Everything is slowly coming together, I have looked into my nutrition for the week and am still missing a couple of things. It is compulsory to carry 2500Kcal each day. This is to directly replace what you burn running a marathon. Without running a marathon my recommended calorie intake on an average day is 2000Kcal. So I could be burning up to 5000Kcal each day. I will undoubtably leave a few Kgs behind in Iceland!
Ultra marathon nutrition. Yum.
Breakfast: 800Kcal porridge
Lunch: 2 x energy bars, 2 x energy gel ~700Kcal
Dinner: Military ration packs ~1000Kcal
Hydration: ~3 Litres of water mixed with energy & electrolyte powders. Although will probably drink more than this.
There are a variety of dinner options available to me each night. Chicken Panang, Tex Mex Soup, BBQ chicken and sausages are the headliners. Must also mention the instant hot chocolate sachets that I'm sneaking into the pack, I have a feeling that these little pleasures will take the edge off after a days running!
Yesterdays marathon was a hot one, and left me some awful tan lines. Only afterwards did I realise how unwise to was run in a singlet.
"Turn the heat up high reggie, I wanna burn..."
We've almost raised £3000! Absolutely incredible, this money will pay for at least a couple of school fees for children in Kibera and will go towards building a whole new teaching block for the charity. What I've really enjoyed about working with and raising money for KIMTA is the direct and positive impact it has on the community. I'll be sure to send a few photos out of what all your kind and generous donations have gone towards. Collectively your donations will empower these children living in such a deprived and impoverished place to take control of their lives and go some way to lifting them out.
Thanks to everyone, keep the donations coming! www.justgiving.com/fireandicekibera
In the UK we have relative poverty, where some people have less money than those living around them. This is undeniable and a real problem. But I it is important that people are able to make a distinction between what we have in our welfare society and the absolute and extreme poverty present in many areas of the world. Absolute poverty describes those whose income is less than 75p-£1.50 a day (75p being extreme). Today 40% of those living in sub-saharan Africa are defined as being in the absolute category. Although poverty in Kenya can be attributed to a range of political issues and clear social inequality, education is a power that can erode away at this imbalance and go some way to improving the well-being of many living there. So even though what we are doing for KIMTA is so small, it still is encouraging to see the funds going into the enhancement of an educational charity.
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