My new diet has got to be making me last longer. Perhaps I should market it as a little blue pill. Lol.
By the pure fact that I have very little funds, I am constantly trying to work with foods I can afford that will also allow me to not fall on my face from the lack of food or the lack of stamina from food. I think I have found it. Peanut butter and grape jelly. Peanut butter for the protein. Bread for the carbs and grape jelly for the sugar. Seems simply enough and perhaps the reason that I have jumped up from an excruciating mental game of even trying to log in one loop around the Central Park lower half, which is only 1.5 miles, at which I would rather be caned than do at all. I am now running in the extreme heat and finding myself running and only stopping because I need to be somewhere. Just this past Wednesday, the 21st of July 2010, I ran 11 miles and was laughing because it was effortless. My nutrition for that day was oatmeal in the morning: three spoons full, three hard-boiled eggs at work, then at 11am two peanut butter and grape jelly "sandmitches". At 4pm, two more peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches. That was it for the day!
Hell, today, I had three spoons full of oatmeal and the last of my emergency protein shake for when I run out of food. I will probably have a sandwich tonight and that is it. I feel like a million bucks. My brother Mark Morini, the famous body builder and trainer of Plymouth, Massachusetts, told me a very long time ago; "Paul," he said, "you have been a champion power lifter, bodybuilder, martial artist and now training for your first triathlon. In all my years I have never seen you follow a diet. As a matter of fact, I have seen you at your best when you eat in two days as little as I eat at one small meal. It works for you and that is that. Do what you have learned in your life. Do what your body knows how to do." He was right and now I am doing as I have always done. Eat when hungry which might be three times a day or once a day or once every other day, but whatever the case of the past, I need to put it towards my training. My body is not the norm when it comes to work. I work the best when just on the verge of starvation. I get the most out of my cardio and strength when I am lean, balanced with my freakish strength. Yes, my brother is the king when it comes to seeing just what it is that makes a body work, and with me it is that very little produces very much. I cannot listen to books or infomercials. I cannot care that people are asking me if I am sick because I am so thin and lean. To be the best in endurance sports, you need to be as light as you can be so that the body flows through the air with effortless ease. Marathon runners and endurance athletes are on the edge of undernourished but in perfect symbiotic state with their body's energy stores. Endurance athletes are the sickliest in shape people on the planet. They train their body for one thing and it is to not only win if they can but to survive with minimal damage to the body. I know I look gaunt, but I am in the best shape of my life. This winter I will put back my 20 pounds if it wants to come back. I will eat more because I will need to rebuild this machine that I want to make into the most Kick Ass dominating triathlete on the planet.
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