Within/Without

Peace. I did it! I successfully completed a race! It was a race to support HBCU’s. Although I don’t think any money went toward any HBCU’s. I think it was just an opportunity for alumni to rep their school and do something healthy in the process. I paid $25. I got a shirt but no medal. Oh well. As with anything that our people do… It started a bit late. People were far too overdressed. And of course there was a party afterward. It was such a friends-and-family event. It looked like “old home week” in the line up. It was well attended (well over a 1000 people there) and I thoroughly enjoyed myself and plan to possibly run it again next year. Now on to the logistics…. That's my alma mater all front and center! I’m not sure if this is how it’s done, but I didn’t get the race route until the day before the race. I wish I would have known that there were true hills in the race. I don’t run hills. I don’t like hills, therefore I avoid them. Had I known there were going to be hi...

Peace. I know my last few posts have really been rants. But, I think I needed to feel that level of frustration to put things in perspective for me. Whether on the internet, with doctors/professional or in journals; you can find advice to support whatever you feel like doing and the contrary. So at the end of the day… you need to be doing what seems and feels right to you and keep it moving. That’s what I’m doing. Oh, I’ll still try new things every now and again, but I need to feel positive about what I do. So this weekend I crossed and half crossed off items from my fitness bucket list. Remember, last year I planned to run a 5K and didn’t. Well this year I signed up, paid for and picked up my shirt and bib. All I have to do is complete the race and I can check that off! In preparation for my race I have been running a 5k almost daily. And I’m staying truly hydrated. I installed a “drink water” app on my phone that harasses me every few hours. And I have been keeping water all a...

Peace. So…. I had another vertigo flare this past Sunday. Luckily it didn’t last long, just a few hours. Because I recognized what was happening allowed me to jump right in and get the meds on board. Here is what I think triggered it…. A combination of not eating and it being hot. Sunday was the 1st 90* day of the season. I HATE eating breakfast. I hate eating early, I hate breakfast foods (except for pancakes… love them joints). I hate the way I feel after eating it. Even if I don’t eat a lot, I still come down with the “itis.” So most days I just skip it. Even Ayurvedically, my dosha (Kapha) says don’t eat it. So I cooked for the 7, but didn’t eat myself. I also didn’t run. My phone wasn’t charged and by the time it did charge it was just too hot. So I was all mellow and chilling in the house. I was watching a show on TV that had just a mild amount of action (I’m thinking that watching a lot of movement is another though mild trigger)… all of a sudden my head is hurting, swirli...

Peace. I have been feeling some kind of way of late. I had a vertigo episode and it completely dropped me on my ass. I had aftershocks for about 2 weeks afterward. It totally stopped my May eating challenge. And that and some other things got me thinking… Why do I even bother??? I was reading an article that said smoothie/juice consumption is dangerous. I have also been inundated with articles and testimonies of the dangers of raw food veganism. Even vegetarianism has been deemed and “unhealthy trend.” The juice articles go on to say…. juicing methods remove the produce's fiber, drinking juice omits one of the key benefits of eating fruit, while delivering huge amounts of sugar and calories. It was also mentioned that it could actually cause crystal/stone formation! My vertigo could be a result of crystals in my ear apparatus. I’m not saying that I buy into this but damn….. I am striving to develop healthy habits so that I can maintain vitality into my later years without devel...