Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on March 10th, 2007 in Training, Weight Loss
This week I was in FL on a business trip. My original intention was to make this an easy week as I think I was a bit overtrained. I ended up not running at all and eating everything in sight. It’s really tough to maintain a diet and exercise program while traveling as your whole routine is turned upside down.
I’m actually not as upset as I thought I might have been. Just as I think it’s good to have cheat days when dieting, I think it was good for me to have a cheat week. I’ve been running quite a bit since the start of the year and now that I took a week off, I’m ready to refocus and get back into my routine.
Having registered for my marathon is also helping me focus even more. I now have a definitive goal to work towards. I’m the kind of person that needs that target to work towards. That goal to focus all my energy.
My marathon training plan starts on April 22nd. I have a 5K race on April 1st. My goal for between now and April 22nd is to run at least 35 miles each week, run at least one 40-mile week in March and one 45-mile week in April.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on March 7th, 2007 in Races
My registration for my first marathon is in. Today I signed up for the Chicago Marathon on October 7th. I also booked and paid for the hotel. My family and I will be staying at the Essex Inn which is 0.25 miles from the start and finish.
My original plan was to run the Dallas marathon in December, but as I started getting closer to planning my marathon training, I decided on the Chicago marathon for the following reasons:
- I wanted a flat course. The Dallas marathon is a net zero-elevation course, but it still has some hills. After my experience in a recent 10K with some hills, I would rather run on a flat course for now.
- Chicago is a huge marathon and I figured being at a bigger even with more spectators would help me through my first marathon.
- I’m started to get anxious about actually starting my marathon training plan and now I get to start 2 months earlier.
I’m hoping to be able to run it under 4 hours, but I’ll work out a target time as my training progresses.
This is the first major step on the road to the Boston Marathon!
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on March 1st, 2007 in Training, Weight Loss
This has been a mixed month for me. On the running side, I think I did pretty well. My goal was to reach 35 mpw and I did that, running 2 weeks at that level. It did take its toll though and I’ve been very tired lately….I just don’t have a lot of energy on my recent runs. I ran a total of 130 miles for the month, averaging 32 mpw.
I’m going to start March off with a rest week next week. Not total rest, but I’d be surprised if I even reach 20 miles for the week. I’ll be on a business trip and my hope is when I return, I’ll be refreshed and re-energized. Once I get back home, I’ll see if I get run at least one 40-mile week during March, but more importantly, I hope to introduce one speed workout each week. I have another 5K race on April 1st and I’d like to put in a good showing.
On the weight loss side, I managed to lose a measly 1-lb. I should have expected that as my eating has been atrocious. I can’t even claim I was on a diet based on what I was eating. Here is an example of what I ate on one particular weekend (Fri through Sun) in the middle of Feb, and these are just the bad foods. I ate other stuff too!:
- An entire large Cadbury’s candy bar
- 3 Arby’s melts and 2 orders of curly fries
- A 1/2 pounder burger and 2 large fries
- An entire bag of Hershey’s kisses
- An entire box of Ritz crackers (yes, 4 ROLLS of crackers)
It’s not pretty!!!
I’m going to make a concerted effort to lose 4lbs in Mar and hit that psychological barrier of 170lbs.
