Lorn Pearson Trains…

Right! I’m back onto a routine as of next week… Monday 20th May.

Food prep and getting up early to exercise. And hopefully early nights to so that I get enough sleep so I can easily drag my ass out of bed for 6:10am without any excuses!

Tonight I decided what food I’d have for the week and prepped most of it so I can just grab it and go to work:

Here’s what I’ll be having:

8am: breakfast:
2 scrambled eggs, 2 rashers of bacon (cut up) and some cherry tomatoes (maybe put done cayenne pepper in the eggs too!)

And a protein shake made with chocolate protein powder, ground coffee and coconut milk.

10:30am: snack
Another / left over protein shake made with chocolate protein powder, ground coffee and coconut milk.

1pm: lunch
2 tablespoons Oats, 3 tablespoons Greek yoghurt, 1 tablespoon of mixed chopped nuts, 1 tablespoon of defrosted (previously frozen) berries ( berries not in pic).

1 banana

3pm: snack
Cucumber sticks (and maybe some Greek yoghurt).

Some nuts and raisins if u fancy it.

4pm: pre evening snack
Chicken box including:
Chicken
Chopped mixed nuts
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumber
Raisins
Cayenne pepper
Extra Virginia olive oil

7pm: dinner
Chicken / mince / salmon or baked sweet potato depending on the day.

Ill make the breakfast, protein shake and Greek yoghurt each morning (or night before, and the chicken dish us ready for each day now.

I’m on my first intermittent fast of the week just now, I last ate at around 2pm, so ill have eggs, bacon and tomatoes to break the fast at 8am tomorrow = 18 hrs.

And tomorrow I aim to get back into the pool at 6:30am. Just to get me into the routine of getting up early as I used to, to train! Fingers crossed it works x

Here’s my training plan for next week:

Mon: swim am, rest pm
Tue: run am & KRC pm
Wed: swim am, PT run pm
Thu: rest am, PT run pm
Fri: rest & fast
Sat: rest & travel
Sun: Half Marathon

I feel very fortunate indeed. After around 2 weeks of rest interspersed with a couple of runs here and there, this morning I was able to go out and run a leisurely 10 miles – easy peasy. I just took my time, found my comfortable pace and ran.

I hardly looked at my watch for the first two miles, but after that I gave in and started to look at it. As I thought, my heart rate was under 150 – nice and steady. I felt a few niggles here and there, a sore bit on my foot, a sore hip and a sore hip flexor, but the slight pain came and went. After an hour in I’d done just over 7 miles and I was thinking I could keep going to 13, but I saw sense and cut home to make the run 10 miles.

The weather was good, damp in the air but no rain. I ran up to Pollok Park, did a few loops of it then out of it onto Terreglee Ave, Nithsdale Rd and down St Andrews Drive home.

All done strongly after an 18 hr fast and two scrambled eggs for breakfast for fuel. I want to try out a mainly protein based breakfast and it seemed to work fine.

Now all I need to do next week is try to get up early to do all of the early morning exercise I have planned to get me into more of a routine! Wish me luck! (Or shout at me to get put of my bed at 615am more like!!)

I get a new letter from Mike Matthew’s Muscle for Life… and today it had a good article about Intermittent Fasting (IF).

You can read more about it (and get the links to Leangains – which I’ve referred to before) here:

http://www.muscleforlife.com/the-definitive-guide-to-intermittent-fasting/

A good wee article…

I’m 10 hrs into today’s fast, and am going to fast til around 8am when I’ll have some scrambled eggs n meat – then go a long run.

I’ve found a new favourite drink … Mangajo Iced Lemon & Green Tea!

Fit Girl got me a bottle from her work which I polished off tonight… Very tasty and subtle.

I think you can buy it in Waitrose (and I’m going to get my plain peanut stash from there soon, so I’ll be getting some iced tea too I think!

(£2 for 750mls though … Not exactly cheap! – nice for a treat or for when I’m fasting maybe).

