May’s highs and lows
Since everything has seemed to go so well this year, I’m a bit disappointed in May, mainly due to not coming anywhere close to my goal of losing 5 pounds for the month. My diet was awful, so I have no one to blame but myself. The good news is I maintained, so I can’t beat myself up too much.
But like a failure I had in January, I realized toward the end of this month that I didn’t have a good plan with losing weight. “Get my diet right” just doesn’t work. So for June I’m going to take a different approach and refocus on how to lose a few pounds. I need to hit the reset button with my diet.
As far as running goes, one week of rest in which I ran only twice lowered my overall mileage just a bit. I still ended with more than 75 miles, which I’m very pleased with. I managed three weeks with more than 20 miles, making it 16 of 21 weeks with 20-plus miles per week. I didn’t really have any running goals for May, which I think just spiraled into not focusing like I should on losing weight.
I ended the month with a 1-mile barefoot run today in my in-laws’ field. It was my first barefoot run since I was 15 — I can still remember than run with my friend at the beach. Our legs hurt for days. I taped myself today and rambled on with some thoughts that came from no where. I’ll share the video later this week when I have time to edit it.
As I look ahead to June, I need to continue with 20-25 mile weeks before I step it up for training for the Richmond Marathon. I’m doing a half marathon on Saturday on trails, which I think will be a nice transition to marathon training. I’m not setting a time goal for this race; I really just want to go out and enjoy the experience of something completely different. There is a 5K toward the end of the month that I’m considering, but I’m going to wait to decide on that.
As I near the halfway point in the year I am just 64.8 miles away from 500 miles in 2010. There used to be a point in which I didn’t care about numbers, but the numbers make me feel great. While how I feel is my top priority, getting closer to 1,000 miles for the year gets me excited. I love having this big overarching goal for the whole year.
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Hooray! Keep it up! That is amazing that you're almost at 500 miles. I don't think I am anywhere near that but that's ok
I'm trying to pace myself.
As for weight loss, I do think it's important to have concrete goals to go about tackling your plans, though I do think goals are also rough guidelines. I think it's important to try your best to meet your goals but also not to beat yourself up if you don't quite get there.
See ya in Richmond!
AND, how'd the barefoot run go? I think I'm going to go for a barefoot run after my Half. Can't wait.