Nice Run Around Town by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

Nice Run Around Town by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

• Distance 11.77 km ( 7.31 M) 
• Weather 9 c (48 F) Ran and windy. 

Good run, a little wet but it was all good. 

Got a craving for Fish and Chips!! Came home and ate a Banana and some drinking some Green Tea!!

Time to stretch and prep dinner for when Mandy get's home

Just a little Jaunt by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

Just a little Jaunt by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

A little chilly. Not as chilly as some of the runs during the Run To Remember.

Ran (literally) into a friend. Vega ;') now I got some green tea steeping and great "go to" after exercise beverage, Chocolate Milk. I know, I know. It's cheep and it's convenient. Crap I sound like a justification for fast food. Sorry, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Doing some research on Meditation and going to head to a meditation place here 

I don't know what to expect or what happens, however I will do some research and see if this helps "quite" my brain.

Feeling better after the run. Ok time to shower and stretch and eat. 

A quick little run to a job interview by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

A quick little run to a job interview by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

Yup I ran a to job interview. Hey I got hired!!

I am all out of my Vega Stuff, my Prepare, Sustain and Recover drink as well as my Vega whole food health optimizer (the new name is Vega One) You know what I find interesting about eating healthy. I actually feel the difference when I don't.

When you eat, not so healthy, you just don't notice. You sort of slip into this automatic state. When I eat healthy I feel more alive, I more energetic, quicker to laugh, a little more witty and I want to work out a little more. Really enjoy the moment.

When I don't eat well I still do all the same things, I just lack the spunk. Ya know.

So at the end of the month I will replace my Vega products. It is missed.

The run was wet, and cool. My kind of running. I ran to a job interview and it was not the kind of interview I needed to be dressed for. It went well and I have a part time on call job working events.

I also have a fancy dinner tonight with Mandy, Junko, and Sylvia at The Vancouver Brain Injury Fundrasing Gala.  So we all get to dress up and enjoy the high life for a night.

Getting a handle on the new prescription. I actually fixed a frustrating computer issue that I had. So all in all the combination of a successful job interview, a great run, and the satisfaction of solving a pc issue, and heading to dinner with some very pretty ladies. I am feeling good. 

Popping some Stumulants

So after the three day Brain Injury Conference and then an intense couple of days at the Personal Trainer school, I was spent.




Not only am I blogger for the Vancouver Marathon, but I also have to work out in the gym as part of my homework.




This was all while I was dealing with a serious bought of depression and anxiety over not finding a job.




So I spent a couple of days pretty depressed. Not running, not working out. Turns out I was having some manic episodes. So I headed to my Dr. and we are trying a new prescription.




Since my injury was in my Temporal lobe; the functions of the left temporal lobe are not limited to low-level perception but extend to comprehension, naming, verbal memory and other language functions, I have great difficulty in filtering.




This just means that when I am on the bus. I hear, smell, sense, respond to all stimuli the same way. My flight and fight responses are all out of walk. So my brain fires like it is in a constant state of flight or fight.




My brain reacts to the sound of the lady's cell phone beep the same way you would respond to someone driving there car at you.




When my wife sits down to me on the couch, my neurons fire the same way our ancestors did when they were attacked by animals.




I have learned to deal with this. I have some strategies I have learned to be calm. I have learned to not trust my own brain and my own judgment.




However I have not learned how to turn this response to stimulus off.




This is a similar stimulus response to ADHD. It's not that people with ADHD cannot concentrate, it's that they can't filter out what is important stimuli and what is irrelevant. So a stimulant like Ritalin is prescribed.




To someone with ADHD or a difficulty filtering, a stimulant will actually calm them down.


There are different types of attention, including selective attention, sustained attention, strategy development, flexibility and response inhibition. What I am hoping for with the stimulant is to help me 'filter' what I need to pay attention to, and help me 'skip' what I don't need.
















So yeah. I am on Ritalin. No run today. was really sick over the weekend and just getting back to normal.

25kl (15.53 miles) on the Treadmill

Been on the go since last Wednesday. The conference was so information packed. I screwed up my speech and ranted way to much. Then on Saturday I started a personal training course.

The homework is intense and I have just been moving so much. I took Monday off just to decompress and absorb.

On a positive side I got a BAS Body Action System the other day and put it together. It has been donated to me by North American Lifestyle Direct.

I have done an unboxing video and will upload it next week. Been a little busy.

I also went for a long run today. I hit 25kl (15.53 miles) on the treadmill. It was kind of gross outside and I figure after running across the country I did not have much to prove. So I wimped out and ran inside.

The personal training course I am taking is at Infofit and it is super intense. Great people the two instructors so far have been so good. I am learning allot and when you are in a room where the guy who just ran across the country is in the worse shape. Well let's just say I don't know how they do it. However I am learning!!

