Yesterday's slight lack of energy during my session made me think a bit about my diet today.

Generally speaking, I do everything to excess: plenty of fruit and veg, but also too much salt, alcohol, saturated fat etc., and I'm not too worried about the calories, as my weight seems to be pretty stable in the high 90s (kg) and my body shape still seems to be improving (definitely less lard lining on the belly these days, and improved muscle definition... still a long way to go though), but what I perhaps ought to worry about is eating to optimize performance in rowing.

I suspect this may become a serious issue during my break from work, with all the endurance erging I've got planned, but if yesterday is anything to go by, it's already a problem. I mean, it's not rocket science, understanding the principles of carbo-loading before the energy is required, but I seem to have got it all back-to-front this week.

Wednesday night was a light dinner, then no breakfast on Thursday, followed by a lightish (and mostly protein and fat) lunch. Not the best way of building up to an erg session.

Then last night after getting back from the session was: a ham and mushroom pasta meal for two, salad, Jaffa cake bars and chocolate (I was hungry, okay). No shortage of carbohydrates (or fat, for that matter) there, both complex and simple.

But I wasn't going to the gym today.

And then tonight, I'm back on the (mostly) protein dinner, with crispy duck pancakes, hoi sin sauce, etc. etc. again. My favourite, but not quite the carbs for a planned erg session tomorrow morning.

I think the real issue is that I eat whatever I want, when I want, and I erg as much as I want, when I want, and the two things don't necessarily synchronize into giving me the energy I need for the session I want to do.

Metres: 0
Alcohol: 0 (yet)