And for any and all you beginner runners out there thinking about taking up running (whether you want to join races or not is a whole other story), I suggest you read what Lulu has to say!
Once you're done skipping down to read Lulu's words and you return to my own...here's what I have to say: I've got food poisoning!

In fact, eating this way isn't all that different from how we ate before. Instead of having a dinner of say salmon, greens, and brown rice, we'll have a dinner of salmon, greens, and drizzle it with a bit of olive oil. Or instead of a dinner with steak, salsa, taco chips and guacamole, we'll have a dinner with steak, salsa (home-made), and sliced avocado. Or instead of a dinner with stir-fried veggies and chicken and whole wheat pasta noodles, we'll have a dinner with stir-fried veggies and chicken drizzled with flaxseed oil. You get the picture.
It's been pretty good. We don't have muesli or anything like that for breakfast anymore, but have the same kind of meal in the morning as we do at lunch and dinner. And I can tell you that my energy level was consistent all day, and we were feeling lean and healthy.
Then, um, well, we came to Malaysia.
We were really good here for the first month, but then on Monday, figuring it was our last 2 weeks here, we decided to have a curry mee...
...It broke all the rules of our Paleo eating plan. It tasted sooooooo good going down. We gulped up those noodles, and loved every minute of it. But I think that we both knew something wasn't right pretty quickly.
And for the last 5 days we've had what the indomitable Training Payne refers to as "squirt bum." Let's just say that such a condition isn't overly conducive to running. So I've had a week off running, and only urged myself out the door to join Nomi for an easy, slow run, because I wanted the company and hadn't seen her all week. So before the sun was up, me and my roiling tummy were seated in her car to head to the park for our run.
I just took it easy and had only two potty breaks before leaving the park and heading for home. I take that as a success! ;)
Here are my tummy troubled run stats for today:
Ran for a total of 1:14:15 for a distnce of 11.31kms with an average pace of 6:20min/km.
I guess this food poisoning has clubbed me over the head and dragged me back to my paleolithic cave, where I can resume eating properly and get my gut sorted!
Over and out,
Joy
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