Week 7, Day 5: How Do You Eat A Bear? One Mile At A Time.

So, I have 26 weeks to go till Selection, 13 weeks till Heavy, and 3 weeks till the 1/2 marathon. Today I did my interval workout at 3 miles with a 20 second recovery between each mile. My average pace for each mile was 7:51. This was a huge morale boost for me. Tomorrow I'll do my long run of 9 miles early in the morning. Honestly, I can't wait. I feel like I have gained both physical and mental momentum. Next week my goal is to do 3 miles under 24 minutes without the rest.

Since January I have lost 20lbs. I started at 238lbs, and I'm now down to 218lbs. My goal for Heavy is to be at 200 lbs. My hope is that as I lose the weight my speed will continue to increase as it has these past three months.

I have not had any joint pain recently, which is also a huge boost. I took some time off in February because I was running too far and too fast for my weight at the time. I did P90X3 instead, which kept me moving. I modified some of the moves so the impact would be less. I am also using a pre-workout supplement called EnE from Beachbody. It's the real deal.

I am going to celebrate my goal, but not with the usual reward of bad food that I usually rationalize for having worked out. I'm not talented enough to do that. Instead, I'll just blog about it.

( I couldn't find a picture of someone eating a bear. I could only find a picture of Bear Grylls eating a dead Zebra)