Still going

Yesterday, I had to get up early to return my Zipcar (a MINI Convertible - suh-weet!) before 8:00 AM, so on my way back I decided I'd have a giant breakfast at the 24 Hour Pancake House.

So I did. And vowed not to eat too much the rest of the day. I had two pancakes, four pieces of bacon, a scrambled egg, and copious coffee. I counted everything, including the syrup and pats of butter, and it all came to around 950 calories. Totally do-able, considering I didn't eat until close to 10 (due to bus travel ordering and general slowness at the restaurant and suchlike), leaving lots of calories for a big-ish snack and dinner.

I almost went over, anyway, because I hung out at the local coffee shop for a couple of hours in the late afternoon, and Nicole had made my favorite kind of cake: white with chocolate frosting. But I resisted and just drank coffee (and counted those calories!).

Before I went to bed, I weighed myself. I've found that my morning weight is usually about 1.5-2.0 pounds lower than my right-before-bed weight, so it gives me a preview. I was surprised to find 189.5 staring me in the face. Ugh. I thought I'd done well, but that seemed high.

So this morning when I got up, I was prepared for disappointment. Instead I weighed in at 186.5 - only a half-pound up from yesterday! Nice! It must have been water weight.

I've had a small breakfast (my usual - yogurt cup and peanut butter and jam on toast) about an hour and a half ago, and now I'm going out for my hard run.

I decided on an interval run - warmup, then alternate between hard 8:30-9:00 pace half-miles, and jog/walking half-miles, for a total of 3 apiece. That will be just over 5 miles. And it should be difficult to make that pace on the last fast segment. But I'd like to get faster, and the only way to do that is to, y'know, run faster.

I'll report back on how well I did.