Finding My Legs

It was a rough weekend for my legs but I haven't had a good run since last Thursday (3-4 days?). This week I'm shooting for around 14 hours of training.

The pool was closed due to thunderstorms...this made my morning miserable but that's for another platform.

Anyways since the pool was closed I sulked off and went home. I've been having a hard time hydrating well due to the obscene amount of food I've been eating. I'm starting to think either my GI (gastrointestinal) is going to give or I'm going to start losing weight. Honestly, I don't think I can afford to lose much more weight and I don't really want to. No pictures will be posted as a favor to society and my ego.

Pre-workout:

• Nap: 30 minutes?
• Clif trail mix bar about an hour and a half before I run
• A spoonful of real maple syrup right before I head out the door

Workout:

• Hydration: squeeze bottle with a scoop of Clif sugar
• Run: 14.3 miles / 7' 39" pace
• I feel okay about this. The beginning of run was bad, but I finished okay.
• Legs weren't at a 100% but I'm going to have to expect that.

Post Workout:

I have pictures today!

• Immediately after:
• Some fruit, a double shot of maple syrup and whole fruit vanilla yogurt.
• Fruit: Fructose and Sucrose (sugar and sugar)
• Syrup: Apparently mostly Sucrose! After this batch is done I'm searching for a high Maltose sweetener. I'm reading that Maltose has the highest glycemic index which is desired. McDonalds Honey keeps popping up. I might have to go towards a highly processed food.

Must hurry this up: video chatting w/ Thuy.

I feel okay, except for the whole not enough liquids thing.

Tomorrow is a long day.