Hello everybody! Welcome to my March training vlog for my Youngstown Maravlog
series. So this is my March training. Today is March 6th and tonight I have a 40
minute cross-training workout. So I'm probably going to go on the bike tonight.
I wanted to talk a little bit more about what I typically eat during the week, so
I figured I could like kind of check in with you guys this week
and kind of tell you what I'm eating everyday. I really wanted to kind of
showcase like what my diet is while I'm in training. It really doesn't differ
that much from when I'm not in training. I just tend to eat more when I'm
training because my body needs more calories in order to function. I found
that a lot of the time while in marathon training I don't eat enough and so I
feel awful after I do my runs. So I I'm trying this round to make a better
effort of like eating before I go on long runs and just making sure I'm
intaking the right amount of calories. You burn a lot of calories when you are
training for a distance race. So today, the sixth, it's Tuesday. I had just a
typical nine-to-five work day. Actually worked 8:30 to 4:30 and for breakfast
this morning I had a bagel with cream cheese. For lunch this afternoon I ate some
cereal. Like I had a bag of cereal and half a bag of popcorn that I had
leftover from yesterday. And then in the middle of the day I had
a coffee and a cookie. So not doing too great on my diet today. I clearly haven't
really had anything that's significant in terms of diet which is not a good
thing. So when I get home, I have in my lunchbox some leftovers from this
weekend that I just didn't get to eating. So when I get home I'm gonna warm those
up and eat and then I'm gonna go to the gym after that because I need the
calories. Rhis is my problem. It's like, I can snack all day long and have really
small meals but I'm not usually like a big meal kind of person.
So I need to try to like adjust that while I'm in training. For dinner tonight
usually we have some sort of meat, some sort of vegetable, and then we have these
pasta sides things which is basically just like a easy-peasy like throw it in
boiling water and it makes you like a pasta dish with sauce and stuff. We are
big fans of those. So that's probably what we'll eat tonight.
But yeah, I just wanted to show you guys like, what I typically eat during the
week so you can see how unhealthy athlete-like that is for me. Anyway,
like I said I've got a 40-minute cross-training workout tonight. Tomorrow
we're gonna go to the gym early in the morning because we're expecting a huge
snowstorm tomorrow and I have a workout that I need to get done, so I'm doing a
30-minute easy run tomorrow morning. So we're kind of doing back-to-back workout.
So we have one tonight and one in the morning. Usually we just go at nighttime
but we want to get into the gym and get our
workouts in before we get snowed in. So that's the plan and I will of course
take you guys along with me. Alright, so just made it home. I made my leftovers or I
just heated them up. But it's the chicken, sweet potatoes, and green beans that we were
making in the last vlog. It's not the same batch. We made another batch over
the weekend but I'm gonna be eating this and then we're gonna go do our workouts.
I look like E.T. BRETT: Phone hommmeee.
Run's done. Now Brett's making some breakfast for us. Gonna have
bagels, that's a french toast bagel, and eggs, scrambled eggs, and then we got some
orange juice cuz I'm not feeling great. Oh you're gonna make a sandwich out of
yours? BRETT: Yeah. Turkey. I wish we had ham, but we don't, so turkey and cheese.
RILEY: Turkey and cheese? Very nice! I'm showing the vlog what I'm
eating this week. BRETT: Oh, nice. RILEY: Yeah. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.
It's very mediocre. BRETT: Sometimes it's 100% Cadburry eggs. OH SUGAR.
RILEY: I didn't catch that on camera I don't think. BRETT: That's good. It never happened.
So as you can see we've been hit by a snowstorm. Last night our power went out
and so this morning, in an effort to keep our cold items cold in the fridge, I
didn't make my own breakfast or make my own lunch. The power's still out at our
house so and I'm not sure when it's coming back so hopefully by the time I
get home from work its back, but you never can truly know. So as a meal slash eating
update, yesterday I snacked on junk. I had some candy and we had like frozen
mozzarella sticks so, I had some of those for like a snack during the day, and then
for dinner we made broccoli chicken and a pasta side.
This morning I haven't eaten breakfast yet so I'm gonna make a stop at Dunks.
