You get to eat even more than usual!

Recovering now from the weekend's exertions. A swim and massage on Monday and a fairly gentle bike ride yesterday and most of the soreness has gone. My left knee (the one that's already had 3 operations) is sending a message to me that it would prefer playing Daley Thomson's Decathlon on the Atari as opposed to all this running business. But we've come too far now, there's no turning back!

Food intake is off the scale which is an undoubted perk of all this. I'm needing to eat about every 90-120 minutes at the moment which means snacks need to be at arm's length almost all day. After an All Black's breakfast, the daily office fruit delivery gets a hammering at 10am. A small mountain of chicken or tuna salad will see me up to about 2.30pm when chick peas, nuts and protein shake come out of the drawer. Last night, Claire's delicious Toad in th'ole, carrots, leeks and onion gravy very nearly got me through to bed time but I'm afraid a chocolate chip cookie was calling out my name whilst watching The Bill. I've always been a fan of eating so Bravo I say! I fell asleep before The Bill finished.

Claire and I both have a our final long long training runs this weekend before we commence (what the experts seem to call) tapering. Tapering is not only what a barber does to the back of your head if you want a 'duck's arse" but also the process of running gradually shorter training runs as race day approaches. The evidence suggest you cant get much more prepared in the last 2-3 weeks so its a case of using the last couple of weeks for building a bit of speed and more leg turnover (another expert term I have learned) with shorter, faster stuff whilst avoiding injury through doing less mileage. All good news as 3 hour runs are starting to get a bit dull. I only hope I can still eat as much!!

A large word of thanks to all those who have sponsored us so far. We've toppled a $1050 already which is great news for the folks at Alzheimer's NZ. We won't start publically shaming you yet but there are some folks out there who have yet to donate. You know who you are!!

MrH

 

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