I have to be honest, the last few weeks have been strange for me. I’ve been resting more than anything else and have 2 weeks in the back of my mind as a sensible amount of time to rest after walking 96 miles in 3 days over 33 hrs. Sore feet a plenty. Only one blister which is almost healed, but rest is good and I’ve been taking advantage of it.

I still have it in my head that I want to run and that I should be out running (adventures for those who can’t ) but I also know I’ve been on leave from work in the end of this last week, so it’s been good to spend some time out with Fit Girl getting ready for moving house on the 1st June.

The way I see it is that everyone can juggle a certain amount of balls, work, exercise, play, family, blogging and other things… and when another ball comes into the mix (… Moving house, illness, extra hours at work, family illness or whatever), you sometimes have to put another ball down.

Right now I’m putting down my training (and work to some extent) ball(s), to make way to move house and get ready to let the flat out. It seems sensible so I don’t overdo things and so that I put priority on the right things at this time: moving house with as little stress as possible.

Anyway, here’s how my training has looked, and will look:

Mon 6th: 36 mile walk! (96M in 3 days)
Tue 7th: Travel & Recovery, KRC 5M run
Wed 8th: Rest (off work)
Thu 9th: Rest
Fri 10th: Rest & Fast
Sat 11th: Rest
Sun 12th: Women’s 10k & Swim Teaching

Mon 13th: Rest & Fast
Tue 14th: 4.3M Run & 9.5M KRC
Wed 15th: Rest (& Zoo & Chinese meal) (leave)
Thu 16th: Rest & Shopping (leave)
Fri 17th: Rest & Fast (leave)
Sat 18th: 10M – 16M run
Sun 19th: KRC & Swim Teaching

Plenty of rest, a couple of runs and a couple of fasts.

I must admit when I’m on leave, structure and training tends to go out of the window a bit, but I’m ok with that as I know once we’re settled in the new house there will be plenty of time to train. I aim to get right into strength training and running from June onwards. …and I’m even hoping to get some big barbell weights to use at home!

I have the Mull of Kintyre half marathon on Sunday 26th, so I need to get ready for that. I didn’t know whether I’d get the day off swim teaching or not, so I didn’t focus on it or train for it much.

But on Tuesday morning when I was out running, I closed my eyes momentarily, and felt like I could be running in my sleep, so I’m sure the half will be fine. I aim to run with friends and have a laugh rather than race it.

Here’s what I’m aiming to do next week (a full week at work too):

(At work full week)

Mon 20th: Swim
Tue 21st: Run & KRC
Wed 22nd: Swim
Thu 23rd: Run PT: 3 min speed work
Fri 24th: Rest (on holiday to move!!)
Sat 25th: Rest & Travel
Sun 26th: Mull of Kintyre Half Marathon

The next week will be spent moving into the new house and getting the flat ready for the start of June.

Mon 27th: Rest & Travel (& fast)
Tue 28th: Run & KRC (and pack!)
Wed 29th: Swim (and pack!)
Thu 30th: Run (and pack!)
Fri 31st: Keys!!!
Sat 1st: Move & Ikea
Sun 2nd: KRC & Swim Teaching

Strength work will resume week commencing the 3rd June I think. Fingers crossed. I like structure, I like training plans and I’ve been missing it, so it’ll be good to get into a routine again.

Mon 3rd: Upper strength (off work)
Tue 4th: Hard Run & KRC (off work)
Wed 5th: Lower strength
Thu 6th: Rest / Travel with work
Fri 7th: Swim (off work)
Sat 8th: Rest
Sun 9th: KRC & Swim Teaching

Enjoying this enforced rest just now though. 10-16 mile run planned for tomorrow morning, and moving a sofa and chair tomorrow affernoon, then Kaizen Run Club on Sunday morning.

I’m fasting from today at 2pm until around lunch time tomorrow too. I’ll not run on empty to do 10-16 miles tomorrow though, I’ll fuel with something before I go out – maybe eggs to give me wings.

Best get on with some packing too I think!