About a month ago, on the recommendation from my friend Kirk, I started experimenting with a fairly new energy drink called FRS. We first tried it at IM CDA last year, and it was ok, but at the time, I was wary of adding new things to my training diet. I recently found a few different flavors at a local grocery store, and hit upon one that suited my palate, Peach Mango. Then, low and behold, at our most recent Tri Fusion meeting, Julie from FRS came to talk about their product and hand out some samples. Talk about great timing! Although I didn't get a chance to talk to Julie in person, I did use the opportunity to do some more research on this product, and I'm now hooked. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it. Check out more info at
http://www.frs.com/ I've been testing out having some before and after workouts, as well as mid-afternoon at work, when I'm usually dragging. So far, this stuff has been absolute magic! I had a can yesterday about 20 min before my run, and it turned out to be a great run. While I won't give all the credit to the FRS, I am convinced that it helped. Today, I did a quick 1 mile swim at lunch, and had a can right after I got back to my office. That was about 2 1/2 hours ago, and I'm still going strong, not feeling tired like I usually do.
See, I really like this stuff! :)
Speaking of my run yesterday, it felt so good to be able to get out after work and run outside. It seems like its been forever since I've been able to do that, between the seasons and my injury. It was just like old times! I only did 4 miles, but still managed to go sub-8s, which for right now is pretty good for me. My foot didn't hurt, but it was still a little sore/tired. But I'm learning that I just need to deal with it, be careful, and get thru it, because I just need to log some serious running miles. I've actually found that by making slight adjustments in my gait every now and then, I can reduce the discomfort during the run, so that's encouraging. I guess you could say that I'm learning to be comfortable with the discomfort.
My swim today was also awesome. I did a descending mile, which sort of turned into a time trial, and my time seemed to be pretty quick. I'm curious to see how much I improve over the next few months, so I think I'm going to do this workout every few weeks. Taking out the rest I took, I estimated that I swam the mile in about 27:30 today. I'll take that any day!!
3 comments:
So how funny is it that I just opened up a can of FRS and started drinking it right before I read this post?! This is only the second time I've tried it so I'm not quite as sold as you are, but I'll give it a couple more tries.
Way to go on the workouts! I'm so happy for you that you are able to run again...or should I say run fast! Nice work.
Glad to hear your swim went well too. It's great to hear that you are feeling good and getting back into the swing of things after being sick! Go A+!
Yeah, I think I like FRS too. I've tried it before a couple of workouts (45 min before) and had good workouts both times. Still a little early for me to be sold, but I'm definitely paying attention. Nice job on the workouts today. Sub 8s... niiice!
Thank you for this post. I appreciate it. I have just had 2 and am going to stick with it to see how I like it. It will be interesting because I am not working out like all of you. . . but I do get that "drag ass" in the afternoon that you spoke of.
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