Weekend Catch-Up: Achey Saturday and Struggle Sunday.

This weekend was hard.

It was hard in several ways. I was missing a weekend 'treat' of some sort. It felt as though there was a little less to look forward to. I don't think I ask for much. An hour or two in Further North with a couple of pints. Maybe bit of cafe lounging, couple of flat whites... maybe a little piece of cake.

Nothing like that this weekend. Somehow, whatever I could conjure up meal-wise was never quite gonna hit that spot.

And then there was the aching. A chronic, cumulative tiredness that had crept up over a number of days. More achey each day, not quite recovering from training as well as usual. I slept loads on Friday night, but ached all day on Saturday. I slept loads on Saturday night. I skipped training for a rest day on Saturday, but still ached on Sunday morning. I know that sometimes a bit of activity can ease things off nicely, but I was feeling way too broken for Hill Sprints. So I rested again on Sunday.

So, no training, but hard in other ways.


Saturday Food
Super Recovery Shake: Protein powder (chocolate flavour), a banana, 1/2 an avocado, a raw egg, almond milk.
Late Breakfast: 4 rashers bacon, two eggs (double yolkers!!), grilled mushroom, tomatoes.
Afternoon FruitFest: 2 apples, 2 plums, a satsuma, a fig.
Dinner: A very large, very rare sirloin steak, a couple of sweet potato wedges and a little baked sweet potato, rocket leaves and roasted veg (courgette, aubergine, peppers, tomatoes, red onion)
Later: Another protein shake with a banana and almond milk and a raw egg.

Sunday Food
Late Breakfast: Plain omlette (3 eggs).
In Leeds Centre: A coffee (aeropress from La Bottega Milanese - nice, but was a little overbrewed). 
Then I got hungry / desperate and ended up in Holland and Barrett's looking at treats. I came out with a Nak'd bar and 2 9Bar things. On reflection, the Nak'd bar was ok. The 9Bars, with their honey and 'raw palm sugar' and vegetable oil (and one with a carob topping!) were mistakes. Regardless, by the time I went to bed I'd eaten all 3.
Dinner: We roasted a chicken for a later Sunday dinner. I had a leg, a wing and a shit load of the bad stuff that crisped up a treat on the bottom. And some crispy skin. I had this with roasted veg (very similar to last night's) and some steamed broccoli. It was dee-lish... 

I've given myself 2 black marks for the 2 9bars and another for having 2 consecutive rest days. That's now 7 in total....