I must stop eating crap. Over the last year i have worked so hard to get rid of around 6 stone and starting triathlon has made me take up biking and swimming which is good but - i ALWAYS feel hungry unless i have stuffed my face within the last 2 hours!
Well its only 2 weeks until rutland mara now and i have actually put on weight - this is calling for serious action. A food log is how i managed to cut a lot of weight off so im going to resort to the tedium of that again. My Fitness Pal - my fecking nemesis, more like. I know i should be eating to fuel to train, not training so that i can eat but after a year of mostly restraint something had to give. I know my first mara is going to be hard and being in less than optimal shape and size isnt going to make in any easier.
People that have know me for longer than a year look in amazement (or maybe not) with the transformation i have made but the truth of it is that for all the training i do i should be doing better times than i am. Sure, last year even doing a mile run would have been ludicrous, and if some one said i would be doing an ironman in july i would have replied "whats an ironman" but it still isnt quite enough. I finished the half ironman in a little over 5 and half hours which i was pleased with in whole but a sucky swim split and less than swift transition times sit as sore points in the back of my mind. i know that the full iron distance is going to be an altogether different challenge - theres no winging it - i have got to train, got to sort out my diet and get the mental focus needed for a decent finishing time.
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