Good stuff and bad stuff

The great feeling I was having with eating better also came with a downside. Doing a bit of training was fine but making myself do more left me tired, lethargic and I was even beginning to dread every single training session. Last Wednesday on Graemes and my "Date night", I sat in a restaurant and felt like crying. It was only after talking it through with Graeme that I realised I do most of my training after a day of having only a juice for breakfast and a salad for lunch. Graeme suggested maybe I wasn't having enough calories to sustain a decent level of perseverance during the subsequent training.

On Thursday I took his advice and increased my calorie intake and had a really good hill session. This should have cheered me up massively, and going for a weekend to London should have cheered me up even more. Don't get me wrong, it was a fabulous weekend but the underlying reason for being in London (the fact that we were there because I couldn't compete in my 24 hour race) never was far from my mind.

I realised I am not interested in running a marathon at the end of October (although everything is booked so I won't back out) but I'm just not "feeling" it. I was very jealous of all the status updates over the weekend concerning 12 to 24 hour races and wished I was training for one too.

So, I've emailed William and Shaun and asked them if they have any tips for getting my head into gear. Despite feeling the way I do, training has surprisingly gone well this week so far. Maybe it IS the extra calories (I joked that I would start eating all the pies but I'm still actually eating quite healthy... Just more of it!) It's the Saturday long run that's getting me at the moment though. My goal race just doesn't fire me up at the moment enough to make me even want to do it. :-(