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Maintaining a healthy Vegan Diet on Holiday

November 2nd, 2009

Holidays can prove a challenge for anyone following a diet. I’m currently in Florida for 2 weeks on a training course. Here the Americans are big meat eaters. They don’t seem to understand the concept of vegetarianism. Therefore to be a vegan requires you to be resourceful. Finding a good supermarket with fresh vegetables, nuts and seeds. When eating out you may have to be inventive don’t be afraid to change dishes, take meat out add things on. For example, last night there was a spinach salad on the menu with raspberry’s and cheese, therefore, I asked the waiter for the salad without cheese and to replace it with Avocado and olive instead.

My diet whilst in Florida, has consisted of fruit and vegetable smoothies for breakfast, brought from the supermarket, lunch is usually avocado, hummus, tomato, cucumber, celery and for dinner I eat out and usually have a salad. I brought supplements with me, my green drinks and oil capsules.

Vegan Triathlete Diet Improved

October 25th, 2009
Drinks & supplements Food Overview
Breakfast 3/4 litre of Dr Brocs Power plants with baking soda

Supplements: Borage oil capsule & vitamin B12 capsule

Fruit & Vegetable smoothie

Snack ¾ litre of water with baking soda

Peppermint tea

Almonds, Brazil nuts, Walnuts

Dates, Raisons, Figs

Lunch Peppermint tea Salad:

Lettuce, Cucumber, Tomato

Sugar snap peas, Peppers

Onion, Mixed Sprouts (chickpea, aduki beans, lentil)

Quiona or amaranth

Olive oil, udos choice oil

Salt & pepper

Hommus, ground flax

Snack ¾ litre water with baking soda

Peppermint tea

Banana or apple or raw food bar

Another vegetable juice with a green drink if I’ve done a hard exercise.

Dinner Herbal tea

¾ litre of greens with baking soda before bed

Vege curries, stir frys, chillis, salads

Quinoa

Rice

Brown Rice noodles

Triathlon Training Log – Week 7

October 18th, 2009
Exercise Log – Week Beginning 12th October 2009
Event Distance Time
Mon Swim 56 lengths 43mins
Tues Rest
Weds Gym Cross trainer

Treadmill  interval session

Core Strength exercises

Stretches

30min

15min

Thurs Rest
Fri Swim 60 lengths (float work)

20 arms only

10 kicking

10 arms

10 kicking

10 front crawl

1 hour
Sat Cycle 7 miles (windy) 32 miles
Sun Cycle 26 miles 1 hour 42 min

Triathlon Training Log – Week 6

October 11th, 2009
Exercise Log – Week Beginning 5th October 2009
  Event Distance Time
Mon Swim 64 Lengths (pyramid session) 48mins
Tues Gym Cross trainer 15min

Treadmill  (interval training- 3min 11kph, 2min 12kph)

Spin on bike

Core Strength exercises

stretches

15min

15min

 

15min

Weds Rest    
Thurs Forced rest

 

Visit to the chiropractor  

 

Fri Forced rest    
Sat Cycle 10.6 miles 36min 06
Sun Cycle 16.5 miles

(Windy)

1 hour 10 min 

A visit to the Chiropractor – Cycling & back pain

October 8th, 2009

Whilst increasing the miles on the bike I’ve recently experienced alot of back pain upper and lower, when on the bike it aches between the shoulder blades and during my last ride it felt like the bike was wonky! I new it couldn’t be the bike it had to be me that was wonky.

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had my spine re-aligned by an osteopath so I knew it was overdue.

I’ve never been to a Chiropractor before today but this one came highly recommended and called himself a McTimoney Chiropractor, a gentler form of Chiropractic.

One look at me and he showed how much my pelvis was out of alignment giving me a leg length difference and the wonky feeling when on the bike. I also drift off in one direction whilst swimming and suffer from reoccurring one sided hamstring strains whilst running, turns out it’s all down to the pelvis.

So I was re-aligned and it was gentle, a little bit of ‘cracking’ but pain free. I was advised not to exercise for 2 days so to nights swim has been postponed and now my backs feeling sorer than before, I’ve been reassured I’ll feel great in the morning! I hope so…and surely of my skeleton is in a better position and I’m not pulling in one direction my times will improve!

Triathlon training log – Week 5

October 4th, 2009
Exercise Log – Week Beginning 28th September 2009
  Event Distance Time
Mon Rest    
Tues Gym Cross trainer 15min

Treadmill  (interval training- 3min 11kph, 2min 12kph)

15min

20min

Weds Rest    
Thurs Swim

 

64 Lengths (pyramid session)

Sauna

49mins

 

Fri Rest    
Sat Run

Cycle

3.8miles (head wind)

10 miles

32min 14

43min 27

Sun Cycle 26miles 1 hour 41