The Week That Was: Weight Management & Running

January has come and went, and now we're in February. The first month of the year was a successful one for me in regards to my weight management and running goals, and I'm looking forward to having similar success in this month.

Starting off with Weight Management, I had a cold (minor case of the flu?) at the start of the week, and it affected my ability to exercise, so I only burned 1874 calories in the past week. Of those, I ate back 368 thus ended the week 1506 calories below budget. Add that deficit to my targeted ½ pound loss, and I mathematically should have lost 0.9 pounds. Here are my actual results:

	Avg	Min	Max	Last	Avg H20	Avg Fat
01/21-01/28	177.1	176.0	178.0	177.8	98.8	41.6
01/28-02/04	176.6	175.6	178.0	178.0	98.9	41.0
	-0.5	-0.4	0.0	+0.2	+0.1	-0.6

Since I lost more than expected the past couple weeks, I'm not surprised that this week's actual results were below mathematical expectation. I still hit my ½ pound loss, and that's the important thing.

Moving onto running, as I mentioned before, I exercised less this week due to illness and not surprisingly had my lowest mileage of any week this year. I could have done more miles, but I saved myself for the Super Bowl Sunday Run, and if you read yesterday's post, you'd know that turned out to be a good decision. My week of running ended like this:

M	T	W	R	F	S	S
			5.18			6.25
Total Mileage: 11.43

I didn't hit my 16 miles for the week, but I expected there'd be weeks like this. I more than made up the miles in the previous weeks this year, and I expect to be over up until the week before the Shamrock'n Half Marathon. Here's the graphical view of the week:

Miles Ran Short of Goal 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 95.33 miles in 2013, and if I keep up that pace, I'll end the year with 1023 miles. As I've said before, I think that number will drop once I've gotten past the Shamrock'n Half Marathon although it dropped a bit this week due to the light week.

With six weeks to go until the half marathon, I think I'm going to target a long run of 9 miles this weekend, 11 next, 8-9 the following, 12 after that, and then 6-8 on the weekend prior to the half. I think that's the best way for me to be where I need to be on March 17.