My First 10Km Run!

Yesterday was another beautiful spring day and I took full advantage of up. My husband and I were up at a decent time after a good night’s sleep so I was warming up for my long run by 10:30am, with breakfast well behind me. The weather wasn’t as warm but was very sunny and I was wearing just the right clothes. The run was quite difficult to start with – bit stiff all over and achy knees, but after a while I got into it. Until about the 7^th kilometre, at which point I stopped noticing the nice weather and pretty scenery and was just counting down the time until I could stop. However, I did manage my first 10Km run without stopping or walking and even sped up for a strong finish in the last 2 minutes.

My recovery period went well – I stretched, ate a really high protein lunch, hit the shower then had a nap. I woke up with no headaches and very little muscle soreness, which was a pleasant surprise. But then I got hungry. And my husband, who had just come back from a trying 4 hour bike ride, decided he wanted junk food. So off the shops we went, coming back with a couple of essentials (eggs, milk) and lots of chocolates, Doritos and snacks. I might have resisted if we’d had dinner at the usual time, but it was almost 9pm before we ate a real meal. So after an uncontrolled dive into the Doritos and dip, followed by chocolates after dinner, I am up 600 calories and 34g of fat.  

I used to wonder how people training for marathons could possibly be overweight. I mean running for two hours or more several times a week must burn loads of calories, right? Well I am less surprised now that I know just how calorific snack foods can be. Combined with an increase in appetite from all that training and I can see how someone could eat their way through just about any amount calories burned in training. Not a lesson I wanted to learn, but one I am going to have to take to heart if I am to lose those last couple of pounds this spring.

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2766.92	131.09g	301.53g	107.99g	11.9g	29.11g
	19%	44%	35%	3%
Calories burned through exercise:		838

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
08:30	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Poached eggs	2 eggs
	Genius brown bread toast	2 slices
	with Flora Light	8g
	and honey on one slice	8g
	Mushrooms	100g
	in butter	5g
	Raw Tomato	113g
	Waitrose pure squeezed orange juice with bits	200mL
09:00	Black Tea	500mL
09:45	Black Tea	500mL
10:30	Easy long run - 75 min
	265mL Sponser Isotonic, fruit mix	20g (1 scoop)
12:00	Citrus Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
12:45	Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake	30g
	in skim milk	225mL
13:00	Heinz Beanz, reduced sugar and salt	185g
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Total Greek yoghurt	125g
	Sainsbury's frozen mixed blueberries and strawberries	100g
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill
16:00	Citrus Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
16:45	Fresh Strawberries	100g
	Brazil nuts	6g
	Cashews	17g
	Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate	40g
17:30	Green Tea	250mL
18:45	Doritos Hint of Lime corn chips	50g
	dipped in Philadelphia light cream cheese with chives	83g
20:45	Homemade chicken and butternut squash risotto	332g
	Stir fried Kale	34g
	in Olive oil	7.5mL
	with Pine nuts	4g
	White wine	125mL
21:30	Waitrose Melange Champagne and Amaretto chocolate mini eggs	46g
22:30	Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew	1 chew
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.