If you know me well, you know that I rarely complain about my life being boring. In fact, last night I was thinking about writing my autobiography and realised I'd have to publish it in volumes. Today, I decided that I would go for a jog before going over to belly dance with a 6 year old (her chosen activity, not mine). I was gonna do a simple 3.5 K in the snow. I did about 2 K before my body refused to let me do anything more. I had to stop, it wasn't the normal metaphorical "wall". I can push through it typically, but not today. I thought perhaps it was the extra layers I was wearing, that I was carrying supplies (ie scarves and a dvd...hey every gram counts) for belly dancing and the fact that my food consumption for the day was minimal.
One of my many medical conditions that leave physicians scratching their head and saying you're so young is my hypertension aka high blood pressure. I know I don't lead the healthiest lifestyle but I still confound drs. I've had it for 9 years now. Easily controlled by meds. This past week my doc tried me on a different med in the same family as the one I was previously on, just cheaper. And evidently, MORE EFFECTIVE.
After the initial 2 K I finished walking over to my best friend's (hi, I know you're reading). I felt kinda off, a little fuzzy in the head. I stood up and everything went black and there was kind of a whooshing sound. My God, I thought I was going to pass out. Throughout the variety show that is my medical history I have NEVER felt like that before. First time for everything eh? So after terrifying my best friend, her fiance and their children by looking near death (sorry about that!), I had to call my dad to come get me. Made a quick trip to Shoppers Drugmart to check my BP and found that the machine could not detect anything (twice) I used an at home machine, which just kept coming up with an Error message. Thinking the machine could be broken I got my dad to give er a test. Just fine. Damn (I mean, good for him. Bad for me). I also ruled out that it was my blood sugar. another first was calling my GP at home to see what to do. Stop taking the meds. Check back in a couple days. Got it.
For now, I shall lay in bed and elevate my legs.
I think, including the jog where I sprained my ankle terribly, that was the worst run I've ever had. The ankle sucked but until I actually injured myself it was a great run. This wasn't even that good of a run.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
This URL Should be Changed
28 mins at a pace of 8’15
“Wind chill is the cooling our body feels when the impact of temperature and wind are combined. Normally, on a relatively calm day our body is able to provide some protection from the outside temperature by heating up a thin layer of air that lies close to the skin. This added insulation is known as a boundary layer. On windy days, however, this insulating layer gets taken away, leaving our skin more exposed to the outside temperature. It takes time and energy for our body to warm up another layer of air, and if this layer continually gets blown away, eventually our skin's temperature will fall and our body will feel colder.
The wind can also make our body feel colder through the evaporation of any existing moisture from our skin. Through this process more heat is drawn from our body.”
“…The first wind chill formula was based on experiments conducted in 1939 by two Antarctic explorers. Over time this formula was modified, but stayed based on the original experiments. In the year 2000, Canada decided to head a committee to develop a New Wind Chill formula. Spear headed by the Environment Canada branch of the federal government, more than 35 countries participated. It was agreed by all parties involved that the new formula and reporting methods for wind chill would be more accurate, easier to understand, and incorporate new scientific knowledge.
The new wind chill index is based on the loss of heat from the face only - the area of the body that is most exposed to severe winter weather conditions. After conducting some additional research it was decided that wind chill readings would be expressed in temperature like units so that it would be easier to comprehend.”
Listened to my genius mix of adult alternative.
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My URL should be MorganRunsOnceAMonth.blogspot.com. Hopefully I will change needing to re-name it. My relationship with exercise waxes and wanes. Currently it is waxing. Just not with regards to running. I did a sun salutation challenge for two weeks. Simply adding a sun salutation a day successfully was quite motivating. I got the idea from Esther Ekhart over at Yogatic on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/yogatic. I did 15 instead of 10 repetitions. I initially found her looking for a yoga warm up and she won me over with her peculiar accent. I may expand the scope of the blog into my endeavours with fitness in general as yoga has snuck its way into my erractic exercise schedule.
But for today I shall discuss running. Since I did that this evening. When I head out for a jog I typically develop a mental outline of what I’d like to blog about. Today I had a million and one trains of thought. I settled on the fact that I was cold. Before I go out I typically check the temperature on my weathereye in my tray from http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ which I love, to almost an alarming degree. I really had to force myself to head out today and just checked the temperature on the icon in the try without opening the program. It was 0. When I run I typically wear one layer less than I would if I were heading out without any accessories other than my Lulu headband. I am not typically a hot person. I love running in the winter. I donned my long sleeve lulu tee, under a shortsleeve lulu tee and a pair of UnderArmor pants, my headband (which I like cuz it holds my earbuds in my ears nicely) ankle socks, sports bra and runners. That’s everything. Normally after about 3 minutes I warm up. This time I was COLD. My hands were freezing and I damned myself for not checking the windchill. Admittedly, when I did get home and see that it felt like -6 I would have only put on a hoodie to go out there as I never run in gloves because before today, my hands have never been cold on a run. I did find it rather distracting though, and when I wasn’t thinking about what I wanted to blog about I was thinking about my hands. I’m sure if I was a real runner not focussing on my run would have affected my pace or technique or whatnot. It took half my run for me to be comfortable.
HOLD ON! I just checked my Nike+ site to compare if my uncomfortable state had anything to do with my pace time (which if you look back, you will notice has significantly slowed). They have a new feature. It shows your pace time at each kilometre! I sure do like that!! Even if I was momentarily distracted and annoyed by the fact kilometre was spelled kilometer. Anyways, the sad truth is that my cold hands had no impact on my pace time.
Regardless, the (oh so obvious) lesson learned today is to check the windchill, not just the air temperature.
And now for a little weather lesson thanks to The Weather Network (http://www.theweathernetwork.com/glossary/windchill).
“Wind chill is the cooling our body feels when the impact of temperature and wind are combined. Normally, on a relatively calm day our body is able to provide some protection from the outside temperature by heating up a thin layer of air that lies close to the skin. This added insulation is known as a boundary layer. On windy days, however, this insulating layer gets taken away, leaving our skin more exposed to the outside temperature. It takes time and energy for our body to warm up another layer of air, and if this layer continually gets blown away, eventually our skin's temperature will fall and our body will feel colder.
The wind can also make our body feel colder through the evaporation of any existing moisture from our skin. Through this process more heat is drawn from our body.”
“…The first wind chill formula was based on experiments conducted in 1939 by two Antarctic explorers. Over time this formula was modified, but stayed based on the original experiments. In the year 2000, Canada decided to head a committee to develop a New Wind Chill formula. Spear headed by the Environment Canada branch of the federal government, more than 35 countries participated. It was agreed by all parties involved that the new formula and reporting methods for wind chill would be more accurate, easier to understand, and incorporate new scientific knowledge.
The new wind chill index is based on the loss of heat from the face only - the area of the body that is most exposed to severe winter weather conditions. After conducting some additional research it was decided that wind chill readings would be expressed in temperature like units so that it would be easier to comprehend.”
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