
12/05/2025
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🏃♀️ Week 4 of training for the 30k
🏃♀️ Medication for giardiasis triggered a candida overgrowth so I started a candida cleanse, cutting out refined sugar and refined carbs. This is not for everyone, but I know sugar doesn't work for me. It was one of the first things I learnt from kinesiology when I was training for the London Marathon in 2017. I have a family history of diabetes and Granddad was a prisoner of war forced to work on a sugar plantation. The first 4 days were listless and I felt run down in energy, but I love the sharper sense of vision and smell I get when I cut out sugar. See my highlights for recipe ideas for a candida cleanse, or book a session with me to see if it's what your body needs with a gut balance.
🏃♀️ I also picked up an e-coli infection, as I learn to cook meat again. Though, interestingly some strains of e-coli can help the body absorb iron, so I'm letting it run its course and taking some down time while I learn about syncing my training with my menstrual cycle. While training for London, I was still on hormonal birth control, so now it's a very different experience. When I worked on the bioluminsecent bay in Vieques, we took the 3 days off over the full moon to give nature a break. And so I decided to do the same. Looking forward to returning to week 5 in full power! Keep following me as I work out how to adapt altitude training plans for women's cycles.
🏃♀️ My go to recovery protocol is yin yoga, 20 minutes of legs up the wall and hot chocolate made with tarwi & cacao protein powder, with extra cacao for magnesium, super mushroom formula by Aethernal Alchemy with reishi & chaga mushrooms to support healing from candida , and cinnamon which is antibacterial and antifungal as well as reduces inflammation, helps lower blood sugar levels and regulate insulin.
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