The Week That Was: Weight Management & Running

It was a recovery week for me in regards to running, but even still, I had a good week keeping to my calorie budget and still managed to get in the miles needed to keep me on track for my yearly goal.

Starting off with Weight Management, I had two "over" days during the week, but one of them was just by 30 calories, so that hardly counts. I burned 2621 calories in the past week and ended the week 2097 calories below budget (thus I ate back 524 of my burned calories or less than one-fifth: probably the best I've done percentage-wise this year). Add that deficit to my targeted ½ pound loss, and I mathematically should have lost 1.1 pounds. Here are my actual results:

	Avg	Min	Max	Last	Avg H20	Avg Fat
01/28-02/04	176.6	175.6	178.0	178.0	98.9	41.0
02/04-02/11	175.9	174.2	177.2	175.6	97.7	42.0
	-0.7	-1.4	-0.8	-2.4	-1.2	+1.0

I didn't quite lose the expected amount, but I still lost a good amount. The numbers are a little bizarre this week: my fat weight was up for the first time this year, water weight is down quite a bit, and my ending weight was less than my weekly average (usually my Monday weigh-in is the highest for the week). Well, I'm guessing that my Tuesday weigh-in may be a bit higher than today's. I've never fully trusted the fat/water percentages from the scale, but I do keep an eye on them. Will be interesting to see how next week's numbers look.

Moving onto running, as I mentioned before, this was a recovery week (since I ran the Super Bowl Sunday 10K last Sunday). My speed was a bit slower than typical for these runs, but I think I got a good enough amount of miles in with all things considered:

M	T	W	R	F	S	S
3.38		5.05			9.30
Total Mileage: 17.73

I faded quite a bit at the end of the 9 mile run, but I did do some additional hills near the end, so that wasn't completely unexpected. Looking at my mileage compared to my weekly goal:

Miles Ran 16 Mile Goal Miles to Max

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

Previous This Week 800 Miles 1000 Miles

My first 100 miles of the year are in the books (I've completed 113.06 in 2013), and if I keep up my current pace, I'll end the year with 1006 miles. I'll be doing a couple long runs (11 and 12 miles respectively) over the next three weeks, so I expect that number to climb a bit through the Shamrock'n Half Marathon before starting to drop down.