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Saturday 22 February 2014

Super Size Me

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Bad food choices equal bad productivity. Silly and obvious, but sometimes we pretend we don’t know that. My performance this week was completely destroyed, smashed and wrecked by my wrong dietary judgment in the last few days.
When I started running my main goal was, undoubtedly, to lose weight. However, when you start training more seriously, your body clearly requires additional energy. And where this energy comes from? Food, delicious food of course.
The trick is to keep your organism fuelled and lose the extra weight simultaneously. It is so damn hard. Especially if you love some treats like I do. You want to have pleasure eating, savour the moment, but at the same time you are conscious you need to make the right choices to be able to keep your running schedule.
Anyway, as I was saying, this week was a shamble. Not to overload my calories allowance, I exchanged dinner for popcorn twice, lunch for banana cake, fruits for “low calorie” crisps. The result? A shit (sorry for that) run on Wednesday and a shameful incomplete 4-mile yesterday.
Not just the total lack of energy, after 3.2km I started felling stomach cramps and finished my supposedly 4 miles on the elliptical. Such a humiliation. Embarrassing because I knew it was totally my own fault.
Low nutritional meals once or twice are not a problem, but when you have them pretty much half of the week, there is no chance you can expect the same performance if you had had full-protein and balanced options. It sucks. It totally sucks, but it was a necessary learning. It is through our mistakes that we improve.
To close with a flourish this amazingly wasted week, yesterday I had tapas (loads of them – and delicious by the way) and half a bottle of wine. Tah-dah!!!! Unable to train today. Of course. Tomorrow I may be able to do my scheduled 11 miles but I am not so confident. That is the second problem: I know I totally screwed up this week, so I don’t feel much positive for my final weekly long run. 17km requires 100% commitment and assurance or your mind will defeat you.
If I want to keep this training serious and committed, if I really want to finish the half-marathon in May without killing myself, I need to be aware that I cannot just eat whatever I want and everything will be fine later. The closer I get to the race, my meal habits will need to be consciously selected and my choices will have to be wise. That is part of the commitment I accepted when I decided to run Milton Keynes.

I kind of feel this weekend is already lost, but tomorrow is a new day and let’s see what it brings. I will keep you all updated :-)
The finally amazing weather outside makes me feel even worse. Meh.

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