On Food

I am willing to spend money on food. I am willing to pay a premium for quality products. I will pay more into the hands of a farmer then the corporate grocery giants. I care about where my food comes from, and will not buy an item if I think it traveled too far to be sold.
Author Jim Algie published a little opinion piece about how my feeling on food were becoming more and more mainstream.... I wish it was true but really I do not think so.
I definitely think I am an oddity. Few people question in the produce department about country of origin, and what it comes down to people do not care and the lowest price wins.
I try to do my best. I store ahead from the farmers market, I pay more for pine river cheese- made in Ripley Ontario. I tend to buy Gay- Lee products regardless of price. Meat from friends only. But even I get lazy. I run out of eggs and buy them from the store instead of a friend. I want bananas, and oranges which are certainly not local. I buy fresh spinach year round.

The point I really want to make is that even the farmers do not seem to make the connection. A family that I spent a large amount of time with as a teenagers and even went grocery shopping with alot would go to great lengths to save money. If it was cheap and produced in God knows where "Yippee it is cheap". So if the farmers who need to paid for what they produce are not willing to spend a little extra on local, who can we expect as a society to do so.

Creemore Awsomeness

This 'local' grassroots run was put on by the organizers of the Creeemore vertical challenge. How grassroots?? It was run out of the race directors house. How great is that??
I knew one person who would be at the race, and knew that there would be some fellow Running Manics but really all except one would be strangers. I really didn't know where it was located but luckily I saw a runner who directed me to the fun... it was at her house.

The course was a 7.1 km loop. Run on approx 3km road and 4km trail. Snow packed steep sections trail. Now the interesting thing about running on a snow trail in the winter, especially in temperatures that hover around zero is that the trail changes. I did three loops of it and with each loop it got more and more rough footed. The hard packed sections got loose and steep and the hill sections were just slippy. All and all good times.

It was definitely a different crowd then I was used to. These people are hard core. There is no taking it easy, really they like to push and push and then throw up and keep on going. Seriously there was a guy talking about a race where he did something like 110km in 8hours and he was cursing himself cause he didn't do more. There were a few people training for 100milers, one guy pulling a sled. How great in that?? After talking to those people I felt like I could another loop... but time was passing, and I told Luke I would be home at a certain time sooo that was my excuse. But really I want to be the person training for a 100miler.

AND after I got changed there was some running fellowship beside a fireplace and as I was leaving i was given an amazing pottery bowl, and I am told that if I do well at the race in June I will get another bowl. Thus I will be back.

What I learned

I went to cardiology update the other day. Amazing how much I forget, and with two maternity leaves there was alot of time to forget. For my own fun I typed some of my notes of things I need to remember. Really nobody should read this post.

• It is not so much the size of the plaque in the coronary arteries, but the instability of the plaque that determines risk for MI
• Chronic inflammatory states are a risk factor. ie. Chronic gingivitis, HIV, RA
• TNKase is a fibrolltic not a thrombotic
• Chest pain is common post sent. It is not a MI but vasospam.
• Tropolin peaks early but takes longer to normalize. Where as CK peaks late but normalizes early, thus retesting with further chest pain post MI has the ability to see if the heart has re infarcted
• Men develop collateral circulation t/o life time. Woman only develop it post menopausal thus they are an increased risk for larger MI post menopause
• AVR should be negative on a ECG. Only lead that sees inside heart. Rt arm.
• Tall narrow Twaves = increased K
• Twave changes= Ichemia, ST segment changes= Injury.
• For Q waves to be pathological they must be wide enough and deep enough.\
• Q waves mean DEAD tissue.
• Reciprocal changes- II, III, avf= I, avl, V
• Takes 1- 2 weeks for T waves to return to normal post MI
• Very important to take pain free ECG- always mark if an ECG is pain or pain free.
• Inferior MI and Posterior often go together.
• Smoking makes platelets sticky
• Takes about a month to completely enbed a stent into the vessel
• Can expect 90 seconds of pain during PCI
• Plavix loading dose can be up to 600mg
• Should be given integrilin pre PCI
• MIAnterior expect conduction problems. MI Inferior expect pump and upper GI problems.
• If inferior MI suspect to a right sided ECG to rule out right ventricular MI
• V8= 5th intercostal space
• Ecg changes are only visible during an acute event for a RVMI
• Small ECG ampitiue r/t air, fluid , fat.
• NEVER give nitro or MOS with RVMI- give fluid- 5000cc N/s.
• Give fentanyl ofr pain. Goal- do not eliminate pain but make it tolerable.
• Wellens syndrome.
• Anything below 35diastolic = Coronary arteries not perfused.

