Tomorrow is the 10 week mark until the marathon. Ack! Last week saw me doing 45 miles of running - most of it good. About 6 miles of the 16 on Sunday were not good and not what many would consider "running", but overall a pretty solid week of training.
This week will end up with about 42 miles. I ran an extra day last week to try to catch up from my lack of running during our vacation - just a few extra miles.
But that's not what I'm excited about.
The first thing is that I hit the $1,000 mark on my fund raising efforts. While I still have almost $1500 to go, I feel at least there's been some serious progress made and the amount that I may have to "donate" gets smaller and smaller. I got a surprise donation from Blue Diamond Athletic Displays (www.athleticdisplays.com). My wonderful wife had bought me one of their medal displays as a gift two years ago and I love it - it's a great way to show off those finisher's medals. It's a solid product - not some cheap thing and I'll probably get another one in the not too distant future. We both became friends with one of the owners on FB and they made a generous donation to St. Jude. It was a wonderful gesture. I was already a fan of their product and company, this was above and beyond.
The second thing is I start a new "diet" tomorrow. It's not really a diet, but more of a change in eating habits. My training partner, Brian, and his wife started on the Whole30 plan a couple of weeks ago and he has had a lot of success with it. I'm not sure about Carol, but I'll see her tomorrow morning and looking forward to hearing what she has to say about it.
It's similar to Paleo - how can you go wrong with eating lots of meat and vegetables and some fruit? Seems pretty simple. I'm reading their book, It Starts With Food, now and there's a ton of information on, www.whole9life.com. One of the things that I'm excited about is it will force me to cook more. Seems weird to think of "force" when it comes to something that you already love to do but weeknights have often been more of survival than enjoying a good, healthy meal. I also have been eating too many pre-packaged meals that I know, while better for me than a Quarter Pounder, not the best thing for me and I could be doing better.
So, I head to the grocery store(s) tomorrow with a grocery list in hand - filled mostly with meats and produce and spices to buy. I'm really looking forward to it. I also got to buy some new gadgets/pans for the kitchen so that's a bonus.
I took some measurements this morning - weight as well as chest, midsection, upper arm and thigh circumference. I plan to repeat those each week to see what happens, but I'm pretty sure that there will be shrinkage (in this case, that's a good thing).
--Scott
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