I'm not feeling healthy

I had this feeling since right around Thanksgiving. Yes, it is the holidays but even at this point after the glutony of sugar rich foods, I still feel unhealthy. I'm exercising more days than not, I'm getting about 8 hours of sleep a night, and I'm eating somewhat healthy (for me, not *that* healthy but I would still get called a health nut by 95% of the population). Even with all of this, I still feel like crap. I don't know what the hell is going on right now. I was sick the weekend before last weekend and I've been a booger factory since then, but I should be feeling better by now, right?

This past weekend was a 4.5 mile run on Saturday and then 2800m swim on Sunday. I still wasn't feeling that strong. Monday's weigh in was 198. I did 4.5 miles yesterday around the track at work and I have another run tonight with Texas Iron.

New Balance mileage: 101.5 miles

Weekly run mileage: 13.5 miles
Weekly swim distance: 5500m

I'm swimming again

I swam about 2700m last night with T3. Before that, I ran 3.1 miles around the track at work. I weighed in at 195.5 this morning. I'm recovering from being sick decently well, but I still have some sickness lingering. Not much else is new.

New Balance mileage: 92.5 miles

It's On! 196.5!

I weighed in at 196.5 on Monday. I have no excuses about holidays or vacation or any other shit like that. I will be at 185 by the end of April, hopefully.

I ran some speed loops around Barton Springs last night with Texas Iron. I wasn't feeling that great from being sickish for about 3 days. It actually probably wasn't that smart of me because I was somewhat sick to begin with, it was cold, I was sweaty, and I didn't have warm clothes on. I felt like ass when I woke up this morning, but I did a decent run last night of about 6 miles total.

New Balance mileage: 89.5

I'm sick

I'm sick. This sucks. I've been feeling bad since yesterday. I did get out and do a 7 mile easy run though. I felt better afterwards, but I've been a lump on my couch since then. Not much else is going on. It's been an easy week workout wise. I did some volunteer work on Thursday and Friday. I haven't swam because my shoulder is really acting up. Seriously, not much is going on workout wise with me right now.

New Balance mileage: 83.5

Weekly run mileage: 15 miles
Weekly swim distance: 3300m

Kick Ass Book!

In addition to being a balancing bad ass, I got The Human Body Book today from amazon.com. This is so cool and disgusting! It's amazing! I haven't looked through it much yet, but I'm sure I'm going to waste half this weekend reading through it.

Badass Balancing on the Bosu Ball

I did some volunteer work at Performance Wellness today. I had some down time between patients and I wanted to play a bit with some exercises that I was showing patients. One of the exercises was doing leg squats on a Bosu Ball. Instead of having the black part down, the black part is up and you stand on it, balance on it, and then do squats. It's really tough. I started doing it and quickly figured out. Of course, I had to try to make it a bit harder, I decided to try to do squats on the Bosu ball, but with one leg instead of two. I did a set of 10 reps on each leg. Yeah, I totally kick ass! I told Dr. Laurie about it and she called me an insane bad ass as well.

This is good for me because yesterday I went and did yoga for the first time in a few months. Man, it was tough. I have lost a lot of my flexibility and balance and that prompted my one legged insane exercises today. I'm happy that I was able to find my balance back today.

Town Lake Trail distance changes

I normally run around Town Lake for all of my long runs. The trail is crushed gravel so it's easier on my joints, there are water stops, and the "scenery" is quite nice. I used to use the distances from this map, but a new map was published and this is it. If you compared the two maps, I usually run the 3 shorter loops and the changes in the distances is quite significant. The short loop went from 2.9 to 3.47 miles, the middle loop went from 4.1 to 4.55 miles and the long loop is now 4.94 miles instead of 4.5 miles. I measured out the longer loop using MyMyRun and it also got around 4.94 miles or so. A lot of other people have complained how the old 4.5 mile loop is closer to 5 miles and this map reflects it. With that stated, I like to think that the newer map is more accurate for the short and medium loops as well.

Now, today I ran a medium loop and then a short loop. Based on the old distances, I ran 7 miles, but ran 8 miles based on the new distances. This is huge because it's a difference of 8:43/mile versus 7:38/mile. What the hell? That's around a 10% improvement without me doing a single thing. Ok, that's not bad at all, but it's frustrating that I've been using wrong distances to calculate my pace around Town Lake for years now. I guess I'm happy that I'm running "faster" now.

New Balance mileage: 76.5