Xmas food & run double bill

In an attempt to not fall asleep in a post Xmas lunch food coma I thought I'd add a few notes on my running and consumption over the festive period.

Xmas Eve Run

With stormaggedon forcing me to work from home on Xmas Eve I decided to head out after completing some morning training. By early afternoon the worst of the weather had passed and I was able to enjoy a bit of sunshine. The kilometres were just easy paced, but it allowed me to maintain a run streak into a sixth day. The calories burnt also gave me some free consumption in the evening! Completing the run also brought me past the 3000km mark. Not a bad effort in 3 years and 7 months. That's 300,000 calories approximately or as I prefer to measure 6000 fingers of Kit Kat!!!

Xmas Eve Eat

We were joined by both sets of parents to celebrate Xmas Eve. We laid on a full spread of food, including some homemade sausage rolls and a cheeseboard including a mere 9 varieties!!
The highlight of the cheese board had to be a blue of Dolcelette style, Blue Murder from Scotland (even better when you say it in Scotch), I picked it up from the exceptional Rippon Cheese near Victoria station in London. The sausage rolls benefited from a bit of chutney included and a sprinkling of smoked salt, crushed garlic, dried onion and seeds over them. Very moorish and plenty left over!

Xmas Day Run

Once presents with Mrs H had been exchanged I headed out for some lazy Christmas morning km. I had intended to take on the loop, yet more heavy rain overnight left me running 10 minutes only to need to U turn, there's no point taking on large puddles and ruining the feet.
After the U Turn I made a small loop around Stansted, passing my in-laws on their Christmas walk. Another 5km banked, no great pace, but miles in the legs. Now my run streak stands at 7 days in a row.
My only concern at present is a bit of pain in my shins. It could be the start of shin splints, I need to give it some research to see how best to treat them.

Xmas Day Eat

What better way tocelebrate Christmas than to gorge on food? I got back from the run and served up Eggs Benedict for four, a well earned  fuel for the earlier effort.

After an hour or so to relax it was time to prepare Christmas lunch. The two rib of beef had been picked up from the Butchers at the weekend. To complete the spread we added roast potatoes, honey glazed carrots and parsnips, leeks, green beans, peas, stuffing and some rich gravy. The meat was perfectly rare and the rib tasted great. 

If that wasn't enough we'd bought in desert. After putting in the effort for the roast it was time for a hassle free follow up. A Choux ring of epic proportions was shared between all. Now it's time to sleep it off, allegedly tomorrow is a tempo day....