As you’re reading this, I am on the motorway travelling down to London for the weekend.
If I am completely honest with you, travelling causes me a little anxiety when it comes to my nutrition.
I love eating well because of how that makes me feel – Generally energised and strong.
When we travel though, controlling your nutrition is tough.
So what will I be doing over the weekend?
Today I made a load of food, as much as I can carry in my coolbox.
There is tomorrow breakfast, tomorrows lunch and various snacks.
Tonight I will eat at the hotel where I am staying.
Preparing this food makes me feel a bit better – more in control.
However I will run out of that food within a day.
Then the travel home will be the biggest challenge.
Stopping at a service station where there are various fast food options – none healthy.
In this case, I always opt for Sushi and some fruit.
I love Sushi and it is filling, tasty and more important than anything, available.
I believe it’s also important to accept that you will eat some things you wouldn’t normally and try NOT to worry about it too much. For me that means trying to eat only one meal a day that’s not ideal If I can do that there will be no real damage.
The irony for the Triathlete, is often that when they race they need to travel.
Nutrition can be spot on and then this last little hurdle can ruin it.
My advice:
Take as much food as you can carry and invest in a good coolbox!
I should also mention, I ran my first live Q&A this week in The Total Triathlete:
http://www.nutri-tri.com/the-total-triathlete/
It’s now going to be a once weekly event, where I answer any questions sent by the members that week.
I think it was a success with comments like:
“That was fantastic, thank you”
“Can’t get over how good this is for the money”
“Thank you Jamie, that has helped heaps”
“Good job”
“Really useful, thank you!”
So if things aren’t moving in the right direction for you, hit the link and get involved.
As a wise man once said and NO it wasn’t me:
“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got”
The link again:
http://www.nutri-tri.com/the-total-triathlete/
Jamie “Travel Heavy” Leighton