Winning Back What I Lost

Hit the hills again this afternoon.  Started at the base of Shaw Mtn. Road and ran uphill for a little over a mile then down into Rocky Canyon and then uphill again to where the pavement ends and back.  Weather was nasty w/ an ice/snow mix at my back on the way out and in my face on the way back.  This is roughly the first 1/5 of the Robie Course.  I like this run because it has an uphill and downhill on both the out and back portions.  My base training seems to be paying dividends.  I was breathing heavy on the uphill but nowhere near VO2 max.  Held my pace at no worse than 9:45 for the steeper sections and no slower than 7:45 on the downhill.  The best part is that I felt like I could give more if I had to.  This might become my regular Monday lunchtime run for the next couple of months. I was a little overheated because I had to bundle up for the ice/snow w/ the temp right at freezing or slightly above. 

I've been limiting myself to somewhere between 1,200-1,500 calories for nearly a month now and its helped me shed some of the winter pounds I put on during my injury hiatus rather quickly.  However, I can tell that I need to consume more if I'm going have the energy to ramp up my mileage even more.  My goal is to be hitting 50 mpw w/in a couple of weeks and get back down below 170 before Robie.  Need to find a balance between losing weight and maintaining the energy I need for increased training mileage.