Lent 2012

menoscemo

Any Interest in a Lenten Challenge 2012?
It all starts on Wednesday.
I intend gving up chocolate and sweets and all sugary ****e. Anybody else giving anything up?

dahat

I'm giving up being injured...........:D

sconhome

menoscemo wrote: »

I intend gving up chocolate and sweets and all sugary ****e.

I'm going to join you on that, have a ferocious sweet-tooth and 40 days of denial might will do me the world of good.

PaulieYifter

Hopefully giving up the soul destroying stationary bike and getting back to pounding the ground outside.

fishtank5

Any white carbs ... pasta... spuds.. white rice.. chips..bread.. and fizzy drinks

ThisRegard

I've never seen the point of giving anything up if you're fit and healthy. If you're putting a lot of work in to staying that way why deprive yourself of the little niceties in life ?

tunguska

ThisRegard wrote: »

I've never seen the point of giving anything up if you're fit and healthy. If you're putting a lot of work in to staying that way why deprive yourself of the little niceties in life ?

I'd agree to a point. I think eating some sugary foods post training is grand. I find that if my diet is too clean I become physically weak and cant perform at the same level. But I think fast food has no business being in the diet of a runner who takes their training even slightly serious. Ditto for the booze.

gerard65

tunguska wrote: »

. Ditto for the booze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzcEG_JoVuo

dahat

For those of us trying to lose weight effin Lent is all year round!!..

LaHaine

In like Flynn. Ill go with no chocolate/crisps/fizzy drinks etc. I went the whole of last year wihtout any of that crap but ive fallen back into bad habits.

robinph

Cool. Pancakes tomorrow.

hot to trot

diet coke, chocolate, crisps, sweety treats.
Intending to swim three mornings a week. Will offer it up for an injury free recovery .
Hope to be within half marathon training distance by Easter

milhous

I haven't done lent for many a year, but i'l be giving up alcohol, carbohydrates and crappy sugary foods. Now this is not really 'giving up' but i'll be flat out at the gym.. Except for paddies day of course, I'll be drunk that day, but that doesn't count. Oh and I'll be dropping coffee and drinking green tea instead..

ThisRegard

If you're flat out at the gym won't you need your carbs ?

milhous

I've a fair bit of excess weight to burn off so will work on that for a while before I re-introduce carbs. I'll have plenty of fish, meat, fruit and veg to keep me going tho. I'l be eating every three to four hours hopefully so won't starve. My only problem is my brain doesn't work as efficiently without coffee and carbs, should be interesting.

G-Money

Going off junk etc myself, although I've kind of already started.

chinguetti

Nothing like finishing a race and tearing through the goodie bag to eat the chocolate bar/bag of crisps. Yer daft giving up sweets for Lent, the drink is far easier to give up.

Nothing tastes like goodie bag treats after a pb:D

Oisin11178

chinguetti wrote: »

Nothing like finishing a race and tearing through the goodie bag to eat the chocolate bar/bag of crisps. Yer daft giving up sweets for Lent, the drink is far easier to give up.

Nothing tastes like goodie bag treats after a pb:D

Cant beat it:D

hot to trot

chinguetti wrote: »

Nothing like finishing a race and tearing through the goodie bag to eat the chocolate bar/bag of crisps. Yer daft giving up sweets for Lent, the drink is far easier to give up.

Nothing tastes like goodie bag treats after a pb:D

Going off the gargle for me wouldnt be any kind of stress because I so rarely get to indulge. Giving up 3-4 pints over a 7 week period is much easier than 8 bars of chocolate a week.
Its not really a religious thing for many people , but if you say you are off something ... people wont force you to g'wan g'wan g'wan as they respect that perhaps you have a religious motivation for doing what you are doing. Iknow complete heathens who use it to shed a few pounds or clean up the lifestyles without people trying to sabotage them all the time .:D

runrabbit

chinguetti wrote: »

Nothing like finishing a race and tearing through the goodie bag to eat the chocolate bar/bag of crisps. Yer daft giving up sweets for Lent, the drink is far easier to give up.

Nothing tastes like goodie bag treats after a pb:D

Last year I managed to stay off sweets and chocolate for the whole of lent. I raced a good few times over lent and all the goodies went into a big bowl, which I promptly devoured on Easter Sunday morning! This year I will aim to do the same, but I might allow myself to break it after Ballycotten - in lieu I will start tomorrow instead of Wednesday. I've just finished that packet of cadbury crunchie biscuits off lest they tempt me tomorrow, so the presses are officially a chocolate-free zone!

glennhysen

Chocolate for me, I've been giving it up every Lent since I was a kid

RayCun

Metro St Brigids 5k next month - I'll handle all your goody bags, since you won't be needing them

menoscemo

RayCun wrote: »

Metro St Brigids 5k next month - I'll handle all your goody bags, since you won't be needing them

That's different. We'll stay off sweets the day before and have the paddys day pass a day late.

