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Having a rest week and sooooo fidgety.
It feels wrong without the Sunday morning long run 😢

Finished with a bang though and was sick, made up quite a lot of time on the run in

Reduced to barffing. That's a mighty fine commitment to the team 😧

I think the third quarter is the worst on long runs 😣

Well done on comfortably getting under your target time.

Booze leads to drunkenness.
Drunkenness leads to Just Eat App.
Just Eat App leads to 14" Pizza, onion rings and wedges with garlic mayo...

Booze leads to your body mainly processing the alcohol. It will deal with the food later... possibly much later 😯 Delete the App. Chicken shish kebab with salad n chilli sauce ☺

Could this be the UK equivalent of Barkley!

Mark Cobain had the ingenious idea of The Hill Ultra. 160 miles, consisting of 55 reps up n down Shining Tor... 54 oportunities to bail out.

Carefull it doesnt turn into 4 days normal: 2 days fasted : 1day binge

It's a fair turnaround from his Tweets when Obama was intervening in Syria.
#badman

There's definitely a big overestimate with Strava running calculations for flat runs.
Glasgow to Edinburgh is virtually all flat, having only one 30m climb in the middle and Strava gives almost 100% extra calories.
Garmin 3679 calories
Strava (from garmin file) 7270 calories.

On very steep runs, theres only 10% difference.
Aonach Mor uphill race 3km 549m climbed.
Garmin 490cal
Strava 527cal

My musings from Saturdays Glasgow to Edinburgh ultra.

http://morayroadrunners.com/ultra/g2e-ultramarathon-01042017/

Being as I survived g2e unscathed and a friend has broken a toe and had to pull out of the Highland Fling relay team. I get to run a bit of it afterall
😀 for me
😢for her

You have running shoes and hotels have doors. Less beer time and offsetting the beer you may have.

Quite horrified to find out that Glasgow to Edinburgh ultra route has had some resurfacing works. Means that it is now mostly tarmac 😭

Well done, 40kg is a lot if you pick it up and try carrying it about. I guess you're noticing the difference day to day.

If you don't have/use one, get a wobble board!

That to help strengthen my ankles and hip strengthening drills has massively helped my knees and I'm now in neutral shoes.

Outstanding 😀

It's nice to have goals, be that a new PB, beating a team mate or increasing distance. But it can so easily become a chore if you don't step back and have a 'just for the fun of it' run every now and again.

I never received lots of spam from signing up for the 30DC. A few emails for signing up to the paid for courses over the past few years (one of which I subscribed to) but the other free stuff is worth it alone.

If your really worried, use a different email address.

Hamstrings, guitar strings. What's the difference 😂

You do. Run in, run home.

Simple if your a product tester for silentnight beds 😀

Sounds like your going fasted cardio, which has its merits but also drawbacks.

If your doing a morning run commute with little or no simple carbs for breakfast to fuel it, give yourself an extra 10 minutes or so for an easy effort. Your still going to burn roughly the same energy (circa 500cals for 5 miles) but less of it will be from your glycogen stores so you shouldn't feel so wiped out later.

I wouldn't say stressed. I'm having a year (ish) off work as a chance to enjoy running, biking or just doing whatever I fancy.

I've pretty much always done it, but working offshore probably didn't help. Finish a 12hr shift hacked off, have dinner then stop by the bond to get a couple of bags of sweets before hibernating in the cabin and watching TV. Soon after the first bag of sweets is demolished and the second bag followed.

Hence starting running after work, so the bond was closed by the time I was out of the gym. I did a few treadmill 30k runs and marathons to chill out 🤔

http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/how-to-break-free-from-binge-eating/

Binge eating is typically a recurring behavior, not an occasional one and will typically have some, if not most of these characteristics:

1.Consuming large amounts of food even though you are not physically hungry
2.Eating more rapidly than normal
3.Eating until you are uncomfortably full
4.Eating alone or in secret
5.Feeling disconnected during a binging episode (also referred to as a “zombie” feeling)
6.Feeling disgusted, depressed, and/or guilty after overeating.

OMG that's exactly me. See the mention of cooking chocolate above. Plus I had to go shopping again on Friday, after Thursday evenings demolishing of everything that was intended for my race dropbags 😣

The week before the D33 ultra I stopped tracking the calories and also had an easy week milage wise.

Ate well after the race and hydrated with plenty of carbs and electrolytes. Saturday night did see a low point where the sweetie cupboard was empty and I demolished half a bar of cooking chocolate 😣
Sunday morning was 1.5kg up from last week. Although a lot of that must have been water as it's off again already

33 miles in 4hours 14minutes, so super happy.

Deeside Way D33 ultra today. Went almost perfectly to the 4h 15 plan I had in mind.

4h 14m 20s and 21st place, which knocked 11min off last year.

Feeling happy but ache a bit.

Nah it's pretty good, seem to do a lot via Facebook. Might try selling you package to join his other group (which i have). He has a lot of useful videos, worth giving it a go

+1 for trying Kinetic revolution 30day challenge. I've come back to it a few times now.

Highs and lows are normal. Some days are a complete struggle in one way or another.

Keep ontop of strenght and conditioning sessions which can really help keep some niggles at bay.

If your struggling with your mojo and you've been running to a plan or set routes, have a change and do something different, fun or interesting. Get back some enjoyment and it becomes much easier mentally 😀

Loosing an inch 😀

Skyr yoghurt is great. I recently started eating it instead of muller rice pots or light yogurts. For the same amount it's got twice the amount of protein. But only half the calories compared to the rice, or the same cals as the pot of light yoghurt.