Day 27: Feeling like death

So not a whole lot to report. Feeling pretty worn out. Food today was not great. Breakfast was 2 fruit leathers, lunch was brown rice and veggies, dinner: a Cliff Bar, snacks: a few miniature candies here and there. Water intake was tolerable. So yeah, not great. I've had no energy to make food or think overly much about it. So... bleah.

Worked out for a couple hours on Monday evening. I was going to quit and go to bed when I noticed that I was within a half hour of achieving my silver Wii bank, so I pressed on through and figure I finished the days workout at around 3 hours (I say "figured" because when you exercise past midnight the bank resets itself for the next day). So part of Monday's workout carried over into Tuesday. I worked out for another half hour on Tuesday, bringing that grand total up to an hour and today... I got nothing. No energy at all, I'm tapped. So much for the workout.

Went and saw the chiropractor today. Talking with Drake is always a kick, especially when discussing anything touching on training for a race. He was a big encouragement and believes I can be ready to run a sprint triathlon in early summer. HA! I picked his brain a bit on nutrition (gotta find the proper carb/protein balance) and eat several small meals a day to keep the metabolism furnace stoked. Got some advice on training: workout first thing in the morning and if exercising for more then an hour stop and eat 100 calories or so (couple slices wheat bread) before returning to the workout. Your body shuts down after that first hour of working out and goes into survival mode and holds onto every calorie because it's afraid of starvation, BUT if you eat a little something, your metabolism calms down and after the first 10 minutes of returning to the work out you begin to burn fat again. Cool huh?

So that's me, for today.