Good week!

I've had a decent week so far and kept up with my running! It felt good to do the 5 miles on Wednesday and a nice 3-miler yesterday.

7 miles tomorrow which is a bigger challenge but I've done 8 and 9 milers in the last 2 Sundays so I should hopefully be ok!

Have a good weekend all!

Still on track!

I had my first minor setback yesterday all though I don't see it as a setback. I've always read and been told "LISTEN to your body" so when I set out for my 3 mile run yesterday I really wasn't feeling it. I ended up doing 2 miles instead of 3.

With that being said today I was back on track with the scheduled 5 miler which I completed in 53:42 which is a fairly decent time, about 10:40 per mile. It feels good to have midweek break in the running on a Thursday because it doesn't seem so monotonous that way. Gym session tomorrow, 3 miles on Friday and 7 miles on Sunday. Should be easy-peasy (Hoping I haven't jinxed myself).

Ploughing on!

Another 3lbs lost!

I'm waking up this Monday morning with my body aching all over the place. It's with no doubt due to my 9 mile run yesterday which I found much tougher than the 8 mile run last week! I was very pleased to finish the 9 miles without stopping even if the last couple of miles were slow.

I then weighed myself to found I lost another 3lbs last week which is pleasing as I was very strict with my diet. That's about ½ stone lost now in 3 weeks so I hope I can keep this going. I'm going to try and be strict again this week even though I have a meal out on Friday and Sunday.

Loosing all the weight makes the aching more bearable! I'll also pass 250 total miles this week which is a bit of a milestone!

2 weeks down - 5½ months to go!

I set a goal 2 weeks a go to not eat crisps or chocolate for 6 months. Today makes in 2 weeks success!

I've not really struggled as much as I thought all though the temptation has been there. If the remaining time is as easy as these 2 weeks have been, I should be able to achieve my goal no problems.

Great run, great progress and new weigh-in

Today has been an excellent day.

I ran 8 miles but felt good doing it. The first mile was very slow - around 12 minutes as I wanted to pace myself but after that I upped the pace and even managed a 9 minute mile on my 7th mile of the run. I also overcame a stitch around 3 miles and so I'm very pleased. It's the first time I've manage to finish stronger than I started and I'd like all my runs to carry on that pattern if I can.

The only negative from the run is bloody nipples and a rash where I wear my iPhone to track the run but it hasn't bothered me too much.

When I got back, as I told you a few days ago I wanted to weigh myself to start tracking my weight again and I was pleasantly surprised to weigh in at 197.5lbs - the lightest I've been in years! Let's hope I can keep loosing weight and keep upping the distances. More days like today please!

Protein shakes

I've been going to the gym with my mate Mark who is a man mountain for about a month or so. The training is very intense and so I am now doing this 1 time per week to couple my running. It's weight lifting focusing on shoulders, arms, chest and stomach muscles and I'm hoping I can tone these up along side my running training.

The owner of the gym is a bit of an expert (he's a bodybuilder) and so I explained my marathon training scheme and my diet etc. and he suggested I don't eat enough protein. He therefore suggested protein shakes to supplement my diet. I've decided to give it a go.

I'll let you know if I feel a difference.

All the best

Erik

Weight progress

As some of you eagle-eyed readers have spotted - I haven't updated my weight progress in a while. I intend to start updating it again. I was thinking every Sunday after my run would be a good time to do it as it's at the end of the week once I've done all my exercises for the week. I shall start this Sunday... I'm a bit worried as I have slacked off recently and so hopfully I'm not too far over 200lbs (14st 4lbs).

-Erik