221.5 this morning and 221.5 after evening run.
Was 219.5 yesterday morning.
Basically my weight took a beating this weekend – ate out a few times and got truly ravenous Sunday night for some reason – it was brutal! Then I ate way too much licorice yesterday and my weight took a giant leap putting me 5 pounds up compared to last Thursday when I was 216.5.
Did a short run yesterday with the wife as she wanted to try outside the run/walk/run cycles she has been doing on the treadmill. We did 1.25 miles in about 15 minutes at her pace, learned a few things and we will give it another go soon.
Run tonight was not particularly good – was definitely feeling bloated and off when I got on the treadmill but felt decent after a quick 2.5 minute warm up at 5% incline so gave it a shot. I started by alternating 1 minute at 7.5 mph and 1 minute at 9 mph and mostly did that for 25 minutes with 2 1 minute walking breaks. Then finished off the last 5 minutes at 8 mph. All in all I got the miles in but I kept catching myself cheating by holding onto the treadmill and had to keep shaking myself to get back on track. The back of my left knee is feeling off now and I think I was running funny because of the cheating. Going to have to shake that tendency real quick.
In the end it was a decent amount of mileage and I did do a respectable amount of time at 9 mph without any cheating so that is a good thing.
I’m going to have to watching the eating habits for the next several days – the weight jump should dwindle back down to where it should be by race day on Sunday (hopefully back to 217.5 or so). I suspect I was ravenous on Sunday because I was running at too big a calorie deficit and my body just wanted to get some fuel back in the system but obviously I picked the wrong foods considering how I am feeling. Definitely something to watch going forward.
Have to keep reminding myself that even though I took a step back on the weight this weekend my training is still moving forward and I haven’t actually lost any endurance or anything like that. Need to keep my head in the game!
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