Triad

Exercise- Clothes- Food

Resolution Run Durham Style

I can't believe I did a 'race' and didn't blog about it. Didn't realise until I noticed Westgrey Runners blog about it.

This year a dedicated member from the saugeen triathlon club desiced to put together a resolution run for our community. A totally free event, just for fun run that we could do in our own backyard as opposed to driving to a running room event in the city was the vision that organizer was following.

The race was held New years Day in the responsible afternoon. The day was crisp, and a little blowy but not bad. The course was a loop around the town of Durham on snow packed streets and ankle deep snowy sidewalks. Maya walked with another member and their new puppy and we will not say where Ever was BUT Luke and I got to run together. Of course he was hot and I was cold- really need warmer tights. We manged to stay together for 3km. We got lost only once , then I spotted Maya and I collected her and walked back to the school where it was staged. Luke finnished strong all by himself. Of course since Around the bay in coming sooner rather than later I headed out for another 5k. Thus I was the last one in. Anne last in a race...and it really wasn't that bad.

The best part of the outing was that Lisa was there. My 'encouagement ' worked and despite a painful leg she ran the furthest she has in 16months. Good work!

The Totally Expected New Years Post

Again the same old goals, dreams ambitions that I try to do every year. Mostly I fail but very occasionally there are some small victories.
Before I list them lets re-visit some previous resolutions and see how I am doing.


2005
I resolve to exercise more, Umm I think I got this one covered. however I need to get my pelvic floor in shape first. Well I'm told that I will have to work on this for the rest of my life. Also I want to do more crafty things but due to the lack of creativity I need to work on inspiration first. I now see creativity is something that you are born with and is nurtured at a young age, so frankly it is too late for me now so I should stop stressing about it. Some simple goals include making a list of every book I read, Have a profile on Goodreads and am rather faithful about putting down what I have read. However I didn't start that until 2008. and to brush my teeth at least twice a day. I will have dentures by the time I am 40.

2007
Official List Anne
Drink more H20. Develop larger bladder to hold it all as if not may have to take up permanent residence in the bathroom Constant battle
Do more fun things with Maya Add Ever to that list now
Run a two hour half marathon Down to 1:37
Pray more, Read bible more, Develop a more in depth relationship with God Ummmm yep gotta do some more work on that.
Keep track of running mileage Am doing now, but didn't start until October 2009- Bike and swim mileage in the book too.
Be more social Really who is reading this?

2008
Complete my La Leche League leadership DONE
Be more organized I would be be nobody else in my house shares this goal.
Be less lazy
Drive less

2010

• Run a marathon. Qualify for Boston 2011.
• Develop a master shopping list- would save many many trips to the store
• Do some sort of strength training.
• Stop wasting time surfing the Internet.
• Pray more- make a list.
• Have people to our home occationally.

United Kingdom

I admit it, I like the totally guilty pleasure of reading a good fun book. A novel that isn't going to win any award. Oprah isn't going to rave about, it isn't life changing, but it is fun. There is no sadness, nobody raped, homelessness, starving children, mothers unable to buy medicine for their children. Marriages are mostly faithful, everybody is employed, in fact there is barely a plot cause there is little drama.
The writing may be terrible, the story lines may not be tight but who cares.

My point... the best of the best seem to come from the British Ilse. Problem is they seemly all had the same high school English teacher cause I find these three authors vaguely the same..... but really it isn't a problem. I just wanted something to write about.

Sophie Kinsella

Marian Keyes

Cecelia Ahern

Post Secret

On post secret today I was disappointed because one of my secrets was sent in and it wasn't me who did so. My handy- work could have been famous.

Who wants to be the first to guess what it was?