Knee Injury Is Holding Me Back From Running

• For years I have been running long distance since the age of eleven years old. I remember our Elementary Coach would have these long distance runs probably close to a 3/4 of a mile or more. I loved those days to go out and participate in all kinds of physical activities. Even in those days without training I would do well, third over all behind two boys. Over the past 30 years or more I never had an operation on knees, Achilles, or leg related running  injuries. Don't know what's going on with my knee but it is stopping me from running. At one of the track practice where I was showing the athletes drills (doing butt kicker) my knee did this pop sound. It hurt a little but I believe that was the beginning of my right knee problem. I was not running on it for a couple of week icing, elevating,  and sometimes putting heat on it. After two weeks I tried to jog again and I think I got about 3/4 of a mile in and it started to hurt again so I took more time off. Within the next few months I think I got in maybe 20 to 30 minutes in slow jogging but it was still weak and hurting. I was running maybe twice a week. So it was time to get my knee x-rayed and was diagnosed as having osteoarthritis in the knee at the age of 62. My doctor said that I shouldn't run anymore or I'll probably just make it worst and I wouldn't be able to do other exercises. The impact of running was just to jarring on the knee so I listened and started walking. Believe me I was very disappointed because I was training for another Nationals in the 5K and 10K for out doors that year and the 1500 meters and 3000 meters indoor Nationals. It was all over just like that. But I am grateful that I had the opportunity to reach the goal of National the year before so it made it a little better. Now that I look back I am glad that I quit running because I am still doing Personal Training with my clients and Line dancing online.  

A NEW NORMAL

A New Normal

Only six weeks ago my husband and I had just gotten back from seeing our first
grandson from Hawaii. A beautiful baby boy that is now growing like a weed and
can actually hold up his head. So proud of him and all you grandparents know how
I feel. Before going to Hawaii we already were hearing about what was going on
with the corona virus and was wondering if we should go. The USA has not given
any rules on travel or stay home orders and we were planning this trip for a long-
time.  Then I also wonder if my husband should go because he had this awful cold
that has lasted for several weeks. He said he is going and nothing is going to stop
him from seeing his daughter or new grandson. Well once we got to Hawaii our
daughter wouldn’t let us get close to her no less to her son because the baby
was in the emergency care unit for complications. The baby was having a hard
time for the first three days but seemed to be getting better through great care
at the hospital and lots of prayers. My daughter and baby were going to be in the
hospital for sometime  so we went on our way to try to enjoy our vacation. Not
expecting to buy a hotel room in Oahu we stayed there for three days but finally
got to Hawaii the Big Island to finish up our vacation staying in a small cottage by the
ocean. It was a beautiful place with breath taking sky's, ocean and gorgeous waterfalls.
We stayed there for three days when I caught my husband's cold. It was
a regular cold at first but started to get real bad towards the end right before our
flight home. While we were at the airport a nice lady came up to us and asked if
we would like to have these masks to wear. I said thank you and took them to
protect everyone on the plane from our cough,and we were doing a lot of coughing
felt like going around the plane telling people I don’t have the corona virus,
I have a cold so they wouldn’t worry. Believe me, we weren’t the only ones
coughing. 

I got home and all I could think about is I needed to get back to work but had to
cancel the last two days of that week. At this point the State of New Mexico had
canceled school for a month (this was March 13th) then the state had stay home
orders. Well what am I going to do now. Online training with my clients is the
only way to help them so I wouldn’t get them sick, and that we kept the social
distance. It wasn’t easy but everyone got on board, even my 60’s and 70 year
old. I had to probe them and teach them but within a couple of days they adapted
because they wanted to. I haven't been to the store in more than a month, I do line-dancing
on-line and eat at home three meals a day and do alot of walking and gardening. My
friend are on line and the only real people I see are on the street when I walk 10 feet away if
can help it. I count my blessing because everyone in my family are healthy including
that sweet baby Liam in Hawaii. Even though our track team is on hold I still have my
Personal Training when millions of people are out of work. Thanks for being here and stay
safe.
Coach Lucille

