No run today. Instead I’m enjoying the warmth of belated satisfaction about getting through 18 miles yesterday. For some inexplicable reason it seemed to pass me by yesterday.
I’m getting confused about carbo-loading. I read Hal Higdon’s Ultimate Marathon Training Guide last week in which he is pretty strict about the need to wolf down 400 grams of carbohydrate every day in the run-up to the marathon. So I tried it for a few days – and felt pretty bloated. Despite running 26 miles in the past 3 days I managed to put on a pound in weight. Not what I expected.
The obvious counter-observation is that I got through those miles, so perhaps that’s the trade-off. Perhaps it was the carbohydrates that kept me afloat. So maybe I have to forget about the weight-loss objective for the time being. In any case, I’m 37lbs lighter than I was when I started so perhaps I should be satisfied with that, and concentrate on the big day. Just 6 weeks, 40 days, to go now…
