Sorry I've been quiet here for a while but I have been training. After the high of becoming an ultra athletes (albeit a very slow one!) and marvelling about how good I felt afterwards, I then hit a bit of a wall about 2 weeks later. The new challenge is not getting in the miles but eating enough! Food has suddenly become essential fuel and the number of times I forget to give myself a lunch break caught up with me. I'm now making a real effort to eat more than I feel like in anticipation of the amount of fuel I need and have invested in a range of energy gels (yuk!) and recovery drinks to try to find the one that suits me. Also have a great cook book "Go Faster - food for runners" which has lots of great flap jack and chocolate recipes which it claims are perfect pre, during and post run fodder :-)
This side of the training is quite interesting and has confirmed for me what Andy Mouncy told us at our coaching "it's not the running that's going to kill you!" - there are so many other things to take into consideration.
At the risk of sounding even madder than I do by having entered this race in the first place I feel I should say thanks to my ancestors who appeared at a psychic evening I went to (will explain in another blog - fund raising research) and told me they were very proud of what I was doing but that I wasn't looking after myself, and in particular, wasn't eating enough! Who knows whether is was really them or not, but whoever it was was right - confirmed by my having to swap a size 12 skirt for an 8 last week!
