A day in my life: Sunday August 8, 2010

Thoughts:
Well I guess you all can’t wait to hear how I did on my 11K run? I didn’t!

I’m ashamed to say I didn’t run it this morning. I woke up not feeling well at all but I did put on my running clothes. Then I noticed it was raining, this wasn’t helping. I did go out for that run but had to turn around and go home after 5 minutes. My throat was hurting and I couldn’t breath well, no way I was going to get a run in today.

This was week 7 of the training plan and the last two weeks my runs haven’t been to my satisfaction. I decided for that reason to take a step back and start over with week 6 tomorrow. This means I complete the training by the end of February 2011 which is fine because I don’t want to run a half at the earliest in April next year.

The plan is 28 weeks and those of you who can do their maths quickly will know that it’s not 28 weeks till February. That’s correct but I will do some weeks twice because I have also planned 5 runs in a weekend. Those weekends I won’t do my scheduled long run.

This decision feels right for me and no worries: that 11K will be run by me, only not today.

The final countdown:

Friday

Breakfast: Soft curd cheese vanilla, gingerbread, strawberries and an orange.

Morning snack: a small muesli bread.

Lunch: a soft roll with farmer salad, a salad, mustard soup and a glass of milk (no picture, working).

Afternoon snack: an apple

Dinner: Thai soup with mushrooms, red pepper, cucumber, bean sprouts, green curry paste, 1 spoon coconut milk and chicken stock. Marcelle asked if I could add calories of the meals, I will do that if I don’t forget. This meal was 170 calories based on the ingredients which I all measured on my kitchen scale.

170 calories

Evening: Because my dinner was so low in calories I was very hungry and had some dark chocolate (70% cacao), I had a small cake and a small glass of wine.

Calories: 1575 (goal 1500-1700).
Calories burned: none (daily exercise not counted)
Notes: Dinner has to have more calories to avoid snacking later in the evening. It was better if I ate some bread with my soup.

Saturday

Breakfast: Bread with scrambled eggs (1 egg) and a non-fat yogurt drink (lime)

406 calories

Morning snack: nothing.

Lunch: toast of 2 slices of bread, ham and cheese, an apple and a few strawberries, a glass of milk.

430 calories

Afternoon snack: dark chocolate (70%) and a small glass of red wine before dinner.

Dinner: Foccaccia with roast beef, an omelette of 2 eggs with green vegetables. 580 calories.

580 calories

Evening snack: dark chocolate (70%) and a small glass of red wine.

Calories: 1809 (goal 1500-1700).
Calories burned: none (daily exercise not counted)
Notes: Although I did get over my daily calorie goal I’m satisfied with this day. Except for some chocolate I didn’t snack anything else where I usually snack too much on a Saturday night.

Movie review:
This it it

As a teenager I was a big fan of Michael Jackson. I had (still have) all of his records, posters on the walls of my bedroom and scrapbooks with photo’s and articles. Through the years I got interested in other music but I kept liking his music. How he changes as a person through the years with his strange habits didn’t bother me much, he still was a great performer. I was lucky enough to see a concert of him once. That was back in 1996 when he was doing the History tour and came to Holland for two concerts. It was fantastic, what a performer and what a show, one of the best I’ve ever seen.

I was in shock when I heard about his death in June last year. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t go to this movie when it showed in the theatres but watched it yesterday. They said when he died that he was ill, addicted to pain killers. But I didn’t see anything of that watching him in this movie. He still was the great performer I’ve seen back in 1996. Sure a bit older but he still did know how to entertain.

I didn’t have tickets for the show in London last year, at the time they were on sale my budget didn’t allow to buy the tickets but I think if he had lived it would have been a fantastic show and I would have regret it that I didn’t have a ticket.