244 in the morning.
Running last night went surprisingly well – it took a bit initially to find how to run without hurting the knee but I got it sorted out and did 8 miles in approx 82 minutes doing 4 min run 1 min walk cycles. I had plenty of energy after I was done but was pretty hungry – I finished the run shortly before 10pm and I really didn’t want to eat anything but in the end had a small glass of coke and 20 almonds. Weight after the run was 245.5.
Had a fair bit of energy today – had the protein breakfast and then ended up going for breakfast with the boys at work around 10:30 – had an apple and a banana through the rest of the day but little else. Supper was spaghetti and meat sauce – probably had more of that then I should have but since I have 8.8 miles to do in the morning this probably isn’t that bad an idea.
Tried doing some chin ups and some dips which didn’t go great but I haven’t done them in a few months so it would be expected to be a bit off. I will have to try to do these more regularly if just as a confirmation that I am not losing muscle as part of the weight loss.
No running tonight – must let the knee rest for tomorrow – also need to do some studying for the midterm exam tomorrow. Tomorrow will be tough to get through with the run in the morning before my son T has curling at 9:30 then after that I will have to do the mid-term exam. In the end I also need to make sure I have enough energy to run 17 miles (17.6) on Sunday before Heather goes to a baby shower in the early afternoon. It is going to be a tough weekend.
On the 8.8 tomorrow I am going to try to do run/walk cycles to see what that does to overall speed – I’m hoping that will get me a few percentage points faster and hopefully will make the time go by faster.
For the run/walk cycles I will be trying a program on the media player that will give verbal cues at the proper time – this will be running at the same time as the gps app and the music player – hopefully the player doesn’t choke on it. (Comment Dec 15: I was using a running app on my android media player that I use to listen to music while running, it is basically an Android phone but without the phone part (wi-fi only) – I listen to music, run a gps tracking app and also use a run/walk cycle trigger app – but I kept having the gps app crap out so haven’t been using it in a while – did have some issues with the micro SD card later though so might have to try it again.)
Sounds like my knee issue is probably runners’ knee – treat with ice, rest and anti-inflammatories basically. Usually triggered by poor form or working too hard. I know the initial trigger was on the treadmill while cheating so I definitely had poor form. The trick will be getting through this weekend with decent times without aggravating it further. It was not bad today after the 8 yesterday but it kept giving me a shot if I stepped wrong or started to cheat. I will have to watch it on the runs over the weekend.
I think I should have a better idea after the weekend where I might end up for times on the runs. I’m hoping to get some speed from the run/walk cycle plus will get improvements over Nov and early Dec through training. If I can keep the weight loss going strong then I should get a boost from that too. Put this all together and I hope it translates to meeting my initially set goals – if all goes really well maybe I can get closer to the 6.6 mph that would put me back in the vicinity of where I was in 2005/2006. That may be asking too much but it is good to dream.
I have been sitting here typing for just a short while and I have already gone over a full page of text – I should probably start to think about if blogging would work for me or maybe contributing occasionally to a site. (Comment Dec 15 – well…trying the blog thing, we’ll see how it works)
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