a reblog of my latest post from www.icanrunaminute.com
Gotta play some catch-up for the last couple weeks. Last week had five Thursdays which meant five weigh-ins for me but the last one was extremely manipulated since I needed a weight below 223.2 for some DietBet's I was competing in. I managed a 222.8 to win my bets but the weight was nothing legitimate so I decided to leave it out of the October weigh-ins plus, it keeps things looking nice and neat with four weigh-ins per month.
My weight for the first weigh-in of November was at 234.0 and I was pretty happy with that. Especially since my goal for the year was the low 240s. I'll need to stay in striking distance for some diet bets I have going through February of next year.
by midnight this coming Friday night I'll need a weigh in of 227.8 lbs. I'm not overly concerned. In my mind, I know I can go out one evening and run 4-6 miles, then go to bed and wake up 5 or 6 pounds lighter then what I weighed before the run and I also know I can zero out my carb consumption for a day or two in order to very quickly lose water weight.
My run streak is still going strong and at 134 straight days of running at least 1 mile every single day with a daily average of about 3 miles right now. It's a busy time of the year and I've got a lot going on so every thing seems rushed.
Last year, in November, December and all but the last day of January 2015 I did not run a single mile - not a single step. So, even maintaining my daily miles will be upping my trailing 365 day running total which is currently at 685 miles which are entirely from this year. By the end of February, I should be pushing about 1,000 miles for my trailing 365 days. ...which reminds me I need to update my Training Log page as well.
Future Goals???
I'm not exactly fully engaged and focused and know there will be slight variations in my mindset regarding my running and other fitness oriented goals. I have a 222 lb DietBet goal for the middle of February and a goal of 212 lbs by July 5th of next year. I know I want to get a mile in under 8 minutes for the Macklind Mile. For Running Goals, I've done some work looking at maintaining a 5 (or 5+) mph pace through a half marathon distance. I think that equates to around a 2 hour and 37 minute half marathon. I've easily exceeded that pace in the 5K distance but not for a full hour although I am close. I'm figuring on 5-6 mph pace goals with various distances. It's not exactly setting the world on fire or anything but it would be steady pressure and allow for continued improvement with minimal risk of getting injured.
Since I started my Run Streak on July 1st of this year, I'll be able to join and be listed in the United States Run Streak Association as a personal birthday gift to myself on July 7th, 2016 and that will be kind of fun.
One of the most interesting things about running every single day is that my days seem longer. They seem more like 36 hour days instead of 24 hour days. Several times when people talk of an event that happened yesterday, in my mind, it seems like something that happened a couple days ago. Overall, it's been a very, very good thing.
There are some people that it annoys. And many of those people want to fight me on the issue and maybe point out that injury is inevitable by never taking a day off. Their words never say to much about me or my situation but it does say a lot about them. When it comes to the human body, I'm definitely in the top 1% of people in the world when it comes to understanding the human body. Of course, even in the US that could mean there's still 3 million people that know more than me but, ...none of them have been people who have given me shit about my running, that much is certain.
Incidentally ...there are less than a million MDs, under 100,000 DO's and around 70,000 DC's in the US ...at least, those are the rough figures that permeate my brain. I've got too many tangents going off in my head and need to wrap this up.
Heck, I should have weighed myself again before I blogged all this since, technically, it's Thursday again and time for another weekly weigh-in :)
oh, i did notice something else - it looks like in 2014 I ended the year weighing about 40 pounds less and in 2015 here it also looks like I'm about 40 pounds less. A little more than 40 pounds each year. Not too shabby and the nice thing about it - should that trend continue that means 2016 will be my last year with any significant weight loss. Kinda like finally paying off all your credit cards ;)