We have completed 1 week of training for comrades 2015. Herewith below is a
summary of the week:
Eating-
I only ate when I was hungry.
I tried to limit my food intake to a third of my fist size.
I ate mostly a protein and a vegetable.
I did not drink (no alcohol) and eat at the same sitting but rather
alternated the 2 functions.
No sugar with my tea and coffee or at all for that matter.
All of this went fine until Friday afternoon when I ate KFC for lunch and
then again for supper. 3 soft drinks, chips (crisps) and a cheese burger in 6
hours. Felt terrible. Why the change, because I was out with friends, I need to
control myself during these outings.
Saturday was abit better until late afternoon where I ate chips and ice
cream. My wife's stir fry was awesome.
Sunday was much better. Ate an awesome breakfast, coffee was divine (freshly
ground Ethiopian dark roast). Supper was a steak and vegetable tagine. I shall
post a video soon on my tagine cooking. I learnt this style from a YouTube
video posted by an old Moroccan lady was awesome. There is hardly any admin
during the preparation phase. easy and the taste is incredible.
Training-
I use endomondo to track my training on the road and my Garmin 310 XT as
back up. The endomondo PC interface is very good and easy to navigate.
Tuesday - took my at a park - sprint training barefoot. warm up with 5
sprint runs of approximately 80m. Thor my training partner is much quicker than
me. My challenge is to try to get close to beating him.
Thursday - 8 km time trial - We only did 7 km. I wanted to join my running
club Athletics Club Eersterust (ACE) but the traffic became abit much to get to
the venue. I am also going to have to make a plan to get of work a little bit
earlier. It was quite hot and we were still sore from Tuesday.
Saturday - We took a break from training because Thor's legs were still
quite sore and it was probably that his body is adjusting to the rigors of consistent
training. Now is that a reason for me not too train. Not at all, I was being flipping
lazy.
Sunday morning we did 10km in an easy fashion, approximately 8min/km.
I need to somehow post progress on this blog but at the same time keep
personal information to my self. I shall post something soon and outline
progress on a monthly basis. This blog is more a report back. The paleo eating
is quite good in that I do not feel as hungry as often. The minimalist running
style leaves my with sore-ish calves but my recovery is getting better and not
as sore as earlier in my minimalist career. I need to start incorporating
drills into my training process.
Take care, yours in training
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
bitter sweet
Its the start of week 5 of training, and I took my measurements. The stats reads as follows
weight:80.9kg
body fat:23.6%
waist:99cm
Its good that I lost some mass, however I feel like I lost to much and some simple arithmetic proved this, off the 3 kgs lost in 4 weeks, 2 kgs is fat (YEAH!) and 1kg is a combination of muscle and water (NOOOooooo!), i'm happy but not over the moon.
on monday, I let down my training partner, yes the dude who is meant to set an example completely stuffed up........what did I do?.........I did not get to the gym at the prescribed and agreed time. That is being a poor training partner and I should have known better!
I on my way to site on thursday and while on the flight I got to read ELLE magazine, apparently ELLE is French for girl. why would I want to read ELLE, simple that was the only reading material for me to read, I don't ever intend batting for the opposite team!
So I read a familiar "mens health" type headline, "what is he thinking in bed" and curious to see what women think men think during nookie time, and at the end of this huge article, I have absolutely no idea what we think or should think or ever thought. therefore magazines on human behaviour are B/S. I have a better chance reading ramblings from those star gazers!
Anyway with soccer and everything special in South Africa, I decided and my wife and I will attempt and check out everything "South African", So in that spirit we went to the knysna Oyster festival.
Knysna as a place is awesome. We checked out the knysna heads, view are spectacular, would recommend the featherbed tour. We ate at various restaurants in Knysna, things are cheap during festival time. Oysters taste very nice.
There is quite a number of things to do in and around knysna, infact too much for just a week, i need more time, we checked out bloukrans (Bungee), monkeyland, birds of eden, outshoon, kango caves, oteniqua tjoo choo(george-mossel bay). All of these activities are just awesome and you really earn your rest time.
2 items that stood out for us, was this place that we stayed in and just next door the eating place.
We stayed in the "Peace of Eden" the people are friendly, view is awesomeness, very peaceful, no one eyed bandit (TV) and 2 very cool horses and race horses at that. You can find their details on the net. It was the perfect place to come back to after a hard day of exploring and some wonderful peaceful sleep.
