Recovery food?

Happy Saturday everyone! After breakfast (but I forgot a banana) I turned on my Nike+ and headed out on my run. It was hard work today. First I could not decide what to wear; normally the summer is easier because it is basically as little as possible. But recently it has been really cold, and windy too so I settled on a t-shirt and my rain jacket. Boy was I glad I wore that! After 7 miles it poured with rain and I got soaked; the wind was blowing really hard too so that didn’t help. The rain did stop, thankfully, but the wind didn’t so the last mile was into a really strong headwind and I felt like I was going at walking speed. When I logged on to the nike website after my speed dropped massively for the last mile!

When I got home I went to have a look in the garden (and to have a stretch)- I find that if I come inside I sit down and promise myself I will stretch in a minute, but I don’t and I get really stiff. So whilst in the garden I had a Sainsbury’s banana and mango fairtrade bar (it tasted waaay too much like dried banana; would not recommend but it was in my water bottle pouch and I was hungry!). Then I planted some more beetroot seeds as the ones I planted last month have not come up yet.

I found a packet of Science in Sport recovery drink in the cupboard (got it free with runners world last month) and so decided to try it. It might help with headaches? I only had 10g of powder to see what it was like, then I would have made more if it was ok. Well, I didn’t like it!! It was banana flavour but I thought it might be nice. So to get rid of the taste I had a pink lady apple and a Nak’d Ginger bread bar. Now that is something that is tasty! Made of dates, almonds, pecans, ginger, cloves and cinnamon it smells so good, like the Disney Christmas shop. It is soft and dense and chewy and delicious……

What does everyone else have for recovery food I wonder? I know there is supposed to be a balance between protein and carbohydrate to replace lost energy and to help muscles repair. I had an article about it in women’s running magazine and there was a list of foods- I need to dig it out and stick it on my fridge. I do remember that chocolate milk was one of them mentioned, and I would definitely prefer that over the banana drink I had today. Hey ho, you live and learn.

I had a lot of work to be doing, so after a shower I had some lunch before getting started. I had some tomato and basil soup with a piece of quinoa rye bread, half with Philadelphia light and sundried tomatoes, and half with Philadelphia and red pesto. Yum. I think the saltiness is good after a run.

Later on after a walk (or hobble) to the post-box I made a yummy brain-booster. In my mini chopped I whizzed up a banana, added 10g peanut butter and 100g Rachel’s organic strawberry pouring yoghurt. It was super delicious! Very runny but really yummy; I could taste the hint of peanut butter. I think it would be lovely with a frozen banana (kind of like peanut butter banana ice cream) so I will definitely try that on a hotter day!

Whilst doing work I watched the final of the biggest loser Australia- phew I am glad that series is over; there must have been nearly 100 episodes!!

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