So, this weekend was an "easy" weekend to "keep me injury free". Well.. Mostly.
Saturday was 3 miles with some strides at the end. Well, I did my best to slow my pace and I finally conquered Mackey Rd Hill. I may have been closer to a power walk than running, but I'm calling it "running"! Nonstop. WOOT!
Though, that nice seasonal road is ALL ice and the snow at the edges is getting pretty minimal, so the strides at the end were a bit rough, I was NOT going to run full speed down the hill and hope I missed the ice!
Sunday was only 6 miles and since I was pretty sure Mackey would only be worse for ice, I went around the block. I hadn't been wearing toe socks the day before, so I decided to just throw on my Lontra's. Yeah, that was apparently a bad idea. I guess I haven't gone sockless for a month or so now. A couple miles in and my left foot, right on the right side of the ball of my foot developed a real good blister. It seems I have trouble there sometimes with the straps that attach there on those models of Fivefingers. Going to have to see how I do with socks and wet feet for 10-12 miles so I know what I'm doing for the OCR's.
But again, other than I think (3) 5 second stops to try making that left shoe extra tight or extra loose to make that blister happier, I didn't stop.
Of course as I thought, it's not 6 miles around the block, so I added in some trail running through the woods as well, which is good since my next race is a trail race and I really ought to be doing more. Not exactly sure how I'm going to do that. I went as far as looking to see if I could make it to the nearest Finger Lakes Trail point with my running. Unfortunately taking roads, it would appear it's about 5 miles to the entry point which would mean with my 10 mile runs coming up in another week or so, I'd be able to get there and back, but not actually run on them at all.
So I guess I should consider adding in a car ride to there before and after my run. Otherwise I'm not sure how to get longer trail runs in very well... I can run in the woods near the house, but from what I've found so far, I'm looping a bit just to get a few miles, let alone 6 or more.
I also gave some thought this morning to catching some of the FLT points that I pass on my commute to work. I guess that would pretty much be on the way home as I don't know how well I could keep myself stinky free without a shower when I get back to work.
Work really needs a shower.
The end of the day wouldn't necessarily be that bad of an idea. As it is, I'm having trouble getting in 6 miles or more with all of the other morning stuff and making it into work when I should.
My fear with that though is that I have done an after work run once or twice and it seemed horrendous. And I have since read something about your mental state having a bit effect and that the morning runs can/do go a lot better... But I may have to try it and see. Right now I don't terribly care for these morning runs before daylight anyway.
Weight loss is still going. 187.8 or something this morning. Not sure if it's me, the weather, the holidays/time of year in general or what, but I think I'm going to just finish off my Dietbets and not do any more. I've got 2 finishing this month and then there are 2 of the 6 month ones that are a lot more reasonable to meet ending like mayish I think.
I guess I'm just feeling like I don't want to worry about it quite as much and after December, I was really scraping to get to within a tenth of a pound to meet my weigh outs at 4% in 4 weeks.
And who knows what my body is going to do now. I'm definitely starting to like it more, this "medium" size thing on me is mind blowing, even if they are a bit tight sometimes yet. I definitely still have a good bit of inches to remove from my mid section yet, but the progress is amazing to me. Anyway, It's possible it will become harder to lose the weight. Though if the running keeps increasing, I would like to think that should compensate, and I've at least started getting a couple strength/otherwise workouts done on my "rest" days and getting in 30 Spartan Burpees as well. Those still suck with the pushups.
But, I think it might be the time of the year. This weekend was just 2 days of no sun. Dark and dreary. I'm also fighting a cold it would seem. Nice thing about the runs is that it all just disappears for that hour or so. No sore throat, congestion, etc. And I think those runs keep me a bit more sane. But it's still a long couple days where I really just feel like eating everything in sight. Saturday I let myself a 500 calorie overage, but really if I hadn't had a free mint chocolate swirl shake coupon from Arby's (and I haven't yet had one), then I probably would have kept it in check. And I did keep it good on Sunday. Maybe not the best quality of calories all around, but my #1 priority is keeping the cals in check.
Anyway, I'm trying to keep these thoughts in check. I don't want to find myself thinking "Oh, I don't have a Dietbet, so I can eat more and it won't be a problem" and then that definition keeps stretching and I find myself having a lot of days with WAY too many calories again and not keeping it under control. So I need to keep that in my head.
It's not like this wasn't coming anyway. Maintenance mode is a whole nother thing. Probably just as well that I start trying to keep things under control more myself than relying on Dietbet fears to keep me in line.
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