TFBubendorfer

It's that time of the year again, eh?

I'll give up sweets and chocolate and all the other sugary crap I'm addicted to - only until Connemara though, no longer.

menoscemo

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

It's that time of the year again, eh?

I'll give up sweets and chocolate and all the other sugary crap I'm addicted to - only until Connemara though, no longer.

I'm with you on that. All bets are off after conn.

clear thinking

I'd be wary of giving stuff up as it could undermine my carefully balanced diet of good & junk food, especially given what happened to the guy who started it all off.

flutegirl

fishtank5 wrote: »

Any white carbs ... pasta... spuds.. white rice.. chips..bread.. and fizzy drinks

Yep, that's me as well...;)

meijin

Not much to give up re. food as I gave up all the junk stuff already... I'm a bit lost about ideas what to give up

Pisco Sour

tunguska wrote: »

I'd agree to a point. I think eating some sugary foods post training is grand. I find that if my diet is too clean I become physically weak and cant perform at the same level. But I think fast food has no business being in the diet of a runner who takes their training even slightly serious. Ditto for the booze.

Ah here, that's a bit OTT. Maybe at the elite end yes, but for anybody below this, a few pints of the black stuff or a few glasses of vino after a good race or cracking training run won't do anybody any harm at all.

Some of the comments on here are about diet are a bit much at times I think. Consider Ciaran O'Lionaird's thoughts on diet:

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to it. I eat when I’m hungry and I try to eat well but I also like going into a race feeling good and will eat what I want if there is something I really want to eat. Prior to my 3:34 I stayed in Leuven for a month and not one evening went by where I wasnt at the ice-cream shop getting a waffle cone with Speculoos ice cream. It’s about balance, like everything else in running and in life.

Paula Radcliffe eats chocolate and makes no apologies for it and considers it healthy in small doses as it has magnesium in it. I spotted David Rudisha drinking a can of coke outside of Olympic Park in Melbourne last year after he blitzed the field in 1:43.

tHE vAGGABOND

Im thinking beer [but allowing myself Wine] - is that cheating

pistol_75

Good to see most other people have the same vices. I'm going to try and give up fizzy drinks, chocolate crisps and all that sort of crap.

robinph

04072511 wrote: »

Ah here, that's a bit OTT. Maybe at the elite end yes, but for anybody below this, a few pints of the black stuff or a few glasses of vino after a good race or cracking training run won't do anybody any harm at all.

Some of the comments on here are about diet are a bit much at times I think. Consider Ciaran O'Lionaird's thoughts on diet:

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to it. I eat when I’m hungry and I try to eat well but I also like going into a race feeling good and will eat what I want if there is something I really want to eat. Prior to my 3:34 I stayed in Leuven for a month and not one evening went by where I wasnt at the ice-cream shop getting a waffle cone with Speculoos ice cream. It’s about balance, like everything else in running and in life.

Paula Radcliffe eats chocolate and makes no apologies for it and considers it healthy in small doses as it has magnesium in it. I spotted David Rudisha drinking a can of coke outside of Olympic Park in Melbourne last year after he blitzed the field in 1:43.

I'd not worry about the rest of them to much. Remember, them denying themselves things mean more cake for the rest of us.

claralara

I gave up crisps, chocolate and fast food last January (2011) after a sinful Christmas. I love my chocolate and biscuits and cake with my tea, and was back on them on the 1st February 2011. I completely cut out the craic of getting chips and burgers on the way home from a night out, and very rarely eat food like that now. But, when I want it, I have it. I haven’t touched a crisp since. Now, I’m just a stubborn wagon on the crisp issue! I do not want to give up my treats for lent despite having done so (successfully!) for the past 3/4 years. I ran 50k on Saturday and am training for the Connemara Ultra. The only reason I’d be giving up my beloved treats would be a self serving “I want to look like a supermodel more like a supermodel than I already do :rolleyes:;) in 6 weeks” – nothing to do with Jesus at all.

Please forgive me for not losing any weight during lent this year God.

