Nutrition

More photos are posted to this slideshow.

The Run.  13 starters.  All finished.  When we met at Griffin gym, it was pouring, but the rain mercifully stopped for an hour as we did intervals on Mosquito Creek trail.  Keegan Freeland was the speedster of the group.

I received a lot of positive response from last week's post regarding rules for good nutrition so I'll follow up this week with more useful nutrition information. 

The first piece of info. comes from my collegaue Mike Geary, author of a new ebook called Fat-Burning Kitchen.  Mikes sheds light on a specific class of vegetables that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually help to fight against abdominal fat.

We had a fantastic summer here in BC and I hope you had as much fun as I did.  While the weather was great for enjoying the great outdoors it also contributed to me indulging a bit.  So to get my nutrition back on track I began a simple nutrition plan after the Labour Day weekend – I gave up alcohol and sugar. 

Last night I was very honored to be invited to speak at the North Shore Challenge. This event was held to raise funds for the Harvest Project, a social service organization that helps people who are in tough circumstances help themselves.

I went to shop for some of my chili ingredients today.  Jackson accepted my challenge to concoct his own "authentic" chili.  He found a rattlesnake meat supplier, but the rattlesnake got stopped at the border.  I am not kidding.  Instead of rattlesnake I got beef for Jackson, not the ground kind...apparently he is chopping the meat up to desired bite size pieces.

I have been researching chili recipes, cook off traditions and scoring etiquette in preparation for next Sundays bash at the T/J's.

Does anybody know what the trail bars were at the turnaround of the Fat Ass 50K from the table run by Gottfried?  They were in a blue foil package which I stuffed into my pocket meaning to hang on to so I would know what they were,  but I must have thrown it out with my gel wrappers.  They were some kind of a mashed fruit product, maybe with seeds and nut mashed in there too.  I got a great amount of energy out of one bar and it seemed to sit really well in my stomach.

Tired of the old power bar? Guilty of diving into the cookie box one to many times? Here's a treat that serves the need of endurance athletes, yet is chock full of good stuff. Hey, it event passes Dom's vegan taste test...