Food for Training - Don’t do this!
I’m getting toward the race season now - my first race is a 10K on Easter Sunday. So the training intensity is increasing, with longer and more strenuous workouts.
After the mess I got myself in earlier in the year, I want to avoid over-training. The key to this is taking the appropriate rest periods AND watchin my nutrition. Basically, I reckon that my regular diet supplies only about 70% of the protien I need when working at this level, so I need to do something about this.
The trouble is, I really don’t like the idea of all these protien shakes - I like real food that I’ve prepared myself from real ingredients. Butthe problem is that there’s only so much steak a man can eat. So this morning for breakfast, I tried an experiment (read this is Joey from Friends’ voice):
- Porridge tastes GOOD. And so full of all the right kind of carbs to keep me fuelled up.
- Kippers taste GOOD. And at 23% protien, are just what I need to build muscles like Popeye.
- Kippers IN porridge taste . . . .BAD. I mean really, really BAD.
I’m sure it’s good for me, but I ain’t gonna be eating fishy porridge for breakfast again in a hurry.
I’m off now for a full-distance brick session. The sun’s shining, I have a hydration pack AND some yummy fruity bread to eat on the bike. So I can put experimenting with food behind me, and enjoy the rest of the day.
p.s. I will be watching, editing and moderating comments to this post - remember this is a family-safe blog!
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I nearly fell off my chair trying to control my mirth! Did you think it would taste even close to good?
Well, like I said - I really like both of the ingredients. So I figured it would taste a bit unusual, but certainly quite edible. Oh, how wrong I was!
Bleurgh……would Chocolate and bananas have disguised the taste?
Funny you should say that . . . guess what I’ve just had for lunch . . .
in a smoothie? With peanut butter?
Maybe a porridge and kipper smoothie is the answer!
No, no, no, no NO!
Bananas and peanut butter on toast. THAT’s sensible food.
My new favorite “on the bike meal” is peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwich. I figure it’s 500cals solid food and it’s actually relatively easy to eat while rolling down the street at 20mph!
[...] My training’s reached the point where I’ve started to get those weird food cravings. This time, I WON’T be giving in to the temptation to have kippers in porridge, but it did get a little strange tonight. I didn’t have time to finish my supper before heading off to the pool, so I tucked into the remains of the now-cold pasta with veg & tomatoes when I got home. But I was still hungry, and needed a little something to fill in the corners . . . [...]
[...] Been trying to get into porridge again recently. I know it’s good stuff. This recent article on 365 is very informative, and I know KarlonSea likes it, although would be the first to admit that’s it is not good with kippers. [...]