248 this morning was 246 last Thursday morning
Over the weekend I did 8.8 on Saturday but wasn’t able to run on Sunday due to a race in the park. Did 16 miles in just over 3 hours on Monday in the park but now I am having trouble with my right knee. I kind of tweaked it last week on the treadmill but it got pretty aggravated on the longer runs over the weekend. Because I had to do the long run on the Monday and my knee was bugging me I took Tuesday and Wednesday off of running which might be why my weight seems up a touch. I need to get on the treadmill tonight and hopefully things go ok – I probably won’t run tomorrow night but will have to do 8.8 on Saturday and 17 on Sunday this week. Plus I have to do a midterm on the course I am taking on Saturday so hopefully I can make things all balance out this weekend. I would like to do longer than 17 miles on Sunday but we will have to see. My thought is to run for an hour and then start doing interval running from there – if that goes well I should hopefully be able to make the miles disappear.
Still doing the high protein breakfast – vitamins and water, 2 hardboiled eggs, 1 protein shake, 1 small glass of coke and 20 raw almonds – totals out to about 50g of protein. I am also sticking to taking lunch with me usually consisting of an apple and a banana, a few small pieces of chocolate as a snack and a ham/turkey wrap with a bit of cheese and some barbeque sauce. This all seems to be working well for keeping the snack urges away. Do have to keep working on the weight loss though. (Comment Dec 15: This seems to be a big part of the weight loss I have managed to attain so far – protein shake and 2 hard boiled eggs is what really is working – I will write this up more throughly in its own page soon)
10 weeks today to the travel day for the marathon weekend – basically about 8 solid weeks of training left so hopefully I can get my knee through it and get the weight down too. With what time I have left 240 should be more than doable with just maintaining my diet and the running – this would be about 1 pound per week. It should also be possible with some focus and watching how much coke I drink to drop 2 pounds a week getting me closer to 230-232 range before the race. 240 is now my short term goal and 230 is my mid term goal prior to the marathon. If I can get there then it should be a matter of continuing to train for the Manitoba full marathon and get the remaining weight loss I want out of that training.
I will try to update after I try to run tonight.
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