I really enjoy eating breakfast everyday. There are folks I know and work with who skip breakfast and for the life of me, I don’t understand why. I always wake up hungry each morning, which to me is a good thing. Breakfast truly is The Most Important meal of the day; it starts your engine. Especially for an athlete, breakfast can make or break you.
My typical breakfast in the morning is cereal with fruit and yogurt. Today [pictured here], I had Kashi Heart to Heart cereal with 3 strawberries, 1 small banana and Stonyfield Yo-Baby raspberry and pear yogurt. I always eat Kashi cereals and always eat the Yo-Baby yogurt. The yogurt is the perfect size, it’s made for baby’s digestive systems [so I know it won't do something wonky to my innards] and I love the flavors. The best part is when you open one, there’s a layer of cream on top that you mix in with the yogurt. With the raspberry pear, the fruit is all the way on the bottom and you mix it up. I pour the whole thing over my cereal and fruit and then munch on. Yum.
I have a question — most serious runners now use clothing made with technical fabrics, right? In the past, I wore cotton shorts a lot. Although, once the sweating began, it was sticky, heavy and pretty ghastly to see [butt sweat, anyone?]. However, since I’ve started wearing shorts and shirts made with moisture-wicking materials [which is pretty much 100% polyester], I’ve noticed that my sweat and the fabric do not play together nicely at all. I’m talking stink, people. Like birds are falling from the sky as I’m running and goodness forbid I run too close to someone, lest it waft in their general direction. Does anyone else have that problem? It apparently has something to do with the types of sweat glands located in the groin and the armpits and the type of bacteria that forms once that sweat meets moisture-wicking material. After googling the issue, I came across quite a few folks out on the tubez complaining about it.
For me, aside from the embarrassing odor, which starts once I begin to sweat heavily, another problem is how to get the stink completely out of the clothing. I follow the washing instructions carefully — technical running clothing is expensive and I’m not going to risk shredding it. Luckily, during my google-sweat-polyester-stink fest, I came across a post that offered a solution for removing the leftover smell: Win Green High Performance Sport Detergent.
I’m going to order some and try it out. I’m hoping to find a solution for the stink that occurs while I’m still wearing the clothing — I know how bad it smells after a 3 mile run; I can only imagine how bad it’ll be during a half marathon…
