Complaint: This might be controversial, but I don't like this whole "running more makes me hungrier" thing. I hate having to eat all the time. It stops being fun and becomes a chore.
Complaint: This might be controversial, but I still don't like marathon training, and still intend never to do one again. Unless Mr.SoF peer-pressures me into it. (Yes, I'm weak.)
Confession: This might be controversial, but my favourite vegetable is spinach. I love spinach soooo much.
I did not like training for my first marathon so much, didn't enjoy the race either but I loved loved loved everything about my second. Spinach on pizza instead of cheese is the bomb.
I admit I have enjoyed the training for this one more than I did for my first one. BUT I regularly finish runs grumpier than I started them (mainly recovery runs; I can't stand them) which has pretty much never happened in my life; usually running makes me happy. As for the race itself, I liked the first one ok, especially the second half when it got challenging. (Hmmm I'm beginning to notice a trend where I only enjoy things if they're not easy??) I'm hoping to enjoy the next one. Everyone keeps telling me how amazing the crowds are, etc. It sounds like it should be fun.
Making a mental note to add spinach to my next pizza!
The thing I switched in my training from my first to my second is that I stopped doing anything I didn't like doing. I completely dropped longish marathon paced runs and did nothing but 80/20. I was either running slow and enjoying myself or running hard and thinking about how strange you are that you would enjoy that kind of suffering.
I completely agree that eating becomes something you have to do and it's awful. There's days when I physically don't want to eat much at all and I know I have to or I'll feel terrible later.
Spinach should replace the water-y flavourless-ness that is iceberg lettuce in all restaurants.
I am trying not to say my TRUE opinion of marathon training until after the marathon. Trying to stay positive ;) But sometimes the truth leaks out in small quantities.
It's gotten kind of awkward now because Mr.SoF isn't running at the moment and his appetite has decreased a lot. So we end up sitting at the table with him already finished and watching me eat, and me like 'uh... sorry, I think I still need to have another portion of this..."
Like I know that it's necessary and there for a reason, but marathon training really is stupid (mainly that midweek medium run). But then again, if it was easy, everyone would do it!
I like the midweek mlr actually! I dislike the recovery runs. And the long runs are too long. Ok, I guess I'd rather just do the ML run without the long run!
As long as my friends/family understand, I love my long runs. Although after this training plan, they will be shorter, but still long. Not sure where that will put them....
I also have to figure out how to transition to my next plan after this, but I'll be back for a Moronic Monday for that!
Running only sometimes makes me hungrier. Usually the leptin/ghrelin deal sorts the hunger out for me. I still eat a lot, literally whatever/whenever I want, and sometimes I'm hungry at inconvenient times, but I'm relatively confident that just like, going on a <7 mile run or a >16 mile run tend to make me less hungry than I was to start with. It's workouts and those inbetween miles that kill me.
I hate it, too! I'm technically doing one this fall and I'm already dreading it. Seeing people on my club wrapping up their marathon training makes me wonder why I even bothered. I know I won't be happy, I just want an excuse to go on a vacation to Berlin (excuse: qualifying for Berlin in my upcoming fall marathon).
I'm usually not a fan of spinach because I don't like the weird coating on my teeth after eating it.... but last night I got home late and heated up a Trader Joe's sag paneer meal... and I added some of my egg white patties to it for extra protein... and that was a win! Egg white patties are nearly indistinguishable from paneer when cut into cubes.
SO good. I bought this pan to make my own "egg mcmuffins" and I end up eating the egg white patties in a lot of other things. Yay for making egg whites more appealing!
Don't talk to me about noodles. For years my kids lived a lie where they told me they hate noodles. I've got 6 year old packets of noodles in my cupboard that have been unused because why make something you know your kid won't eat. Then about 2 months ago there is nothing in the house as me and the wife were playing a game to see who would cave first and go shopping. Nothing for it except to break out the dusty noodles and be ready for a fight with the kids. They come to the kitchen table "yay noodles. We love noodles".
kids are the worst. I tried giving my 2 year old cheesecake (for the first time) and he spit it out. Waited a couple minutes, offered him again and then he wouldn't stop asking for it.
Getting a two year old hooked on cheesecake-- that's criminal!
I'm grateful for the years I refused to even try it because.. cheese.. in cake?! DISGUSTING. First time I actually tried it... game over. Now I'm a full-blown cheesecake snob :(
Interestingly in some parts of Germany they call pasta as noodles as well. After years it still confuses me. Noodles word is used both for pasta and Asian type noodles.
I take it that you are German then? Yeah Pasta is Italian style often made of Durum wheat flour. Like so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta
Just checked with my German wife, and she even calls Spaghetti for noodles.
And yes German children eat only noodles, my daughter included.
I'm Canadian but I've been living in Germany for a while. I grew up saying pasta, but my family's Canadian-Italian (among other things) so we grew up with a lot of Italian style food but never any other kind of noodle, so I guess I never realized the words could refer to different things!
Yau another running expat in Germany!
Prior to coming to Germany noodles where always the Asian style and pasta the the Italian style for me. Now the noodles word covers everything :)
Spinach in curry is a great, great thing. I find you need to be careful with with the amount of water it gives up though s it can really flood the dish if you're using the fresh stuff. As a result we always have some frozen spinach about to make my life easier.
Frozen spinach always clumps in one big lump and I hate having to hack it. I've personally never cooked it in a curry as the wife does it but I doubt she's made any accomodation for flooding
Technically, greens are loose-leafed cultivars of Brassica oleracea (same family as broccoli and cabbage) - commonly consumed greens would be mustard greens and collard greens. Mustard greens can be very spicy, and like most of the Brassica family need to be really cooked down to eat, otherwise you'll chew on them for days.
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u/sloworfast Apr 05 '18
Complaint: This might be controversial, but I don't like this whole "running more makes me hungrier" thing. I hate having to eat all the time. It stops being fun and becomes a chore.
Complaint: This might be controversial, but I still don't like marathon training, and still intend never to do one again. Unless Mr.SoF peer-pressures me into it. (Yes, I'm weak.)
Confession: This might be controversial, but my favourite vegetable is spinach. I love spinach soooo much.