Theresas training

The Doon Hill race seems to have been pretty
successful, although one comment was to make it less
windy next year. I sympathise – I was only
marshalling but it was pretty breezy. Also my house
is quite near to Doon Hill and it was windy and cool
early on in the day, getting pretty warm when out of
the breeze.

Last weekend’s running was not quite so enjoyable for
me. I had terrible heartburn, caused I think by
eating a cheese savoury sandwich at the post Doon Hill
lunch. This just got worse through the day and stayed
with me on Sunday too. It’s not fun running with
heartburn. Normally I leave at least 2 hours between
eating and running but throughout the years have
identified a number of foods that I just cannot
eat/drink before running because of the terrible side
effects and have listed some of these below….

Theresa’s top ten foods and drinks not to eat before
running:
1. Chewing gum – causes terrible wind which then
causes terrible stitches
2. Fizzy drinks – as above
3. Caffeinated coffee – this is a drink that most
magazines would have you consuming prior to running as
allegedly it makes you run faster. It does have some
terrible side effects though leading to quite
substantial stomach cramping…
4. Toast – gives me heartburn
5. Eggs – again give me heartburn
6. Milk products including yoghurt – generally just
makes me feel quite sick when running and cause
indigestion
7. Salad veg – cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, onions etc
– cause indigestion and repeat on you when running
8. Baked beans – heartburn
9. Apples – heartburn or indigestion and wind causing
stitches
10. Soup – a recent newcomer to the list but recently
have been finding that my lunchtime soup consumed at
approx 12:30 seems to want to reappear during a run at
approx 6:30. Not a nice feeling.

Anyway, that does mean that pre running diet is pretty
restricted – I can manage some staples such as nut
bars, chocolate, malt loaf, chocolate, porridge,
chocolate, non salad sandwiches and yet more
chocolate. Needless to say I prefer running early in
the day so I can then consume all of the above.

Last weekend following the cheese savoury sandwich I
went for a 6 mile trot down and round the cement
factory, Whitesands and round to home. This took in
part of the Doon Hill hill, probably to me the
nastiest first section. Then I had kidney beans and
cheese in my dinner which didn’t let the heartburn let
up. On Sunday I just went out for about a 3 miler –
running along the road to the base of Doon Hill and
round through a field where the track comprises of
funny straw like material that is not compressed very
well. The sensation is a bit like running through
sand. So again running part of the Doon Hill route
with 1.5 ish miles up hill and a nice relaxing down
hill route home. So essentially over Saturday and
Sunday I almost ran the blooming Doon Hill race
anyway!!

How depressing though on Tuesday at club night – we
are back onto the winter town runs. It started out
okay – thought I was running at a comfortable speed
however something happened at about 30 mins through
when I suddenly felt we were all running far too
quickly….at least I managed to avoid running down
Kellie road.

On Wednesday night Run4It the new running shop on
Lothian Road was having an opening evening between
6-9. Sheila Morrison and I attended at about 8:00 and
didn’t leave until about 9:30. The shop was having a
15% discount so was well worth a look. Due to my
excellent performance in some exams I sat earlier in
the year and getting a new job, Brian owed me a few
presents. I spied just the thing and got myself a new
toy….a GPS thingy so I can now measure how far we are
actually running and due to the 15% off got myself
quite a bargain. Also got some trusty socks…..and a
freebie pair. Sheila Morrison got socks and a nice
red Sugoi long sleeved half zip top. Quite fancied
that myself….

Also in the shop opening there was a free Sports
Massage person and I decided to give it a go. Oh my
god – I decided to tell him about a slight pain I had
in my knee area so Sports Massage person checked my
illiotibial band (ITB) and told me this was really
quite tight and that he would need to “strip it out”
and this would be quite painful. He wasn’t joking.
Had I not been in a shop full of people I would have
been screaming out loud. For some reason I then let
him have a go at my hamstrings and calves…Sheila then
had a quick massage on her hamstrings which were
pretty tight and was pulling similar “I’m in a hell of
a lot of pain” face as I had been. Hmm – we have his
number if anyone wants to give it a go!

On Friday I decided to take GPS on a quick outing
round John Muir Country Park and was quite depressed
with the results. On a route that we thought was 4
miles when calculating 10 minute miles was only in
fact 4.1 miles. I keep thinking we actually run
faster than 10 minute miles but guess we might not.
However some good things – I was sort of hung-over so
probably wasn’t running my best anyway, the route was
on sand, grass, over bridges and across tree rooted
ground so we will run faster on roads and my max speed
over the distance was apparently 7.1 mph. Don’t know
when I did that but clearly we do run faster than 10
minutes miles on some surfaces. Also good to know the
calorie burn – over the route I apparently burned off
492 calories. Although I think I consumed the same in
chocolate and carbs due to the slight hangover….

Racing on Sunday at Hopetoun House Cancer Research 10k
with Sheila Morrison – will let you all know how it
goes…

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