Crap on the internet

God, there is so much bullshit on the internet. In trying to research stuff about nutrition, running, etc, I have found that most people with blogs think they are an expert and just pull words and theories out their asses. I literally just read a woman's blog post about smoothies who said that blending fruit and vegetables "oxidizes" them and removes all the nutrients. Wow. I mean firstly, she doesn't know what oxidizes means. Why would oxidizing something remove nutrients?

This house looks like Hitler:

Heil House?

Food:
5.45am -  1 piece multigrain toast w/ butter
10.15am - smoothie with banana, pineapple, baby bok choy, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, oatmeal, greek yogurt, ice, almond milk, brown rice protein powder
2 cups coffee
1.30pm - eggs benedict, 1 glass oj
3.45pm - 1 apple
5.30pm - a few bites of potato salad
9.30pm - half a steak, carrots roasted w/ honey, balsamic, salt n pepper, small green salad w/ olive oil, balsamic, goats cheese

Exercise:
6am - 1 hour morning yoga class (easy)
4.30pm - 1 hour dog walk
8pm - 3-mile "Short Run" on treadmill, 377 calories, 33mins (yay!),

Green Smoothies and Motivation

I've been throwing greens into my smoothies lately... spinach, broccoli stems, and today baby bok choi. It's working out, I swear with all the fruit and other stuff I throw in there, I can't even taste it at all. Stuart says he can, but I think he's just being a baby and is also influenced by the fact that it turns the smoothie green. It's a good thing though, because although I don't mind eating greens, I can't really get into eating them raw, and of course cooking them takes out tons of nutrients.

Smoothies are the way forward.

I haven't written about it in awhile, so I thought I'd write an update about how my marathon training is going. It sucks lately! I am still totally sticking with it, which I'm proud of, but I'm just not motivated at all. Every step is a struggle. Compared to the beginning when I couldn't wait to get out the door or get on to the treadmill, it doesn't feel great. I've gone through mini-slumps like this before though, the key is to just suffer through it and I'm sure it will get better.

I've officially passed the 3-month mark as of yesterday, which means I have 3 more to go until my marathon. 3 months is usually when people start training for a marathon, so now is when the essential training really kicks in. Everything before now was just like "training for my training". I can't wait to start doing my runs in cool, fresh Scotland air! Struggling through the intense heat here is good for me I'm sure, but I think cooler weather will be more motivation for me to get out there and train (not to mention a country that has sidewalks on every road). I am very limited here in where I can train, and although I feel very lucky to have this beautiful golf course right next to me to train on, I am freaking sick of it! I wish I could jog to Bridgetown and back - but alas, I'd be roadkill in seconds. Then there's always running on the beach, but beaches don't stretch for very long here. Okay enough rambling.

Food:
10.30am - 1 piece multigrain toast w/ butter
10.45am - smoothie with banana, mango, greek yogurt, ice, almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, baby bok choi, cinnamon, almond milk
2 cups coffee
3pm - sandwich on multigrain bread with ham, cheese, romaine lettuce, mayo, mustard, a few sips of ginger ale

Food update from yesterday (July 1st, 2013)

Food:
10.45am - smoothie with mixed berries (frozen), bananas, broccoli stems, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, almond milk, greek yogurt
12noon - 2 cups coffee
3.30pm - sandwich on multigrain bread with ham, cheddar, lettuce, mayonnaise, mustard, chutney, 1 glass white wine
7.30pm - 1 red bull
9pm - bbq chicken, brussel sprouts with lime + olive oil + peanuts, potato salad w/ onion, mayo, mustard, curry powder, 1 glass white wine
10.30pm - cup of earl grey w/ lemon

DID IT

It's 7am and I just completed my 8 miles. It wasn't too tough actually - I stayed on a flat part of the golf course and went back and forth along the bottom. I know it's not as much as I've been doing, but I'm just relieved I finished without any problems.

