Hello – long time no speak!
To get you up to speed with my workouts, I can tell you that I haven’t really done anything so far this week. Besides my two workouts last week, I also managed another two runs.
I did a nice three mile run on Friday.
Mile 2: 8:34 min/mile
Mile 3: 8.23 min.mile
Total time: 25:59 minutes [I did a little bit over the three miles which is why the time doesn’t quite add up].
It was a really good run – all miles were around the 8.30 minute/mark and negative splits to boot! This was really speedy for me. I usually get at least one mile during a run at a sub-9.00 minute mile pace, but I have never managed to get every mile at a fast pace – until now. I am really quite impressed with myself, especially as I didn’t actually check my Garmin once during the run. I just went all out and looked at my stats at the end. It felt good but I was knackered at the end.
On Saturday I did a five mile run. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to do any exercise on Sunday and Monday due to travelling, so I decided to run two days in a row. As I am prone to shin splints this is something I never do but luckily it worked out fine and I didn’t have any problems.
This run was a little slower than my last run but still respectable for me.
Mile 1: 9.21 min/mile
Mile 2: 9.09 min/mile
Mile 3: 8.48 min/mile
Mile 4: 9.26 min/mile
Mile 5: 8.57 min/mile
Total time: 45:44 minutes [I did a little bit over the five miles which is why the time doesn’t quite add up].
My pace was all over the place with this run. I blame the fact that I was tired from running the day before, I started to get a stitch at mile 4 and it was hot. I’ll take it though.
Food-wise I have been doing pretty well. Usually being away from home is a bit of a trigger for me to overeat but I’ve been okay. Travelling on Sunday, I ate according to my appetite and only had healthy food. Monday, I was again successful at eating for my appetite although I did end the day with some Reeces Peanut Butter cups – yum!
On Tuesday [yesterday], I ate pretty healthily and would only consider the scoop of Ben & Jerry’s low fat frozen yoghurt I had as being not so healthy. However, I think I overate. I was doing well all day, eating mostly healthy stuff and not feeling full but after I ate dinner I felt stuffed. It was a big healthy plate of vegetable mezze from Whole Foods but there must have been too much of it. I didn’t get the bloated, stomach gurgling feeling I usually get from binges and when I woke up this morning I felt hungry, as opposed to sick or bloated, so perhaps it wasn’t so bad. I don’t know. I do know that I seem to have developed a new stretch mark patch on my stomach though – what joy!
I am off work for the rest of the week, so my goal is to get some exercise [I’m thinking a six mile run both today and Friday and an eight mile run on Sunday] but it will have to be flexible to accommodate any trips or days out that we may do. I am also trying to be mindful of how much I eat and to not over do it. I am really trying hard not to overeat and that is my main focus at the moment.
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