Monday - STRENGTH upper in the morning, then ELLIPTICAL 10 mins, RUN/WALK 50 mins
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - RUN/WALK treadmill same as Monday: ~2 mins run, then ~1.25 min walk
Thursday - rest
Friday - RUN/WALK treadmill 3'run/2'walk at ~5.5
Saturday -
Sunday -
Monday was another two-a-day. Strength for upper body in the morning (still tight as I update on Wednesday) then we went back during the NSCC class. Aurora logged 7 miles on a recumbant bike! I did a warm up on an uncomfortable elliptical to loosed up an oddly pain-tight right knee, then switched to treadmill. Still slow at 5 min/mile but going for 50 mins is a new stretch for me. I did about 0.15-0.20 mile in about 2 mins, then walked to the 0.25 mark to start the next run.
Tuesday rest! Needed it. I'd set a goal for today of being one of the 800 days, but I failed it with 7 rice cakes upon coming home. I hit 1300 ish, a fail for the day. I'm still not noticing changes, and days like this are why! I remembered this morning while running that in 2016 I did 800, but used training to balance it out. Looking at MFP, I was eating much more variety of veggies and foods than now, and Oh Geezus I see a 242 sugar listed. And it was 118.8 then.
Wednesday hour in the morning, repeat the treadmill intervals. I don't feel like I can extend the run interval or speed up much just yet. I'm happy to say thought that the hip does NOT hurt, the left big toe only mildly does, and all feels great.
Rest then repeat. I'm also repeating rice cakes, and after lamenting again the lack of change while walking the dog last night - I realized that I'd eaten 1500 (more?) of calories that day, when the plan was for an 800 fast. Twice as much. How? 3 rice cakes, canned pumpkin, oatmeal (dry, uncooked!), watermelon). Then extra salmon. I came home to Moria and it won.
I'm listening to the audiobook Embrace the Suck, and that book started going through my head, especially in the last 10 mins of this morning's run. My headphones had died, but my head didn't. So I was thinking. I'd find myself repeated deflecting from me to think about kids or Lev. Wrong. Me. Think about me. I could see the 2016 me of 115 lbs looking at me. Lean, strong, fast. 800s then too but with heavy endurance training. But unhealthy habits. Mentally fucked over.
By Aug 2nd it was the lowest, more ways than one. And my goal this year is Aug 9th: end of summer, end of Army, and end of Scatha. End of Moria, binged rice cakes, canned foods, creamy mashes, etc etc etc. End of 134.8.
Goal by Aug 9th: under 125. Able to run half marathon straight through. Biking and swimming as support. But mostly end of the 130's. Last time for that - May 2019. With Balrog, Monster, and total mental fuckery.
How: continue the gym habit, but include strength and stretch, you're too old for the old ways - find new ones. rewrite coming home to Moria, now the first new habit is closet on zero = chocolate or none. And sit to eat. Two simple changes to start NOW.
