Fueling Issues

As the title says, I seem to be having some fueling issues at the minute - either eating too much before or a run, or eating too little.

Today was the latter.  I got up at around 8am this morning and had a pre-run granola bar. However, whilst Duncan was in the bathroom I decided to get back into bed for five minutes and then didn't wake up until after 11am.  I had someone coming round at 12.00 so didn't have time for a run before that.  At around 12.30 I had a small snack from my Graze box (about 150 calories) and then at about 1.15 I set off for my run.

I drove to Rivvy barn and then ran along to the bowling club and up towards Yarrow.  At this point I was feeling fine and as moving well.  I went to the end of the track and then turned right on the road into Lead Mines Clough.  I ran to the bridge and then went right to go up the big hill and out towards Jepson's Gate, however, when I got to the gate at the top of the hill, the field through the gate was full of cows and calves.  The calves were right on the other side of the gate so I really didn't want to go through.  Strangely, all of the cows were black but all of the calves were white.  Every single one of them.

I went back down the hill and then did a small loop through the clough before running back out again onto the road and then following the road all the way to the bottom and towards Anglezarke car park.  By now, only 2.5 miles in, I was getting really tired.  I was light headed and energyless and can only put it down to not having eaten enough.  It was now nearly 2pm and I had only eaten 300 calories all day, which for me is very little.  I get really lighted headed if I don't eat properly, which is why I can't run in the morning without having had breakfast.

Last week I ate too much and had indigestion all the way round so I really need to work on correct fueling - amongst all the other things I need to work on!

I ran the woodland trail round around Anglezarke and then headed back towards Yarrow via 'the slipway' and then headed down to Dean Brook. It was at this point that a fly shot into my mouth and no amount of 'hocking' could get it back up again.  I could feel it at the back of my throat but could do nothing about it.  Ah well, I probably needed the protein!

Total distance - 6.3 miles

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