Then for my lunch I have a meal swipe at the dining hall on campus. I think I'm
probably gonna use that. They have literally anything you would like to eat
so I can go healthy or unhealthy and it just depends on my mood. I'll keep you guys
updated on the food front. I do have my speed workout tonight which I will be
doing at work at our work gym because Brett has to work a little bit
later tonight. That's the plan for today. Alright just
got out of work. About to go to the gym to do my speed workout. Giving you a
little bit of a meal update. For breakfast I had a bagel cream cheese,
an iced coffee, and a donut, and then for lunch I went more of a healthy route.
I had spinach, cucumbers, and carrot sticks. Kind of like a salad but I just
kind of threw it all on my plate and then there was salmon so I went for a
little bit of salmon and then I had like a roll with it. Ao a little bit healthier
lunch.
This is what your face looks like after a speed work out
on the treadmill: like a tomato. It matches my shirt. Hello!
Happy #SundayRunday. I ran 7.7 miles today
on the treadmill while I watched Survivor cuz I finished up Queer Eye and my whole world is over.
Such a good show, if you haven't watched it yet. BRETT: I gotta finish it. I've only seen like two episodes.
RILEY: You wanna watch an episode while we
cook? BRETT: True, that's a good idea.
RILEY: Maybe Antoni can like tell us how to do stuff. BRETT: Is there a french toast episode?
RILEY: Hopefully in the future. Not
in season one but, Antoni, if you're watching my vlog which I know you are, teach
your next guy to do french toast. But anyway we are making french toast.
Brett's got a recipe he's excited to try and we are also doing turkey bacon and
eggs. We're having a bit of a Brinner night which it's gonna be fun and I went
grocery shopping earlier and I took a little clip of the cart so you can see
what like I typically buy. It's a good mixture of healthy stuff and not so
healthy stuff. I think one of the one of the clips it's like, I look in and like
there's Oreos just in the middle. BRETT: DOUBLE STUFFED?
RILEY: The only kind! I feel like you'd break up
with me if I got a single stuffed Oreos. But yeah this is what we're having for
dinner tonight. Wanted to share it with you all because I'm sharing my food in
this vlog. But yeah I've done four solid weeks of training without missing a day.
That's a quarter of the way through. BRETT: Is that a record?
RILEY: I'm a quarter the way through. Yes cuz I
usually miss at least three workouts in the first week. So I've got some
good with momentum. I have a rest day tomorrow and then we're entering into
week five of training.
Sizzle, sizzle.
How's it goin so far? BRETT: I should have used abigger pan but... RILEY: That's okay.
We made shake and
bake tonight. We got pasta, broccoli, chicken with shake and bake.
Shake and bake! BRETT: You shake and then you bake.
Hey! So it is 18th of March and I just finished up my long
run. It's Sunday Runday. I just finished up my long run and I got up to
9.77 miles today. If you missed my first vlog for my Maravlogs,
I do timed runs instead of hitting certain mileage goals which just
works a lot better for me and today it was a two-hour run with a five minute
cooldown and what I did was thirty five minutes running five minutes walking.
That's what it called for today and I got up to 9.77 miles
so I'm thinking that the next few weeks I'm gonna start hitting double digits
every long run. So a little bit crazy. We're already at that point. We're five
weeks in. Five full weeks of training done and I'm about to start doing double
digits on my long runs. Whew! Yeah I am five weeks done. Happy about
that. It's going really well. This is my best training cycle to date,
knock on wood. Hopefully nothing happens that
interrupts that because I've got a good flow going. I'm about to walk into the
grocery store and do grocery shopping for the week. I hope like the food
portion of this video was a good representation of like how I usually eat.
Like it's healthy sometimes, not healthy other times. I snack a lot. I just was
really showing you my meals. Yeah I just snack a lot and a lot of the time the
snacks aren't the healthiest but the meals tend to be more healthy, I guess
you could say. I just don't have like a pro athlete or elite athlete diet and I
think that's okay. I'm okay with the way I eat. I'm okay
with the way I feel and I feel like if I felt bad I would change my diet. I think
that's the big thing. So hopefully that was a good representation and idea
of how I usually eat, especially when I'm training. Yeah I've gotta go grab some
groceries for the week and stock up and probably grab a snack because I'm hungry.
Hello! Happy Monday. It's actually Monday Runday this week because Saturday night
I worked until like 2:00 a.m. and I didn't get home till about 3:00 a.m.,
like 3:15 or so, and of course that throws off my entire sleep schedule and
throws off my body pretty bad. So yeah, what I usually do if I am working events
like that during training cycles I'll switch up my Sunday and Monday workouts.
