Disappointing weigh-in, but I was expecting it … this has been a challenging couple of weeks.
Weight: 278lbs
2 Week Gain / (Loss): 4.6lbs
Total Gain / (Loss): (49.4lbs)
Weekly Mileage: 13.38
First quick thing – I HATE dropping back under the “50 total pounds lost” threshold. Hate it. And will get it under control.
I’m not going to spend the time here in this post talking about why the last two weeks have been challenging. I could trot out a whole list of reasons excuses that I haven’t been running and eating well, and whine about how hard it is. And, lets face it … it IS hard. Which is totally what she said.
But instead, I want to focus here on the very encouraging things that happened in the last two weeks:
- After allowing myself the sad about not running the full marathon, I finally embraced the idea of PRing the hell out of the Rock ‘n’ Roll USA Half Marathon in March. Many many minutes will come off of my half marathon PR, and this makes me excited.
- I went a week and a half without doing a single run … and then put together 4 straight days at the end of that stretch saying “eff it” and doing runs way outside my comfort zone. Including a 3-miler in 3 degree (Fahrenheit) weather.
- My 5-mile long run on Saturday morning was very strong. Not only did I feel good, but the run was a strong negative split – I got stronger as the run went along. Also, a 5-mile “long run”, after I’ve been doing 15 and 16 mile long runs, was just the thing to get me mentally enjoying this again.
- Today I ran a 5K that was also MUCH stronger than anticipated – only 16 seconds off of my PR on a very hilly course. I’ll have a race report up later this week, but I could not have been more pleased with how today went.
- This weekend had two straight days with highs in the 40s. I know the groundhog saw his shadow today, so I don’t want to get too excited – but come on, spring!
For giggles, I went and looked at my running log for February 2nd of last year, 2013. It turns out that I ran 3.1 miles (I won’t call it 5K unless it is an official race – which is a comment that will have my non-American readers rolling their eyes … but, hey, what’re you going do?), and I did it in a 13 minute and 42 second per mile pace. Which right now seems glacial. But, in my notes, I put the following quote: “Did not seem that fast.” THAT fast.
Amazing how far you can come in a year. And I’m feeling that momentum building again.
Lets go have a great week.
A Constant State of Hunger 