- Morning Trainiacs.
We've got ourselves a super Saturday workout.
Look.
It is so large that this is what we've got.
We have some BioSteel workout hydrator with amino acids,
my usual SOS, we've got a Coke for just before the run,
we got four boxes of chews, gettin' the gut ready
to accept a little bit of sugar,
and beyond that, I've called in reinforcements.
Right over here, set up a little Zwift setup
for buddy Rod that's comin' over.
Three hour bike, twenty five minute run,
race simulation four weeks out
from Half Ironman Puerto Rico's underweight.
Let's do it.
(upbeat music)
Woo.
(machine whirring) Whoa.
(bass music) Wah who wow wow wow.
I say this ever week that I do a race simulation workout.
That was hard.
Three hours, the main chunk being five times twenty minutes
at or above race effort at 230 watts,
and for context, I'm 155 pounds,
(exhales)
and then, twenty five minutes of running,
starting just above race pace,
backing it off after 3K, just below race pace.
Averaging a 4:27 per kilometer pace.
Okay, I'm going to hit the sauna
and today...
(exhales)
I actually want NTK to take over
because she's going through something
as far as her own fitness journey
I think is way more interesting than
what I'm going through right now
that I think all of you should know.
It's good stuff.
It's like feel good stuff.
(chains clanking and footsteps)
- [NTK] Pete.
- [Taren] There we go.
Alright, today's video's brought to you by Pete.
So, you have developed this persona that I have given you
and you have adopted of being NTK,
the no triathlon Kim.
But I don't think people realize
that that's not because you are a non sporty person.
Between the two of us, you're probably more sporty.
Explain your fitness levels eleven years ago.
- [NTK] I worked out at the gym six days a week
and I played Ultimate Frisbee four nights a week
and did a lot of team sport,
other type team sport stuff
like Beach Volleyball, and that sort of stuff.
- [Taren] What body part were you most proud of?
- [NTK] I had some flat abs.
- [Taren] Didn't you say arms?
- [NTK] Oh yes, triceps, really awesome triceps, yeah.
- [Taren] So, that said, let's fast forward
to the last month.
You did an Instagram story yesterday
talking about how you've been doing stuff.
(background chattering)
- [NTK] Some big deal guys.
Super big deal actually.
So February 15th is the ten year anniversary
of the day I got sick.
I was healthy and felt great before that
and then I woke up one morning on February 15th
ten years ago 2009, thought I had the flu,
but it turns out dormant Lyme Disease became activated
and I became very, very sick.
And I've been battling that for ten years.
I'm still battling a lot of the damage that it did,
even though I'm way healthier than I was
for a really long time.
A lot of people may not have know how sick I was
because I kept getting dressed
and putting on my makeup and working
and doing all the things we do
but it was really hard, like the hardest.
So, anyway, after that length of time
where even just getting dressed in the morning is challenge,
and believe me, it was a challenge,
I decided recently that I'm a lot better
and it's time to get moving again
because I miss the person I used to be
and so I've been doing little bits
and I decided to see how long I could run,
not on a treadmill,
because that's somewhat assisted I guess,
but on the track
at Sydney Commons Recreation Complex this morning
and I just did ten minutes.
And that my friends, is something I did not expect
that I could do.
I just want to add that that was a miserable ten minutes.
I felt terrible, my calves hurt, I hated it,
I almost quit after the first minute.
I almost quit after the second minute.
I almost quit every minute but I did it.
I didn't quit so I feel really good now
and yeah, body's capable of a lot I guess.
Not my body, like everybody's body.
- [Taren] Besides that ten minute run yesterday,
what have you been doing for the past six months?
- [NTK] Well, I started last summer
cycling to work, somewhat.
Just based on where I was working at the time
it was close and wast to do so
and that was my first real foray
into any kind of fitness in a long time.
