Week 16

I broke through the 27 min barrier and would have repeated the feat later in the week had it not been for one of my shoes being a little wet, causing me to slip on the polished plastic faux wood boardwalk of my course.  The interesting stat is that in both runs--even with the fall--I kept better than 8 min/mile pace on both the "there" and the "back."  This was a first as I had only been able to average better in total.  Now if I could just go back to losing weight ...

Week 16 - No Friggin' Progress

Basketball Events: 1

Strength Training: 1

Running Events: 4 (2 on Treadmill)

Best Time:

• Distance: 3.5 miles
• Time: 26:56 *New Personal Best*
• Minutes per mile: 7:42

Weight: 252 - Still no friggin' change

Week 15

This week was supposed to be better. I was done with close and excited for a lighter work week and more time to exercise. I was wrong. It was busier. On Monday, I took the GMAT. If Kaplan practice tests were an indication of performance I was probably going to get about a 550, a score not good even close enough for the programs I wanted. I got a 690 (88 percentile). Kaplan can cram their practice tests up their butt. They made me unnecessarily nervous to take the test for 3 years. And if their practice tests are any indication of improvement, I didn't really improve from the study.

Well I was super excited to get a better score than Viddy (my old college roommate, Viddy, got a 680). So I went home an logged a good time detailed below. I didn't have free time the rest of the week. I got a quick 15 min treadmill session on Wednesday and then tried the course again on Saturday and missed the Monday time by 3 seconds. No change in weight, which is lame, because I'm still kinda fat.

Week 15 - Still Kinda Fat

Basketball Events: 0

Strength Training: 0

Running Events: 3 (1 on Treadmill)

Best Time:

• Distance: 3.5 miles
• Time: 27:25 *New Personal Best*
• Minutes per mile: 7:50

Weight: 252 - No Change

Week 14

Tough week. The Red Sox lost on opening day. Verlander was unhittable. And because of Quarter 1 close, I didn't have much time for exercise. But I was able to get a good run in on Friday. I set a personal best, and, for the first time, I kept an average pace over the 3.5 miles that was lower than 8 min/mile. That's a respectable time.

Week 14 - Quarter 1 Close

Basketball Events: 0

Strength Training: 0

Running events: 2

Best Time:

• Distance: 3.5 miles
• Time: 27:52 *NEW PERSONAL BEST*
• Minutes per mile: 7:58 *First time average was below 8 minutes!*

Weight: 252 *Weight remained the same.*

Week 13

I'm sore. You'd think that since I've been working on this for 3 months that I wouldn't get sore, but I still do. I think the reason for this is my body is still telling me, "hey your positive life changes and weight loss progress are great and all, but you're still kinda fat and it's still requires great effort to lift your butt off the ground when your run all week."

I beat my personal best by 51 seconds, just barely missing the 8 min mile threshold by 11 seconds. I'm so close to breaking the 8 minute mile threshold I can taste it. And I've got data to prove that I like food. I was sore for my time trial on Saturday. I think I can breakthrough 8 minute miles, if I can flush my system of the lactic acid.

Week 13 - Sore muscles

Basketball events: 1

Strength training: 2

Running events: 4 (3 on treadmill)

Best Time:

• Distance: 3.5 miles
• Time: 28:11 *NEW PERSONAL BEST*
• Minutes per mile: 8:03 --Now that is a respectable pace.

Weight: 252 *LOST 3 POUNDS*