Week 6 - Big weigh in

Well, I haven't weighed in for a month because my goal isn't really about the scale, it's about training for a marathon to fight alzheimer's disease. But I will get to that in a minute.

I could say quite a bit about week six, but why spare you the time, lol. Let's just say it was HOT, HOT, HOT.

Monday was a good 4 mile run, had my best 4 mile time since I started. I know I have been saying that a lot lately but I tend to get in shape pretty quick so my times are dropping on a regular basis. Not by very much but they are dropping. Tuesday was a 5 mile run and it was agonizing. I ended up pouring about 4 bottles of water on me that my wife would ride by on her bike and give me. It was only about 94 degrees... Ouch!! Thursday was a 3 miler so what I wanted to do is, even though it was still pretty hot, was to go out and just run as fast as I could. My first mile was .18 seconds away from breaking into a high 9 minute mile. I was pretty excited about that, and even though my last two miles fell of bit, I still managed to blow away my previous 3 mile time. Now, here is where I messed up this week, I SHOULD know better than this. Let's just call it a lesson learned. I normally get up early saturday morning to do my LSD, this week it was six miles. I had a late night friday and just couldn't get up early. I ended up going out about noon to do my run hoping the heat wouldn't get to me. But, when the souls of my shoes started sticking to the melted, bubbling tar on the road, I knew I was in trouble. My wonderful wife was out there again giving me water but it just wasn't enough. I ended up getting too hot and had to walk a little, but then was able to do some hard sprint intervals. And what's funny, with the sprinting I was doing, my last mile was faster than my first.. lol.

Now, for the weigh in. When I first started I weighed in at 295 pounds, which was around the end of May. Sunday morning was my weigh in date so I get up, stand on the scale, and preceeded to grin very big. I weighed in at 274. I have lost 21 pounds. Which is about 6 pounds over where I wanted to be at 280. So i'm 6 pounds ahead of schedule and my next weigh in is on July 4th. My goal is to be around 265.

Thanks to everyone for your support and remember, i'm doing this to fight Alzheimer's so please donate if you can.

Week 5

Wow, was it hot or what? The heat drained my energy almost every run this week. I would start off really well, but by the time I would hit two miles, "ZAP," and that was all she wrote. I did finish all my runs without any walking, I just finished them slowly.

I ran my longest distance to date which was 6 miles Saturday morning. I was up pretty early to beat the heat and it was actually my best run of week 5.

I'm pretty excited about the condition i'm getting in. My legs are starting to feel great, and after many years of smoking, my breathing is getting SO much better while i'm running AND not running.

I will be adding 2 more miles to week 6 brining my total up to 18 miles. Unfortunately, it supposed to be hotter than last week. Oh well, no pain no gain right?