Okay - new goal created (below). Saturday morning I weighed in at 170. 170!! I weighed as little as 159 this year. Taking this much time off from running (due to femoral stress fracture) has taken its toll.
New goal - Fatty decided while on the scale that I would weigh 150 before my next marathon. I have decided to run The HHFMM as my next marathon. I will try to break 2:50 in Dallas and am updating my goal tracker post to reflect.
Why 150? I ran a 3:07:28 in Memphis in 2007 @ 163 lbs, pre-injury. By following the curve (about 0:58/lb) established by a weight/performance predictor I automatically get a 2:54:53 @ 150 lbs (thanks time calculator).
DANG - Here is the thing. As part of the Saturday decision I started a low carb diet I have historically mocked incessantly. I ate what I wanted Saturday and drank plenty (and caught a RiverBats game from a luxury suite) before the work began on Sunday.
DANGONIT - I have been unable to do the push-ups I used to do since low-carbing it. According to a certain book, I am supposed to eat < 20 carbs/day. I have lost a little weight in 3 days (and drank copious amounts of water to ensure it wasn't water weight). Am I losing muscle and not fat?!?!
I will try stay with the low carb diet as I resume running and hopefully train my body to use fats more easily and make my body an efficient fat-burning marathon beast.
Sunday - 20 net carbs
Monday - 14 net carbs
Today - 7 net carbs
...Feel free to stay tuned for this unscientific experiment as I continue to drive & work light-headed and begin training (July 29th) without carbs.
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