I will do something – just not sure what. I could say I’m going to pick a S&C routine and stick to it religiously as I do zero of that important side of running stuff currently. Then I’d be doing it religiously for religion and not to fit into my 21year old sister’s jeans…

Maybe a swear box… Or I could take up helping the elderly cross the road… Decisions decisions.

shels4ever

I'm giving up beer, wine , white bread/toast and anything I like really. No break for paddys day either. Might stay off the drinkin until late April too.

RayCun

claralara wrote: »

Or I could take up helping the elderly cross the road…

You can't be delivering straight lines like that and expecting to get away with it

claralara

RayCun wrote: »

You can't be delivering straight lines like that and expecting to get away with it

Haha! I was wondering how long it would take!

chinguetti

Lads if you give up sweets and stuff until Connemara, you're not giving stuff up for Lent, you're giving up stuff for a period of time.:D

There's a good joke that Tommy Tiernan used to do when he was funny about giving up sweets for Lent but i can't remember the punchline:eek:

mr.wiggle

robinph wrote: »

Cool. Pancakes tomorrow.

Jumped outta bed this morning...whips up a few pancakes for the kids before they headed out the door for school...finished off two myself, with sliced banana ( yum).
30 mins later..jumped in the car, met a fellow A,R,T poster for a trail run, and started off. 3 k in and my guts were in bits...no water with me,(back in the car), so bummed some off said buddie.
Last time I'll be doing that I tell ya! ( the water was horrible:pac:)

Oh, ya...whats this thread about, Lent?

Crisps for me, have got to stop eating them every evening in front of the TV!

mr.wiggle

meijin wrote: »

Not much to give up re. food as I gave up all the junk stuff already... I'm a bit lost about ideas what to give up

TFBubendorfer

chinguetti wrote: »

Lads if you give up sweets and stuff until Connemara, you're not giving stuff up for Lent, you're giving up stuff for a period of time.:D

So what?

shels4ever

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

So what?

thread title

chinguetti

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

So what?

Shels beat me to it.

TFBubendorfer

shels4ever wrote: »

thread title

Connemara is 1 week before Easter. That coincides sufficiently with lent to fit into this thread IMHO.

menoscemo

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

Connemara is 1 week before Easter. That coincides sufficiently with lent to fit into this thread IMHO.

It's 40 days after lent starts too.
I never saw the point of lent being 46 days. I though jebus spent 40 days in the desert not 46.

shels4ever

menoscemo wrote: »

It's 40 days after lent starts too.
I never saw the point of lent being 46 days. I though jebus spent 40 days in the desert not 46.

Maybe we should all do a 40 day mds to make up for it . I'll take my 46 days off beer over getting lost in a dessert


pun intended.

gerard65

menoscemo wrote: »

It's 40 days after lent starts too.
I never saw the point of lent being 46 days. I though jebus spent 40 days in the desert not 46.

Marathon Des Sables?:D

tunguska

04072511 wrote: »

Ah here, that's a bit OTT. Maybe at the elite end yes, but for anybody below this, a few pints of the black stuff or a few glasses of vino after a good race or cracking training run won't do anybody any harm at all.

When is it ever just a few pints or a few classes of wine in this country? I've only ever known one person in my lifetime who could truly keep to one or two pints and leave at that. You dont have to be an elite athlete to benefit from not drinking, its win win all around. Theres only positives from cutting it out.

ThisRegard

Ah it's easy to go for only one or two and leave it at that. If you can do it there's no need to go cutting it out completely.

If people feel the need to cut something out, why not do it permanently rather than just for lent ? It's akin to slagging all the new joggers you see at New Years and never again after a couple of weeks.

Pisco Sour

tunguska wrote: »

When is it ever just a few pints or a few classes of wine in this country? I've only ever known one person in my lifetime who could truly keep to one or two pints and leave at that. You dont have to be an elite athlete to benefit from not drinking, its win win all around. Theres only positives from cutting it out.

Painting large brush strokes there.

TFBubendorfer

ThisRegard wrote: »

Ah it's easy to go for only one or two and leave it at that. If you can do it there's no need to go cutting it out completely.

If people feel the need to cut something out, why not do it permanently rather than just for lent ? It's akin to slagging all the new joggers you see at New Years and never again after a couple of weeks.

Because cutting out sweets for a few weeks right now will cut a few pounds off my weight which will benefit me in my race, and when that race is over then I have every right to reward myself.

That's why.

ThisRegard

It's nothing to do about having a right to reward yourself or not, it's about using lent as an excuse to do so rather than doing it all the time.

Ah I just go down the road of rewarding myself after every bit if physical exercise, gets you out more often instead of waiting for the races.