219.5 when I woke up and 217.5 after the evening run.
Weight seems to be correcting after the damage I did over the weekend.
Before the run tonight I got in the pool with the wife and kids for an hour – probably one of the last times we will be using the pool this season judging by the long term weather forecast so wanted to take advantage of the weather while we could. I was worried about maybe draining my energy too much but I got on treadmill after the kids went to bed and there didn’t seem to be an issue in the end.
Run felt much better than yesterday – still did not feel the greatest but that didn’t show in the speed or miles so I will take it.
I started with a short warm up walking at 5% incline for 2.5 minutes for 0.16 miles.
After yesterday’s run I figured I wanted to go out hard and if I had any of the same issues as yesterday I would be ready to push through them. I hit 2 miles at about 14:40 and 4 miles at 29:45 even with a couple minutes of walking thrown in. In the first 30 minutes I spent most of my time alternating between 1 minute at 8 mph and 1 minute 9 mph but did do a couple 2 minute stretches at 9. Second half hour had 3 minutes of walking and long stretches at 7.5 mph and 8 mph. The treadmill breaker tripped out on me at around 56:30 so once I reset it I got back on and did another 3.5 minutes but I don’t know the exact distance I did – I am very sure that I actually did well over 7.5 but I am going to say 7.5 to be conservative.
I also had to stop at around the 35 minute mark quickly to grab a different set of headphones – the set I was using had built in volume control and apparently when it gets a little too sweaty it decides to lower the volume down to 0. I grabbed one set and then realized the cord was too short and then had to grab another crappy set I had laying around and they weren’t capable of much volume but I dealt with it to get the miles done but I am going to have to go headphone shopping tomorrow I think. That makes 2 busted sets of headphones in the past couple weeks – lost signal in one ear on another good set about a week ago (I think I have caught the cord one too many times). So time for new headphones…either that or I am going to have to borrow a set of my kids’ Perry the Platypus headphones…hmm tempting!
And apparently this is post 200 on the blog! That is a surprising amount of typing frankly. I’m not sure I expected to do this as long as I have or put up as many posts as I have but it does seem to help keep me motivated. Considering that was the reason I started writing down my training and weight loss thoughts last year, I guess I will just have to keep going!
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