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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

February Blues

I am currently working on my report from January, but wanted to post a quick update...

February sucks.  So far.  Not in life.  I am fine and happy there.  Went out with great friends for my birthday, and in general life is good.  Not so much in the running and diet department.

Running....

I am typing this at home in the middle of the afternoon on a Tuesday.  Why am I home?  Snow.  The white fluffy stuff.  While I love the white stuff, I need to run.  I can't do that when we are getting 6-8 inches.  Minnesota, not a problem.  Kansas, a problem.  See, nobody shovels the sidewalks here, so I have no where to run except the streets, and drivers will run me over around here.  They don't care.  I can't drive to any trails, because they don't really plow the roads either.  It will be a few day before that happens.

Even better news (sarcasm alert!)  it is going to get very very cold.  Not Minnesota cold, but to about ten degrees below zero at night cold.  That is too cold to be running in.

I guess I will just take advantage of the taper before a race idea, as I probably won't be running until Saturday, race day!

Diet....

While I am pretty sure I will win the war, I have been losing a lot of battles the last few days.  It all started when I allowed myself a Dr. Pepper after running 14 miles on Friday.  Since then, downhill.  Went out on Saturday for my birthday, had some great food at Jack Stack BBQ.  Sunday I fell victim to the lure of Arby's, and yesterday, I caved and had McDonalds.  I have also had several cans of soda.  Today I ate an entire frozen pizza...1000 calories right there.

I want more!  I could go to any fast foods restaurant right now and devour everything on the menu.  Am I hungry?  Hell no.  I just want crap.  I could sit and eat an entire French Silk pie right now.  I just want crap.  

I don't know why I crash so hard like this.  I wonder if it is because I don't eat enough calories on the days I run.  I was about a thousand calories short last Friday on my long run day.  I wonder if being short like that over a few weeks adds up and makes me crash.  I just don't know.

I do know that I need to stop the boulder that is rolling downhill, or I will be back up to 200 lbs before I know it.  It's just hard to stop a rolling boulder when it has so much momentum.  One good thing is that I am out of money, so I can't get fast food anymore this week.  Until Friday.  Payday.  

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