231.5 when woke up this morning and 231.5 after run tonight
Run was 4 miles in 32:30 with 1 minute of walking, 1 minute at 7.2 mph and the remainder at 7.5 mph on the treadmill.
Everything felt pretty solid – definitely never felt out of breath and did not cheat on the treadmill. I had to pay attention to my right leg and knee a little bit as it felt a little odd a couple times – I think this is a left over of the running outside on the past couple weekends. Usually my outdoor runs have been in the park on pavement but the runs around the neighborhood lately have included a fair bit on cement sidewalks and side roads. I’m pretty sure I am feeling the impacts from the cement on my legs more that I have from the pavement – something I will have to watch over the next couple weeks – now is NOT the time to get injured.
Since I can’t get my weight to budge I have decided to go back to square one with the protein breakfast concept. When I started the protein breakfasts I had weight loss occur quite rapidly (2 to 2.5 pounds per week) – initial breakfasts were 2 hard boiled eggs, 20 raw almonds and a protein shake. After a while I got bored with the eggs and tried to leave them out and my weight started to creep up. At that point I added a second protein shake to bump the protein intake and that balanced out the weight again but did not really restart the weight loss.
So as of this morning I have gone back to the original diet including the hard boiled eggs – I will try this for a couple weeks and see what happens. I need to cut back or remove the Coke from my diet as well but with only a few weeks before the Manitoba Marathon I don’t want to make that big a change. After the marathon is done I will look at that change and see what happens from there.
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