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Time for a New Adventure
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Okay...so at midnight tonight we go clean with our diets.
Have you thought of any specifics you want to eliminate and what you will allow yourself? Here are my rough thoughts for me that I will fine tune this evening:
The duration of this "challenge" for me will go until IronMan Louisville in October.....and during that time I will cut out all alcohol, chips, candy, cookies, cakes, chocolate, and all things that resemble the aforementioned items....however, I will allow myself 2 servings of ice cream (1 cup each) per week (but not to be carried over to the next week if I don't eat them) because of my low bone density (medicinal purposes, you know), I will allow myself 3 instances of breaking bad (in one setting) between now and IM Louisville (a 4th instance of me breaking bad means I lose), and all restrictions are off when I travel to Europe this April. 
You still in?? If so, tailor your challenge to what you can live with and what will benefit you the most!
I'm in
Although I've been pretty good since last week, for some reason, training and eating good go hand in hand.
For me, the 'challenge' will last until the beginning of ITERA on August 16th. Why the beginning? Because when we're out there for 5 days and I can't stomach anything out of a packet anymore and we pass a chipper or a shop and I want greasy chips, a packet of crisps of a bottle of coke, I won't be thinking about this challenge
I'm going to cut out chips, crisps, alcohol, fizzy drinks, jellies, chocolate, my mothers home made apple pies, scones, cakes and everything else delicious she fattens me up with when I go home (she's not gonna like this), cakes and all that sort of sweet confectionary stuff and lastly the triangular sandwiches with masses of mayo they give us at conferences and meetings at work.
I'm going to put in a caveat of allowing myself any of the above during an event longer than 24 hours because after 20 hours, I'll need to eat whatever I can stomach to get me over the line. I'll also allow myself 1 - 2 glasses of wine each month that I cannot carry over to the next month (I only drink two or three times a year but if we go away it's nice to have a glass of something so himself doesn't feel like he's on his own). Like DD, I'm giving myself three chances to fall off the wagon and then I'm out.
Chocolate is my biggest problem, I haven't had any now for over a week and I'm good but one square and I'll be eating masses of chocolate and feeling like crap for a few weeks. This is why I'd like to knock it on the head completely, I cant seem to be able to have small quantities.
Thanks Dory Dorycareer move wrote: »Thats so wrong. It even sounds wrong. Where's the joy in living????? Seriously don't do it to yourself :eek:
It will be fun to find alternatives to the junk I think 
Pretty harsh alright but then again it all depends on how you value your treats/junk food. Have you taken on a diet regime like that before Dory? How did you find it, both in terms of benefits and difficulty in giving up the treats?
EDIT: does this clean living topic deserve its own thread rather than hijacking Neady's log?
For the past month or so I've been making these really great date, fig, cocoa, almond, pecan, coconutty little balls of joy and they've been keeping my sweet tooth at bay. I'm looking forward to trying some other healthy but still sweet alternatives. When I don't have anything made, I'll grab a nakd bar or a bounce energy ball. I eat healthily 85% of the time but when I fall off the wagon, I fall bad and it takes me a week or more to get back on track again. So consistency in clean eating is what I'm after 0 -
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Pretty harsh alright but then again it all depends on how you value your treats/junk food. Have you taken on a diet regime like that before Dory? How did you find it, both in terms of benefits and difficulty in giving up the treats?
EDIT: does this clean living topic deserve its own thread rather than hijacking Neady's log?
We can certainly start a thread for this topic is there is enough interest (I had thought of it myself as I was running yesterday - "Garbage in, garbage out - the clean diet challenge".)
Yes, I went "extreme" 3 years ago with shotgun. What I am doing this time around is baby stuff compared to then. We cut out everything....and there were no ice cream exceptions that I am allowing myself this time around...and I believe on the third fall from grace the person was out. This time I am allowing myself 3 falls, and making the 4th one the exiting fall. Plus this time, each fall can be catastrophic as long as it is in one setting. I may have lost too much weight at one point based on all the comments I got, and I believe my exclusion of ice cream contributed to my low bone density (since prior to that ice cream was a significant source of calcium and Vitamin D for me - not kidding!). This time around I will monitor my calcium and Vitamin D intake - I have monitored it since my fracture.
As far as how I found it - relatively easy, in truth. I had a challenge, and I embrace challenges. I do best when challenged. I also knew/know that chocolate and alcohol and cookies and cakes and all those sinfully wonderful things will still be around when I get to my IM goal, so it's not actually like I am missing anything - I am just choosing to defer it. And the physical benefits were real. That was my best year running - all my PBs from marathon time to 5k time are all from that year, so we really are what we eat. I also felt good about my body.
If anyone else wants to join in on this, it's open to anyone. 0 -
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Holy cow, this log is getting scarier by the minute... No chocolate....? Noooooo.....
