Thanksgiving Day

Let me start off by saying I am now down to 185lbs.  That's from starting out on this quest at 220lbs.  I want to be 160lbs by Lake Placid.  To be honest losing the first 35 wasn't that hard.  It was by basically stop drinking beer, stop eating and working out like crazy.  I think the next 25 will be a little harder.  I have the time though.  I'll get there.  I need to post a picture tomorrow. 

I am feeling a hell of a lot better when I run.  Not smoking fast, but I feel better.  When I started running again at 220 I felt like I was just crushing my body.  My knees hurt.... My back hurt...  Shit everything hurt.  Now I feel like I did two years ago.  That is not bad.  I can't imagine what it will feel like when I am at 160.  It's going to feel great.  I hope....

Well This week has been a lot better then I thought it would be.  Monday I ran 5.25 at 8:38 pace.  That was something I didn't think I would be doing right now.  But I did.  Tuesday I blew off because, well I reverted back to my old ways Monday night and had a few to many beers with the boys.  No looking back and beating myself up though...  moving on, it is what it is.  Wednesday night I rode 25 miles on the computrainer.  I actually felt pretty good.  Thursday, Thanksgiving I ran 10 miles in the morning.  I felt incredible.  It was slow, but what a day.  It was one of those mornings that made you glad to be alive.  Just awesome!!!!!  I ended up running what I call the two lakes run.  I have to lakes up in the woods behind my house.   Basically its 90% trails to go around both.  Its a beautiful run.  Here are my splits, not sure what happened on the later miles, but I don't think I was running that slow.  Oh well.

Well for now you'll have to trust me.  I can't figure out how to get my splits and gps images from the garmin site onto this damn blog.  I'll figure it out soon.  I'm new to this.  Still it's been a good week so far.