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Ten miles at a pace of 9.21. I’ll take it. Considering I stopped for photos, it was a good pace.
Let’s start this run re-cap with nutrition. That’s always been my greatest concern when thinking about running longer distances. I began my ten mile run nutrition yesterday and it went like this:
- Breakfast: 1/2 cup Gluten Free Rolled oats cooked in water with 1/2 a banana, 1 TBS raisins and cinnamon. Topped off with 1 TBS Natural PB. 1 scoop of protein powder (20 g) with water and ice. 1/2 an orange.
- Mid Morning Snack: 3/4 of a protein bar. *I made sure the bar had less than 20 g of sugars in it because the sugar alcohols or the sorbitols in the bars can cause stomach upset. That goes for chewing gum as well. I cut down on the gum thinking I wanted to save my system.
- Lunch: 1 1/2 cups baby spinach + 2 radishes + 3 cherry tomatoes + 1/2 red bell pepper + 1/4 cup brown rice + 1 Veggie Burger. Topped with balsamic vinegar mixed with a low fat raspberry dressing.
- Mid Day Snack: 1/2 cup Greek Style Fat Free yogurt + 1 TBS raisins + 1 TBS Tamari Almonds.
- Dinner: ….Ahhhhh Friday night dinner. We went to Chesterfields and here is my night before a run eats. NOTE: I never have pasta but since that seems to be runners fuel, I opted to exchange bread for pasta.
I had to have my wine. It was a Cabernet. Red wine = heart health, right?
I couldn’t go with out the wonderful garlic bread offered at Chesterfields so we asked for it less all the oil on top. I had one tiny slice off the end.
A wonderful garden salad with oil and balsamic vinegar and crumbly bleu cheese. Before I tell you about my entree, what Ted had was most interesting. It was Sea bass on top of a Gorgonzola sauce. Those 3 olives? They are stuck on that fish with a piece of FRIED SPAGHETTI! How cool! He said it was SO GOOD!
I had Tuna Puttanesca off the Lenten menu. I didn’t eat much of the sauce, but it was wonderful and vibrant in flavor. The pasta was sauce-less but I topped it with Parmesan cheese. I really wanted my dinner to be as bland as possible although the tuna was far from being bland.
I had to have my coffee. The first at Chesterfields, and the second at 8:15 pm when we got home.
I fell asleep on the couch about 10:00 pm and woke up 3 times during the night. I drank so much water later in the day, plus the wine, then the coffee, my system can only hold so much.
The Day of The HEART RUN
Recap: This was my takings from the Expo yesterday:
For the run, I wore my bib #1950. I used the chapstick. It was a nasty 18 degrees this morning. What happened to a nice warm run?!!! I didn’t wear the shirt but as I’m sitting here typing now, I have it on and it’s nice and comfy.
For the race, even though it was only 18 degrees, the sun was suppose to come out and I would much rather be cold to start and warm up rather than getting too hot early in the run. I wore a sports bra, a turtle neck running shirt, a short sleeve running shirt over that, my long running pants, hiking socks, thin runners gloves (my thumbs did get a bit cold but by the end they were fine), a head band for my
