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i’ll be totally honest…

even though I had no sleep, I drank a lot on friday night and was hung over for the first half of the day on saturday, so I ended up getting a lot of random things like laundry and work done, but no workout. drank again last night- a LOT but over a long period of time, so I didn’t really cross the line from buzzed to drunk.

just went for a tempo run which felt great:
-WU jog to track
-45s on, 15s jog x10 min–> 2 min off
-30s on, 30s jog x10 min–> 2 min off
-15s on, 45s jog x10min–> 2 min off, jogged back to dorm and went up the long way with 7 flights of stairs so I could do lunge-walks up them to loosen up

I feel much more motivated to be healthy, get sleep, and do my work… I have already worked ahead by a couple days so I should be able to sleep a bit more this week. Track makes me feel like I have my soul back :slight_smile: and I feel the best that I have felt here yet.

as far as the drinking goes… it is college, i know the track team parties some (not near champ season of course) so I don’t know if i can realistically resolve to never drink. HOWEVER, i can be smarter about it… as in less often, less heavy, and no beer. we’ll see what happens.

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p.s. 9 months and no period… seeing the doctor today finally.

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Not having a period for 9 months is pretty unusual. I had a good friend who was an 800m runner with the same problem but not for 9 months…

What is your height and weight?

cheers,
Chris

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As soon as I started track 2 years ago, I lost my period too, and it lasted for a year and a half. I went to the doctor after the first 7 months, he tried to bring it back with a number of different pills which didn’t seem to work, and it only came back on the 9th month, (coincidentally enough the month I didnt’ lift as many weights). Then I started doing weights again and practicing intensely, and it stopped again (while taking those same pills that had brought it back). So I didnt’ have my period again for another school year, and last summer when I did little weights again, it came back (with the help of the pills). Now I lift twice a week and have my period, but still take the pills.
So I think in my case it was mostly the weights that did it, but always in combination with intense practice and less eating, cause before track I played D1 tennis and lifted weights just the same, but practices weren’t as intense and I ate more like a normal person :rolleyes:
My advice: visit the doctor :slight_smile:
Once you don’t have your period for so long, your bone density goes down. I got 4 stress fractures since then and it wasn’t fun. :eek:

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Stephanie,

What was your diet like and height/bodyweight?

In my friends case it had to do with lack of a min required bodyfat and also improper nutrition.

She started eating better and monitored overtraining a little more and her period came right back (she gained maybe 4-5 pounds but ended up running PBs)

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I don’t really know what the problem is. I had some tests done a couple weeks ago, and my blood count (esp iron) and thyroid are in normal range. I have actually gained 5 lbs since I’ve been here because I managed to put the eating “disorder” on hold. My bodyfat has always seemed to be very low, but I don’t actually know what it is now. I have not been training heavy for the past couple months- just field hockey and basically no lifting, and even so… nothing.

Even before I started serious training this was always the case, although track has probably made the gaps even longer- the worst I think was an 11-month stretch. I am starting on the lowest dose pill there is because I am really afraid of hormone changes and weight gain messing me up, and to be honest I would not be thrilled to get it back anyway. I have been taking calcium supplements which i know is important.

They should not have let me get anywhere NEAR a scale… food is not my friend.

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Ur like 5’7" and weigh like 125…u can see ur abs…y the worries?

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I think this is the case: When I was having my period problem, I had dropped 10 pounds in two months. My weight might sound normal; I was down to 136 pounds and height 5ft-7in, but I had VERY little fat, it was all muscle. I look at pictures in my bathing suit now from last year and I’m like :eek: And even though I looked in great shape, I felt weak during my workouts. I ate very little too, and worked out intensely a minimum of 2 hours per day. I would have no breakfast, go straight and do my workout, then eat my first meal at 1 or 2pm, which would be some bites of chicken and some rice, and then I would basically just have fruit and some yogurt for the rest of the day…

The following year I gained some pounds (4-5, like your friend), ate my regular healthy meals, had cheat foods without feeling guilty :rolleyes: once or twice a week, and PR’ed in all of my events :wink:

Now I’m around 58-59 kilos. I started in September being 62kg and my coach here in Greece wanted me to lose weight, but I’m naturally losing weight from practice. My diet seems fine - if I start eating less, I know I’ll just get weaker and then my performance goes down. I’ve found out from experience. Plus now I’m having my period normally after 2 years. Hopefully in 3 months I can stop taking the pills too.

