Good beginning of a new week and confirmations

It's becoming quite warm again. When I went out jogging there was around -3C but now the temperature is close to zero. I've opened the week with weight of 103 kg and 11 km of rather slow running. I decided that for the time being I am not going to worry about speed. I will be doing long slowish runs and just be careful to stay in a zone between 120 and 160 bpm. Evidently this strategy has worked so far.

Besides cutting down on sugar and sweets I eat quite normally and definitely don't go around hungry. Still I managed to shed some 3-4 kg. So far I am quite happy with the progress. Hopefully by the time of my first halfmarathon I'll be close to 100 kg.

Btw. I was really surprised on Sunday - after running over 19 km on Saturday, on the next day I woke up almost with no pain in legs but my hands really hurt! I guess that I can't avoid doing some extra exercises for my upper body.

Good news is also that I have confirmation of my registration for 10k run Maniacka Dziesiątka and halfmarathon in Warsaw - March is going to be interesting :)

Amazing training

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.

 American Beauty

The weather is so good today that I decided that I am going to make the best of my stay in Poland and decided to drive for a training to Wielkopolski Park Narodowy and enjoy the sun and fresh air.

Quite spontaneously I've chosen quite and ambitious route along lakes - I expected that it will have about 8km. Everything went quite smoothly I even managed quite well to practice running with my back straight - I am not sure if it is not just my impression but I felt much better running like that.

Problems usually occur when one least expects them - suddenly I realized that for quite a while I did not see any trail marks. I ran for another 5 minutes or so but when I reached 30 min. from the starting point I decided that it's time to go back. Running back on the same route would mean that I'll run altogether 1h and I expected that if I try really hard I should make it.

However after a while I've noticed the point where I lost the right trail and suddenly I decided that I'll give it a try, I will run the entire route anyway. After all I am not professional runner - I do it for fun and it would be rather boring if everything was predictable.

In result I had amazing 83 minutes of jogging in beautiful scenery of forests and lakes. I did not run for so long since my younger son was born in August 2008 so I was rather surprised that I managed to get back to my car - but what a nice surprise it was! :)

53 days to half marathon

Today I needed to go to a cash dispenser and decided that instead of driving there I'll have short training in result I had 34 minutes of intensive jogging (508 calories).

I've decided that this week I'll work harder on increasing my endurance and the goal for the next week will  be to burn 1 kg of fat - i.e. 7000 calories over a week (approximately half of it running and half by means of other exercises).

I have been training just for a week now - but I already have better mood :)

54 days left to halfmarathone

There are 54 days left to the halfmarathone but I feel that slowly I am becoming fitter.
Yesterday I run for 42 minutes and today for 46. I still weight some 105 kg so it is not so much running trotting with a heavy backpack.
Yesterday (Monday) I had a stroke of genius and instead of jogging closer to home I drove to a forest nearby and it was just amazing :) I did the same today and it is so much more fun!
Also running on a soft surface takes more energy but is much easier on knees and other joints what is very important to me.
I also started to jog with a chest-band so I know more or less how many calories I use - 550 yesterday and 651 today. It is quite a lot but when one thinks that 1 kg of fat has some 7000 calories all I burned over the last two days is just some 150 gram of fat!

Translator on the run

New Year Resolution and all that

Ever since I begun translating I have been gaining weight. Finaly I decided that enough is enough.
I begun 2011 weighting almost 110 kg and knew that I must do something about it. As I am not yet ready to starve myself (actually quite the opposite is true) I decided that I must take more physical exercise.

As I have always been fond of jogging I decided that I will try to jog all the spare kilograms. As I always like to have a clear target I decided that I will try to prepare myself to a half marathon in my hometown Poznan. I have begun my training yesterday. As I am very stiff and out of shape I am doing only short trainings. Both yesterday and today I had about 30 min. long slow trots. Hopefully I'll be able to increase it shortly :)

TBC