The Week That Was: Weight Management & Running

So much for being stuck: I got my "make up" week weight-wise to compensate for my results last week. It was a light week running-wise as I recovered from the Shamrock'n Half Marathon.

Starting off with Weight Management, I hit a new low for the week twice: Thursday (172.6) and Saturday (171.4). Will be interesting to see if this is a sign that I'm almost done or if I'll struggle to beat that weight for a month.

It was a light week for exercise as I was resting up from my run. I only burned 2581 calories but ate back 2369 calories to finish 212 calories below target. If you add that to my targeted ½ pound loss, and I mathematically should have lost 0.6 pounds. Here are my actual results:

	Avg	Min	Max	Last	Avg H20	Avg Fat
03/11-03/18	174.5	173.2	176.0	174.0	98.5	39.5
03/18-03/25	173.1	171.4	174.6	173.6	98.3	38.3
	-1.4	-1.8	-1.4	-0.4	-0.2	-1.2

As you can see, my numbers were quite a bit lower than last week's, but since last week's were up over the previous, I think this was just an evening out. I haven't had much of an additional deficit the past two weeks, so I'm not expecting much out of next week.

As for my Lose It challenge regarding minutes spent walking, jogging, and running in March (goal of 2000 minutes), I made better progress than expected in my recovery week (gained a number of extra minutes from walking). I finished the week at 1606 minutes (394 shy of the goal). In a typical week I walk and run 380 minutes, so if I just pick up an additional 14, I'll complete this challenge. There's a bit of rain in the forecast for the week, so to be safe, I'll probably try to get a few extra walking minutes in early. I'd be very surprised if I don't hit 2000 minutes.

Moving onto running, I took Monday and Tuesday off to rest after the half. I planned to do 2-3.5 miles on Wednesday and was happy to finish the 3.5 miles. I did another 3.5 on Thursday, and then did my normal 8 on Saturday. I had thoughts of doing another 3.5 on Sunday (I'd like to get to where I run both days on the weekend) to make up for the missed miles during the week, but I was a bit sore after Saturday and thought it better to rest. Here's my mileage for the week:

M	T	W	R	F	S	S
		3.67	3.86		8.38
Total Mileage: 15.91

I came up just a bit short of my goal of 16 miles:

Miles Ran 16 Mile Goal Miles to Max

Here's a look at my progress towards my goal of 800 miles ran this year:

Previous This Week 800 Miles 1000 Miles

I've completed 226.32 miles so far this year and am on track to complete 995 miles in 2013. I expect to return to doing my two 5 milers during the week, and I'm planning on doing 10 miles on Saturday. That'll be my last long run before the Sac Town 10 Miler on the following Sunday.