Dear James, Daniel and Emily
Today's Run
Had a successful vacation from work as far as fitness was concerned. Got in all of my scheduled runs. Plus threw in some basketball at the family barbecue (once again outlasting the teenagers).
Thursday morning I returned from my recovery period from the 10 mile race. Got in a smooth 5 miles, with some speed intervals. It felt good, although I did get a stitch in my side at one point that I had to just slow done and jog through.
Saturday morning I took James along on my 30 minute/3 mile run. I wanted to give him a taste of what I do on my runs, since he is so competitive and always asks why I don't do better as far as where I place in my races etc. So I figured the best way to show him was for him to see how far he could go. He actually did better than I expected, made it past 2 miles before he had to slow to a walk, then was able to run out the last leg. He really is a natural runner, and I think he actually would have run faster had he known where he was going and there was more light. Since he has decided to not play soccer this fall we are looking at enrolling him in the running club at school (assuming it is on again this year).
Sunday I stretched myself. Ran 8 miles. My plan is to add 1 mile each week on these Sunday runs until the half marathon on Labor Day. I won't have run 13 miles, but I will at least be conditioned for a long run when the race comes. And if my 10 mile run was any example I think that once I get out there I can just keep going past my accustomed stopping point.
Today I actually focused on getting to 6 miles at my normal race pace. Instead of just taking it slow I pushed it once I got past the big hill so I could make up the time I lost there. And I felt real good about it when I finished. Of course it is still odd to me that a 5-6 mile run has become closer to my normal base line for distance, but that's a good thing.
Diet
I was actually pretty good about this over the time off. I could have been a lot worse. It helps that we are really focusing on eating at home so we didn't do a lot of eating out. But today I am back to the calorie counting and plan to stick with that for a while, and do my measurements on Saturday morning, along with an 'official' weight baseline. Of course it could be that I won't be able to knock much off, but I sure would like to, or at least get some of the inches off my belly.
The other big thing about the time off was I made it through the time without any diet soda's. And I have noticed one interesting thing. If we go to a fast food place where I get soda, and I get s regular soda, I fill up faster, and am less likely to want more food. Which is really what should happen, pretty much any meal you get at a fast food restaurant should be enough for a healthy adult anyway, so if it doesn't fill you up, that's an issue. So if I can keep up that feeling of being full just by drinking regular soda I am moving in the right direction. All of which is an indirect way of saying I found an unexpected side effect of not drinking diet soda.
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