A Trial-Athlete. Double chocolate protein cookies and a homemade electrolyte sports drink

I have a couple of thoroughly insane friends who are known as my Boston boys.  They do things like wake up at 5am and go to a boxing gym before work, do a sprint triathlon for fun on a Sunday or decide to work towards the international Iron Man competition.

I blame them for the following....

I literally woke up one morning in July and decided I was going to train every day from August 1st.

I do a pretty physically demanding show a few times a day here and in order to embark on my August and beyond endeavours I needed to get my hands on some good protein for fast recovery.

I was kindly donated a bucket of  'boy protein' as I call it by my mate 'The Rugby boy' living and playing here in Tokyo.

( anyone who knows me well will know that I avoid protein and using weights normally at all costs as my body type likes to bulk very fast which isn't something I'm interested in! so I guess I must be serious about this)

My new training partner - Nitrovol

I've made the following recipe once before for a snowboarding trip earlier this year with some protein I borrowed from my friend Hercules.  

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE PROTEIN COOKIES

SCRIPT:

1/4 C Splenda & brown sugar blend (I used organic dark brown sugar only)

1/4 C unsweetened apple sauce

3 egg whites

1 t vanilla extract

1 t cinnamon

3 C Oats

1/4 C whole wheat flour

1 C Chocolate protein powder

1/2 C chocolate chips ( I used dark chocolate )

METHOD:

Pre-heat oven to 350F or 190C

Beat together the egg whites, apple sauce, brown sugar blend and vanilla

Gradually mix in oats, flour, protein powder and cinnamon to the above, stirring well before adding the chocolate chips

Drop a table spoon of the cookie mixture onto a non stick lightly sprayed cooking sheet.  

The mixture is pretty sticky and the cookies don't spread or rise.  

Bake for 10-12 minutes.  

*Be careful not to bake them like you would a normal cookie where you wait for them to go firm.  

The protein means that they will be teeth shattering if you leave them in too long.  

I cooked mine for 10 minutes and they are still a bit sticky a few days later which I'm totally fine with....

1 cookie = 170 calories, 3.5g fat, 18g carbs, 7g sugar, 13g protein

Great pre/post workout snack and awesome for a breakfast on the run!

It's currently the middle of summer in Tokyo with 100% humidity every day and temperatures in the early 30's C.
I hate buying electrolyte drinks every day (which I need to get through a normal work day let alone all the extra training) they are too sweet and a waste of money when I can make my own much nicer ones.

Here's my current favourite...

THE LIP TWISTER - Tart and Sweet

SCRIPT:

1/4 C lemon juice
1/4 C lime juice
1 t salt (one that contains sodium chloride and potassium iodide is ideal)
1 whole squeezed orange
1 Litre of water

METHOD:

Mix all together using as pure water as you can find and don't try to keep it for more than a day as the ingredients don't age too well together.
You may want to add another orange depending on how sweet you like it.



While running my longest distance yet I was encouraged to keep going just by the thought of my insane friends being far more epic than I'll ever be.  Looks like the competitive side has come back or maybe it's just the creatine and other 'boy protein' ingredients playing havoc with my system.