Trying to get motivated

This last week has probably been my worst yet. I thought I'd 'hurry things along' and do a run whilst partially fasted (I hadn't eaten for over 6 hours and even when I had eaten my carbs had been under 10 grams). This turned out to be more detrimental than helpful and I felt awful. I emailed Shaun and got an answer with lots of sentences in block capitals (I took from that I was certainly doing something wrong). He thought my weight loss was a bit too quick (I'm now down 9lbs) and he thought the lack of energy I was experiencing was due to either a drop in calories (as cutting out such high levels of carbs would do) or a boost in metabolism... or even a combination of both. He told me to start eating more, even if I wasn't hungry. I had to get more fat into my diet!

So, the following day, as it was our anniversary, we went out for a meal. I was very careful and tried to keep within my carb restrictions, and then we got home and had some Veuve Cliquot champagne. Apparently dry champagnes have no carbs, so it was a win win situation. The next morning my ketones were low (but I was still in ketosis) and I knew it had been the meal that had knocked everything out. I didn't train on Saturday... just didn't feel motivated to, but I kept my fat intake higher by having spoonfuls of coconut oil every few hours.

On Sunday morning, I got up and still didn't want to train. I told Graeme I didn't want to do the race either. I literally forced myself to go up to the gym and do 1 hour 30 minutes of running and felt much better for it. I had more energy and felt the best I had done for a while. I took an S Cap before training and found my sweat rate was quite high (the temperature up there was 23 degrees) so I wondered if maybe my hydration and sodium levels have been out of kilter too.

Anyway, I'm doing The Wall on Saturday, but I am in complete unknown territory. I do actually want to do it, but part of me doesn't... probably the part that doesn't know what to eat, how to eat or when to eat. It ain't gonna be a day for PBs though, I can tell you that now. Especially as I'm taking the cautious approach and am taking my run/walk sections down to a 3:3. I'll even run less if I have to and treat this race as a huge step into a new way of fuelling a run!