[Today’s run: 1 mile with the dog]
My running is pretty pitiful these days. Last year at this time I was neck deep in my marathon training program, doing something like 40 miles a week. (I could look it up if you really want to know.)
After my marathon in late October I didn’t do much of anything for about a month. When I finally got back out on the road I had gained 20 lbs. I’ve been out 3-5 days a week since then except for 10 days when we were in Colorado. And I’m even heavier now. Which is depressing. Do I have to run an hour and a half every day in order to get my weight under control? That sure seems excessive. Something is definitely excessive!
Anyway, I turn 50 in November and I’ve thought about trying for a 50 minute 10k sometime in my 51st year. I ran 54:54 last August in a trail 10k. I ought to be able to trim at least a little bit off of that, I would hope. And I was training for a marathon then, so if I trained specifically for a 10k maybe I could get down below 53 minutes. 50 minutes is probably out of reach for me. But who know what I could do if I weighed 160 instead of 190+.
If I’m going to run I need to get a goal of some sort or the current trend is going to put an end to the whole idea of running. So even if I just ran another 55 minute 10k that would be better than where I’m headed right now.
I am going to have to completely change my feelings about food. At some few times in the past I have been able to shift from eat = good to eat = bad or at least eat = indifferent. Right now I am stuck in a pattern of if-you-don’t-have-anything-else-to-do-find-something-to-eat. That ain’t workin’!
Maybe someday we will be able to call this double-chin guy the “before picture”.
