weight PR! 156. Lowest I have hit since growing up was the 157 during a GI bug last semester when I was pretty horribly dehydrated. My diet is going well. Basically I am counting calories roughly, cut out coke, snacks, and am eating a lot of fruits and vegetables. I still get full at meals but I do sometimes get hungry between meals. I have been doing a 200cal carb snack on workout days if I am feeling hungry 1-2hrs before the workout. Otherwise just the 3 meals a day. Hoping to keep this going down to 145 by the end of next month.
PM: 7 including 4x800 in 2:46, 2:44, 2:43, 2:43, 4x400 in 72, 72, 73, 69! 4x200 in 32, 32, 33, 33 with 1min recovery between reps and 2min recovery between sets. This time I slowed down the 800's so that I could get some quality 400's in. And the strategy did not dissapoint. If I can do that back to back in a race (which I suspect I can) I can pull a 4:46. Then maybe by late spring I can pull that down further. The 400's were relaxed except perhaps the second 200 of the 69. After that I just got the 200's in... nothing special. Was a bit sick to my stomach at that point.
PM: 6.5 This winter is really getting to me. It snowed another 4 inches today. AAHH. Why wont it stop already? All I am asking for is clear roads to run and drive on. It can be cold. I can deal with that pretty easily with layers. But the slipping every step making me go sooo slow I just can't stand anymore. We just need 3 days in a row in which it doesn't freeze overnight (fat chance until march, we havent had a single night that didn't freeze since early december). Bah! /end rant
Feeling a little bloated despite sticking strictly to the diet. So I cut another 300cal from dinner cause I was already very full. I think the vegetable mooshoo I made yesterday really fills me up for how many calories it has! It might be my new go-to dish. I have been doing a spagetti with tons of vegies in the sauce. But the mooshoo is just vegies and some oil with some hoisen sauce (which honestly is sugar, msg, and fat, but I dont use that much). Im really looking forward to 154. I will be racing the mile on the 14th and 22nd of this month. I will have to make sure I get enough carbs the night before each which might put me back a little bit in the diet, but I should be racing at something like 152 and 150lbs if all goes well. Next week I am gonna do the gold standard 10x400 w/1min recovery to see what I can expect on race day. I am thinking right now that 4:46 will be in the cards, but 4:45 or below will be a real stretch. When I am feeling good 72's can be relaxed now, but 71's are pushing it. Definitely by mid-late spring I will break 4:45.
PM: 9.15 including 4x2km with 200m recovery in 7:28 (5:59 pace), 7:18 (5:50 pace), 7:22 (5:53 pace), 7:18 (5:50 pace) then 4x200m in 33, 33, 32, 31 with 1min recovery. On the 2ks I was willing to just go 6 pace because it was more volume than I am used to in a workout and we had two guys who were just starting workouts for the season. But on the second one jamie lead and put the pedal down. Then I led the first few laps of the third one and then jordan took over and sped up. And on the last one I led the first half mile right at 6 pace then jamie took over and must have really sped up as we averaged 5:50 pace including the first half mile at 6 pace. During the 200s my left quad was weak as anything and I didn't have much but I managed alright. I think I might have really gained some speed. I want to do another 200 workout on fresh legs to see if I have.
PM: 6.5 Lately I am feeling pretty washed out for my runs. Luckily this will be my last week at 80 for a while. Next two weeks I will be racing then I will take a cutback week to maybe 50. By then hopefully it will be significantly better weather and I can rekindle the running fire and get ready for some 5k's and 5milers in the spring.
AM: 4.25 17F colder than I was expecting. So instead of doing the 10 today we postponed it to tomorrow to get more 'warm' weather in.
PM: 6.5 38F nice weather but 2 guys came out who simply could not complete the run. We went about 9min pace for about a mile or two when one turned back a short way to get back and the other one wanted to continue but then at mile 4 he needed to stop and walk for a bit. Ugh. So we walked a little bit, then ran some more, then he needed to walk again so we kept on running then turned back after a few min to make sure he knew the way back to campus. We ended up walking some and then jogging it in. Took an extra 25 min on the normal 50min run. I did run the full distance or more though because of the back tracking. I put 6.5 miles on the email. I guess I didn't put a pace there but I just assume that people realize that you can walk 10+min miles on roads so by saying running I mean slightly faster. I go slow on my distance runs, but I do actually run them.
