Mojo Manifestation

You must be over 18 to read this post. Note that Nick is an experienced consumer of shitty food and you should NOT try this at home without years of structured training.

This is not a healthy food day. I'm thinking I'm not that far over points, but it's all empty calories. I need to take better care of my body this next 2 months if I want to have a successful Marathon October. Well I decided to journal to share the uglyness:

1 coffee

2.5 fruit jar
2 mixed veges

4 popcorn

12.6 3 bags of TJ's Banana Crisps
2 2 boca patties w/ salsa
3.2 granola bars
3.7 3 WW snack cakes
4 pizza

=35 points
Water: 70oz

...and that's all I have to say about that.

Posted at12:02 AM | Permalink | Comments

Hello,
Food and Exercise Journal:
1 coffee
1.6 granola bar

5.5 boca lasagna
0 mushroom augment
2.5 bottle of fruit (BOF from here on out)

7 pasta salad
6 salad with evil shit
12 cookie, 2 wafers with frosting (company outing desert tray, nagl)

-15 Ran 7.85 miles

.5 mixed veges
1 partial BOF

Total 22pts (target 24)
Water 40oz (target 80)

Note the lack of water, which led to dehydration today. Combined with my longest run in a long time, I was very sick and even had dry heaves and fever. Let this be a reminder to DRINK lots of water when doing such extensive outdoor exercise.

Running Log:
7.85 miles @ 10:15 pace
Not happy with the pace, but I needed this distance run. I'm still not in the groove with training. I hope to run 6 Thurs which will be a stretch after this big one.

Cheers,
Nick

EDIT: Ok, after looking at the foodstuffs, I think the sickness may be a result of eating so damn much before I ran. Oddly, I didn't really feel sick as I ran. But definitely, that is not the diet to have on a day you run so far. Ok, I'm done learning what a ninny I am now, and go to bed. -N

Posted at1:11 AM | Permalink | Comments

Hello,
Stopped by Kroger after golf tonight and discovered all three types of WW snack cakes. I was quite excited as these are not very easy to find - usually just super walmart, where I no longer shop. So, I bought two boxes. Well 40 mins of driving later, 7 snack cakes had met their end! Still managed to keep it OP though...until about 1AM, where I shoveled a COP down my throat. Luckily there is only one can left in my Amazon arsonal...as my will power sucks.

Will try to recover today by eating a light lunch and then going for a run after work.

POINTS Food

1.5 coffee w/ ff creamer

2.3 Boca chili
2.5 Jar o' apricots
0.9 peaches

10 ww snack cakes
8 bolono sammiches
0.9 peaches
8 pringles
=34.1
- 2.1 APs for walking nine holes of golf with carry bag.

Total 32pts (target 24)
Water 30oz (target 80)

Nick

Posted at2:51 PM | Permalink | Comments

In the words of Ice Cube, today was a good day.

Exercise Mojo
Today starts my 2 month training program for running two half marathons in October. I've been running informally which usually makes it very easy to skip running. From now until October I will run every Tuesday in the Hansons Speed Work training session; and in the Thursday Hansons running group. In addition I'll run a long run (8+ miles) every weekend. I'll start with those three but maybe will add some cross training or another short run.

So today's speed work consisted of running quarter mile sprints followed by quarter mile recovery jogs. This was to be repeated 10 times. So with a 1 mile warm-up, I got in 6 miles, with 2.5 miles of that being sprints. I'm going to try posting my times here for my own future reference, and to get your admiration/ridcule. Here's how I did today, time in min:sec for each split. 2m:05s was my target, which is an 8min 20sec mile. Every other rest jog was longer than a quarter mile, hence the longer times (no I was not running a 16min mile):
Quarter 1: 1:54
Quarter 2: 2:29
Quarter 3: 2:12
Quarter 4: 3:30
Quarter 5: 2:10
Quarter 6: 2:39
Quarter 7: 2:09
Quarter 8: 3:41
Quarter 9: 2:05
Quarter 10: 2:45
Quarter 11: 2:05
Quarter 12: 3:46
Quarter 13: 2:08
Quarter 14: 2:50
Quarter 15: 2:08
Quarter 16: 3:45
Quarter 17: 2:02
Quarter 18: 2:48
Quarter 19: 2:08
Quarter 20: 3:52

So averaged around 2:07 for the sprints, 8:28 mile. I'm VERY happy that I was maintaining that pace at the end of the run. 6 miles is as long as I've run lately so I didn't think my sprints would be much better than my jogs by that time, but they were!
Next Run: Thursday, 6 mile run. 9:30 pace target.


Food Mojo
Okay the food journal is looking very good, but it is assisted somewhat by an awful food day yesterday.

1 coffee

4 PowerBar
-12 run 6 miles
1 gatorade

8 2x tortilla pizzas
3 2x pbj
6 2x boca garlic burger

Total 23pts (w/ no APs) (target 24)
Water 60oz (target 80)


Nick

Posted at2:11 AM | Permalink | Comments

Happy Hump Day,
What an exciting moment, I've roughly journaled my food intake in my head, and I'm pretty sure I'm OP. So, let's see if I am:

1 coffee
3.2 GranBars

2.5 apricots

3.5 McD vanilla cone
8 2x tortilla pizzas (with FA pepperoni, red pepper, FF Mozz)
2.5 apricots
1 FA bolono w/ hummos
1 PB, randomly spooned
1.6 GranBar

Total pts 24.2(target 24)
Water oz 45 (target 80)

BTW, thanks for the Mojo Injections - I'll take all that I can get!


On to tomorrow!
Nick

Posted at12:37 AM | Permalink | Comments

Alas, I could not complete two days OP. The late-night munchies did me in.

POINTS Food
0.6 coffee w/ lc creamer
3.2 2x GB

3.0 prngles
2.8 riblet
2.5 fruit bottle

4.0 apple w/ pb
3.0 pbjx2
2.0 mixed veges
8.0 pringles
2.5 fruit bottle
6.0 PBJ - late night

Total: 37
Water: 50

Posted at12:57 AM | Permalink | Comments