The Week That Was: Weight Management & Running

Another week is in the books, and it was a good week for both weight management and running. Although weight management was aided a bit by what was a poor decision.

Starting off with Weight Management, I was under my calorie target every day but Sunday (I was just 180 over on Sunday but had planned to be more). I burned 3,230 calories during the week and finished 2,537 calories below my target calories based on a ½ pound a week loss (so I ate back 693 of the calories I burned which is the least I've eaten back so far). Add that deficit to my targeted ½ pound loss, and I mathematically should have lost 1.2 pounds. Here are my actual results:

	Avg	Min	Max	Last	Avg H20	Avg Fat
01/07-01/14	179.6	178.2	180.6	180.0	99.2	43.4
01/14-01/21	178.2	175.8	180.0	175.8	98.9	42.6
	-1.4	-2.4	-0.6	-4.2	-0.3	-0.8

Once again my results were quite good. However, like I mentioned above, they were aided by a bad decision. Sunday was NFL Conference Championship Sunday, and I had planned to go well over target on Sunday with beer and food. Well, I may have overdone it with beer and didn't end up eating dinner (saving me some calories). Also since beer dehydrates, I believe my "last" weight (today's) was probably 2 pounds less than expected. That two pounds would have a roughly 0.3 pound impact on my average weight. This will likely result in my next week's numbers not looking as good as they actually are. And I certainly don't expect to see my weight go below 175.8 next week and perhaps not for a month.

Moving onto running, it was a good week of running as I set a new long for the year (which wasn't the plan: I just felt so good during the run that I continued going) Here's a look at my mileage for the week:

M	T	W	R	F	S	S
5.20		4.75	3.68		9.40
Total Mileage: 23.03

I'm certainly happy with how the week went. I juggled my running schedule a bit to have dinner with my wife on Tuesday. I thought the back-to-back days closer to the long run might impact it, but with the distance and speed (9:44 minutes/mile) I had during it, that definitely wasn't the case. Here's a graphical look at the miles for the week:

Miles Ran 16 Mile Goal Miles to Max

I set a goal of 800 miles ran this year, and here's a look at my progress towards that:

Previous This Week 800 Miles 1000 Miles

I've completed 64.54 miles in 2013, and if I keep up that pace, I'll end the year with 1178 miles. As I've said before, I think that number will drop once I've gotten past the Shamrock'n Half Marathon. My biggest concern now is not to overdo it in advance of the half marathon and hopefully to not peak too soon.