The Week That Was: Weight Management & Running

Recovery week was over, and it was time to get back to business. My weight management results were disappointing, but I was pleased with my progress in regards to running.

Starting off with Weight Management, I burned 3121 calories in the past week (my most in the past four weeks) and ended the week 1622 calories below budget (so I ate back roughly half of my exercise calories). Add that deficit to my targeted ½ pound loss, and I mathematically should have lost 1.0 pounds. Here are my actual results:

	Avg	Min	Max	Last	Avg H20	Avg Fat
02/04-02/11	175.9	174.2	177.2	175.6	97.7	42.0
02/11-02/18	175.7	174.2	177.2	175.8	98.6	40.6
	-0.2	0.0	0.0	+0.2	+0.9	-1.4

I had a feeling the numbers weren't going to look good and actually expected to have a higher average this week than last, so I was pleased that wasn't the case. I'm pretty disappointed that I had a good week calorie-wise last week and this but didn't really see any results from it. My fat pounds recovered from the increase last week and are now lowered than two weeks ago (or at any point this year).

I'm down 4.2 pounds from the start of the year (looking at average weights). Based on calorie deficits, I should be down 7.0. If I ignore the first week (where I gained 0.6 when I should have dropped 0.9), I'm still 1½ pounds heavier than I should be. So for now, my actual results are averaging to be 75% of expected. The big question is if the problem is my recording or does my body not burn calories at the average rate.

Moving onto running, I completed my new longest run of the year on Saturday and had a good pace of 9:48 minutes/mile. I need to hit 9:10 per mile to beat 2 hours, and I think I'm in good shape to have a chance at that. This past week was my most miles ran in a week since five weeks ago:

M	T	W	R	F	S	S
5.19		5.30			11.41
Total Mileage: 21.90

Looking at my mileage compared to my weekly goal of 16 miles:

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

I've completed 134.96 miles so far this year and am on track to complete 1026 miles in 2013. With four weeks to go until the Shamrock'n Half Marathon, I think I'm in good shape. My 12 mile run in a couple weeks will be my last big checkpoint before the big run.