Running

Working my way through this fat fuelling process on the Maffetone 2 week test. day 10 with no carbs and am running an avg of 13:30 min/miles on the treadmill to stay under my 141 HR aerobic limit but it's actually enjoyable and I've lost at least 5lbs.

starting to think how I progress after the 2 weeks are up as long term this low hr training isn't for me, I don't want to be fast in 2 years, I want to be fast in 6 months so i'll be using some of the nutritional stuff I've learnt but adding in good carbs to allow me to do some HIIT training as well as the slow stuff once I re-start hansons in december.

having decided that phil maffetone was a bit too "carbs are the devil, carb fuelled running is unpossible" kind of preachy I saw a recommendation for another book by the worlds leading 1000 mile race runner called Slow Burn which also covers this topic so I bought that for reading.

on reading this morning the foreword is by anthony 'i make millions off idiots' robbins which immediately set alarm bells ringing and 3 chapters in it is literally nothing but complete and utter new age bullshit. I went back to the amazon reviews (I think I'd read the US ones before purchasing, stupid stupid stupid) and the top critical UK review says

The writing in this is an acquired taste. Let me give you a taster:
"In your MAP zone, there is a crystalline quality to the sounds around you, as though they are suspended all about you with silent spaces in between, waiting for you radar to pick them up."
I found this more like a new-age self help book, which definitely wasn't for me. I thought it might pick up once it got the the actual running and aerobic zone stuff, which seemed to be forever coming, but the above paragraph was the straw that broke the camels back and I didn't even go on.

well that's 6 quid wasted then.