a cell phone (I still don't like to take my cell phone with me but I think I'm going to have to start doing it, sucks to be stuck 17 miles away from the car). I was worried I wasn't going to beat the sunset but I did.
So this morning I was telling my coach that I wasn't progressing and she mentioned I did 40 minutes better in Irongirl and I said that's because I hadn't trained before and she said so see the training's working. I then said well let me rephrase that I'm not progressing at the rate I want to, and she said something brilliant: Nobody ever does. So I'm just going to sit back and enjoy it and whatever happens, happens.
I'm also going to work on being happier with results, whatever they are. I think it does take away from the experience to nitpick your race and time right at the finish line, and I don't want it to be that way, so I will leave that for the computer back home when I upload the data, but the finish is all going to be warm fuzzies. I have to work on being happier with accomplishments before setting a goal of something better.
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