Two of my colleagues and I are running the British 10K in July. To date, our biggest training downfall (apart from not going out running as much as we should) has been the never-emptying biscuit tin at work. Somehow, regardless of how many biscuits we eat, the tin is always full. So yesterday, to coincide with the beginning of Lent, we decided it needed to stop! We even wrote a little anti-biscuit chant to help us through. It goes:
Biscuits, biscuits
Are evil food
They make you fat
And they block your pooh.
The last line arose out of a conversation we had yesterday about a nasty anti-constipation drug ad on the telly whereby they portray constipation by having a lady add food to her bag (read purse, for the Canadian blog-followers) and carry it around with her. It's pretty how shall I put it...moving (ha ha - get it? Constipation...moving - ha ha!)
It should be said that we're not great advocates of the self-deprivation thing, but our bickie consumption was really becomming a bit ridiculous. We're choosing to see it as an opportunity to gain more fruit intake. It's much more positive that way. Besides, the money we raise running this race for our charity will somehow trickle back into the cookie fund anyway.
Anyway, my colleague A has made a pretty snazzy spreadsheet whereby we can track our fruit/veggie, biscuit and water intake. Not being runners ourselves, we hear those things are quite important.
We're quite excited about running this thing. I even got a new pair of trainers to get me started! I'll keep you posted with the progress. Any training suggestions? Actually, there wouldn't be any yet, because those who are likely to care enough to read this don't know it exists yet...doo, doo, doo.
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