back on the track...
well the grass anyway.
back to training this more and i was apprehensive but looking forward to it. did about 2.6k warm up and then strides and drills took me up to 4k. then the program for today was 4 x 800m. in the end i did them in 4.07 (824m), 4.20 (813m), 4.06 (821m), 4.11 (829m). before the half, when I started to get a bit run down I was doing all my intervals at sub 5min pace. i was pretty close today but could definitely feel my lack of training fitness. still - onwards and upwards from here. all up 8.5k.
I am ravenous this morning - double muesli today. need to be a but stricter with breakfast!!!
this afternoon i am hitting the domain for melbourne cup - half a day off! hurray!!!
while i'm at it i wanted to record some other things i've learnt about iron:
- all sorts of things prevent its absorption - like tea and coffee and eggs and some say milk!
- its really hard to eat meat all the time - but last night i had a minted lamb thing on my new meat grill. was pretty good! you can also use the grill for vegies and i did giant mushrooms and sweet potato.
posted by Ellie80 @ 9:13 am
10 Comments:
Good to have you back. Won't take long for you to get your fitness back.
You probably don't need to eat meat every day, just 3 or 4 times a week would do I'm sure!
Good to hear you were feeling hungry Ellie, its usually a sign your iron levels are starting to pick up.
Another thing to remember when your low in iron is to also check your B12 levels.
Good to see you back this morning.
Apparently it's the calcium that interferes with the iron absorption and so does dietary fibre so you need to be careful what cereal you are having at breaky if that's when you take your iron ;-)
Whew! Red wine is NOT in the list of things that prevent iron absorption.
Liquorice is high in iron. Yum.
Good session.
Champagne is good for washing down iron.
Yep milk stuffs up the absorbtion of many nutrients and paradoxically the greatest sufferers of Osteoporosis (calcium)in the world are also the biggest consumers of milk...
Go figure.
NotMilk.com
R2B
Nice 800's Ellie - double breaky is better than nibbling all day ;-)
so this is like a george foreman type thingy that you're using? very appropriate ;)
Don't you mean sub 4min pace for the 800s?
There are things which help iron's absorbtion, like orange juice. I'm hoping also beer, but not sure about that.
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