Katy Gaston, RD, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA (2025)

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08/09/2024

Here is a photo of me and my dog to say thank you for being here even when I haphazardly post.

Being public about my marathon training has been harder than I thought for a few reasons. One just being that I’m tired and busy with the training so I forget. But I think the larger reason is because sometimes it’s hard to be vulnerable about it.

It’s hard to say that I don’t know what I’m doing and I’m learning as I go. It’s hard to say that for a while I wasn’t sure I was going to complete the training because the miles were getting to be really difficult and my body was protesting.

But now, with just a 20 mile run left before I start winding down my training, I’m feeling steady. I have been supporting a runner’s knee for the past month through rest, PT, braces and acupuncture and I think it finally feels stable and managed. I have figured out a schedule and my social life has slowed down to where I feel like I can put my training first. I have more of a sense of when to push myself and when to slow down.

So that’s where I’m at with just three weeks to the big race! Thanks for listening 💕

07/09/2024

12 Miles - I am about 2/3 of the way through training and my body is feeling the miles.

It has made me realize the importance of taking care of my body with stretching, PT and icing.

Training for a marathon can be easily romanticized I think, but really it feels anything but glamorous most of the time.

As I near the end I’m looking forward to completing the training and the race. I’m also looking forward to my body not feeling so worn down 😅.

07/02/2024

16 Miles - I haven’t been updated on the weekly miles in a bit because honestly it’s been getting tough. Physically yes of course, but honestly it’s been the mental and emotional that’s been harder.

I was getting into a space of being really critical of myself and my training, that if I wasn’t doing it perfectly to plan and my pace was slow then I was failing (which is a whole other post).

I realized this though and made some changes and I feel like my run today went better because of it. I’m getting into quite the high mileage and race day is getting closer and closer!

The marathon mindset that is needed for training is no joke 😅

Also PS my Summer Thrive Guide is available for download off my website or in the product link in this post! It’s definitely not too late to snag it since summer has barely started in my book. If you want a guide to have a summer of intuitive vibes that don’t include anything about weight loss and having a beach body then this guide is for you! Feel free to ask any questions and there is also a pinned post on my IG page with more info 🌴🦩

06/26/2024

I interrupt this not-so-regularly scheduled programming to say that I have a new workbook available to download now!

Technically I launched it to my website on the first day of summer, but the promptly went out of service for four days 😬

But here we are, and we are ready to support you this summer! It can be hard with all the diet culture messaging around being seen in a swimsuit, but know that you can have whatever summer you want in the very body you are in now. This is a quick and easy guide that will ease you through 4 activities around vibes, clothing, body and food that will be the building blocks for an intuitive and body confident summer.

Available in digital or printable formats on my website KatyGaston.com

(As you can see I’m very into the Palm Springs summer vibes and so I am loving the style of this guide 😜)

Please ask any questions in the comments or feel free to DM me and let’s THRIVE this summer!

06/04/2024

12 Miles - aka the run that taught me I can get through a terrible run.

Okay it wasn’t that terrible. But there were a lot of things that came up that I had to pivot and go with, and in the end I did complete the 12 miles.

At the start of the run I realized the map I made for myself wasn’t going to work so I had to pivot and run a larger loop in the first half. I have a live tracker telling me how many miles I’m doing so that was fine. Until I realized at mile nine my phone was dying.

I turned the tracker off, guessed at what route would give me the closest to the last three miles and pressed on.

“Don’t Stop The Music” came on, which then became my anthem as my phone battery ticked down - 6%, 4, 2….

My legs were cramping, I wanted to cry, I drank the last of my water to have the water fountain I stopped at to refill be broken and I didn’t even know how many miles I was doing.

I finally got to the car, my phone at 1%, me at 0 and I saw that I had in fact done 12.3 miles - not bad for guessing the last of the route, not bad at all.

After a “bad” run it’s hard not to get in your head that this is how it will be. But I don’t think that after “good” runs, I just am glad it went smoothly and then I think about the next one. So I will do the same with the reflection for this run. I’ll take from it what I need to - that I really need to do my PT and stretches - and press on with the training.

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