Anybody still out there?

So waaaay back when, in Mid October when I made my last post that wasn’t a Race Report, I had mentioned that I had gotten a new work assignment, at the Wind Tunnel facility operated by my company, owned by Ford. I also mentioned in that post that I foresaw myself having less time to take part in the things that I had become accustomed to, like blogging. Well, here we are about 5 weeks later, and my soothsaying abilities have proven true.

There’s definitely good news though… I’ve been keeping up on my workouts and my running, though not quite to the level I was at during training for Indianapolis. I’ve still gotten 5 workouts in per week, every week, between running and workouts with Ryan, and the newest addition to the schedule has been Friday night co-ed indoor soccer. I had to miss the first week’s game because it was the weekend of Indy, but L and I have been playing since. I’ve played on this team for about 4 or 5 years now, and this is L’s third I believe.

The league is co-ed, as I mentioned, and is officially a ‘non-competitive’ league made up of a lot of Ford employees. I started with the league during my first stint at Ford, and have stuck with them since. I’ve been playing soccer in some form since I was about 6, taking a break during my high school years because it wasn’t a sport offered at my school. Laura had never played before, but given that she’s come back for 3 years now, she must be enjoying it.

So far we’ve only had 3 games actually, including the one that I missed. We’re 1-1-1, but I think we’ve got probably the best team we’ve had since I started. We’ve got 21 games left between now and the spring, and I think we’ve got a pretty good chance at winning probably 15 of them or so, when we get all our players showing up on the same night.

So while I’ve been keeping up on activity of some sort, my ‘official’ (as in recordable) miles have reduced a bit since my race. For two weeks, I just flat out skipped my long run, and last week my long run was just over 7 miles. I’m fairly ok with this overall, since I don’t really have a race that I’m training for. D&M, who you may remember as the friends I went to Indianapolis with, are considering going to Nashville next April for the Country Music Marathon, where I think they’d both run the half. If they do end up going, I’ll be going with them. Unfortunately it will be during the last few weeks of L’s school, so she may or may not be able to come with us. But other than that, I don’t really have a race planned.

There is an 8K Fun Run/Walk at a local park next week that I’m considering, that runs through the park through which I ran my first half in April. It’s a nighttime run, and they do a big Chrismas light setup that will be turned on for the run, the night before it opens to the public. If I do that, I’ll be sure to take my camera (since it’s a Fun Run instead of a race), and post pictures here at some point.

Even though I’ve stayed active, my weight hasn’t changed too much. I’ve lost 56.5 lbs now, and for the last two weeks been holding steady. I’ve been curious about my weight trends lately, and how much a particular meal or day’s eating and activity level affects my weight. Google has a gadget they call ‘Google 15′ which basically keeps your average weight over the previous 15 days… Even though at the end of the week, my weights have come out consistent, I’ve realized that my weekend indiscriminate eating is starting to have more of an impact than it used to. If I want to make progress on the scale like I’ve been, I’m going to need to reign that in.

On the communication and counseling front… really nothing has changed since my last post. I haven’t made the call, things really haven’t changed for better or worse. I know I need to make the call; I’ve set myself a deadline of the end of the week to do so.

So, for both of you (and I’m being generous) who have wondered where I have been and how I’ve been doing, there it is… in a nutshell? Not exactly. But you get the idea

~ by fatboyrunning on November 12, 2008.