Day 82 and 83 - Race Weekend

First things first:  Friday's weigh-in result:  207.2 pounds. 

That's down 4.4 pounds from my last weigh-in.  I'm slowly approaching the 200 pound mark again (which is approximately where I maxed out the last time).  Of course if I keep eating too much junk food like the last couple days that's not going to happen.

So tomorrow morning I'm running my 4th half-marathon (and my first of the year).  Regardless of how I do I'm planning on running two more this year.  If I do better than expected and break the two hour mark though I'm also going to start training for a full marathon.

So race weekend has always been a pretty good time.  My last three half-marathons were all with Team Challenge so the entire weekend was an event.  This time I'm on my own but there's still a bit of a benefit and a danger to the weekend.  The benefit is that in preparation for the race, eating a little unhealthy isn't a problem.  In fact you kind of want to "carb up" in preparation for the race.  The danger is that you can't let that become a habit after the race.

Friday was a bad day for the diet, with a pot-luck at work and 5 Guys for dinner.  Saturday was better, but still involved a junk food meal.  I'll be back on track by Monday I'm sure but it's still something I need to be aware of.  One other change for this race versus my others, for those other races this weekend would have been the goal I was training for.  After it was done training would have stopped and I would have taken time off for a few months.  Next week I'm going to be back to it, maybe not as long a distance but I'm hoping to train for some longer races in the future.  I assume my next half will be in August or September.  It will be interesting to see how that changes things.

Food today:  egg and cheese (300 calories), fish and chips (1300 calories) and another egg and cheese (300 calories).  Exercise was walking the dogs (100 calories).

Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 3000 and 1900
Exercise: 0 and 100
Points Earned: 0 and 1200
Total Points Earned:  142193
Points to go:  57807