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That is EXCELLENT!! Congratulations!

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stef im inspired :slight_smile:

my period has always been weird and probably made worse by my periodic bouts with eating disorders. I think at my lowest I was around 112-115 lbs (at 5’6") I am used to maintaining at 117-120, and lately I have been eating whatever I want and as much as I want and I’m up around 125-127. The difficulty comes with all the lifting because I gain muscle very quickly which is awesome, even when i’m not eating a lot, but my body fat just drops and people sort of overlook the bones because the muscles make me look healthy.

125 is a perfectly healthy weight for me, and numba is right you can see my 6-pack :smiley: but i just worry that it is extra weight which I’m not used to carrying around, and I always freak out that even 1 extra pound will slow me down.

irrational, but hard to shake…

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When I’m Feeling down, I just breathe, take some time to myself, and forget about everything. Just live, Kras! Don’t get all preocupied about things, just do what you want, mess around a bit, have fun. You’re a freshman in college, live it up! Swim practice for me is not mechanical boredom, and neither is my life. Just make some jokes in practice, goof around, eat junk and have fun. Your so good and devoted of an athlete that you will do good no matter what!

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stop worrying, ur great as is, i love this kid

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thanks guys :stuck_out_tongue:

had a GREAT practice:

-15ish minute run to a hill
-hill sprints 8x30s, walk back rest (about 3 min) I took these HARD and did very very well… first girl to finish in my group every time (there was a 45s group for 400m and up as well)
-15 minute run back

break for dinner

then LIFTS!!:

-front squats TO THE GROUND x6 @40k (they do things in kilos here, it sucks) My max for squats to the ground is 145, but given the volume I was feeling the 40k by the third set.
-no rest, straight into lunges x6 each leg @50 lbs
-no rest into front squats x6 @40k again

Did this entire set 3 times. Then:

-eccentric hamstring raises (someone holds your feet while you lower down using hammies) x8
-no rest into romanian deadlifts x8 @40k (never done these before so I don’t really know what the appropriate weight is, they were weird)
-no rest into hamstring raises again x6

Did the entire set 3 times. Then:

-garhammer raises 3x8 for the lower abs… these were pretty hard

All in all it felt GREAT to be lifting again, the strength guys were thrilled that I was already very strong because I was lifting more than almost everyone. The all-black under armour must have done it. :cool:

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almost forgot to mention- felt some of the old ankle ache :mad: not bad, but just enough that i noticed a couple times. i need new shoes soon which could be contributing, but i guess it’s back to the ice and the resistance band…

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got a great night of sleep (in bed at 11:20!! unheard of!!) and good food as well. I am concerned that I have gained 6 pounds, so I am in a reduction period- not quite as drastic as it was over the summer since I am lifting heavy these two weeks and getting back into training, but reduced enough so that combined with training I can get back under 120 where I belong.

-long run today to loosen up, some hills included, about 35 min.

LIFTS: oh god.

-bench x6 @36k, no rest
-straight to wide-base pushups x4, no rest
-straight back to bench, basically whatever you can do

this entire set 3 times. then:

-chin-ups 4-6, straight to
-standing bar pull- basically a RR, standinng with the bar @20k
-straight to chin ups to fatigue, THEN assist to the top and a 30 second negative

this entire set 3 times. arms seizing up… death iminent.

-cuban press 3x as many as possible @ 14.1k

After having lifted my arms a LOT over the summer I was frustrated to have lost some of that strength, but I still held my own very well relative to others.

I thought my quads would be hurting today, but it’s my hamstrings that are really feeling sore and tight. I have started doing resistance bands again, and my ankle felt ok today. I have also just learned that on 11/14, the first official running practice with our coach, we are doing a one-mile tire pull for time. God help me.