I was originally scheduled to like do some yoga today but I just did that
yesterday because it's like way less intense and I have the day off today so
did my long run this morning and just leaving the gym now and I have to go get
some groceries for the week so can I relax for the rest of the day. So this weekend
was actually Barkley Marathons weekend and if you are a distance runner or an
aspiring distance runner and you want some motivation, you need to figure out
what the Barkley Marathons are because this is the one weekend of the year that
I just get so pumped about running. Barkley Marathons is this like really
crazy ultra marathon / endurance race. It's essentially, run a hundred
miles, ascend and descend the equivalent of Mount Everest two times, and do that
in a matter of 60 hours, so the course of a weekend, and I'm going to leave a link
to, if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can watch this documentary that really
explains what the Barkley Marathons are and they were this weekend. Now that's I'm parked in the parking lot.
They were this weekend and it's like this really cool community of people who
know about the Barkley Marathons who come together on Twitter and tweet about
it during the weekend. You probably saw me tweeting about it if you follow
me on twitter using the hashtag #BM100 but it's crazy. It's a crazy inspiring
thing as a runner and as an athlete and just as like a person that people go out
and do this every year. There were no finishers this year which is freaking
crazy. One person completed three laps and that
was the most successful story and it's just
nuts. So I highly recommend, if you want some motivation, definitely check out the
Barkley Marathons documentary. I'll link it down in the description if you wanted
to check it out. It's on Amazon Prime video. It used to be on Netflix but now
it's on Amazon Prime video. I think it's on Netflix in other
countries but in the states they took it off Netflix for some reason. It's great
and I'm also gonna link some vlogs from people who vlog their experience doing
the Barkley down below as well. So that's some motivation for you if you're
looking for some fitness motivation. We're in the last week of March. I'm
almost done with this month's training. It's gone really well so far. I'm sure
the next time I check in with you will probably be like my wrap-up for the
month, but it's going really well. It's been the best training cycle so far
that I've had and I'm just hoping it continues to be successful. I feel like
I'm doing really well this time around. We're doing 15 minutes of bodyweight
exercises today. Brett's going to torture me a little bit.
Hello! It is the 31st of March. It is Saturday Runday. It doesn't have the best ring to it. Today
I'm doing my last long run of the month. It is gorgeous out and if I was going on
a shorter run I would probably do this run outside. The area that I live in is
not conducive for long runs outside unfortunately. There are not a lot of
locations where I can comfortably run outside for a long period of time. I
would say like 90 minutes would be my max. I just live in a very rural area, a
very hilly area and if something were to go wrong, it's really scary to
like try and get back. Today I have a three hour long run. Get out of the way little
squirrel! I've been really into watching ultra marathon like, vlogs ever since the
Barkley happened over last weekend. They're just so motivating. I don't
know if I would ever do an ultra marathon. I feel like if I did one it'd
probably be the shortest one, 50K so like in the 30-mile area. It's so
close to like a marathon distance that probably wouldn't make too huge of a
difference for me to train for a 50k, but I've been watching all of these like
hundred mile ultra marathon vlogs and it's just so inspiring and motivating.
Oh man. I've been loving it. Today's the 31st so it's the last day of the month, so this
will be my last day vlogging for this month and I also I need to answer some
of the questions that were left on my last vlog. There were a couple of
questions and so I wanted to take some time, so after my long run I will do some
question answering and recovering from my run. Alright, now I'm parked and I can
safely show you what I will be eating. So I have these which are the Clif gels.
These are the vanilla flavors and I had, these during I think the Boston half
marathon a couple years ago for the first time and honestl,y they taste just
like vanilla frosting so these are my favorite. And then I also have some
chews. I do like the chows more than I like goos and gels. but these are the Gu
brand watermelon, and then these are the Clif blocks energy chews and this is
strawberry and I really like the gatorade ones a lot too. So those are
usually like my nutritio, race nutrition go-tos. And then I also really like to
eat peanut butter crackers, the Keebler peanut butter and cheddar crackers. Those
are really good too while I'm running specifically. If I'm like,
post-race or anything like that, it's a lot, it's a little bit different, but
those are like during my running foods for me. So that's what I'm eating. Snyway
just got to the gym. I'm gonna head in and start running.
