living on nuts and berries

10Feb07

So goes the Talking Heads song, invoking our hunter-gatherer past. Nuts and berries must therefore be good for running, surely. I’ve not been consuming so many nuts of late, although there are still plenty left over from the Christmas larder. Berries are a different matter. At the best of times, they are expensive, and so not a regular part of the diet except in high summer. They are rich in anti-oxidants, and so good for fixing life’s daily damage. They’re supposed to be very good for muscle repair.

However, the past couple of weeks, we’ve started buying Innocent smoothies. They’re expensive compared with juice drinks. But it looks now like a false economy. The volume of fruit they contain seems enormous, particularly berries. And boy are they tasty. They do a kids’ version which has each portion that makes up that five-a-day equation marked out on the side. Feels like pure food, albeit from a carton.

Friday was a rest day, and today I remembered I could cross-train on the bike and save the legs some impact. Sunday is important for a long-run, the first in nearly a month because of virus, so saving the legs an extra day should be better in the longer term.

Resting heart rate 49 bpm

Weight 71 kg

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