Comments on: Spartan Week

By: 21stCenturyMom

21stCenturyMom — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:31:57 +0000

fyi – I’m totally failing at this spartan thing. I hang my head in shame!

By: Denise "Firefly"

Denise "Firefly" — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:54:09 +0000

Keep an eye on the foot. I hope that it’s not too serious.

By: Monica C.

Monica C. — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:44:17 +0000

I am starting a mix of the ABS Diet and recipes from the Eating Clean recipe book on Monday. I don’t want to lose pounds, but I definitely do want to melt away the jelly on my belly.

By: cindylouwho

cindylouwho — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:48:03 +0000

Suz,
I just realized that SALT is showing up in 5 pound increments on me! Watch the salt, too. Nobody needs a salty spartan with a bad foot! Hang in there SuZun!

By: Tara d'Oily

Tara d'Oily — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:34:45 +0000

“LOSER Amy”! I like a sister who puts the boot in.

Well, if it’s in the ‘pre’ stress fracture stage, it won’t show up in an MRI or bone scan. My advice is to just see how it goes in training. If it becomes too painful, don’t run the marathon. Get cured and live to run another day.

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:12:45 +0000

Make sure you look after yourself Susan.

Looking forward to the photos.

By: Laura Lohr : My Beautiful Life

Laura Lohr : My Beautiful Life — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:20:43 +0000

Be careful with your foot.

I highly recommend doing spinning during the week in place of running. I have a friend that did spin during the week and ran her long run on the weekends. She PR’D the marathon by 35 whole minutes! (From 5:20 to 4:50)

Let that foot rest and I will leave the smokes alone!

By: david

david — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:29:13 +0000

I just ate a Wolverine. I don’t eat Spartans. Oh? Am I missing something?

Are you missing something? Like a calendar? Your race is in five weeks. Plenty of time to undertrain.

By: christine

christine — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:15:05 +0000

I just ordered the paleo diet for athletes book! Its very spartan like. hubby just baked choc chip cookies though….can we do a spartan week again sometime? haha (after the cookies are gone

By: getwell

getwell — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:06:22 +0000

Boo pain!
Foot insane!
Health maintain!
Go Spartane!

By: P.O.M.

P.O.M. — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:15:55 +0000

I’m a spartan eater for sure. Until the biz-natches in my office show up with chocolate chip cookies or something evil like that.

By: jeanne

jeanne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:20:16 +0000

you won. case closed!

your foot. not case closed. i follow the same medical advice though. ignore it and it will go away. so i can’t really help you there.

i ate pop tarts today. i don’t even LIKE pop tarts.

i. hate. everyone.

have a nice day!

By: Jen_runs

Jen_runs — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:27:50 +0000

Better to be undertrained than injured. Listen to your bod girl!

By: aprilanne

aprilanne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:53:09 +0000

I hope the pain goes away soon. Maybe some cross training will help?

By: jkrunning

jkrunning — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:50:19 +0000

I’m not very spartan-like, but I may just have to take pictures of what I eat. May be interesting.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:02:13 +0000

Not what you want to hear, but you can always walk part of the marathon with undertraining…you sometimes end up not being able to walk at all with an injured foot. Just be careful.

I found the following “Spartan” fat-burning tip when training for Xterras, which will allow you tap into alternate fuel sources when racing and training, courtesty of the July 2007 issue of Triathlete Magazine:

1) Skip breakfast in favor of just coffee (no cream or sugar)
2) Do a long, slow run, have some more coffee and try to delay breakfast for awhile.
4) FEAST

Expect some serious fatigue later in the day. What this does is deplete your body of glucose, which in turn forces you to burn fat more readily. Apparently, the feast that follows will accelerate your metabolism.

By: Shalini

Shalini — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:44:42 +0000

I’m in for the picture taking but it will likely be quite Un-Spartan. Maybe it’ll scare me straight.

By: The Devil

The Devil — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:19:18 +0000

Take care of the foot! So, does this Spartan diet include copious amounts of wine?

By: 21stCenturyMom

21stCenturyMom — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:07:02 +0000

Your foot will smite you back if you don’t take care of it – oh yes it will!

I am still trying this ABS diet thing but like your foot, it smites me. Perhaps the Spartan plan will work better.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:40:23 +0000

So is it totally blond that as I read about Spartan week all I can see in my head are the cheerleaders from SNL?

Be kind to your foot, remember they are what the fab. shoes go on!