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homemade veg and lentil shepherds pie tonight. got 2 12hr night shifts tomorrow and tues night so im going to have to prepare some food wisely to avoid late night service station coffees and muffins. i usually need a good sugar hit around 4am so need to avoid that i think!
MrF my wife has just got away from nights after about 12 years and i know she found it really difficult to keep eating healthily whilst on them so hope you get through the next 2 days ok. Popps it's so close down there but your run in seems to give you a fighting chance, surely Blackburn deserve to go down for starters for just mismanaging themselves.
Looks like another fine day out, enjoy it everyone, and will ask my wifes permission for a gentle run later.
I can certainly sympathise with the problems of night shifts, I have worked twelve hour shifts (days and nights for over 25 years. 4AM is just the time when I don't really feel like eating but still need some energy, chocolate becomes a huge temptation.
Anyway, off to work foe me, have a good dfay folks!
P.S. Weigh 2lb lighter on the scales this morning, must get a new set!!!!!!!
After marathon taper, recovery week and Easter partying the weight is going up up up. I will be good this week but next weekend is wedding anniversary and we are going away for a few days so that will be another bad time. Next Tuesday the big push starts proper.
well i was very food last night avoided the cakes and chocolate and got through a hearty fruit salad and some soup with wholemeal bread. sure something tastier would have kept me more awake but not a bad effort all around. same again tonight but probably something a little more satisfying!
you cant beat nights, something you have to adjust to. esp with 3 school age children during the easter holidays!
Yeap, I'm on board also. I need to lose 1st 7lbs and have been thinking about a serious starting point for a while. Unfortunately I work away at least 2 nights a week and my fav hotel always gets something 'nice' in for me and has a glass of wine ready ! I've got a deferred through illness entry for the VLM for 2012 so have a few 10k's and halves planned in before then. My first race this year is a 10k on the 22nd May in hilly Derbyshire.
ps. really glad I don't work nights, I'd be a mare to live with !
Target to lose 21 lbs by end of July.
Good to read all the ultra plans. Did anyone enter the Vlm 2012 ballot yesterday? Think I had a good day yesterday but will do my WII body test shortly.
My plans for the marathon build up....
I ran a HM in March in 2:26:57 (cross country) and that was my first HM. I have two more 10k races in May, one is on trails the other is the BUPA 10k in London and I'm hoping to get my time down to below 55 mins.....
I then have a HM at the start of October, cross country again and I'm aiming for 2:15 or below...
From there I am planning to build up my LSR distance to about 18 miles before Christmas. Between Christmas and March I intend to increase the distance to about 24 miles and run that 3 times before late March ( alternate weeks with shorter LSRs on the other weeks)
The furthest I have run so far on a LSR is 14.5 miles and last week ran about 32 miles. I have also just joined my local running club.
I have a whole year to train and my target time is 4:30 - 5:00 at the moment
I will be running this with my daughter to raise money for the Myotonic Dystrophy Support Group
Lisa
welcome aboard coxie. good luck with ur weight loss!
healthy breakfast and off to bed for me, a long night but now got 4 days off so should hopefully get a couple of good runs in to compliment the healthy eating!
Andy, no vlm ballot for me, but Mrs.F entered. ive got to confess that im no fan of london. done it twice and its a cracking day out but having done lots of other marathons you soon realise that there are some absolute crackers out there. Mrs F is no marathon runner but wants to do one and one only, hence why she is hanging on for VLM. albeit i lose count of the amount of rejections she has had! i guess im not a fan of the huge crowds, congestion and fuss. im getting old! i really prefer trail or slightly more adventurous events. hope you get in though, its certainly a must do race.
have a good day all!
Good day yesterday food wise plus club night (12x400m intervals). Weight is static due to bad days before. I'm being good again today.
I know that many wiser and more experienced runners favour events other than London, I guess I don't have the confidence in my longer distance plodding to enter events which don't have that support to keep me going or number of drinks stations etc etc.... but I will move on and any recommendations always welcome.
Snowdon has to be all time favourite, truly awesome.
I now have focus. I am doing the Great Barrow Challenge in September. I need to get down to race weight for this one. I am not lugging around the extra pounds as it will be tough enough anyway.
was close to entering the endurancelife coast to coast challenge but work schedule got in the way of that. maybe next year!
woke up feeling crap this morning . man flu i think. everything aches and dont have an ounce of energy. its goin to be a long day. (sure mourhinio is feeling worse though!)
A couple of days of being good and I have lost 1.5 pounds.
I went to swim club this morning. 2.35km in 1 hour.
Great idea - I have enrolled for the VLM ballot, and two stone lighter by then would make things a whole lot easier. Already lost about 2.5 stone since Xmas 2009, but still need to lose more. If I don't get in to London, I will look around for another marathon: any suggestions for a good first. Quite fancy Paris!
Off for a walk this pm with my partner: running to mother-in-law's tomorrow (9.5 miles) (instead of watching that bloody wedding!)
Anyone on Runkeeper?
I assume its related to the Iphone App which acts as GPS and stores / shares all your runs, good app but i prefer my very old and weighty Garmin - in fact thinking about it, if I just took the thing off then I'd be half way to my 2 stone target....
Dan - the others on here are bigger experts than me, but Brighton, Edinburgh and Stratford are all popular alternatives to London. Enjoy the run to inlaws, sounds like a good plan.
WIi body test was good this morning, will do my weeks weigh in tomorrow.
stratford is on my doorstep Dan, but never done the marathon. your too late for this year but the White Peak Marathon in the peaks in May is a corker. off road, flat, great scenary.
hope everybody is feeling very british today!
Why not try Brighton instead of London ? From mile 11 it is flat or downhill.....
Lisa