It’s a busy weekend coming up and the end of the baseball season. MGirl has her team’s grand final on Sunday, and our Club is playing in 3 finals across the day so it is action packed. We also have the season launch for MGirl’s state netball team, so Sunday will be a busy day.
Thursday morning I woke up and decided it should be a day off as I’d cycled on my last day off of Sunday and I was feeling tired. I decided, in light of it being St Patrick’s Day, that I should do something to boost my social life and went up to the Mundaring Hotel (actually went to the Mundaring Weir Hotel first and realised I’d gone way too far as the lights were out and no one was home!) and listen to a friend’s duo perform Irish music. I dreamt of meeting a lovely Irish lad, but alas that wasn’t to be. I did have a great time with a couple of girlfriends and really enjoyed the Irish music. It took me back to my childhood where I grew up listening to the Clancy Brothers, my father’s favourite band. I love, love, love Irish music and was glad I made the effort even if I didn’t find the Lad! I even managed to get home before 11.00pm, but I had to sit up until 11.45pm to collect MGirl from the train station after her own outing for her first St Patrick’s Day.
When the alarm went off at 5.30am, I oh so wanted to ignore it. I had been so happy that I’d stayed on program (pretty much) all this week and that was enough to drag my tired self up. I obviously was tired though because when I’d finished running and was checking off the program on the fridge I noticed I was supposed to run 8.5km and in my head all the way around I was running 7.5km for some reason. I put it down to the fog enveloping my brain. Well, at least I went!
I am at a loss to figure out why I can’t seem to shift any more kgs; over the last couple of months my weight has been stable. I can see my body changing slightly but I really want to drop another 5kgs before the race. Our diet is quite healthy and I try not to snack too much between meals. Breakfast is usually muesli or toast and marmite and a coffee. Lunch is almost always a small tin of tuna, a row of rice crackers and a tub of yoghurt, along with a couple of pieces of fruit over the day. Sometimes I am naughty and have a small piece of cake at morning tea at work, but that certainly isn’t every day. Dinner at home is usually some meat, or chicken, or fish and a salad or some veggies. We eat lots of wraps and salad-type meals. I occasionally buy a tub of ice cream at shopping, maybe once every 3 months. The only biscuits I buy are plain ones; we don’t keep chips or anything like that in the house. I had thought that the weight would still keep coming off, but it isn’t. I know I am replacing fat with muscle, but I still need to get lighter. Short of depriving myself of calories (which is hard as the more you exercise the hungrier you become) I am not sure what to do next. I will have to do some more research I guess. Perhaps go back to that book I started ages ago, that seemed to dry, called Racing Weight.
I’ve also rewritten my program starting next week, just changed the days around. As my runs during the week are getting longer and the days are getting shorter, I’ve changed my rest day from Sunday to Monday. Now I can make use of both days over the weekend when I have more free time, and maybe Monday I can sleep in until 7am. I do find I am constantly running tired, and that is only going to increase. Hopefully when I update you on Monday I can report that I’ve run over 42kms this week. Looking ahead at the program this morning, including a light “rest-week”, in 3 weeks time my total will be up over 50kms a week and the distances will really start to grow over the next two months. Finally…I’m still feeling like a jogger some days.
I don't think that you are eating enough for the amount of exercise you are doing and that is probably why you aren't losing weight. Your body is holding onto what it has to protect itself. I would eat a bigger breakfast (cereal and toast and fruit) and add a little more carbs to your diet. See, I did read your blog this week! xxx
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