I have just returned from ASDA (other multi-store supermarkets available). I was buying supplies for the run tomorrow. It cost me a little over £26.00! I will not go hungry. In fact I think I may gain weight during the run. The picnic shall contain: tuna sandwiches (lots of), tuna pasta (copious amounts of), bananas (ideal for primates like me), carrot cake (obviously), blueberry Muller rice (why not?), chocolate milk (in case running 43 miles isn’t sickly enough), Jelly Babies (for consumption head first), and sports gels (obligatory). Not to mention 5 litres of water and 1 litre of sports drink. Oh, and a Mars Bar for emergency use (any excuse!) Do you think that will be enough?!?!? I also bought lots to eat tonight!
I started reading a book last night called, Never Hit A Jellyfish With A Spade, by Guy Browning. It’s a book all about how to do things, with sections such as (ooh the irony) How to… keep your dentist happy. I thought you all might appreciate a couple of snippets from the early chapters.
From, How to… exercise,
They say the devil makes work for idle hands. He also makes work for other parts of the body and this he calls exercise… after a really strenuous workout, you get a great feeling of well-being. This is due to the release of endorphins into the bloodstream, which are the body’s natural smugness generators… It’s very easy to get addicted to exercise. You can become so fit that you push yourself to even greater extremes, one of which is death.
From, How to… run a marathon,
Occasionally you’ll see people doing a strange sport called backwards stair climbing. This is what happens the day after you’ve run a marathon… The wall is where you start burning parts of your body that are normally left for furnishing – like fat and muscle. There is another bit that starts to get burnt away, and that is your will to live. Which is why during the first twenty miles of a marathon you can enjoy the scenery and the last six miles are like running in a cupboard marked ‘pain’.
From, How to… do extreme sports,
Extreme sports all boil down to thinking up great new ways of killing yourself and then extracting the death part at the last moment… The big secret with extreme sports is that they’re all rather easy. That’s because all extreme sports are gravity-assisted. No one classes ultra-marathon running… as extreme sports because they require monumental effort, discipline and strength.
Now this is my kind of training manual. No mention of drinking alcohol the night before a race though! I’ll keep you posted with any other helpful (?!?) information contained within the pages.
After my referral to the Daily Record yesterday, Debs posted a comment calling it the Daylate Record, which I thought was quite amusing. Any bitter rivalry there at all Debs?!?!?
I still have toothache!
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