tell him to have a close look at any world class distance runner.they are all as lean as grant. most are leaner. none are plumper..i put money on that..

gabrisalese, tergat, de castella, lewis, jones, zatopek, clarke, prefontaine, bannister....all the male running greats..all low single digits body fat..ive read most of their biographies..most had family concerned of their 'leaness'...

only way grant would run better with more fat would be if the race involved no eating and having to run accross australia..then visible body fat would aid as fuel..

but grant only does runs under 24 hours..so it helps to be as lean as a fasting breatharian and not carry any excess...

i do know for fact that if grant got more sleep and speedwork he will go faster..

    Actually, Harley, i think you'll find Grant has run OVER 100km a few times....and just over a month ago, he ran with my boss in a 100 MILE (ie 175km) race....

Lucky for you, Harley, i dont like taking money from those that hitch their "swags" up in front of buildings....

XX

this is prob getting off topic, Harley, but...

It was a 36 hour race.

I can see the SAD people's point of view as well, as after 36 hours of running, your glycogen has long gone and the body is trying to run on fat and protein.....

um....I havent actually SEEN Grant in person, just a few photos from here and another website and if he were to rely on that last bit of fat to finish a 36hr race....i dunno.

Anyway, i know what you are saying, im just saying it's not ALWAYS black and white.

Peace out.

x

Thanks for all the input!

Yep! My conclusion is this:

Raw Vegan food, like anything, can be made unhealthy when it's unbalanced.

 I imagine if you ate 100 raw dates followed by half a watermelon, you probably won't be feeling so flash in the following hours. However, have a quarter of the watermelon and perhaps an hour later, have 10 or so dates and you're grrrrrrrreat!

Next lesson that has been reinforced is:
Listen to your body. If the food agrees or disagrees with you, your body will tell you, regardless of what some books may say. People are individuals with an infinite variety of body chemistries (is that grammatically correct, even?), personal preferences, environmental factors, etc. So what's right for person A, aint necessarily going to make person B jump for joy.

For moi, it's back to mono meals til I get sick of them. Im a lazybum, dont like cooking, cleaning or fussing about in the kitchen at all. Im also totally in lust with Summer fruit and dont even mind having to wee every half an hour, if it means i get to devour a juicy, ripe, lip-lickingly luscious honeydew melon!mmmm mmmm!

Thanks for replying, it helped get my brain around a few things. Which brings me to my next point....(what a NOT-so-smooth segway, lol)....I REALLY appreciate your answers, but cos I dont believe in the karma system, Im giving you "vibrational karma" points instead...where I just send them thru the air-waves, straight to you. Hope they get there, as my sense of direction is, um, kinda like my cooking skills, LOL!

xx Have a beeeewdddiful Sunday!
LL

oh God KK,dairy and UC,you must like torturing yourself,lol....gawd gal...

Hee hee Grant will be perplexed when he reads this whole section of discussing him and his running,yup he would do better with more sleep...hes a notorious non sleeper....

off and away to enjoy the day

The NEW high Energy Diet RECIPE GUIDE by Dr Douglas Graham. will be back in stock Mon or Tues. Great book!

Sounds like you are getting heaps of help and support KK. I know what you mean about the cheese. I have had a really hard time letting it go... and I know that stuff to. *shudder*

xoxoxo

Hee hee...took me a while, but I finally read all this discussion about my running.
I have improved my sleep and every week my average per day is over 8 hrs! Could do with more though :-)
See how I go in the 100km race through the Blue Mountains on 17th May (The North Face 100)!
I certainly haven't got more fat than I used to after my 29 day water-only fast. I'm now a lean 63.8kg! (back up from 54kg at the end of my fast)