I feel sorry for my wife as she will be my guinea pig in the healthy lifestyle changes ;')

Still training for the Vancouver Marathon and pumping away in the gym. Need to study now. It takes me 8-10 times the time others do to even have a chance at retaining information.

Oh I also learned for people with short term memory loss that stimulants, like Ritalin, may help me keep focus longer. This increases the time my brain has to make a neurological link. The idea being that the longer I have to process something the more likely it is to stick.

So I am going to talk to my Dr. about it on Monday. Ok time to clean, laundry, make dinner and study!!

22nd Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference

All I can say is Wow. What a conference. I am so mentally drained. It was so much information. So many fantastic people.

The big things that I took home from this for me personally were I need to research more on Trauma and how the psychological ramifications of what happens after we have suffered a trauma. I never thought of that.

I studied memory, temporal lobe's, some psych, and other things. I learned how to manage anger, frustration, mood swings. I studied Anxiety disorders, I studied depression. I never looked into trauma.

So I grabbed Dr. Gaber Mate's books and started read. Let' see where the journey of understanding trauma takes me.

I was unable to do any running this week. I was working hard doing some dry walling for a friend then three days at the 22nd Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference

I also start an intense training tomorrow to become a licenses personal trainer at Infofit  So it has been an intense week and it doesn't look like it's going to slow down.

However the one thing that has missed has been my running. I really feel it as well. I need to move. So I am hoping Monday I can go for a nice long run. I am planning on hitting the 32km mark and just going for a really nice, long slow run. Empty my head and just move.

Crap I need to sleep. My head was way over stimulated.

Feeling so much better after my run

Oh the joy of brain injury and short term memory loss.

The last couple of days have left me mentally shot. I did not want to get up today. I slept like crap and did not want to move.

I have the most amazing wife who made me some good old fashioned steel cut oats this morning.

I dragged my lethargic ass out of bed and walked with her to Starbucks in my pajamas. Yup. It was one of those days.

She made a great effort to cheer me up and it worked.

I got back home and checked my email, watched the news and looked outside. Cold and wet. Then I when I was running through the Rocky Mountains and in St Johns in -10 degree weather and a snow storm. This made me remember the joys of an indoor treadmill with a tv on it.

So off to the gym I went. It's in imperial (miles) instead of metric (kilomotemtes) but I packed in 12 miles in a slow 2:20. I started of very slow. Not really wanting to run. However there was a "Walking Dead" marathon on and I got hooked.

People came and went in the gym. I got some energy with my Vega sports.

I did some basic push-ups and sit-ups and few upper body weights.

Got home and realized I forgot my phone and some of my workout equipment.

So I had my recovery drink, and some apples and now I am heading out.

Always feel better after a run.

Workout after Run

So I came home after my run. It was a pretty intense hill training day. I then decided to do some weights. So thinking a great idea after some hill running would be some supper sets

I hit the gym still sweaty from the run. I did some stretches and then I did this.


Superset 1:
Bench presses 5 20-6
Wide-grip barbell rows 5 15-8

Superset 2:
Incline barbell presses 5 10-15
T-bar rows 5 10-15

Superset 3:
Flat-bench dumbell flyes 5 10-15
Wide-grip barbell rows 5 10-15

Superset 4:
Dips 5 15
Close-grip chins 5 12

Stiff-arm pullovers 5 15-20

So after barely making it back to the apartment I then had some of Vega's Recover Protein.

When my wife called I was able to crawl to the phone. Honest. I got there. I had a huge bowl of salad about 200 cups of water. Then I was able to move my hands enough to type this.

I am sitting here in my head going "it's good pain, it's good pain".

Ok time for some bad tv because I don't think my arms could hold a remote for the video game.

Hill Repeats by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

Went out for my first run for the Vancouver Marathon today. This may seem like a little bit of a late start however I think I have a pretty good "base" at this point.

So I did some hill repeats in New Westminster after a little warm up. Then I ran through the Quay as a cool down.

Having run across the country I have a much better idea of what my physical limits are. I am used to running a marathon a day. So I got pretty good recognizing where my energy level's ebb and flow.

When I first starting running and was training at the Running Room for my first Marathon in 2006. I had no understanding of certain terms. We would have Speed building days, strength building runs, and long runs. I was just lucky if I kept up and was always afraid of being last. This changed over the years of running.

So today instead of just trying to "get to the finish" of the days run. I warmed up, got to my hill, and I pushed it. I mean I ran as hard as I could up the hill. I left it all on the hill. I would then walk down the hill as a rest. Then push back up.

At the end of the hill repeat I went on a short cool down run through the Quay in New Westminster.

When I got home I had a cup of chocolate milk (My favorite recovery drink when I don't have Vega)

I am now doing some stretches as I do the blog and then I am going to hit the gym.