Greg's Running Blog

Well, here goes another week. The name of the game this week was getting back to a slow weight loss after last week’s horrendous weekend cake gluttony. I think I have succeeded in my goal.

I have eaten significantly more this week than any other week before, not counting last week’s 3 day weekend binge. But overall my days have been hovering around the 2,400 calorie mark instead of the 2,300 calorie mark where I would have liked them to be. I had some hard running days and I just felt the urge to eat more and more. Remember, 2,400 calories a day is still under maintenance for me with all the running I’m doing. I have averaged 2,467 calories a day thanks to the 1,500 calorie dinner on Saturday at Macaroni Grill that contained my all time favorites; Penne Rusctica and their rosemary peasant bread. Those 1,500 calories made me clock in at over 3,00 calories for the day. But quite honestly, I didn’t care. I knew that I have burned close to 900 calories that morning while running a 10K and I was going to burn another 1,000 calories the next day running a 7+ mile long run. So even at 3,000 calories for that day I was still in caloric deficit overall.

I seem to be only hitting the gym once a week now, I really need to get better about making it in there twice. the problem is clearly that I prefer to play spades or go out for lunch on my lunch break and when 5 o’clock hits I just want to get the hell out and come home instead of sticking around for another 30 minutes to put my strength training in. Something will have to change. I either have to give up the social aspect of my lunch breaks or just tough it out after work and do my strength training then.

Running was fine this week. It was a race week with a 10K race on Saturday so the mileage was lower than last week’s training, but I still put in 30.9 miles (just shy of 50 km). I had a solid interval session on Tuesday, a good tempo run on Thursday, a 10K race on Saturday and a 7.6 mile run on Sunday. I also ran 3-3 miles of recovery on Monday and Wednesday. I have burned a total of 3,629 calories this week for a daily average of 518 calories.

Since my Intake was 2,467 and I have burned 518 calories with exercise my average net caloric intake for the week was 1,949 calories. Based on the rolling average of my weight I have lost exactly 1 lbs this week which is 500 calories a day. So my BMR is right around 2,449 calories which is still in the reasonable ballpark. I guess I’m doing what I set out to do which is eating my maintenance calories on average and only lose weight based on calories lost due to running.

All in all, I am very pleased with the week and my weight loss. I certainly need to keep a check on my food intake, I’m eating more and more and I need to know when to stop. I can’t eat 3,000 calories a day just yet.