That brings us to "the red barn", next door to our accommodation is a macadamia nut orchard and in the orchard is the restaurant, 1st words that come to mind "peaceful". Then you sit for your meal, the chef comes out greets you and explains the menu (just like the F(expletive)ing movies), it was so surreal I felt like my desicision carried life altering consequences.
we ate oysters cooked in butter with macadamia nuts (so so good) as starters
I ate a chicken tikka(halaal) and my wife ate a vegetable meal (there are no words to describe how good it was, I fact my english is soo poor I cannot describe how good is was)
desserts(never never gonna eat that mass produced shyte ever again) apple pie and chocolate swiss roll, in the chefs words "fine confectionery!" and sir it was!
Now I am the type of dude who will not go out to eat a salad, but man even the salad was done with a personal touch.
As a result of my trip to knysna, I have found an appreciation of the finer things in life and now I take things easy and do things that are of benefit and have given up fast food(as a meal) only in dire circumstances. this helps with eating well as well.
the location of these places are in Rheenandal, which is about 2 kays(and I didn't make a typo 2km) outside khyna in the hills, very peaceful and worth the trip.
verdict unless you drink alcohol or doing some endurance race, the festival was lost on me abit, except there were loads of cheap oysters. Knysna in its own right does not need a festival to draw attention to itself, its an awesome awesome place, people are helpful and friendly, peaceful and safe.........next time I will visit in my summer holiday break(need to save leave).
weight:80.9kg
body fat:23.6%
waist:99cm
Its good that I lost some mass, however I feel like I lost to much and some simple arithmetic proved this, off the 3 kgs lost in 4 weeks, 2 kgs is fat (YEAH!) and 1kg is a combination of muscle and water (NOOOooooo!), i'm happy but not over the moon.
on monday, I let down my training partner, yes the dude who is meant to set an example completely stuffed up........what did I do?.........I did not get to the gym at the prescribed and agreed time. That is being a poor training partner and I should have known better!
I on my way to site on thursday and while on the flight I got to read ELLE magazine, apparently ELLE is French for girl. why would I want to read ELLE, simple that was the only reading material for me to read, I don't ever intend batting for the opposite team!
So I read a familiar "mens health" type headline, "what is he thinking in bed" and curious to see what women think men think during nookie time, and at the end of this huge article, I have absolutely no idea what we think or should think or ever thought. therefore magazines on human behaviour are B/S. I have a better chance reading ramblings from those star gazers!
Anyway with soccer and everything special in South Africa, I decided and my wife and I will attempt and check out everything "South African", So in that spirit we went to the knysna Oyster festival.
Knysna as a place is awesome. We checked out the knysna heads, view are spectacular, would recommend the featherbed tour. We ate at various restaurants in Knysna, things are cheap during festival time. Oysters taste very nice.
There is quite a number of things to do in and around knysna, infact too much for just a week, i need more time, we checked out bloukrans (Bungee), monkeyland, birds of eden, outshoon, kango caves, oteniqua tjoo choo(george-mossel bay). All of these activities are just awesome and you really earn your rest time.
2 items that stood out for us, was this place that we stayed in and just next door the eating place.
We stayed in the "Peace of Eden" the people are friendly, view is awesomeness, very peaceful, no one eyed bandit (TV) and 2 very cool horses and race horses at that. You can find their details on the net. It was the perfect place to come back to after a hard day of exploring and some wonderful peaceful sleep.
That brings us to "the red barn", next door to our accommodation is a macadamia nut orchard and in the orchard is the restaurant, 1st words that come to mind "peaceful". Then you sit for your meal, the chef comes out greets you and explains the menu (just like the F(expletive)ing movies), it was so surreal I felt like my desicision carried life altering consequences.
we ate oysters cooked in butter with macadamia nuts (so so good) as starters
I ate a chicken tikka(halaal) and my wife ate a vegetable meal (there are no words to describe how good it was, I fact my english is soo poor I cannot describe how good is was)
desserts(never never gonna eat that mass produced shyte ever again) apple pie and chocolate swiss roll, in the chefs words "fine confectionery!" and sir it was!
Now I am the type of dude who will not go out to eat a salad, but man even the salad was done with a personal touch.
As a result of my trip to knysna, I have found an appreciation of the finer things in life and now I take things easy and do things that are of benefit and have given up fast food(as a meal) only in dire circumstances. this helps with eating well as well.
the location of these places are in Rheenandal, which is about 2 kays(and I didn't make a typo 2km) outside khyna in the hills, very peaceful and worth the trip.
verdict unless you drink alcohol or doing some endurance race, the festival was lost on me abit, except there were loads of cheap oysters. Knysna in its own right does not need a festival to draw attention to itself, its an awesome awesome place, people are helpful and friendly, peaceful and safe.........next time I will visit in my summer holiday break(need to save leave).
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