OK Go

Hopefully I'll remember and post my Monday workout results soon. However, I wanted to quickly blog while things were fresh in my regarding the last couple of days.

On Sunday, I did Legs again. It felt great. I bumped up my leg press to 230 lbs and was able to complete 12 reps. I'm definitely feeling stronger in my lower half and the leg presses seem to be doing wonders for stretching out my knees.

Monday was shoulders and I did them first thing in the morning. My work required me to travel out of town for the night so I was pretty sure I wouldn't get a workout in. Unfortunately, when I travel, it tends to mean really crappy eating habits. Yesterday was no exception.

I had an omelet in the morning (good). I got to my work location and by the time lunch rolled around I was starved. That meant Subway. Tasty but carb-y Subway. So I gorged there. Then supper. Gorge yet again.

Today I had a breakfast omelet wrap at Subway and lunch there again. I decided when I got home that I would go for a run as Tuesday's are normally my running day.

I figured with all the carbs I had ingested I should be good to go for a long run and I had been wanting to do a long run for a bit now but never had the time. Tonight worked out perfect and I got in 10K run in just over 53 minutes. It broke down to the following (approx):
1 mile warm up
1/4 mile run
1/2 mile jog
I did the 1/4 mile - 1/2 mile segment 6 times in total, jogged again until I had .1 mile left and then "sprinted" that one. I put quotations because I was gassed. However, considering that in August 2010 I couldn't even run 2 miles, this is huge for me. I'm very happy - especially when I seen that I had burned 900 calories.

However, that high was dropped a bit when I stepped on the scale at home AFTER the run. 172.5 lbs. Dammit. And I have a training event that starts on Friday and goes until Sunday. This week is not going to be a good one for muscle build / fat burn. Such is life I guess. At least after this weekend, I don't foresee travel that will interrupt my workout schedule / eating plan as much.