fruit fast - experiment #1

i'm on my third day of a fruit fast. i'm eating just fruit. which at times has seemed easy and at other times very very hard. natural sugar and carbs.. and that is about it really. for the first two days i was still drinking coffee but not taking any of my hammer nutrition vitamins that i normally would. today i've reintroduced my vitamins, but just a few. i've had trouble with no coffee and.. i'm sipping a cup right now. tomorrow i will leave the coffee out and see what happens. i feel pretty good. this is supposed to be a sort of detox fast.

i start my training again on monday. i am so excited to get started! fasting and training don't mix very well. so i'll end the fruit fast on sunday after 4 days and eat a normal diet. however i'm planning on sticking closer to a whole/raw food diet than before, within reason - it's not easy. just eating foods as close to their origin as possible, no processed foods basically - whole, raw foods.

update from the shire

i've got a lot of updates to post from my trip home; presidential traverse (yep, krissy and i got 'er done in 75mph winds!), an epic crawford notch/mt isolation/bartlett 26 miler with justin and climbing mt washington via boot spur. i'm just waiting for the opportunity to upload the photos and video. i don't think the blogs are as interesting without them. so i'll wait and give you the full monty when i get back to seattle.

i come home from the shire tues. this trip has been great. got to see my family and friends, and with krissy here for a few days she got to meet them too. i've been thinking it might be the time for me to rest. so i'm taking the rest of this month off (which is just the next 4 days) - which is a good start for me. i plan on starting dec again real easy with low training volume. however the snow is falling in the pacific northwest!!!!! so that might make it harder for me to chill.

what's next? well krissy and i are headed to a hawaii for the hurt 100. you can run the 100 miler (krissy) or the 100k (me). i've never been to hawaii so it's going to be sweet!