Food Loving at Ostro for Nike SheRunsAKL / Exercise Diary, Week 3
Battered gurnard, lemon aioli, fennel, dill, confit lemon and brioche roll
On Wednesday, a group of the Nike #SheRunsAKL gals were treated to lunch at the lovely Ostro to speak a bit with chef Josh Emett (of Master-chef fame, and also of ‘being the mean chef/the man’ fame) about the importance of nutrition on race-day. Basically, it’s important that you don’t eat crap food on race-day, and you have enough in the tank to sustain you for the whole race so you don’t tucker out and have to be taken away in an ambulance. I’m sure there was more to learn, but I was a bit distracted by trying to decide what to eat on the menu, and I think everyone else was distracted by Josh Emett’s hotness – as is evidenced by this instagram discussion here. The other point of the lunch had initially been to order off the salad menu, which all looked amazing, but after Josh talked up the sandwiches, we were pretty much won over – and the majority of us got a sandwich instead. I got the traditional Chicken Club, which is huge and really tasty, but I would have really loved to have also tried the battered fish and roast pork sammies too – I had serious food envy. They’d also just launched their in house club sodas, which come in stylish glass bottles and interesting flavours like passionfruit and apple, and poached peach and lemon. Check out the deliciousness below:
Chicken club, poached chicken, streaky bacon, iceberg, cheddar, egg mayonnaise, mustard, tomato and white bread
Roast pork, cabbage salad, apple mayonnaise, pickled radish, garlic chives and crumbed turkish bread
Beetroot walnut, goat’s cheese, dates, baby kale and sherry maple vinaigrette ( fried kale garnish) & Akaroa Salmon
Josh Emett
Now, the fun part – training : This week I did a 3km run on Monday, an 8.2km run on Wednesday and a 6km run on Saturday – I fell off on the other parts of my training but I’m glad I still got my three runs in. I improved on my 6km run time, which I’m pretty stoked about too. This will sound obvious, but the time of day, and how well I’ve slept, or how well rested I am, has such an impact on how I perform in my runs. I have been trying to do them during the day, thinking if I don’t do them straight after work, I’ll never do them. But running in the cool of the night on Saturday, after a really relaxing day, was so much better – and has me re-assessing whether it’s still such a good idea to run straight after my 5 AM shifts, or whether I should just wait until it cools down in the evening.
