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 :-)
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| The finally amazing weather outside makes me feel even worse. Meh. |
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