General Jackassery

Now that the Holidays have past it’s time to get my nose back to the grind stone. I haven’t slowed down on the running and excercise part of “Operation Svelte,” but I have pretty much left my nutrition for dead. My goal was to get through the holidays and not gain any weight. I came very close to accomplishing that goal, I made it through the last three weeks of Holiday cookies, candy and feast and only netted a one pound gain on the scales.

When I went into LA Weight Loss to find this out I was pretty satisfied considering what I have been eating. That said I was ready to turn on the burners again and watch the scale start falling. So I’ve mostly been back on plan for a couple of days now. I’ve added a few extra carbs to the diet so I could sustance the distances that I’m running now and when I went in on Friday to find out what the damage was I had lost 7 lbs. As of Friday afternoon I’m as light as I’ve been since 1995 when my Driver’s License said I weighed 258. On Friday was done to 240. That’s 20 lbs away from my official goal and 30 lbs away from my unofficial goal of 210 lbs. I have lost a total of 38 lbs since the start at the end of October and I’m down 56 lbs from my all time heaviest.

On the excercise side of things. I completed a 9 mile run on Monday of last week. It was the longest I’ve ever run in my entire life. I signed up for the Nashville Resolution Run on Monday. It was only a 5k so I ran the course twice before the race started and then ran it a third time after that and set a personal best for 5k run of 27 min 24 secs. In other words I ran the last 3.1 miles of a 9 mile run at an average pace of 8 min 51 secs per mile. Needless to say I’m pretty thrilled with that. But if that wasn’t enough I set another personal distance record today.

For the first time in my life I’ve run a distance in the double digits. I complete a 10 mile run in 1 hr 34 min and 2 secs. If you don’t care to do the math that’s a pace of 9 min 24 secs per mile. 10 FREAKIN’ MILES!

This week is a step back week, so no personally records as I’ll be giving my body some much needed recovery time and not running as far, but next week will bring a new distace record and the following week, we’ll travel to Callaway Gardens to run a Half-Marathon with Brian. I’m really looking forward to that.

Oh by the way, when I got on the scale after the run I weighed in at 235. I couldn’t tell you when I saw a number that low on the scale.