Day Twenty Eight

So, finally got a training run in for the Tokyo marathon. Did 17k around the palace and back to my place. Good news is that the snow had largely let up, bad news was that my left knee started to twinge on the return run, so pulled the plug (I had been aiming for 21k), as last time I did a long training run before Mumbai marathon I tweaked my right achilles and had to limp it round the course for 15k till the muscle loosened up.

Did my Day 29 work-out, I was a little worried about the jump-rope because of my knee, but actually so long as I keep my legs flexed it put very little strain on it. In fact I beat my record for straight skips, no breaks no errors at 524 skips - very happy.

Noticed the diet has flipped over again. Dinner has no meat! Still can make a pretty good smoothy with the ingredients and I love apples, so that is cool. For the meat dishes, I have found beef pastrami at Nissin is a pretty good buy, cold cuts and very lean - so it is convenient and healthy. Cooked up some chicken, pumpkin and garlic to eat tomorrow, and planning to make up a big batch of pumpkin soup on Sunday - mmm nothing like hot pumpkin soup on a cold day!

Oh, and as I got the run in, I finally had my indulgence while sitting on the sofa, watching Inception (my fav movie of 2010) and having my milk ration in a latte.