Nutrition

I think I might be turning into the grandmother from the BBC’s Goodness Gracious Me. Here’s yet another thing I’ve found that I can make myself. All I need is some honey, some peanut butter, a little hot water, and a small aubergine. Actually you don’t need the aubergine. This started when I decided it was...
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I’ve had the feeling all week that I was building up for a dehydration problem. Sure, I’ve been taking about 3/4 of a litre of my funky rehydration mix with me on every ride . . . and finishing it. But with the weather getting a little warmer, and the workouts a little longer...
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They give you . . . . um . . . . gas / wind / etc. It might have something to do with the quantity I’ve been eating - dunno. That’s all.
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First race of the season is in the bag. Done. Finished. Well and truly run. The weather was great this year for North Tyneside’s (third) annual 10k road race. By great, I mean a whole lot better than last year’s howling gale and rain. It was bright and sunny, but the predicted 10-15mph tail wind...
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So last week, after my disaster with fish and porridge, Zappoman pointed me in the direction of some more professionally designed recipes for protein bars. Keen to never again repeat my error, I followed his link over to Foodnetwork.com, and found the recipes from an episode of a programme called Good Eats. So a trip...
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After yesterday’s breakfast disaster, you could be forgiven for thinking that I’m a complete Muppet when it comes to food. But hey, as the saying goes, “the man who never made a mistake never did / learned / achieved anything”. So here are a few sensible things you can do with porridge (all together now,...
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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...
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or so the urban myth goes . . . and today, I think I’ve experienced about seven of them!: The snow that falls in relatively warm air as sleet, and then freezes to knobbly ice when it hits the really cold road The snow that falls on top of that, but only in the lightest of...
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So to get my daughter some decent swimming lessons, I joined the local gym last week. Under my membership, she gets access to the pool (nice - 25m), and some pretty good teachers. But it’d be a shame if I didn’t take advantage of the facilities, wouldn’t it? So this morning at 6:45 I found...
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Last year I developed a bit of a ‘thing’ for Peanut Butter Kit Kats. Actually, it was more of a habbit (a really serious habit), and after a while, it got me thinking. Was it really Peanut Butter, or perhaps another ‘golden brown‘ substance? I mean after all, Nestlé’s marketing of milk formula is...
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