Seriously, fair play to both of you for taking on the challenge and good luck with it!
Don't forget my caveat, best incentive ever to get out for a 24 hour adventure I'll be sending the ARSEs an e-mail tomorrow
I'll fall off the wagon quicker than I got on it, wait and see. I'm weak when it comes to chocolate
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Two days clean here, and I find I am actually eating "real" food instead of snacking and consuming items that are devoid of any nutritional value. Whoop whoop!
+1 I'm finding it so much easier to get up in the mornings already and real food is tasting much better. I scored a major victory last night, I resisted the the pick n mix at the cinema 0 -
Wednesday
70mins Wattbike
This included a wu, 5 sets of high gears and a 15 min cool down with a few sprints thrown in for good measure
Thursday AM
3miles @ 8:38/mi
Treadmill style before circuits
Circuits: 8 circuits @ 4x60seconds
1. mountain climber sprints & the abs wheel thingy
2. something with the bosu ball, it hurt
3. Two arm kettlebell row
4. Kettle bell swings & hopping up on a box
5. mountain climber sprints & ab wheel thing again
6. Bear crawls & dyna band squat & shuffle while wearing weights vest
7. Ropes & Clean & press (2x10kg dumbbells)
8. Russian wood chop with a 10kg weight
All I have to say is that I'm gonna pay for this session tomorrow, I can feel my legs start to stiffen already.
Thursday PM
8.1miles @ 9:06/mi
This was supposed to be 4 miles but when I started running, everything seemed to click into place. My breathing was easy, my legs felt light and it didn't feel like hard work. I haven't enjoyed a run as much as this in a long time so I kept on running and tried a new hilly route I long for more of these runs. 0 -
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fair play ! was planning on heading for the booster this weekend too but it didn't work out.. too icy this morning and busy yesterday.. but its a tough tough run.. i wouldn't be in the shape to run all of it.. don't think its included in the harlequin this year which is a pity
It's a great hill, such a shame that it's not included in the duathlon this year. I won't bother with it this year with Booster missing, it was the main attraction for me (but the organisers seem to think that it put a lot of people off). I'll give the Keeper Hill challenge in Tipp a go instead.
To be fair, I wasn't great yesterday, I compared it to the file from the duathlon and I was a bit slower yesterday though I walked a bit more of it last year. Nice covering of frost on top 0 -
Monday AM
70mins Wattbike, 34km
25min wu
6 x 2min sprints @ high cadence (100+)
15min cd
Same session as last Monday though I was able to hold the higher cadence for much longer today so I feel like I’m making progress.
Monday PM
3.2miles @ 8:43/mi
Three handy miles by the coast. The first evening in a long time that there wasn’t a wind that would cut you in two blowing.
Tuesday AM
3miles @ 9:17/mi on the treadmill before circuits
Circuits: 8 stations @ 4x50seconds
1. Bear crawls
2. Push up planks
3. Band resisted push ups
4. Boxing
5. Running drills with cones
6. Sprints the length of the gym
7. Push up planks
8. High knees and wall runs
Tuesday PM
10miles @ 9:32/mi
A spontaneous 10 miles as I was feeling good when I got out. Of course the heavens opened as soon as I got outside the estate but it dried up pretty quickly. Saw so many runners out this evening, tis the season 0 -
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Sunday
10.34miles @ 9:53/mi, 1,878ft elevation gain
Keeper Hill, Toor, Co. Tipp
There’s a challenge on here in March that I’m aiming to do and my fellow ARSEs and I converged here to recce the route today. This might have been encouraged by me as I wanted to have a second stab at running up a big hill for 30 minutes without stopping after last weeks epic fail.
This was much more doable than Booster Hill but not any less hard. It took me exactly an hour to get to the top and though I wanted to stop a few times, I kept on chipping away at it (the pace might suggest I was walking in places but I promise I wasn’t). There were a few points where there was a bit of a reprieve with a flat section and it gave me time to catch my breath.
The top had a nice splattering of snow and ice on it and was shrouded in fog. We stopped at the top for a few seconds, I downed a few dextrose tablets and we were on our merry way practically flying down. While downhills are lovely, my legs were shouting at me with a mile to go so I had to slow it down and pace it a bit.
Hopefully that’s a pass on the Run Up a Big Hill Challenge. https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1018309989
22.58miles on the roadie, 1,278ft elevation, 2hrs, 11.2mph
We got to the cars, did a quick change and headed out on the Keeper Hill challenge bike route. Just as I put my helmet on it started to rain. Cold miserable wet pi**y rain – I think we all know where this is going ……
Ok, I take back everything I said about the roads in West Clare yesterday. This was a whole new level of crevasse and overgrown bush dodging. To be fair, these roads are one track roads with grass growing on the middle of them and they wind their way around the hills so there’s a lot of run off rain cutting trenches in the middle of them.
