Almost Done

I'm coming up on the end of my 10 miler training. This weekend will be my last long long run before the race. (I'll do 6 miles next Saturday.)

I did my 8 mile run this past Sunday and now that that distance is behind me I really feel like I will be able to finish this race running. :) Since Sunday though I haven't been running according to my schedule. Something strange is up with my left knee. I think it's healing from whatever damage I did to it while running in the wrong shoes, but it's still a bit tight and sore. No real pains like before but I'm being cautious of over using is before the race.

Today I'm just going to run 3 miles on the treadmill I think. Friday is a rest day, and then Saturday I'll so some easy paced cross training. Hopefully I'll be ready for another 8 mile run on Sunday. :)

Then tapering. Yay! I've been looking forward to that for a while. XD

After the race I'm going to take a couple days of rest and then just do some 2 mile runs to be nice and easy on my body. Then I think I'm going to stick to 3-4 mile runs during the week, mixed with a lot more cross training and weight lifting. That should keep me in shape for the winter. :)

Huh

My body is very weird. I was kind of despairing of ever losing any weight during my training period for the 10 miler. I was just bouncing up and down between 148 and 150. Yesterday I was 149. Today? 147! Still you'd think I'd have lost more than 3-4 pounds during these last 2 months. I'm creating pretty large caloric deficits even with a couple extra days of drinking or eating thrown in.

However, I then looked at my body fat percentage. When I started this I was 151 pounds, and 32% body fat. I'm now 147 pounds and 29% body fat.

That means when I started I was 102.68 pounds of muscle/bone/organs/water/etc. and 48.32 pounds of fat. (Eew! Heh.) Now I'm 104.37 pounds of muscle, etc. and 42.63 pounds of fat (much better!)

So I've lost almost 6 pounds of fat, and gained almost 2 pounds of (hopefully) muscle. In two months! Yay me!

And I also took a couple pictures and compared them to pictures I took before I started. There's a huge difference in how my body looks. Especially the views from the side and behind. I'm getting smaller! Even if there hasn't been a dramatic change on the scale. :)

Yesterday was a TERRIBLE 4 mile run. It was just really hard, and I was worrying over my left knee even though there wasn't any pain. Awful awful awful. My right hip was sore, I developed a cramp. 4 miles! That's not even half way through my 10 miler! And it was much harder than my 6 mile run two weeks ago. I'm going to baby myself a bit the next few days. A few extra carbs before my run, more sleep, more stretching, ice, some walking thrown into the mix with my running. (I will walk my 2 mile training run tonight.) And HOPEFULLY I'll be ready for my 7 mile long run on Saturday.

Wish me luck!