I made an important food discovery today - bad food might have more calories, but it keeps me full WAAAAAAY longer and therefore I don’t eat as much so end up having less calories in the long run. I ate 100g of chocolate today with my lunch but felt so stuffed afterwards that I then didn’t feel the need to eat again until after my tea time run. Normally during that time, I will have scoffed all sorts (healthy stuff from my Graze box, banana, cereal bar, etc) and moaned about being hungry the entire time. It’s the same when I have a highly calorific breakfast like cheese on toast. This keeps me full for ages whereas porridge does nothing. If I have a 50g bowl of porridge with 300ml of milk (that’s a big bowl of porridge) before setting off for work at 6.15, by the time I get to work at 7.30 I’m ravenous.
Anyway, enough talk of food, it’s making me hungry!
Tonight’s run was down as being a five mile tempo session – a one mile warm up, three miles at 8 min mile pace and a one mile cool down. I had Ruby with me so couldn’t go on the roads so I stayed round the trails of Rivington but this was a bit difficult due to all the other dogs and Ruby wanting to show them all who’s boss. The session was also made more difficult by the fact that the second I stepped out of my front door a blizzard started!
Needless to say, my tempo session didn't go entirely to plan and I only averaged a 8.27 pace for the three miles which is pretty slow, even for me. I suppose I should be content with this as that time included a brief toilet stop for Ruby and a very near tripping incident where she stopped right in front of me to shake off some snow and I nearly went flying over her. It wasn't a flat run either and the trails were very muddy in places. Even as I type this, all I'm hearing is excuses, excuses, excuses but I tried, it just didn't go well for me today - seems to be a theme lately. I'll just have to try even harder next time.
I wish I had started this blog three months earlier than I did as towards the back end of last year my running was going brilliantly and I was getting PB after PB. So far this year though, it all seems to be doom and gloom. I hope this is just a brief bad spell and things pick up again soon.
I didn't get time to take any photos tonight as I was too busy pretending to be a serious runner so instead here's a picture of my hall floor after Ruby comes back from our run. What's the point in even cleaning it, it'll just be back like this again tomorrow...
Needless to say, my tempo session didn't go entirely to plan and I only averaged a 8.27 pace for the three miles which is pretty slow, even for me. I suppose I should be content with this as that time included a brief toilet stop for Ruby and a very near tripping incident where she stopped right in front of me to shake off some snow and I nearly went flying over her. It wasn't a flat run either and the trails were very muddy in places. Even as I type this, all I'm hearing is excuses, excuses, excuses but I tried, it just didn't go well for me today - seems to be a theme lately. I'll just have to try even harder next time.
I wish I had started this blog three months earlier than I did as towards the back end of last year my running was going brilliantly and I was getting PB after PB. So far this year though, it all seems to be doom and gloom. I hope this is just a brief bad spell and things pick up again soon.
I didn't get time to take any photos tonight as I was too busy pretending to be a serious runner so instead here's a picture of my hall floor after Ruby comes back from our run. What's the point in even cleaning it, it'll just be back like this again tomorrow...
Total distance - 5.25 miles
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