I am doing what I always do when I have had a bad go of the food: avoiding the blog. I ate terribly this weekend. I don’t want to make excuses for it. If I don’t eat better, I won’t lose weight. period. This past weekend will definitely not help with any forward progress I hope to make in terms of long term weight loss goals. Instead of putting the bad food at the end of the blog today, it’s going right up front (but please read to the end because there was definitely some good that came of this weekend). I have to own it:
- Friday: I honestly cannot remember what I ate on Friday. I think it was oatmeal and almonds, a wrap, and a panini. The one thing I know I ate: medium blizzard from Dairy Queen (this is when the weekend took the turn for the worst.
- Saturday
- B: peanut butter toast
- L: original chick-fil-a sandwich and fries (no mayo though)
- D: spinach dip and spinach sandwich (this was a lot of spinach) and 1/4 of M’s club sandwich; 1/2 brownie and ice cream dessert; 4 miller lites
- Sunday
- L: Jimmy John’s beach club and BBQ chips
- D: sausage and mushroom pizza from Pizza King
I guess the food wasn’t as awful as it could have been. M and I have decided no more ice cream (at least the non-WW kind) for at least a month.
Now, on to the good news. I ran the 15k Training Series run this weekend. M’s roommate Pam car pooled with me again. If you will recall, for the 10k I ran the first 2 miles with her and then I did the rest on my own. In that race, I said, “You can go ahead, I’m going to walk” and I walked for a quarter mile. I also walked a few other times in that race. (My time and pace for that race: 1:02:17 and 10:02). Well, this time I ran the first 3 miles with her and instead of saying I’m going to walk, I said, “I’m going to slow down.” I’m pretty sure that this just gave her the go ahead to go faster while I maintained the same speed. I should also say that for this race I did not where my Garmin Forerunner 205, which I usually wear and watch like a hawk, nor did I run with my iPod. Unlike the actual Mini Marathon, there is no entertainment along the routes for the training series. However, I found the lack of technology made me race better. I listend to my body (only walked through the water stations this time), only paid attention to time every mile when it was on the mile marker (and I was amazingly consistent!), and best news of all: I increased my per mile pace from the 10k.
My overall time was 1:32:49 which is a 9:51 pace!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ended up 67/168 in the F25-29 division, which I’m pretty happy with. My overall Mini Marathon time last year was 2:34:22, an 11:47 pace. If I can do the first 15k of the mini at my training run pace and do the last 4 miles in anything short of an hour I can beat my last year pace. I’d like to do the Mini Marathon in around 2:11, which would be a 10:00 minute per mile pace. I am feeling much more confident about the likelihood of this now after the 15k.
Yay! I’m so proud of your awesome run! You’re going to do great in the mini!
Me, on the other hand…I’m having doubts I can even do it, and if I do, it’s gonna be rough. I feel very much in shape, but my asthma has gotten horrible. I’ve never felt anything like it…when I’m running, it’s like my chest is going to split in half. I’m going to the doctor on Friday because the inhaler I have is not helping at all. Keep your fingers crossed, say a prayer for me, whatever…I’m on the verge of tears over it all.
I’m glad you are back! I haven’t been the best about keeping up and when I see your return it makes me kick my butt into gear.
Anyways, I’m glad your run was so good even if the food wasn’t. You are still doing awesome.
That’s great that your pace is getting faster!
And good luck getting back on track with the sensible eating. I think it’s more important to acknowledge mistakes and keep trying than to pretend they didn’t happen or give up because of imperfect weekends. Glad to see you’re keeping it in perspective!