The Week That Was: Weight Management & Running

I knew it would happen eventually, but it never makes sense when it does: even though I've stuck to my calorie budget the past two weeks, my average weight went up week over week. Emotionally, it was a good week for that to happen as my excitement and feeling of accomplishment from the Shamrock'n Half Marathon well overshadowed my disappointment of going up in weight.

Starting off with Weight Management, I had a rough start to the week as my weight expectantly jumped a couple pounds and that increase stuck around for a few days. I burned 3618 calories but ate back 2957 calories (purposely as I wanted to be at "full strength" for the half marathon). I ended with a 661 calorie deficit and if you add that to my targeted ½ pound loss, and I mathematically should have lost 0.7 pounds. Here are my actual results:

	Avg	Min	Max	Last	Avg H20	Avg Fat
03/04-03/11	174.1	173.0	176.4	176.4	98.6	38.9
03/11-03/18	174.5	173.2	176.0	174.0	98.5	39.5
	+0.4	+0.2	-0.4	-2.4	-0.1	+0.6

Looking for the sliver lining, my max and last weights were lower this week than last which does make me optimistic about next week.

As a side note, I did my health check at work this past week, and the fat percentage measuring device at work put my body fat percentage at 18.0% whereas my scale at home tends to have it around 22.5%. I'm not sure which is more accurate (if either), but it does suggest that I might not be as "fat" as the numbers above state.

My Lose It challenge regarding minutes spent walking, jogging, and running in March continues, and I continue to make progress towards the 2000 minutes goal. I have completed 1206 minutes so far which is 256 minutes ahead of my "expected" 950. My expected minutes would put me 290 below the goal, so I've nearly made up 90% of the difference. However, I expect this upcoming week to be on the light side. However, it can't be too light if I want to have the opportunity to nail this one next week.

Moving onto running, I had a bit of a situation on my second run of the week (planned to be five miles) and had to cut the run short. I wasn't too concerned, and as I did want to go light this week, it may have turned out for the best. Here's my mileage for the week:

M	T	W	R	F	S	S
5.43		2.09				13.17
Total Mileage: 20.69

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 210.41 miles so far this year (surpassing the 200 mile mark) and am on track to complete 1011 miles in 2013. I'm not sure how much running I'll be doing this week since I'll be recovering from the half marathon, but I can't recover for too long as I'm signed up to run a ten miler in 3 weeks. My hope is to do 2-3 miles before the weekend, 6 on the weekend, and then back to two 5s and an 8 next week. We will see.