I originally intended for this blog to be a way to record the human feelings in support of the statistics. I have a spread sheet that says I ran 10km today, I have a blog to say, “Ran 10km today, it felt great, the weather was amazing , but I have a niggling pain in my hip”. I haven’t really been using the blog that way but that’s alright – it’s evolved! Today however, I will use the blog that way….
10ktober is nearly over and it’s been tough going. I only have 7 more runs and I am glad. It’s been really difficult to make the time to run this distance now that I am back working again. Fortunately I’ve managed to get out at lunch times most days but this wont go on forever as I start to find my feet in my new role and get busier. One thing I have noticed through 10ktober is that I am eating a lot more, I am hungry a lot. Without carrying out a proper scientific experiment and establishing a “Steve not running 10km every day” control group, I have jumped to the conclusion that there is a co-relation between running 10km every day and being hungry a lot. I have therefore christened this phenomenon, “runger”. I am really “rungry”.
Rungry
Again, as a layman and not a sports nutritionist, I assume it’s simple arithmetic and I am burning through a lot more calories than my body is used to, and hunger (runger) is the result? Between 1st – 24th October, my runs burned through 22,658 calories or an average of 944 per run (disclaimer: this is based on my Garmin’s estimate using, time, distance, my height and weight – I don’t use my heart rate monitor).
I am not particularly bothered about my runger, but it has shown me that if I am serious about this running malarkey and really want to improve my distance and/or times, I should pay more attention to what I am eating. I knew this already because people that know what they are talking about told me, but like a “Wet Paint” sign, I had to touch it to make sure!
