The Sunday triathlon, plus the weight issue
Of sorts — ran 5.5 miles this morning, then rowed around the CP lake for an hour this afternoon (at Missy’s urging), and then finally took the bike out for a quick 12-mile, two-lap CP ride this evening. Sure beats the old triathlon of eating, drinking and watching TV.
The run was generally good except for a bit of right shoulder pain that I’ve been getting lately at the 2 or 3 mile mark. I was keeping a pace right under 9 minutes. The rowing thing was more fun than I’d care to admit, and a cheap date at $12 for an hour. Yes it’s touristy, but the views are nice and it is very calming. It’s like the CP carousel - I could see it becoming a 1-2 times per year sort of thing we do.
The bike ride was frustrating. I decided to go all-out on the first lap to try to go sub-20 minutes on the new bike for the first time (that’d be an 18-mph pace, which I did a couple of times on the old hybrid), but I ended up at 21 minutes according to the CNN clock. I just did one more lap at a deliberately slower pace (24 mins) and gave up for the night.
In the meantime, since this is the one place where I’m keeping a journal and readers are few & far between, I’ll post about my weight so that I can refer to it in the future. My weight right after today’s run (yes I know, I should weigh myself when I wake up every time just for consistency) was 176. On 1/1/09 I weighed about 182 or 183, so the running & biking is beginning to make a difference. 176 is also exactly my lowest weight last August, right before we went to London for vacation. In 2008 I pretty much took the fall off from doing anything productive, and I can’t do that this year.
My goal for 9/13/09 (the date of the 2009 NYC Century) is to be at or below 170, with 160 my goal for the NYCM 2010 date. Of course, 170 was also my goal weight for 2008, and that didn’t exactly pan out.
I haven’t yet really done anything different with diet though of course I will need to do that as well. I will likely go the vegetarian route again this summer — that really did a lot for me in 2007 when I dropped about 30 pounds. 160 in 19 months might be too ambitious but 170 this year is not. Even if the pounds are harder to shed once the most egregious body fat is gone, it really is just regularly increasing the exercise level while not overdoing it on the calories in. 170 is six pounds from current, and 9/13/09 is just a shade under six months away. That’s a pound a month, 3200 fewer calories digested per month, 800 fewer calories per week, or 110 per day. That’s not even a cookie a day. I can do that.
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