A Beautiful Spring Day

It was beautiful spring day yesterday – sunny and the temperature got all the way up to 18 C. So I took advantage of the fact I run my own company from home to go out and enjoy the weather. I went for lunch with a friend, where we sat on a terrace by the river in the sun. La Tasca has a new menu, which seems to have more gluten free options (including chorizo!), however, still no nutritional information there or on the website so calories wise your guess is as good as mine. Then I wandered into town and paused at a new bakery on the corner, Sweet Revenge, which was advertising “Gluten free cakes this weekend!” in the window. So I went in and had a cup of tea and a chat with the server, who revealed that the owner and baker was herself a celiac so they offer 2 flavours of gluten free cupcakes every weekend and any flavour of gluten free cakes on order. I even snuck a slightly stale red velvet gluten free cake from last weekend, which was still lovely.

However, after my lunch and a cake I definitely needed a run that afternoon. My husband was home early so we went out for my interval/fartlek run together. On the one hand, it was a bright sunny day, I was feeling somewhat fresh and my husband really pushed me to sprint all out during my fast fartleks. On the downside, my husband was also feeling really fresh and was really pushing me to work hard during my fast fartleks.  I thought I was going to die, or at least throw up a couple of times. I could feel my quads working far harder than I’m used to and my heart rate never got below 165 bpm – and spent most of its time above 175 bpm.

I was so tired afterwards I couldn’t face making dinner, so ended up having a ready meal from Waitrose, and I can hardly move this morning my legs are so sore. However, no pain no gain and this is how we get faster, right?

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2399.18	113.98g	278.86g	92.13g	0	28.69g
	19%	46%	35%
Calories burned through exercise:		383

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:15	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Sainsbury's Freefrom oats	50g
	with Sultanas	20g
	Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice	200mL
08:00	Black Tea	500mL
09:15	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
10:15	Brazil nuts	6g
	Cashews	17g
	Plums	125g
	Irish Yoghurts Diet Apricot and Nectarine	125g
11:00	Twinings Camomile, honey and vanilla tea	250mL
13:00	La Tasca Chorizo	1/2 serving
	La Tasca Paellla Valencia	1/2 serving
	La Tasca Babyleaf salad with oil and vinegar dressing	1 serving
	La Tasca Vegetable Gratin	1/2 serving
	La Tasca Tortilla Espanola	1/2 serving
14:15	Gluten Free Red Velvet cupcake	1 cake
	Green tea	250mL
15:15	Interval Run - 33 minutes
16:00	Strawberry lemonade Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
16:30	Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake	30g
	in Skim milk	225mL
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill
20:00	Waitrose Love Life Beef with mushroom & red wine gravy	1 serving
	Waitrose red cabbage	120g
20:30	Fresh pineapple	168g
22:00	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.