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Food:
5am - 1 banana
7.30am - 1 piece multigrain toast w/ butter, 1 spoonful peanut butter
12.30pm - smoothie with banana, mango, spinach, almonds, pumpkin seeds, oatmeal, chia seeds, brown rice protein powder, almond milk, ice, greek yogurt
3.30pm - sandwich on multigrain bread w/ steak, cheese, spinach, onions, mushrooms, brown sauce
8pm - spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce + homemade pesto, parmesean, mushrooms

Exercise:
5.30am - 8 mile "Long Run" outside, didn't time it or anything but it took about 1 hour 30 mins
4.30pm - 30 min dog walk

gnight

Food:
10am - smoothie with spinach, mango,bananas, chia seeds, walnuts, peanuts, greek yogurt, ice, almond milk
-2 cups coffee
2pm - 1 piece multigrain toast w/ butter, ham, 2 scrambled eggs, 1 glass oj
6pm - like 6 cookies and milk
10pm - steak and cheese sandwich on multigrain bread, lettuce, mayo

Exercise:
4.45pm - 1 hour dog walk.

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Trough week, so 8-Mile run tomorrow morning. Going to get up by 4.45 and try and leave the house by 5. On it. Gonna listen to an audiobook I think. See how that goes. Will update tomorrow. Nighty.

Back after my 5-day pout session

Grr. I have been feeling under the weather the last few days, (both mentally and physically) hence no posts. I had another migraine day yesterday, plus I have still felt in a slump about not completing my 11 miles outside like I had planned on Sunday. I have been sticking to my marathon routine however - finished 11 miles on Tuesday as planned, crosstrained on Thursday, going to do 3 short miles tonight on the treadmill. I haven't had much of an appetite the last couple days either. Can't really say I've eaten healthy. A lot of grease, bread, and sugar. Might be another reason I've avoided my blog.

BUT, I am back now. For sure. Definitely. I promise.

10am - eggs benedict, 2 cups coffee
 4.15pm - smoothie with 1 banana, 1 mango, couple handfuls of raw spinach, chia seeds, walnuts, ice, almond milk, greek yogurt, brown rice protein powder
7pm - last bit of homemade chicken fettucini alfredo w/ spinach
8pm - loads of strawberries, blueberries
throughout day - 5 or 6 chocolate chip cookies

Exercise:
4.45pm - 1 hour dog walk
9.45pm - 3 mile short run on treadmill, 34 mins

Half Disaster.

Had a sort of setback on my long run on Sunday, and haven't come back to write about it since then half out of shame, half out of avoidance. I got out there by 5am, still dark out which was great because it was nice and cool, everything was going well, then shortly after the 3-mile mark, I started to feel very faint. My extremities were feeling shaky and I started seeing white before my eyes. I stepped to the side and waited. No change. What was going on? I carbo-loaded the night before with pasta alfredo, before my run I ate a banana and an apple, and loads of water. I decided to go home, eat something else, and see how I felt. Of course, time was slipping away because after 6.30am it gets unbearably hot outside. I tried doing the rest on the treadmill, but the whiteness before my eyes came back.

I ended up just going back to bed. After I finally got up, I felt awful. I totally failed on my scheduled long run for the first time. Stuart mentioned to me that I probably over-did it by going to a really hard yoga session on Saturday, and also not getting enough sleep. He's probably right, but I just felt like I failed and couldn't face writing my blog for the last couple days.

 I decided to take a full rest day on Monday and then do the 11 miles today on the treadmill.

So, here we are. 11 miles on the treadmill will take awhile for me, but luckily I have all day. I know stuff like this is probably inevitable and I just have to keep going. Not everything is going to go exactly as planned and I just have to make up the miles, end of story. Back on it!

You can do it Krystal.

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Completed the 11 miles! Took me longer than it should have because I got a bad little stitch in the back of my left knee, but the point is I completed it. I don't have the exact stats because every time I stopped for a couple minutes, my stupid treadmill reset itself, but I made 11 miles anyway.

Exercise:
11-mile "Long Run" on treadmill, over 2 hours.

Food:
10am - smoothie with mixed berries, avocado, mango, almonds, macadamia nuts, chia seeds, brown rice protein powder, almond milk, ground flaxseed, greek yogurt, maple syrup
2 cups coffee
Throughout day - peanut butter, blueberries, couple pieces of white garlic sourbread toast w/ butter, oj, chocolate chips
8pm - leftover homemade chicken fettucini alfredo w/ spinach, mushrooms, onions, with spaghetti noodles.
11pm - 2 cups coffee