Running block

[abejita]

Colby, thanks for sharing your experience with me. That is exactly what I went through a couple months ago when i shifted from eating to loose to eating to perform. I really think that I have the eating part down though. I really am following a lot of the advice in Nancy Clark's endurance athlete books. It is hard some days to eat back the 2000 calories or so on top of my base calories on the days that I ride. But I've been doing good. We have also totally changed our eating habits (hubs also took up cycling and returned to running and lost about 30lb) We eat next to no processed food, I make everything from scratch...all whole organic foods. We feel so much better. I have also found that I do best eating every couple of hours normally. Also, any ride over an hour I bring food and eat a little every 30 min or so. I do best that way.

I really have no interest in being skinny. I want to be strong and lean. I have a bmi of 23 right now...I would like to be about 20, but at this point, I am in no hurry to get there. I do want to eat enough so the my cycling is enjoyable. I am estimating I have another 15 or so lbs to go, but I really don't know because this is the smallest I've ever been in my life.

I am really glad you posted. It is nice to know that I am the only one that has those feelings about food. I was about 120 in college, but I was wearing a larger size than I am now at 139.