The Anti Inflammatory Diet

Last week I touched on the fact that I have been working with a Naturopathic Doctor on my diet. Basically what I am following now is what she calls an anti inflammatory diet. I'm not supposed to eat dairy or any other animal milk products...believe me, I asked about goat cheese. I'm also not supposed to eat red meat or gluten products. This makes my diet very limited but I'm adjusting. I can't say I've made it through an entire week without cheating but I feel if 90% of my meals follow this plan I'm doing ok.

Fish, chicken, chickpeas and quinoa have been my main staples, and I am trying to learn some more interesting options.

I've also been filling up on a few supplements: B6, glutamine, magnesium and 3000mg of fish oils.

Overall, I have been feeling a lot better, I don't have nearly as much pain as I thought with the training regime. At the same time, I'm not having the GI issues I normally get with training.

Training regime this week included:
~ 3 hours of running - missed another 5km of running because of hockey
~ 4 hours of biking
~ 2 hours of swimming - missed one swim this week

I have been working with a coach to help me build around hockey and it has worked fairly well so far, but I still miss a couple, as we are getting closer to the finals. In just under 3 weeks provincials will be over, and my training regime will change. Biking will be the biggest build afterwards, a little bit more running and a bit more swimming, hopefully this anti inflammatory diet will continue to work with the increase in training.

Alright, enough rambling, I will end with one of my favorite triathlon quotes:
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming" Dory, Finding Nemo.

Race Line Up

Ok so I planned on writing in this while I was on holidays over Christmas and have been awful with keeping up. I am going to try to improve but this is what has been up over the past couple of months:

1. Rocking it out in the pool every Tuesday with Nepean Masters and am seeing some improvements, also getting in a swim on Thursdays and Sundays during lane swim time.
2. Loving the OTC cast iron program with the bikes, strength and run training. Now that we are up to long runs and long rides we are no longer doing the strength component as part of our session. 
3. I am seeing a naturopathic doctor to help with dietary issues but also to help with energy for training and it is going really well. I have now lost some weight (still a bit to go) but I no longer fall under the Athena category for races...yeah :) I also have a lot more energy for training, and the recovery time after hard runs/rides is minimal.
4. After posting on the OTC wall about half ironman training I had one of the OTC coaches contact me personally and has been working with me to set up a realistic training plan that revolves around hockey. Since time for training is a bit of an issue I am not looking for an outstanding race at Tremblant, especially with my new understanding of some of the hills, however I want to have as strong a race as possible. 
5. What is the race calendar looking like so far: a) "Day before Mother's Day" Long Duathlon May 12th. b) Half marathon at the Ottawa Race Weekend c) Ottawa River Tri (sprint distance) June 9th d) Tremblant 70.3 June 24th. Afterwards we (Ian and I) are seriously considering the Canadian 113 in Ottawa Sept 1st and the Army half marathon Sept 23rd. In between we may sign up for some shorter distances last minute depending on schedule.

Ok I think that sums up what has been happening overall. I will try to improve my consistency in these posting.

Cheers.