Daily Marathon Training – Day8

If I am learning anything, it is what it takes to be an optimal human. For instance, I figured out refined sugar is not cool. I am better off having an Americano as opposed to a Triple Soy White Chocolate Latte and 75% cacao chocolate instead of a bag of M&Ms. I can directly connect sugar to my poor performance in my last two runs

In addition to sugar, lack of sleep is a killer. I thought I could maintain on minimal hours of sleep as it was working the first few days, but my endurance level is just not the same without a good nights rest. And WATER. I had no idea how dehydrated I was until this last week. I went from dark yellow to clear, if you know what I mean. Training is the greatest self awareness tool, aside from fasting, in fact even more so.

I pulled out 6 miles today, but the last two were a mixture of fast walking and sprints. SUGAR kills! OH, I almost forgot, so does wine…sometimes. A night free of children and boyfriend I thought it would be nice to curl up on the sofa with a glass of wine and the greatest biography ever, CHANEL. I guess because there was no one begging for food, I forgot to eat first. Needless to say, 3 sips of wine and I was barfing up the Tear ‘n Share bag of M&Ms. Post recovery I ordered the sludgiest meal possible, a vat of creamy Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo, but upon eating that I was dream deep in the living room. No great book or wine for me that night. Lesson learned.

Run: 6 miles – 12’ per mile

Pre-run: 100 crunches

Foods:

3 pears – 96 cal (2fat) each
1 Cliff Bar – 240 cal (40fat)
1 cup of coffee – 2 cal
½ jalapeno bagel – 160 cal (18fat)
1 slice cheddar cheese – 80 cal (54fat)
1 egg – 367 cal (242fat)
1 leaf romaine lettuce – 2cal (fat)
1 bag Tear ‘n share M&Ms – 250 cal (120fat)
½ order Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo – 280cal (63fat)
3 sips of Pinot – 40 cal
75oz H2o

Total Calories = 1709
Total Calories Burned = 561

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