Double Squats/Double Arms and Knees (Cardio Vascular)

Martina is having fun burning fat with this Cardio Vascular routine. She is doing a double squats with two knees lift and double straight arm lifts. When you squat keep your knees line up with your toes and keep your bottom even or above your knees. Your feet need to be wider than your hips. Come down into the squat with abs tight and back flat while releasing the hip in the back.
Stand up and lift right and left knee to waist with abs tight. At the same time lift 5 to 10 pound dumbbells at the same time knees are lifted in a smooth matter keeping the arm straight and even with shoulders. Work up to doing this routine for 1 minute and add some other High Intensity Low Impact exercise where you can do 15 minutes with 30 seconds rest in-between each 1 minute.

HIIT - Squats and Knee Lifts

High Intensity Interval Training
Everyone needs to work up a sweat when exercising to keep your heart and lungs strong plus to rev up the metabolism. HIIT is a good way to burn extra calories in a fast way and can get you in better aerobic shape (build stamina). This is simple for everyone. Squat to a sitting position, sitting down to a 90 degree knee bent lined up with feet and toes. Have your buttock above knees and abdominal in tight. Come down with a flat back, chest open wide, shoulders down and back, and buttock pushed out in back. Do this slow and in controlled until it feels right. Squat two times. This exercise does not  have to be fast to be effective. Next, stand up and lift right knee than left. Repeat sequence for 30 seconds with a 30 second rest. Build up to 1:00 minute than pick another HIIT exercise and do it for 1 minute rest for  30 seconds until you've build up to 10 to 15  minutes of Cardio Vascular workout. Pace yourself, drink water and stretch.

Keep moving,

Coach Lucille

HIIT High Intensity Interval Training (Low impact)

Cardio Vascular conditioning. Build up to doing this exercise for one minute. Start with 30 second then rest for 30 seconds, repeat. This is a over all conditioning exercise that will strengthen legs, arms, chest, back, gluts and core area. Pace yourself it is a intermediate to advance more. Add other HIIT exercises to make it fun and work up to doing 15 minutes total. CV workout that will exercise your heart and burn a lot of calories.

I Was A Stick But Now I Look Strong!

Lauren is a Personal Training client of mine, that is studying to be a Fire Fighter. Once she passes the test she will be working part-time in Washington and going to school at the University of Washington to become a physician. Lauren has been training hard too past the CPAT Fire Fighter's test. One of the test is a moving stair case with weights on her shoulders. That's where we got this idea (step up to step down into lung) so she could get the feel of this type of physical exertion and coordination. Lauren has executed this exercise for four minutes continuous moving.  She also does over all conditioning exercises to strengthen her body like reverse sit-ups, moving yoga ball squats and she can do 50 push-ups without stopping. Lauren had a trial CPAT test two times now and past the second one after working out six days a week sometime twice a day in six months. Within her training we did strength endurance training days, doing several reps with lighter weights than harder days where she did less reps heavier weights. Then we had days where she did HIIT to work on her Cardio Vascular plus muscle building and endurance. We had her doing cross training to keep it fun and interesting for her.  She gained 11 pound and gained 10 inches in her hips. She also gain inches overall from building muscle. 
Congratulation Lauren, your on you way to having your dreams come true. Good luck in Washington.