What's up! It's 3:45 and I just finished showering, getting into some comfy clothes. Oh my gosh I just put
these socks on and these are the comfiest socks I've ever had on a
little feet. Oh my gosh, they're like these slipper socks that are like fuzzy
on the inside. GIRL. If you're a distance runner, invest in fuzzy socks because
honestly they feel so incredible after you're done running. I had, at the
Pittsburgh marathon, a pair of fuzzy socks and over the foot flip-flops and
as soon as I was done running I put, I took my running shoes and my race socks
off, and I put that on and, oh my gosh. World of difference. I felt like a new
human. I think like out of everything that gives me pain during distance
running, my feet are the big ones. My feet, my ankles, and sometimes I'll get my hips
too, depending on what point of the race is, but really my feet which makes sense
because that's where all the impact is. But I managed to get into the double
digits today. I got up to 13.23 miles. So half marathon status today. Happy with
that. We're making good progress on this training cycle guys. I'm really happy
with how it's been going. I can only just hope that it continues to go this way so
fingers crossed guys. We have three weeks until the Portsmouth half marathon which
is my training half so we can kind of see where my training has put me
so far and then we'll have a few weeks after that it will be Youngstown. So I
wanted to take a second to answer your, some of the questions that wound up on
my first maravlog. I am really bad at responding to comments as they come
in on my channel, so I apologize to that, but I do usually get to all of them. It
just might take me a couple weeks and then I'll just sit down and I'll answer
all the comments that I've gotten on my videos in the past few weeks so if you
do make a comment on my video, just know that I do see it and I will respond to
it. It just sometimes ends up at the bottom of my to-do list, so I apologize
for that. But it will get answered at some point. So the first question was
from Mames Jenkins and she asked "How much broth to use for
that meal? Looked good. Do y'all use fresh green beans?" She's referencing, I show a
crock pot meal that Brett and I do quite often. It's chicken green beans and sweet
potatoes, and then we put chicken broth on top of it. What I'll do is I will
leave in the description just like the quick recipe for it so if you're
interested in finding out what we do then go and check the description of
this video. Kathy asks "Do you have to do any
stretching or foam rolling?" and yes, I do have to do it. The question is do I
do it. I am really bad about making stretching a habit and making foam
rolling a habit. It's not something I'm proud of.
it's just something I never take time to do and it's a really bad habit and if
you do distance run you should be stretching.
Luckily Brett, my boyfriend, is good about reminding me to stretch and like, getting
me up and be like "let's just do a quick stretch for like 10 minutes" but when I'm
on my own, stretching becomes a last priority for
me which is not good. Billy Sprouse also commented on my
video saying "Great info. I saw they changed the course for Youngstown this
year. Have you checked out the course yet? I was curious if most of it still goes
through Mill Creek. Good luck." Thank you for the good luck Billy. I haven't
checked out the course. I like, briefly looked at it while I was considering it.
The main reason why I picked Youngstown is because I wanted to have an excuse to
go see my friends who live in Pittsburgh. Youngstown is about an hour from
Pittsburgh, so I was looking at races around them and Youngstown, Ohio - that was
a state I haven't done yet, Youngstown was an hour away, so that's kind of how I
picked Youngstown. From what I've heard Youngstown is quite hilly and it goes
through some like really scenic areas so I'm excited but I really need to check
out the course. Hopefully it's not too brutal but I am pretty okay when it
comes to hills so I'll keep my fingers crossed that I can handle it. And those
are the questions that I got on the last video. Again if you guys have any
questions for me, just leave them in the comments on this video and I will answer
them in my next video. Anything that has to do with marathon training. Running,
gear, nutrition - I know I talked a lot about how I eat which isn't like a
typical like professional runner diet because, I know you guys are very
surprised, but I did talk a lot about what I eat so definitely ask away about
that, and I'd be happy to answer them in the next Maravlog. I'm gonna leave my
final stats for the month of March right here on the screen so you guys can kind
of see how I did in terms of mileage. I haven't calculated it yet but hopefully
I did pretty okay. Again, I'm still feeling really good about my training
and I just hope it goes well for the rest of the time. So April's gonna be a
big month. I have the half marathon coming up. It's a big month for me work
wise so it'll be a little bit of a balancing act, but I'm excited for the
Portsmouth half and hopefully it goes well. All I know is we're getting pizza
afterwards at my favorite pizza place so I'm real excited anyway. I will check in with
you guys next month with my training for April. I hope you guys have a fabulous
month of April and I will see you guys again very soon. Bye!
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