Black Coffee

Yesterday I got up and had fruit and natural yoghurt for breakfast. I'm not a big breakkie eater, so this was so filling (at the time) that I felt like I would burst. Unfortunately this feeling did not last and by 10 o'clock I had eaten the nectarine meant for 11 o'clock and 3 biscuits. The black coffee went down surprisingly well and after about 5 cups (decaffeinated) I wasn't even thinking about having milk in it.
Lunch time came and I had bought a salad which was absolutely awful. I ate it because I was literally starving and then proceeded to have a further 3 biscuits. By 3pm another 3 biscuits were eaten and I felt the need to chew my arm off and eat it. Luckily it was almost hometime and as I reviewed the days eating I knew I had to change something for the next day of eating or I would eat every biscuit in the North East of England.

I got home and really didn't want to run because we had 80mph winds. Even holding the steering wheel steady on the car was a bit of an effort. I thought about running on the treadmill and then thought better of it as I have to do intervals today on it and don't want to spend all of my running time on a conveyor belt! It really was a struggle to get going, until I remembered my mindset a few weeks ago... my knowledge of how horrible it feels to not be able to run at all far outweighs running when it feels difficult... so I got dressed in windy proof clothing which included a hat... in 16.5 degree weather!!!
At first it felt almost as though I was deep water running as it had the same sort of resistance feeling. This spurred me on, as it made me really feel glad that I do running in the water... this is why I put myself through the looks af astonishment and the aches and pains at the swimming pool. I did a 15:1 run/walk split and I was pleased to not really need the walk at 15 minutes... or the walk at 31 minutes. I had them anyway, just in case my foot required the break!
It was at 32 minutes and straight into a steep hill with the wind blowing a gale that things started to get uncomfortable. I, however, have a trick to get me through these tough times now. After reading Mental mastery, one of the techniques involves another "You" from the future... now, this "You" has done all of the things that you want to do... they have experience, they know what to do to achieve your goals because they have already done them. I use this other "Me" as a way of talking myself around... so I was "Talked into" running to the top of the hill... to the signpost...to the lampost...to the top of the next hill...and so on and so forth until I was at the 1 mile to go point... and then this is where I HAD to walk because it was simply faster to walk than run as the wind was far too strong. So, after 4 or 5 minutes of running and then walking so I could stride out and get further faster, I was then able to run the rest of the way home. I ached all over as battling against the wind had took a bit of a toll on me.

This morning I'm very achy... what with XL running on Saturday, deadlifts on Sunday and running in strong winds on Monday. Breakfast today consisted of porridge, a banana and *shock horror* a cappuccino. I binned the cappuccino halfway through... guilt or whatever, I didn't feel I should be drinking it. I have a home made salad today with tuna and avocado for lunch and a nectarine. And I'm sat writing this with a cup of black coffee at my side... guilt free!