Rough but ready

Today was a bit iffy. I got to go back to training, which was partly great and partly quite difficult. There was a bunch of things I struggled with that I hadn't expected. It was somewhat demoralising and I had to keep shaking myself out of the mental funk and realise there will just be some things that I don't rock at this stage. It was tough. But now I know what to work on this week and I will get there, sooner rather than later.

I was also quite malnourished today. I didn't eat enough before training which ended in a total burn-out midway through Hour Four, when I was coaching, and a mega-puke when I got home. It is silly that I didn't think to accurately fuel up before training, but I've never felt the crash like that before! Wowzahs. I will definitely be making a point of it to others from here on in.

So my workout was 3 hours of derby training, plus another two hours on skates, although it was just drifting, some hitting, and a lot of lying down. Food is like this:

•latte
•apple
•Kate Morgan Mint-Choc mel replacement shake (very tasty but not for derby days. In fact, I would definitely rate them as pre- or post-training meals, or a part of. That's cross training, not derby!)
•carrot
•latte
•carrot (to ease pukie feeling)
•tiny apple & some chocolate peanuts (very pukie/wiped out at this stage)
•loss of apple + peanuts (sorry :-p)
•2 rye Cruskits with 3 slices of turkey
•Roast potato, chicken breast and peas, corn & carrot with drizzle of honey

My dinner has a few things I wouldn't typically endorse, like a hunk o' potato lateish at night and the honey EVER as it's purely sugar, but I planned it strategically to replace what my body had lost, what it needed for recovery and what I had neglected to eat earlier in the day. Same goes for the later snack, that was an after-chuck thing. I need to stop referencing vomit so I'm off. Peace, blogosphere.
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