Hope all of you are doing well as we start this weekend. A long holiday weekend it is too. Myself, woke up feeling sluggish. Between the wedding rehearsal on Thursday evening and then the wedding Friday I am wiped out. And I was not even in the wedding party, so you can imaging how wiped out my wife is. So much so she is upstairs taking a nap before the soccer game.
While I didn't go binge crazy over board at these two events I did eat a good 300-400 calories more that I intend on a given day, where a given day day for me is 1700-2000 calories. Lets just say I likely took in 2500 calories on each of the last two days. Not terrible, the old me would have taken in 3-times that. Not good either as I did eat more than I should have. Thus why I felt sluggish this morning too.
But I did not let that feeling get to me, I did the opposite actually. Instead of wallowing in some pity I used that feeling for motivation and declared this a Two-A-Day day. In part to get moving to relieve myself of the sluggish feeling and in part to undo any damage I may have done the past two days. Weigh in day tomorrow, and I am weighing in and announcing the milestone achieved tomorrow as I set out to do at the beginning of the week.
First up on the Two-A-Day: Stanton Hill. My son was with me and as well the JV high school football team was there using the hill. Luckily the section I use was available and off we went. A brisk 60F day out made it pleasant, though the high winds were a bit of a nuisance. Last time out here I missed a new PR on this hill by a few seconds. It had been over a month since I hit the 20 laps up & down mark. We set our sights in on 21 this time and gave it all we had. And have it we would, we nailed 21 with about a minute to go,not enough time to get in a 22nd lap, that'll have to wait for another visit and be happy with this PR, Oh Yeah!
Second up on the Two-A-Day: the 3.6 Mile Neighboorhood II loop. AI had a light lunch after the hill and a brief rest and then off I went by myself for this walk. My goal was an hour, my best so far was just over 61 minutes. This is a loop through our sub-division, into the next and around two large park and back. All concrete and asphalt, some small inclines and declines; friendly walking terrain you could say. Along the way I listened to the latest podcast from MizFit & Shauna, which was both motivating and at the same time there were parts where I just wanted to sit on a park bench and listen because my own breathing was getting in the way of listening. But know I had the luxury of listening to it again later on, I kept going. And going I went to a 60:43 finish. Aother PR for this day, Oh Yeah!
Ok, I am off to the shower and to soccer. Have a great day everyone!
Catch your blogs later this evening and catch you back here tomorrow for my weigh in.
Oh, have you checked out MizFit & Shauna's podcast? If not use that link up there and give it a listen; good stuff!
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Don't be too hard on yourself Patrick. On 2500 calories you will still be losing weight. I lose weight on that much!
ReplyDeleteNice PR, IronMan! I think you did a great job with that and managing the calories. Well done.
ReplyDeleteAwesome job on your calories and workouts!
ReplyDeleteI love the two-a-day , I am going to try that next time I find myself feeling badly for not being perfect in my healthy journey .
ReplyDeleteNice work! When I go over I try to think if it was worth it? and 3500 cal are a pound. You went over by 1000 this weekend, it's not even a 1/3rd of a pound and I'm sure you TORCHED that with those two-a-days!
ReplyDeleteI'd say you did pretty well, Patrick. And GREAT job on the exercising, as usual! Who won the soccer game?
ReplyDeleteGreat workouts Patrick
ReplyDeleteWell done and thank you so much for the feedback, you rock! And we have your blogger news all ready to go for our next recording.
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