Step up with Weights Working On Legs 

Squat Off Of Step With Lung For Gluts

Reverse Sit-ups For Lower ABS

Squat With 10# Medicine Ball Coming Up With Ball Overhead With Glut Squeeze

Yoga Stretch For Cool Down Exercises

Kasha-Katuwe - Tent Rock in New Mexico

Ahh! Excellent hiking and a breath taking, memorized beauty at Tent Rock National Monument. Tent rock is in-between Santa Fe and Albuquerque New Mexico in this little Indian town near Pena Blanca town and Cochiti Town and lake.  The hike is a intermediate to hard with the top trails being a little steep. There are places that you use your hand to climb up rock. I saw all kind of people climbing it from small children to the seniors. It make it nice because it is a 1/2 hour all the way up and then if you want to go and to the lower trail it is 15 minute loop. So a good 1 1/2 hour it would take you to finish. I would like to run parts of it but I went at a time when it was crowded on a Saturday morning. The monument took 7 million years to develop through volcanic eruption to flooding and wind and rain development. Some of the small peaks had little boulders on top of them looked like if you through a rock up there and hit it, it would come tumbling down.  Years ago the pueblo lived in the pumice rock where they dug big holes in the side of the rock that looked like caves.  

5k & 10K CITY CHAMPIONSHIP / STILL PLUGGING AWAY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

How do you pick up the pieces, or they say get back on the horse after being away from racing (competition) for a while, well just like Nike would say, just do it. The last time I raced was November at the Thanksgiving Day Run, running the 5K. I was in great shape and did a lot of cross-country races in the 5 and 10K during the fall including the Duke City 10K. I also ran in the Masters Indoor Races that were held in Albuquerque. But when I came down with that dreadful shingles the enthusiasm dropped tremendously even the training when I hadn’t run for four weeks straight. You get these thought in your head that you shouldn’t push so hard, or racing or over training because the health problem, so slow down quit racing. Well here comes some races that I really enjoy being part of in the community and would like to hold my title as the overall winner in the City Senior Olympics 5 and 10K. I knew I wasn’t in that great of shape, hadn’t done anything past a six mile training session and a few intervals. The amount of miles were maybe 20 miles for two week. So I change my attitude and went their thinking that I was going to do the best that I can and run smart.

The race was in the middle of town in a safe area where there were no streets to cross except a road that entered the hotel. This course was on a bike trail along the channel, flat and fast course with a 5K out and back. Weather was at 45 degrees no wind with sunshine and clouds.

As the race started out three men took out running fast in front of me so I just let them go. Knowing my  pace I ran according to how I feel, sort of a somewhat hard pace. Through the whole race I ran tough but I ran my race (my pace) not worrying what place I was in. At the end of the 5K you stop or proceed a second time out so actually it is a 5k and 10K race in one if you signed up for it. Two of the men that beat me in the 5K stopped and the 50 year old that was way out in front of everyone was on a record time of 42 minutes for the 10K. I felt pretty good the first 5K running at a time of 24:36. I kept the pace thinking that I would try to pick it up the pace with 1 ½ miles left. At the turn around point with 1 ½ miles left there was a couple of men 30 or 40 meters behind me. It was hard but I thought I had to pick it up to beat them. To do that I focused on lifting my knees up and pumping my arms. I didn’t widen my stride because that usually tires me out so I basically think of a faster turnover. With about ½ mile left I could feel my hips hurt a little from the repetition of running. Knowing that I was almost done I pushed as hard as I could thinking someone was coming up on me. Finished, with a negative split of 24:26 just 10 second faster than the first 5K.

Advice in running a 5 or 10K, knowing what shape your in and your pace. Start slower than you normally do if your not in your best shape.  Do it for fun and think about how your going to boost that metabolism by pushing yourself at a race and how healthy it is to be with your friends and out in the fresh air exercising.  

To your health,

Coach Lucille

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Chuck Fuller and Lucille Brasher won their age-group in the 2017 City Senior Olympic Championships 5 and 10K Road Race. Lucille 24:36 5K, 49:16 10K (2nd overall)

I'm Done with the pain.

Has it happen to you? I hope not. One of the worse experiences in my life. Recently I had a bout of shingles. At first I thought it was a spider bite because I didn't have a fever. Most of the time when I had spiders or bees bites, my body would react with swelling and a little pain because I am allergic. Then the pain came very mildly, I saw no need to go to the doctor. The third day came so did the pain intensity so off I go to the urgent care. I was shocked when the doctor said I had shingles and then she said it was due to having the chicken pox when I was a child. The doctor said if I had got the anti virus shot there was no guarantee that I wouldn't got shingles. So she sent me home with Anti-virus pills and pain pills with this excruciating health problem I never experienced before. I remember the doctor said that I must've had some stress going on in my life so I thought back. One day I had trained with three clients, and ran six miles that day and the night before I had minimum sleep so that must of been it plus other worries in my life. She said that all it take to be capable of getting sick, stress.

