Just because it says “all you can eat”, TRY NOT TO FOCUS ON THE WORDS “EAT” AND “ALL”

I doubt Usain Bolt incorporates crispy friggin’ duck pancakes into his last few weeks of intensive training. Not a sniff of a prawn cracker. But this weekend I let my will-power go off the scale and ate my body weight in chilli beef.

Have you ever seen “Nature’s Great Events”? Well in my on-going commitment to science, I was re-creating this scene (replace small fish with chilli beef and you’ve got it)

So 2 weeks to go until the Robin Hood Half Marathon and i’m stuffing my face with spicy food, lager and small fried bits of unidentified meat.

At this rate, you may aswell just rename the next race the Great North Runs and be done with it. I’m not sure the BBC would like to cover that in glorious high definition so in my other ongoing commitment to high quality sports coverage (i’ve got a few of ‘em)…I’ve made these five commitments:

No Beer
No Fast Food/Take-Away
No Sugary Drinks
No Chocolate
No Snacking

I will not let any of this rubbish pass my lips until 1st of November 2009. Not a drop, not a smidgen. Not even a Kinder Egg. Not even one of those tiny 10p freddo’s which are easily the most sad-looking chocolate bars of all time. Not even that.