May 3rd - 5th - Days 10 - 12

May 3rd - 5th - Days 10 - 12

Weight on May 4th 156.5 (missed doing this on the 5th)

Ready for the fast track?

I took a bit of a "holiday" from measuring on the 3rd, but kept my good habits in mind throughout. I trained twice on the 3rd and surely bumped up my intake to account for that. I expect my defecit was still within my range, but it's hard to say that for sure. No worries. I'm certainly not worried anyway. Sorry kids. I haven't been putting time into being strict with this venture recently. I've been eating in line with this "diet" overall, but giving myself a little extra room probably with my overall defecit to this point in mind. I'm happy with my progress so far overall and have learned some things along the way no doubt.

I had a great run on the 4th where I ran 6 miles at my fastest training pace so far. My running continues to improve slowly, but steadily so, my nutrition or "diet" must be working for me. I forgot to weigh myself on the 5th yet again. I just don't care too much about scale weight ultimately aside from a weekly check on Mondays that I'm accustomed to. Weighing daily can be good for some people and too much for others particularly if someone can't keep daily water fluctuations in mind. Always focus on your overall trend over larger periods of time. Think about the stock market and how it "ebbs" and "flows" going up, up, up, and then down, but then up and up again. The occasional "down" is bound to happen and is probably even good for us overall when you think bigger picture.

It's cinco de mayo and san diego is in full support. Pacific Beach was stirring with spring break like energy on our 30 "transition" run today (a short run done immediately after a bike ride to teach the body to run efficiently off a bike ride for triathlon racing). We rode 1:30 so, I trained 2 hours today and burned about 1,600 calories. If I want to have a 750 defecit today, I can eat about 3,580 calories! That would give me an energy supply of 3,580 calories and an energy demand of 4,330 calories. I'm sure I'll get close to that intake today with a few cervezas along with my sound nutrition plan. I'll do my best to keep count of everything that goes in today...

Overall, I plan to keep checking in with this blog for a little longer, but I plan to simplify things and move away from the pb and j centric eating I've been doing to this point after day 14. From there, I'm still going to try to lose the weight I want to for my marathon, but I'm going to move back into my normal eating patterns (with some new great pb and j recipes added to the mix). I'll give you the broad strokes and my weight change so you can see what ended up happening to this project. Stay tuned.