2/21/09 - With A Vengeance

Time: 2:44:03, Resistance Level: 4, Distance: 32.08, Average Speed: 11.74 MPH, Energy Burned: 1685 kcal, Average Pulse: 140 bpm

I missed yesterday's workout. I was really in no condition for it. Even today I found myself wanting to slack off, but I finished at like 10PM.

After having scaled my worknight sessions back to 15-16 miles, I still want to knock out miles like I did at 20/day. After over 30 miles tonight before my feet made me pack it in, I think I have the solution. If I standardize on 30 miles for Friday night and during both weekend days, I'll have even better mileage. That's actually 150 miles a week where I was getting 140 in before.

My pace will be going down some next week. I have to turn the resistance level up on my trainer in order to keep my heart rate deep enough in the 140s that I'm not hawk-eying my watch twice a minute.

I've lost a significant amount of weight so far and I'm sure it will continue. While I track my weight daily and try to keep the same conditions each time, it's something that I understand will only really make sense over the long-term.

I also track what I eat, but I have done no calorie count tallies or anything like that. I have the data stored for post-processing when I've reached a target weight I haven't even decided on yet, but I'm not doing anything with it now. To put too much thought into that part would have me thinking about food a lot more than I should. I'd rather spend brain time thinking about workout stuff instead of the fuel I'm taking in to power it.

Actually, that's why a lot of diets fail--too much emphasis on what or how much you're eating.