My Journey With Weight Loss – Upping My Training

It was a great day to do my run at the beach today. The rain held off, the temperature was perfect and there was a nice breeze to keep me cool. I think a lot of people thought the same because the promenade was full of runners. As I was finishing running on the promenade 3 young people were just starting their run and one young man shouted out to me, you’re doing a great job. Yep, that helped keep me going.

At the start of each week when I get my training schedule from my coach I often look at it and think I can’t do this. After only being back at training for 2 weeks having taken a month off to let my toe recover I was nervous about how much we were increasing my training this week. The instructions were a 5 km (ok, that one is easy), an 8 km, 10 intervals running 11 minutes and walking 1 minute and finally a long run of 12 km. Wow, I thought, not sure I am ready for this.

I think because I still walked 6 days a week I didn’t lose much of my strength and endurance that I had built up before my month long break. I got up this morning after having gotten through my interval training on Thursday and thought, you’ve got this. Before my break I had done a 15.5 km run so really, I can do 12 km. Yes, those last 2 km’s were tough but I got through it. I have a feeling that 1/2 marathon goal is going to happen in the next few months.

Overall my break did very little to my fitness level. Moreover, I have lost 2 lbs since I started running again which is 1 lb more than I had gained (note I am still in my target weight zone which is +/- 2 lbs). All in all I am confident I can keep doing this.