{"id":1132,"date":"2011-08-09T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T01:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2011-08-09T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T01:12:40","slug":"running-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Running goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 1 mile with the dog]<\/p>\n

My running is pretty pitiful these days.\u00a0 Last year at this time I was neck deep in my marathon training program, doing something like 40 miles a week.\u00a0 (I could look it up if you really want to know.)<\/p>\n

After my marathon in late October I didn’t do much of anything for about a month.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And I’m even heavier now.\u00a0 Which is depressing.\u00a0 Do I have to run an hour and a half every day in order to get my weight under control?\u00a0 That sure seems excessive.\u00a0 Something is definitely excessive!<\/p>\n

Anyway,\u00a0 I turn 50 in November and I’ve thought about trying for a 50 minute 10k sometime in my 51st year.\u00a0 I ran 54:54 last August in a trail 10k.\u00a0 I ought to be able to trim at least a little bit off of that, I would hope.\u00a0 And I was training for a marathon then, so if I trained specifically for a 10k maybe I could get down below 53 minutes.\u00a0 50 minutes is probably out of reach for me.\u00a0 But who know what I could do if I weighed 160 instead of 190+.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 So even if I just ran another 55 minute 10k that would be better than where I’m headed right now.<\/p>\n

I am going to have to completely change my feelings about food.\u00a0 At some few times in the past I have been able to shift from eat = good to eat = bad\u00a0 or at least eat = indifferent.\u00a0 Right now I am stuck in a pattern of if-you-don’t-have-anything-else-to-do-find-something-to-eat.\u00a0 That ain’t workin’!<\/p>\n

Maybe someday we will be able to call this double-chin guy the “before picture”.<\/p>\n

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