Month: August 2013

So I just put a new page on the site that provides a bit of a comparison between what I scheduled for myself for training runs for the 2013 Goofy Race and a Half Challenge versus what runs I actually managed to get in.  It is located here:  scheduled versus actuals I consider this new…

220.5 when I woke up and 216 after the morning run. When I got started on my run it was already over 20 C in the morning and humidex or feels like time of about 27 (68F and 80 F to non metric folks) and when I ended it was up to 22 C and…

219 when I woke up and 218 after morning run. The run was a nice and easy 4.5 miles in 40:35.  I didn’t push hard at all and was able to just let my mind wander – it felt good to just be able to get into a zone and keep going.  Felt healthy and…

So I have found over the years and more specifically in the past year that things made with white flour do bad, bad things for my weight.  A simple bagel can spike my weight by up to 2 pounds in a single day!  While that will work itself out of my system usually over a…

219.5 this morning when I woke up and 219 after mowing the lawn. So this is the first time I have started a day below 220 pounds since 2005 at least and probably earlier.  I know I was in the 215-218 pound range when I met my wife in June 2002 and did my first…

220.5 when I woke up and 221.5 after evening run. Run tonight was 3.9 miles in 30 minutes – total of 3 minutes walking about 3 minutes of 7 mph and remainder split between 7.5 and 9 – longest period at 9 mph was 2 minutes.  Run was at 1% incline. Everything felt good on…

222 when I woke up and 222 after evening run. Run tonight was scheduled to be a fast 30 minutes on the treadmill but I have been wanting to do some longer distances on the treadmill at higher speeds so I extended tonight to be 50 minutes instead. In the 50 minutes I put in…

222.5 when I woke up this morning and 223.5 after evening run Run tonight was 3.92 miles on the treadmill in 30 minutes.  I started with a 1 minute walk and then 4 minutes at 7.5 mph as a warm up and then alternated between 7.5 and 9 mph 1 minute at a time.  An…

225 when I woke up (bloody hell) and 220.5 after morning run We had quick fast food burgers for lunch yesterday and then ended up having a quick take out pizza with my son last night from a place we don’t normally use.  My system felt awful most of the night including some nausea later…

223.5 when I woke up this morning and 222 after morning run.  Was 221.5 when I woke up yesterday. I can’t think of anything that would have caused a 2 pound difference between yesterday morning and this morning besides having one beer yesterday – but that doesn’t seem quite right either that one beer could…