Queasy belly calls for simple food

When I'm feeling queasy as I have done all day yesterday and today, there's not much I particularly want food-wise.  Usually all I fancy is a plain ham sandwich, just a couple of bits of ham between two bits of white bread with no butter.  Today some tuna and lettuce seemed like an idea.

I'm really hoping that between the state of my knee and stomach/throat/ears that I'm able to return to the gym on Sunday, but I'm really going to have to play it by ear.  Though the huge scab on my knee is getting a lot better, the joint is achey and sore if I walk at more than a gentle amble and/or more than 15-20s or so.  I have been taking NSAIDs, keeping off it as much as possible and not using the stairs wherever possible so I'm hoping that will have helped, but we'll just have to see.

Simple tuna salad (serves 1; 243kcals, 37.7g protein, 15.3g carbs, 3.4g fat, 1.8 fruit and veg):-

• 10g red onion
• 35g sweetcorn (tinned or defrosted from frozen)
• 90g iceberg lettuce
• 130g (1 tin) cooked, tinned tuna (drained)
• 1 large spoonful (55g) mayonnaise (Hellman's Extra Light - yes it's heavily processed)

Remove any bits of lettuce core and chop the leaves into small pieces.

Finely chop the red onion.

Add the sweetcorn.

And the tuna.

Then the mayonnaise and some seasoning.

Mix that lot together.  It's easier to get the tuna and little ingredients covered with the seasoned mayonnaise before you add the lettuce.

Finally add the lettuce.  If you're not mixing in a large bowl, add about a third at a time in between mixing.

Stir the lettuce in with the tuna mix and serve with a sprinkle of tarragon and black pepper over the top.

Simple, quick, tasty and easy on a dodgy belly.  The red onion keeps it fresh and the small amount isn't overpowering and shouldn't leave you with much of an aftertaste.

Coming up this year...

Enough talk of injury, here's what's on the plan for this year:-

• 15th January - The Grim Original (deferred entry to the 2011 Grim due to injury)
• 20th February - Hell of The Ashdown (support, not racing)
• 20th March - Clapham Common 10K
• 8th-10th April - Swimathon (distance undecided)
• 25th April - Thames Turbo Sprint Triathlon #1
• 2nd May - Thames Turbo Sprint Triathlon #2
• 8th May - Sheffield Half Marathon
• 30th May - Thames Turbo Sprint Triathlon #3
• 5th June - British Triathlon Super Series, Blenheim Triathlon (sprint distance)
• 12th June - British Triathlon Super Series, Windsor Triathlon (sprint distance - awaiting availability of places)
• 3rd July - Clapham Common 10K (not yet entered)
• 31st July - British Triathlon Super Series, London Triathlon (Olympic distance)
• 29th August - Thames Turbo Sprint Triathlon #4
• 18th September - Clapham Common 10K (not yet entered)
• 16th October - Clapham Common 10K (not yet entered)

• TBC - British Triathlon Super Series, Strathclyde Park Triathlon (probably sprint)
• TBC - British Triathlon Super Series, Parc Bryn Bach Triathlon (probably sprint)
• TBC - The Grim Original 2011

Most of this was the product of one night of booking frenzy just before Christmas.  Not sure when we get to go on holiday amongst that lot, and there's a patch with races 3 weekends in a row which is a teeeeensy bit exciting and will mean an interesting period of resting and fuelling which might be a bit difficult.

Anybody else doing any of these?   And does anybody else do crazy things like sign up for loads of races all at once?

Slightly frustrating, but...

If there was a good time to be injured, it's actually now.  With the massive work milestone/deadline this coming weekend, not being able to run or gym or cycle is actually a good thing.  I get the frustration of being injured and unable to exercise all over and done with at a time when, although a healthy break away from work to do something physically hard would be a healthy thing for mind and body, it's just something that has to be dropped and I'd be frustrated by that too.  Two birds with one stone.

Sadly, it has also meant that I've posted back my timing chip for the rescheduled Grim this Saturday.

In  other news, I have a new trainer.  First session scheduled for 23rd and I'm so excited about it.  I can't wait to get stuck in to a new routine and not have to get stressy about constant rescheduling at the last second due to being far too busy at work.

Resting up and Facebook

For once, I'm going to do the right thing and do it properly.  My knee swelled up quite a bit yesterday evening, so I iced it and downed the Ibuprofen and kept it raised.  Today, more of the same and definitely no going to the gym as I'd originally planned.  No cycling to work on Monday, no gym either and none of that on Tuesday.  Just sitting on my arse and keeping it rested so I can get back to stuff quickly rather than struggling for weeks and recovering really slowly.

I've got a lot of races to prepare for this year, so getting injury recovery wrong isn't an option!  More detail on that to follow, but in short it's a buttload of triathlons and a 10K run so far.

In other news, I decided to do the social media thing and create a Facebook page, seeing as everyone else seems to be doing it these days :o)

I shouldn't be allowed!

Mad busy week again (and will be again next week too due to impending intergalactic deadline of the century being next weekend) so not been around online a great deal and won't be again next week and certainly not over the weekend.

Anyhoo, we went for a run today - a tentative 10K around the area and the aim was to just not stop.  The upshot was that about 1km from home, I tripped on a manhole cover and went flying.  Left knee has a hole in my running tights and a small graze, right knee is pretty impressively skinned and sporting two large lumps.   Can't wait for the bruise to come up!  Same bloody knee I bruised quite spectacularly when I hit that car last Friday.  I really shouldn't be allowed to do anything physical out in the wild ;o)  Still. Even though I tried to throw myself face-first into the concrete, we finished in 56:33, a whole minute faster than my 10K race in November 2009.  A new personal best!  *pleased*

My knee really hurts though.  Lots of tea, leftover Christmas cake and sympathy might help.