The struggles of my everyday life . . .

I had a lie in, well what I would class as a lie in, I went to breakfast at 7am if that helps you on my lie in time, this is the morning I tried peanut butter for the first time, I rifted it up for the remainder of the day. I went back to bed after, this is due to my toe depression, everything I do involves my toe, so I just slept, until I managed to pull myself together and stop being a whimp. I went for chai at 11am, sugaring myself up for 11.30 core class with Gav.

Dinner was lentils, which was great, but I had put myself through the peanut butter due to lack of protein I was getting, so the peanut butter torture could of been avoided! After becoming all lentiled up, letting the food digest, keeping myself motivated I went on the gym bike for 30mins, keep the legs ticking over.

First ever Kenyan easy run on the afternoon at 4ish. We went to the camp at 3ish, having a look around at Tom Paynes camp. Very basic, bit like ours at our camp except they have bunk beds and an outside squat toilet. There are box bedrooms in a block, quite a large vegetable patch, a basic box kitchen, where they get the same food everyday for every meal consisting of chapattis, ugali, cabbage, and fruit. So the Kenyan run was around 40-45mins, we went with a couple of other guys on the camp. Quick brief, the Kenyans do their hard workout on a morning, will go for a easy run on the afternoon around 4ish if they feel up to it, to keep their legs ticking over, promote blood flow to aid in recovery. They personally don't use these reasons, but thats the back up logic that us westerners have come up with, but it makes perfect sense. Something I will definitely try to do as much as possible in my training programme. I of course on this run had to pee in someones garden, I was worried all the pounding was going to make me piddle myself.

After the run and stretches we had a couple cups of chai, this really does keep me going, my reward of extreme sugared milky tea. Once back at the camp, quick shower followed by tea of ugali and veg. I am a converted ugali lover, ugali is like a dumpling, a tasteless big white dollop of stodginess. The guys all laugh as I use about half a bottle of sweet chilli sauce on all my meals, even the chef personally comes over and passes the bottle to me.

Had a game of whist, yep I didn't win, was tired, didn't have the attention span. Early night of 9.30, after talking to Angela, I always feel bad as she is always studying, I went to kip while she continued studying, how does this girl do it.xx