Yukon Ho!

Pete and I are currently working out what to eat during the time.  Carb levels and sugar levels, weight.. it’s all quite confusing and any bad decisions will have to be lived with until at least Carmacks when we meet our support crew.  Pete has the metabolism of a humming bird so is looking at 700-1000 calories an hour, I’m probably at the lower end of that scale. No real conclusions yet but after our 10 hour practice run on Monday we should be able to draft out a eating plan. Here are two good links we found for anyone who’s interested in endurance and food.
http://www.ultrunr.com/food_energy.html

http://www.nswseakayaker.asn.au/mag/44/foodforthought.html

Here’s a picture from a few weeks ago.  A warm spell meant that had an early and massive ice break up on the Yukon, causing some flooding in downtown whitehorse.

Not sure whether that’ll mean more or less flow for the actual race. More pictures can be found here

Ahhh Yukon Ho! I’ve been neglecting you.  I must admit training, my job and just general admin has been getting a little bit out of control over the last few weeks.  At the same time as my work has became really intense, my motivation levels have taken a real beating.  Not sure what it is when I’m this close to the event that suddenly getting out of bed is harder than when the event is 6 months away.  But I’ve pulled myself together, caught up with my admin and hit the treadmill hard for the last couple of weeks.

Just as I was picking up pace, I caught a cold.  It’s on the wane now but it’s been interesting following the advice from trainharder.  I’ve been carrying on training.  Been interesting, my cold has definitely not been as bad, though I’m not plagued at the moment by a cough so made running easier.  The thames training run on Wednesday was fun, a dose of day nurse, I worked at about 80-90% of my heart rate for over an hour and half, which under usual circumstances would mean vomiting but I felt fine.  Not sure if this is bad or good, just felt rather ‘trippy’