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hahaha that sounds tough!!!

Good luck! :slight_smile:

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THE ONE MILE TIRE PULL IS UPHILL. HOLY SHIT. I think it’s actually happening on dec. 1st, not that it makes much difference.

Was depressed today because America is going straight to hell. I was never that excited about kerry but I hate and despise bush passionately… i’ll admit it, I cried.

For a workout:
split into two groups, and while one group did a core exercise, the other ran (relatively easy) a 200, and then we’d switch.

-2 sets of 5 rotations of that, stretched tight hammies and sore body, have the day off of lifting. Sooo… not too hard of a day.

the temp here has taken a dive… brrrrrrrrrrr

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freezing and raining here, so we played “trackball” inside, which is similar to ultimate frisbee but with a ball and more running. definitely got me loose and breathing hard. then did hurdle drills, break for dinner, then lifts- same lower lift as on monday but heavier weights- strength coach is very adament about adding weight every time you lift:

-front squats to ground x4, 5, 6 @45k
-lunges x5, 5, 5 (each leg) w/27.5’s
-front squats to ground x3, 3, 5 @45k

(same deal with the organization of the superset, going from one to the next to next with no rest, I just don’t want to write it out every time)

-eccen. ham raises x8, 8, 8
-romanian dead lifts x6, 6, 6 @45k

  • eccen ham raises x8, 6, 6

-garhammer ab thing x10, 10, 10

The whole thing felt pretty good, I have a LOT of room to move up in the squats because it feels too easy, and there is no way that I should doing more reps at the end of three supersets than at the beginning.

On another note, my roommate is driving me absolutely crazy- she has managed to reverse her sleep pattern so that she sleeps for a huge amount of the day, oftentimes leaving her music playing, so I feel like I have to be really quiet when I am in the room. THEN, she’ll get up and cook 2 or 3 bowls of soybeans or whatever the hell and stay up all freakin night doing work, eating as LOUDLY as possible and whatever else while I am trying to sleep. I can still fall asleep eventually, but I have been trying to go to bed earlier and earlier to the point that pretty soon she will be waking up as I am going to sleep, and I am in TRAINING and i need to fucking SLEEP and its driving me insane, but I feel like it’s not fair to ask her to rearrange her life to accomadate me. she used to work at the library ir wherever, but now that it’s getting cold she doesn’t leave very often and the room smells like fucking soybeans and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :eek:

unlike many of the people who requested singles because they want to play with boys all night, I wanted one because i need to SLEEP! The two singles on my floor are occuppied by two nerds who don’t do anything besides school, aren’t athletes, and don’t even bring people back at night… so it is wasted on them. If anyone was ever a great candidate for a single in every respect it would be ME!!

anyway enough college venting, not much I can do… maybe the anger and frustration will come out in training :frowning:

GODDAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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i am having a panic attack about the weight… i can FEEL it.
I got really skinny over the summer but it felt SO good… it scares me to say it, but sometimes i really feel like deep down i would choose skinny over healthy.

thighs is the hardest place to lean up if you’re a girl, plus starting the pill… oh god. oh god.

it took 8 or 10 weeks of semi-anorexic habits in the summer to get down there: 3-5 hours a day of intense exercise, average 1,000 cals a day or even less, thats the only way i really know how to lean up quick. and even that wasn’t THAT quick because I was still lifting and was actually stronger, at least in the upper body, than i am now.

the scary thing is that i got a LOT of attention at the gym when i was teeny, it was darkly ironic- no one could have known that i had a semi-eating disorder, but being that thin is what people responded to!!

this post is rambling and pointless but i am honestly panicking.

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had the same upper lift as on tues, with slight weight/rep increases across the board. day off from running today.

I had hope last night… my roommate was asleep before me for once! But it was too good to be true- she woke me up at 4am getting up to work. :mad: I am going to try out this ZMA drink and see if I can sleep more soundly.

this weekend is homecoming- and so the shit show begins…