Had a great run last night after getting home from the chiropractor. Went straight home changed into my cloths while my wonderful wife was doing laundry and had dinner almost made. I opted to skip dinner and eat after my run. Doesn't help I got home at 6:30PM and didn't want to eat and run at 8 pm.
Got out for the run it was nice and cool with the wind blowing. My damaged toe was still hurting just a little bit. But these new Brooks BEAST shoes helped me to not feel a thing. They are a bit on the heavy side for a running shoe, but they are motion controlled and more suited towards runners over 200 lbs... well guess what... thats me. Plus I am flat footed and I seem to supinate, when most flat footed people pronate. Ya I am weird... what else is new.
Anyways back to the run. I am running in intervals 3 min run 90 second walk then a 5 min run and a 2.5 min walk and repeat for a total of 16 mins running and 14 mins of walking. Second lap of the park near me the sun came out and my sweat started to pour out of me. But it felt good, a little burning on the bottom of the feet and slowed down after hitting my max heart rate alarm on the second 5 min run. Had to actually run past my house this time and down the road that seemed a bit weird to me.
Got home, showered, ate and helped my wife bring the laundry up stairs. Downloaded my Garmin Forerunner profile to find that I actually averaged 7.1 km/hr instead of my normal 6.7km/hour and I totaled 3.5 km instead of the normal 3 km. So I am seeing some progress after a week of setbacks. Very nice and it came fairly easy. Ok I had to push through a few spots but I have to do this with every run.
Had an average heart rate of 140 BPM with a max of 170. I get an alarm at 167 BPM, so when I hear it I know I need to back down just a bit. I don't want to exceed my 80% max heart rate when working out. For me if I keep to 80% or under I can maintain longer endurance even when on the bike. I am all about the zone work outs. Althought I don't think I truely understand them. The more I read about eating properly, weight loss and exercise the more I realize everyone is different and no one really knows the true answers. Being the dorky Engineering guy I am, I have been collecting data on Weight, Calories consumed, calories burned, work out vs food in etc etc etc... and I have yet to find a true formula of what is working properly. I hit a plateau for a few weeks, then last week didn't exercise as much and ate like complete crap for a day. I felt horrible that afternoon and the next day like a calorie hang over or something. Then got right back on track Ate clean and even cut back just a bit more on calories ensuring I was on my low side of my weight loss intake, about 1800 calories for a few days and bam I dropped another 2 lbs. Weird, It might be part of the yo-yo or zig zag diet plan. I was trying that before and it didn't work. Eat 1800-2000 calories a day for 2 days then eat 2200 on the third then three days at 1800-2000 and on the 4th 2400 calories. Trying to trick your metabolism into not slowing down. Well it didn't work for me so I went back to 1800-2000 calories and only spiking or should I say not caring so much about food one day a week.
I have been reading that is possible I dropped my leptin in my body from eating a lower carb diet. More about this and thoughts on this next time.
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