So it is 10 days into having shingles and I am feeling 60% better. I had only missed two days of work and 10 days of training so the Indoor Track & Field Nationals are out of the question if I am going to be there. So now that I can think clearer and have more ambition for the New Year I can honestly say I had a very mild case of this virus to which could've been the very worse. While I went through this I was also drinking extra ASEA to boost my immunity and putting Renu 28 on my body to relieve the pain and it made a big difference. I also feel that if I hadn't been drinking Asea on a regular basis before this all happened, the shingles wouldn't of been so mild and the recovery time was fast. ASEA and Renu 28 are not only a incredible health product but also a preventive product.

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BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURE

Bernie a good friend of mine is a energetic 75 year old who is getting better as he is getting older. When Bernie was in his 50's he went to the doctor and they said he should change his lifestyle if he wanted to live to be 60. That was a wake up call for him so he started to exercise and became a vegetarian. Ever since I know him he practice what he teaches and was always open to alternatives to better his life and those around him. Then I introduced Bernie to ASEA!
  Being on ASEA for three years and Renu 28 (skin gel) for one year you can see the different in how healthy his skin looks (less wrinkle) and how he just look healthier over all. Bernie's resting heart rate went from 77 to 68,

Bernie at 75 years old

Bernie at 72 years old            

Bernie has been drinking Asea and using Renu 28  for three years now and is more vibrant with better mental alertness, has less aches and pains, take zero medication and still exercises and works for fun. 

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2016 New Mexico State Cross-Country Championships

Congratulations to my Athletes that competed in the State Cross-Country Championships in Jemez NM. We had two Boys Teams, one for the 8 and Under age-group and one for the 9-10 age-group. Both won the team title with the 8 and under winning by six points, placing in the top 11 places out of 50 runners. With the 9 and 10 year old's, we won by one point, placing our top 5 runners in the top 33 places out of 66 runners.
It was touch and go with the 9-10 year old's when at the start two of my athletes got knocked down ending up in last place for the first 200 meters. Those two runners moved up in the pack quite a bit but honestly it didn't look like it was enough. It only takes one place to win by one point and we did. These runners deserve a big congratulations considering 1/2 of them are new to long distance running.
A huge effort to the 4th and 5th runners on our team that picked up the pieces for those veteran athletes that couldn't be there for fighting for AAT (Albuquerque Athlete's Track),
Plus more runners and more team show up at State that we didn't see at the fundamental meets.

Boys Age 8 and Under State Champs2nd place Tesfaye Femling, 6th Daniel Beers, 8th Ronny Yassin, 9th Israel Femling, 11th Lewi Femling, 22nmd Mason Dean

Boys 9-10 year old's State Champs 

4th place William Fetz, 8th place Eneas Armijo, 11th place Cole Bettis, 8th place Owen Wagner, 33rd place Calvin Goodkind, 35th place Nikko Mihan, 36th place Eyob Femling

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2016 NEW MEXICO’S SENIOR OLYMPICS

