Day -19

I have decided to start posting more regularly, as of today. The title of the post is Day -19 (negative nineteen) means that in 19 days I start the official marathon training program in 19 days. I anticipate spending the next 19 days preparing to start the marathon training. I am hoping to turn this online journal into my training journal, documenting both my running, cross training, and my diet. I think diet might actually be the key to my success. I’m shooting for 60-65% carbs (with complex carbs making up as much of that as possible), 15-20% fat, and the rest protein, although those are just rough estimates. Ironically I’m going to need to eat more while doing this; I think I was not eating enough while training for the Mini which hurt me a lot during the long runs in terms of endurance.

Running: 10 minute warm up (2 1/2 minute increments from 3.5 to 5.0, increasing by .5 each time); 23 minutes at 6 mph, for a total of 3 miles before the .3 mile cool-down. 3.3 miles total.

Food:

Breakfast: raisin bran with skim milk and a banana

Snack: Nature Valley Peanut Butter Bar

Lunch: Ham sandwhich with avocado, tomato and reduced fat cheese, and Reduced Fat Wheat Thins

Dinner: 2 cups of left over pasta and tomato sauce with about 4 oz of chicken

Post-work out snack: cup of skim milk (trying to get that protein after the workout) and Reduced Fat Wheat Thins

Late Night (shouldn’t-have-had-snack): more wheat thins and the last rice krispy treat (mom bought them when I moved in)

Overall calories (plus rice krispy, I don’t want to enter it because I don’t want to eat them anymore.

Total:		1733
Fat:	43	390	23%
Sat:	9	78	5%
Poly:	8	74	4%
Mono:	9	79	5%
Carbs:	268	974	57%
Fiber:	24	0	0%
Protein:	89	355	21%
Alcohol:	0	0	0%

I think this was a pretty good day. I need to do less late night snacking, but overall I was pleased. AND AND AND I didn’t eat out at all (which is mostly not a nutrition thing and more of a wallet thing, so that was good). Tomorrow morning I’m going to take the “beginning” weight. I gave myself a few days to lose some pounds that were just gained from poor eating last week. I hope to lose 30-40 pounds while training for this marathon. That’s about 1.92 pounds per week until then, which is totally manageable. The clutch part is eating enough to maintain my running but also enough to lose some weight. I guess official weigh day will be Thursday morning, which is actually good because it’s midweek so it should be a good measurement of where I’m at, not affected by the dehydration of the long run, or any extra calories that I may consume via beer

~ by jaimielyn on May 22, 2008.