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10k PB - meat powered 6th place race finish

 Today I ran a 10km PB in very windy conditions, I finished 6th in 37:05. Overall I am happy with the performance but would have liked 6 seconds quicker. The conditions were tough with gusty winds that have resulted in sever weather warnings over here and I basically ended up running it solo with the lead pack of 4 ahead and one guy passing me with 2k or so to go. My pacing was excellent and I couldn't have done much more. 

My Nutrition and how I got here:

 My nutrition is very important to me, as it should be. The saying:  "You can't outrun a bad diet"  Is certainly right for me, I seem to only have to sniff something off my standard lifestyle and I gain a few pounds. Feel free to keep reading but a good background to my approach is the following video. You can break my history down into the following phases:  Childhood - Was active and ate what I like but got away with it.  16+ - Ate rubbish and decreased activity so my weight went up to around 20 stone.  End of 2014 - Went low carb and lost weight quickly, by the end of the year I was 154 down from 263lbs.  2016 - 2017 - My weight remained pretty stable although I added more nuts, cream and things like Grenade bars. During the start of 2017 I marathon trained and got injured but continued to eat like I was marathon training so gained weight.  2018 - Complete write off. I stayed low carb but "dirty" with things like keto cakes and the other th...