For five months, from early October 2005 to early March 2006, I had a nice steady low weight. In that time I twice nudged my average weight below 148 lbs, a lifetime low. Then, immediately after I met the boyfriend (hmmm...), while I finished triathlon training and then slacked off a bit after the traithlon, I slowly gained weight instead and topped out above 152 lbs in late May. That was six weeks ago, and I've lost a little over a pound since then. Changing the direction of my weight graph from slightly up to slightly down was (mostly mentally) difficult, and now I have to capitalize on it and increase my rate of loss while I still have a positive attitude about the whole thing.
To do that I need to tighten up my eating and stop catching colds and letting little things get in the way of my workouts. Today I was going to skip the 12-1pm spinning class because I had a 1pm meeting, but Samo made me do half of the class instead of skipping it entirely. And by "made me," I mean she came to my desk and started dragging my gym bag towards the door until I followed her. That's the attitude I need every day.
My ultimate goal weight is 138 lbs, and has been for two years. But since I've never been below 147.5 lbs, just getting down to, say, 145 lbs would be a nice thing to try.
As a spur to keep me exercising, I'll be signing up for the Banana Chase 5K road race, taking place on September 15th. It's a local, casual race where I won't embarrass myself by running massively slower than the elite athletes (like Samo). I haven't nailed down a target pace yet, but I'm thinking 8:30 minute miles (26:21 total) would be ambitious but possible.
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