Pikey

Hiya mate,

You've got me smack on there, I've never known when to take a step back. For the last four weeks I have stepped up the intensity every week and I wasn't slacking to start with.

I’ve just dropped H off at Alestree, she’s running to Bakewell which is about 21 miles which is why I’m sat updating this. It’s my rest day today I got 10 hours sleep last night, the calf has eased a lot and the glands in my groin have too, I’ll have a lazy day today, read my book a while and chill out I'll take the dogs out later so I don’t feel a total lard arse.

I take Cantamega 2K 2gram of vit C some digestive enzymes and milk thistle every day, rushing round I had let lapse for a few days so that won’t have helped. I’ve also been a bit of a bloke and slacking on my veg H has been giving me serious grief about it as I’m not getting all the nutrients I need so I will put that right too. I’ve been hammering it and not feeding myself 100% so something’s bound to give. The signals have been there with the lack of appetite and feeling subdued but I’ve ignored them and pushed harder I tend to think of myself as a machine which is good to push the training but is a dodgy mind set for listening to your body’s signals. One day perhaps I’ll learn.

I’ve also been to the butchers and in addition to the usual eggs, chicken and turkey, I got some water buffalo steak which has twice the protein per pound of beef, eight times the creatine and as much iron while being nearly as lean as chicken, so I’m hoping that will give me some good nutrients. Mind you its expensive and I tend to think lean beef steak would be just as good off season but I fancied treating myself.

Sounds like we live pretty close to each other I’m about 10 miles from Chesterfield in NE Derbyshire.