My friends have encourage me to compete in a real race, the USATF Master Nationals Championships that were held in Michigan at the same time as the State Senior Olympics in Roswell, New Mexico just last week, but I chose to go to Roswell races because of time schedule and cost of events. But, anywhere you go there is always a challenge trying to get a PR's (personal records), breaking records and possibly qualifying for the National meet for next year in the Senior Olympics at Birmingham Alabama. So away I go to Roswell and I’m glad I did. The day of the meet was perfect weather of 75 degrees, 6 am in the morning, lower altitude than Albuquerque at 3600 feet and just two days there to compete back to back events in the 10K and 5K road race. The race was pleasant, running along a park and golf course on a windy bike trail with hardly any altitude change except maybe 75 feet. While running the 10K we came up on the turnaround, there must've been three people on my tail (according to the competitor conversation after the race) is where I separated from them. The halfway point time was 22:55, I was very excited about that considering it was a faster split than my city 10K. I finished my race in 45:34, running my second half of the race with a negative split (36 seconds faster). With this time it put me in first place in my age-group with a new state record. I also place 3rd overall. Next day is the 5K. I got a little better sleep the night before but not enough so didn’t know how this was going to pan out for the race. Finding out it was the same trail the same course out as the 10K was very beneficial and gave me a boost of confidence because I knew where I was at all times. Running along with about four or five runners we came up to the ½ point with a time of 10:28, very excited to hear that and was motivated knowing that I only had 1 ½ miles to go. Feeling pretty good I focused on the runner ahead hoping that I would edge up on him and possible pass him. Only about 30 meter behind him and 3/4 mile to go we both caught a man that had a faster start. With 1/2 mile to go I asked an official which way to go and it messed up my breathing and rhythm of running and the man that I was trying to catch got some distance on me. With only 200 meter left I was thinking of getting a good time and before I knew it I was racing the fellow to the finish line. I missed beating him by a lean. Doing that really pushed me to get a PR in the 5K. My time was 20:52, the last time I ran in the 20’s was back in 2009 with a time of 20:53 in Albuquerque. Final results in the 5K, 4th overall, 1st in my age-group 4 seconds short of the state record. I am totally blessed to be able to run like I am at my age and thank all my running comrades and coaches for support and belief in me. Keep training! Coach Lucille Training schedule, ran four times a week 20 to 25 miles total. Two days ran long slow distance runs for about 6 to 7 mile, one day a week speed work 200 and 800 meter timed intervals, one day tempo run for 6 miles. Training with weights, P90X, and yoga two to three times a week for strength endurance, core support. Supplement redox signaling molecules (endurance and recovery drink).
Results

10K Road Race (click then scroll down)

Winner of the 2016 State Senior Olympic 10K Road Roace time 45:34 new State Record for my age-group 60-64

5K Road Race (click then scroll down)



Lucille Brasher winner of the 5K Road race in the Senior Olympics Women's 60-64 Women's / PR in the 5K since 2009 Time 20:52

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RUN FOR THE ZOO IN ALBUQUERQUE

One of the most popular Fun Runs in Albuquerque with three different races, the 5K in 4 waves, 10K, and ½ marathon. It was like an April Fools day on May 1, 2016. There was wind, rain and a few flurries of snow coming down. People were wearing earmuffs, long tights and jackets or thick long sleeve shirts. A few were wearing shorts but with long colorful sock that seemed to be very popular these days.

At the age 61 you're pretty much thinking about running hard and try running a good time for your age but usually not a PR, that just doesn’t happen except if you are new to running. Well it happened to me which I really didn’t expect it. With this type of weather you think of running smarter so you try harder. Running this 10K I actually felt pretty good the first three miles and came across with a time of 21:30. I was thinking oh no, I better slow down but I didn’t. My time slowed down a little but not my intensity, I was still pushing hard when I came across the 10K finish line with a time of 45:21, the last 3.2 miles in 23.51. Knowing that my last mile was going to be hard I hung in there unfortunately one women past me. I tried to keep up with her but her pace was faster and my legs felt like heavy weights holding my knee down. A man about my age came up behind me the last half mile and said nice job. I really wanted to stay with him so I picked up the pace sprinting in the last 200 meters, unfortunately he saw me and said “oh no you don’t” and sprinted ahead of me looking back so I wouldn’t pass him.

HA! HA! that’s funny! You can have it fellow I don’t care.

Final result was 35th Overall of 669 participants

6th women out of 378

1st in 60-64 age group    

2nd Female Master

Pace per mile 7:17

Albuquerque Athletics Track - Youth Track

Keep running! To your health!