Diary of a 10 km Run

Run: Went for a short run yesterday, accompanied by 5-year-old J. He’s so cute in his colorful helmet, talking a blue streak, “mentioning” things like how it’s important to have a helmet on today, not like last time when he fell off and hit his head riding around in the garden. “Mentioning” how his brakes are working well after a scare the other day on a long lane where he gathered speed and ended up with a scraped knee for not slowing down enough for a bend in the lane. Poor little fellow. He’s pretty brave for 5, quite competent (we never used the extra wheels on our children’s bikes, so J was riding by age 4).

Anyhow, the run itself was just to keep limber, a 20-minute jog around a short route near home. I was to be in a meeting this morning but it got postponed. The beautiful sunny day is calling… I have to attempt 10 k this weekend (if I have time – it’s first communion weekend) so I need to keep limber! Plus the weather is expected to change so better now than not.

Diet (CRAVINGS): I’ve had serious cravings for sugar, like a small crowd gathered round me crying out, “find something! Eat something! Chocolate sauce* over there, cookies in the tin, find something! Eat something!” I nearly collided with my husband on my way into the kitchen for my 3rd cast-about last night. His advice: Just don’t. Just don’t for 2 days and it’ll go away. A LONG 2 days!!!

I wasn’t 100% successful, but rather than delve into the chocolate sauce, I had several handfuls of both my dried cranberriess & blueberries mix and my seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, linseed, sesame, & sliced almonds) that I keep in the cereal cupboard for generous sprinkling over cereal in the mornings. And, it turns out, desperate late-night cravings.

Best solution: Go to bed! Cravings diminish in direct proportion to distance from kitchen, most of the time.

*my husband’s home-made, deadly, cocoa-butter-sugar mix. Very scoopable, very dangerous. Made in quantity. Far too accessible. Best eaten fresh.