July 25th, 2013 (Thursday)

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225.5 when I woke up and 226.5 after evening run.

Run tonight was 3.78 miles in 30 minutes on the treadmill.  I started with a 1 min walk, then 4 minutes at 7.5 mph as a warm up and then bumped things up to 8 mph for 5 minutes.  I then did another 1 minute walk and then did 8 mph for 9 minutes.  Then one more minute of walking and 7 minutes of 8 mph and finished with 2 minutes at 8.5 mph.

The run felt a bit better than last night – I’m not feeling quite so bloated and weird as I was yesterday but still not quite right either.  The run was helped I think tonight too by doing the 4 minutes at 7.5 mph as a starter – last night I started right into 2 minutes at 9 mph before I was warmed up or had my breathing right and combined with feeling bloated it just set a bit of a negative tone on the run right from the beginning – which is kind of dumb really considering that doing a couple minutes at 9 mph cold is something I wouldn’t have been able to do well last year at this time.

My weight still seems to be off along with the bloated feeling but seems to be coming down slowly so I think everything is correcting itself.  I still think the weight spike and bloated feeling has to have come from something I ate but I’m still not sure what it could have been.  Definitely need to pay closer attention to what I am eating.

I have been pretty regular about getting in the pool every day and doing resistance exercises and laps but today the weather just isn’t cooperating – right now it is pretty cool and windy with rain so no swimming tonight.  Weather forecast for the next few weeks looks decent though so I should be back to doing that daily again starting tomorrow.  The weekend is supposed to be quite good as well meaning I will probably be spending hours in the pool in addition to my planned runs so that will be a good thing.

I am definitely seeing the benefits of the resistance training in the pool – more defined arms, chest and shoulders plus a tighter midsection.  Certainly want to make sure that continues to work.


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