A Few Thousand Steps Right

Monday, February 11, 2013

Milestone today, more on that in the exercise section.

After a week of just plain binge eating it's past time to get refocused.  Looking ahead this should be a good week to do it and it would be nice to correct some of the damage.  I've done a little thinking and tweaked some goals -- for now I really need to focus on getting myself together.  I think I had been looking too far ahead and was getting ahead of where I am.  The human brain, how does it work.

Breakfast:  Bowl of vegetable beef soup, coffee

Not the best batch I've ever made.
A bit rushed and definitely underseasoned.

The next couple of days will be soup intensive.  Due to time limitations I had to put the soup in the fridge and not in the freezer, which means that I have to eat it up relatively quick.  That probably means two soups a day today and tomorrow.

Lunch: 3 egg omelet with bacon, cream cheese and avocado; sausage; coffee

I should really look up just how many calories some of this stuff has.

Dinner:  Bowl of vegetable beef soup, about 1 oz of potato chips

This is not a repeat.  Really.

As always, the moral of the story is don't have junk food around the house or it will be eaten.

Exercise:  C25K Week 6, Day 3.  Also known as "the day when **** gets real".  No more intervals, it's just straight jogging.  22 minutes straight today.  I did the usual loop, the pedometer said only 3.25 miles in 55 minutes today, not sure what was different other than more jogging.  I guess I didn't have to dodge much traffic but still that's a fairly significant difference.

Conditions were decent - low 40s, roads mostly clear.  Windy, although I didn't really notice it too much.  Nobody else was out other than one lone dog walker.

I would say that it went okay.  The first couple of blocks sucked, then I got into a decent groove.  Route turned uphill about 14 minutes in and that was not fun.  The last incline toward the finish also wasn't enjoyable and the pace slowed to a crawl.  LOL me.  I might have to drive the route to see how far I managed to go, but I'm fairly confident it was about a mile and a half, maybe just a hair more.  Whatever it was that's the furthest I have "run" in quite a few years.  Lots of room for improvement is all.

Physically feeling OK so far.  Knee braces are helping.  Upper thighs were actually the most fatigued area,  doing a lot of work pushing this much weight forward.

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