Did I mention how cold and wet and miserable it was, if I didn’t, take this as a reminder. And the climbing, the pace says it all. I was cooked by the time that we got to the ‘big climb’. I clipped out going up and around a hairpin turn because I was afraid of tipping over into a ditch. A third of the way up, my foot slipped off the pedal and I couldn’t get back on with the incline so had to push the dang bike in my flipping clippy cloppy shoes up the god dam mountain (lets face it, if my foot hadn’t slipped, I would have had to walk anyway). Many many expletives came out of my mouth during that time I spent on my own – all character building I guess.
I was able to get back on at a flattish section somewhere ¾s of the way up and trundled on from there. The only good thing about cooking yourself on the way up a mountain is that you’re so fooked on the way down that you couldn’t give two hoots about hitting a crevasse at 28mph and landing splat on the road. Needless to say, I was a bit more confident than I usually am on the descents
My god, I was glad to see the car when this was all over. My toes and fingers were about to give in to frost bite. I hope it’s a lot warmer for the Keeper Challenge.
Weekly Totals
Running: 6:00 (37.8miles)
Cycling (roadie): 4:25 (57miles)
Wattbike: 3:30 (105km)
Circuits/S&C: 3:30
Total: 17hrs 25mins0 -
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Monday
4miles recovery @ 9:26/mi
There was a nice soft rain falling when I went out to knock this on the head. It was all going well until I passed a young fella walking down the street and got the whiff of his bag of chips. They smelled like the tastiest most salty and vinegary chips I’ve never had. It was all but I turned around and asked him for one It was the first real temptation I’ve had since I cleaned up my act food wise.
Almost three weeks of clean eating done and I’m really feeling the effects of it. The scales and my jeans are telling me I’ve lost my post-marathon and Christmas pounds.
30minute massage
I went for a half hour back and shoulder massage with a new guy who’s doing massages on campus on Mondays. His name is Mick, he can be found in my phone under Mickey Massage I really needed this after the two outings on the bike over the weekend, my neck and shoulders really feel these spins. Mick tells me that the muscles on the front of my body are shortened, especially the ones on my neck so that could well be the reason. I’ve a bunch of stretches to do that should help.
Mick is a former triathlete but he knocked it on the head after he got knocked off his bike on the Headford road by a guy who hadn’t waited for his windscreen to de-mist. Even though he was lit up like a Christmas tree, there was no way the driver could see him. It’s enough to put the shivers down your spine.
Tuesday AM
3miles @ 9:15/mi (on the treadie before circuits)
Circuits: 12 stations at 2x80seconds
A plethora of people turned up for circuits this morning so the trainer, Dave, had to stick in lots of last minute stations and cut the reps by half. We were down in the basketball court so most of the stations were sprinty, dynamic type exercises. It wasn’t my favorite of set ups. I wonder how long before we’re back to the regulars in class.
Tuesday PM
10miles @ 9:44/mi
This was a run of many ups and downs, there were some parts that I really enjoyed and some parts that I really didn’t like. It always takes me a mile or two to warm up and start to enjoy a run and I usually enjoy the next 4 miles but then the rest can sometimes be a slog. This was one of them, I think I was thinking about it too much instead of just being.
30mins Wattbike (15km)
This was a light spin straight off the back of the run. My thighs were burning quite a bit at the start but they calmed down. After 15 minutes I threw in some 30second sprints to get the sweat pumping.
Wednesday AM
75mins Wattbike (26km)
30min wu
6 x 3min high cadence (I could only muster 90-95rpms)
15min cd with a few sprints
I did not at all feel the love for this. I couldn’t muster any speed in my legs until 45 minutes into the session. It got done though and that is the main thing
Wednesday Lunch
4.3miles @ 9:31/mi
Some recovery miles at lunch and they’ve livened up my legs again.0 -
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RacoonQueen wrote: »Serious amount of hours you're clocking up there! Nice work.
Thanks RQ, a back to back session at the weekend usually spikes the weekly totals. Not sure if I can keep this up all year but I'll try to keep the morning sessions going and if life gets in the way for the rest of the day, at least I've something doneFor an awful moment there I thought you climbed Croagh Patrick two days in a row, it wouldn't surprise me! But it was a Boards glitch.
Fantastic training, love reading your mountain adventures!
As for Mickey Massage... :pac: :pac:
Thanks Anna, hopefully I'll have more mountain adventures this year, they're my favorite part of the training. Not pushing a bike up them mind youEasier weekend paying off needy. Sometimes have to give the body a chance to recover, not always the easiest to do but tends to pay off usually
Very true Mossy. It's something I need to pay more heed to this year. Listen to my body, take a few easy days and it will pay off in the long run. Marathon training thought me a lot in that respect. I never knew the value in recovery miles until then and I now realise that they're much better than recovery on the couch 0 -
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