I would be lying
if I said I wasn’t disappointed. You see, the last few weeks, since my
previous stall out and regaining of weight, I’ve been periodically
weighing myself during the week and not just on Saturdays.
I’m doing this just to make sure I’m staying on track. Well, I stepped
on the scale yesterday and I was 1.2 lbs down and now I’m right back up
to where I was last week. What the heck? The only thing I can think
of is that I ate dinner when I got home from
work last night around 10:30. It was a “heavy”-ish dinner (my family’s
Mexican enchilada casserole dish that I posted a couple weeks ago) and
then I got up about 4 hours earlier than I normally would to go into
work for the morning shift on overtime. So,
it’s possible that I AM down but, when I stepped on the scale this
morning, because my body wasn’t done processing what I ate for dinner
last night, I show as though I’m up when I step on the scale. This is
why they say don’t live or die by the scale…the
scale isn’t the measure of all things…the scale lies. It really does
tell dirty, dirty lies. This is proof. The final weigh in and taking
of measurements for the Biggest Loser challenge I’m doing is next
Friday, (the 13th). I am excited to see
what my measurements say. I’m also really hoping that I show as down
on the scale. But, really, the measurements are the most important way
to gauge my progress.
This week was momentous for me. I ran my 3rd
marathon in just 78 days on Sunday. That qualified me for a group
called the Marathon Maniacs. I signed up and paid for my membership
with them Sunday evening. It was a very emotional
electronic transaction for me. I was (and still am) super excited
about the membership. And, even though I don’t have another marathon
[tentatively] scheduled until November (either Vegas or South Padre
Island, depending on funds), and even though it’s only
been less than a week since I ran a marathon, I’m literally already
jonesing to run another one. I truly am a maniac. So, I’m not sure I
can wait until November to run one. So, I’ve decided, on top of working
on getting faster (marathon goal of 4:30:00
and half marathon goal of 2:15:00 or less) that I will just stay
trained up for marathons so that if one pops up that I want to and can
afford to do, I am ready for it.
On to this week’s exercise:
• Saturday: nada. Just hit the expo for the Army Marathon and chillaxed.
• Sunday: ran the Army Marathon!!! This was an
amazing experience, but as with the Austin Marathon, I’m not going to
go into any details as they will all be in my race recap.
• Monday: nada again. Resting my body after
running the marathon. Honestly, I was nowhere near as sore as I was
after I ran the Austin Marathon last month. I guess my body is
adjusting to running marathons. I guess it was all like,
oh, one of these again? That’s cool. Haha.
• Tuesday: went to the gym. Was going to do
Zumba as well, but I just didn’t have the time. I was tired and kept
hitting the snooze and didn’t have time to do both by the time I got
up. So, I just did the gym. This was my first gym
workout with the new Polar M400. I have to say, there must have been
more wrong with my original one than I thought because the original one
always said I burned only 90-something calories in a 50-60 minute
strength training session. The new one said I burned
over 400. Hmm. Maybe I didn’t have the heart rate monitor properly
synced to the watch? I don’t know. I didn’t know how to change what
the watch displayed during a workout so I could see what my heart rate
was when I had the original one. So maybe it
was just going off my movement.
• Wednesday: I worked a double shift so no
running or gym or Zumba, but I did manage to make it to the rowing
machine at work this day…twice! YAY! I rowed a total of 4000-ish
meters between the two goes at it. For my work, I have to
be able to row 2000 meters in less than 9:40 minutes. The first go at
it, I rowed it in 9:18 minutes. The second time I did it in 9:23
minutes. Awesome!
• Thursday: worked another double shift the
night before, so, again, none of my standard workouts were available to
me. I hit the rowing machine again, though…so WIN!
• Friday: when my alarm first went off at
8:30am, I reset it and kept hitting snooze until it was 9:40 and then I
finally got up. I ran to the store and got the kitties some more food
and then got gas and then back home. I changed into
my running attire and headed out for what I hoped would be a
semi-fast-paced 5K run. It was a good run, comfortably hard the whole
time. I know that I could have pushed myself faster, but I’m not sure
about the minute per mile faster that I would need to
drop in order to hit my goal 5K time of 26:41 minutes. I know with
time and work and practice that I can and will happen, so I’m not
worried about it at the moment.
I’m not going to go over my eating in these Saturday posts anymore since I’m doing the WIAW posts now.
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