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ooo yum!
Weather is looking good, starting think maybe shorts are in order! And sun cream!
I am hoping to wear my club vest on Sunday. Will have to dig out the suncream.
I don't particularly like pasta and I tend not to have things I don't like, however good they might be for me. So definitely no salad either. I had a Chinese last night and it's fish and chips tonight. Tomorrow will be lamb and two veg. Roast potatoes, wonderful! I know, lamb is fatty and it will lie on my stomach and it won't be digestible. But I like lamb so BAAAH! The red wine will relax me.
Tracey . You obviously haven't met me. The other back markers will put you right..... ask Hippo or Shades.
Peter - I am with you on the sun
- I have only done two marathons, but did my best time last year at Halstead in the heatwave!
I have been training harder this year, but my times have got slower! So, on Sunday I think I am going to take a leaf out of Zen Dog's book - who said 'He knows not where he is going; for the oceans will decide; it's not the destination; it's the glory of the ride!'
Look forward to meeting you and all the other forumites
Just thought I'd put in a quick greeting!
We're now installed in the hotel, with free broadband! What a luxury. Reading through all this week's posts, nice to hear all the chatter. RE: pasta - what are your thoughts on bulgur, cous-cous? Not that I have any choice at the moment, hotel and restaurant food all this week.
Driven round the course a bit this afternoon, very pretty, very leafy. Now I know what an "undulation" is!
Go on then tiptree, how bad are the "undulations"?!
The weather.co.uk thing is showing 'hour by hour' now, only 20% chance of rain (per hour?), 8mph ish wind, up to 15 degC by 13:00. I would prefer complete calm, but pretty good really!
Rabbit paella with crunchy peanut butter, anyone?
No? I thought not!
Tracey
You are welcome to come round for lamb but we won't be sitting down till late as our visitors won't arrive till around 8pm. You would also have to keep up with the wine quaffing. I don't know about chocolate and carbo loading but I absolutely love the stuff and am a member of Chocaholics. I don't do anything right. It's no wonder I can't run!
CharlieW, Halstead isn't hilly, nothing to worry about, few small bumps in the road. Last year i did 4.18 at Monaco (one huge hill), 4.16 at london (flat) and 4.17 at Halstead.
Peanuts are in my personal post-run recovery goodie bag. If the mouse doesn't get them first.
I'm surprised you can move, let alone run after all that, PB8!
Last time I looked, there are no carbs to speak of in choccie. My wife just bought home a chocccie cake - will definitely attack it later. Best place for it, though, is after you've eaten everything else in your post-run goodie bag.
I'm just carbo-loading today, back to normal tomorrow, otherwise I won't be able to use the gels.
Tracey
Surely your other half will do the cooking Sunday evening? But the lamb presents no difficulty; it's the preparation of the veg that takes the time. Got to go. Pub time. It's been a good week footie wise so I'm looking forward to the banter!
I am knackerd, a 13 hour day today and about 170 miles driving
but looking forward to this
Lamb curry and chips for us on sunday
(home made)
Peter - you are not that slow there are runners behind you
Hippo - Party time
Ooh this thread's moving quickly. Looks like I shall have to stock up on supplies tomorrow and choose which to take with me.
Also tired of pasta so probably fish & chips tomorrow night as that makes me sleepy as well, don't want nerves keeping me awake.
Weather is warming up worryingly.
I had the fish and chips tonight; maybe not the best runner's food, but they do say you should eat what you're used to.
I also seem to be on dinner cooking duties for Sunday - roast duck, after our fridge-freezer decided the two halves ought to swap roles leading to frozen milk and extremely soft-scoop ice cream.
I take a slightly different approach for the carb loading. A litre a day of SIS Energy at a higher than normal concentration, plus a can of Nurishment. The SIS, at 80g per 500ml, gives 75g of carbs, so that's 150g, and the Nurishment tops that to around 200g of carbs with extra protein and some vitamins. Sorted! Then I can follow a reasonably normal diet otherwise for the three days, but do try to keep it healthy and plenty of fruit / veg.
As for plans, we're going to a wedding all day tomorrow! Can't wait though.