And then, the fall came around,
and just you know, walking the dogs
and going for small bike rides,
I wasn't doing much,
and then, when you started your travels in January,
traveling for Master Class production,
I was out with the dogs for a walk one evening
and I don't know what possessed me,
but I just decided to run a minute,
walk a minute for ten minutes,
or twenty minutes I guess,
and I did that and it felt not like horrible horrible,
and I said, "Oh, maybe I'll do that again."
And so I did it a couple times
and then I did a couple runs on your treadmill back there
in your pain cave,
and yesterday you went to the pool and you said,
"wanna come walk on the track?"
And I was like "yeah, why not?"
So, I just started running and I don't know why, but I did.
- [Taren] Gets kinda a little sad.
- [NTK] Oh. - Well, happy.
- [NTK] Don't be sad.
I ran for ten minutes.
- [Taren] What makes me happy is you are feeling good enough
after like ten years we've been together.
- [NTK] Well, no, we've been together
a little less than that cause I got sick
just about two years before I met you.
- [Taren] Wow, so, nine years that we would go to Kona
and even at the finish line of Kona--
- [NTK] Oh yeah, that first year on our honeymoon.
- [Taren] First year we went.
- [NTK] I had to sit on the sidewalk
with my head between my knees cause I couldn't--
- [Taren] You couldn't watch the podium finishers
because you're so--
- [NTK] Sick? - [Taren] Yeah, so sick.
Two things people are going to ask
are does this mean you're doing a triathlon?
- [NTK] No, cause you know what,
I don't like getting my hair wet, people.
- [Taren] And that's okay
but do you have a fitness goal?
- [NTK] Ooh, fitness goal?
Um, I mean, I don't know how long away I am
from being at 100%.
I don't know if I'll ever by 100% per say.
I don't know if I'll ever get to be
as healthy as I used to be.
You don't know what kind of permanent damage has been done
but fitness goal...
Well, I'd like to be able to run for about 20 minutes.
Cause that would be interesting.
Although, as I said in my Instagram stories,
I couldn't run for twenty minutes before I got sick.
So the fact I ran for ten is like something's goin' on.
But I don't have a goal like you do.
Like you wanna do a full or whatever.
I think my goal would just be cool to run for twenty.
I'd like to get back into the gym
doing weights on a regular basis.
I know, we have a lot of weights at our place here.
- [Taren] What were the few things that really helped you?
- [NTK] Fortunately, I've worked
with a couple of outstanding naturopathic doctors,
using sort of cutting edge stuff to do with herbals
and what not.
Some other really off the wall alternative stuff.
Bioresonance, a lot of people may or may not
have heard of that.
Rife is another term for that.
That was huge in my recovery.
A lot of people think it's snake oil.
I know it worked for me.
But everybody's Lyme journey's different.
I just try to go about my day
and do the things I have to do
and I don't say when I feel terrible.
You don't know most of the time when I feel terrible
cause I just don't want it to become your identity
and I never wanted to stop doing stuff.
Sometimes you have to give me a kick in the butt
because it can overwhelm you and overtake you.
- [Taren] Note to spouses of people with Lyme,
a kick in the butt does not help.
(laughing)
Last question, how much do you like my backwards hat?
- [NTK] I hate it.
It looks ridiculous.
- Good. - The only people
who should wear a backwards hat is a catcher in baseball.
You look ridiculous.
- [Taren] My beard is getting really full.
The hat's nice.
- [NTK] Hate it, it's a bad hat.
- [Taren] It's good.
- [NTK] It's gonna disappear.
- [Taren] That is all.
- [NTK] You might smell like gravy.
- [Taren] That is all.
I happy.
- [NTK] Twenty minutes is the goal I guess.
- [Taren] Now you have to end it with--
- [NTK] I don't know what you say at the end of videos.
- [Taren] You don't, you don't watch my videos?
- [NTK] I watch all of the videos all the way through.
- [Taren] You gotta say.
(sighing) - Later Trainiacs,
like and subscribe if you haven't already.
- [Taren] I don't say that.
Later Trainiacs. - Bye Trainiacs.