Soccer

Good game. It rained and I was rested. Played medium. I need to score goals. That is not happening for a while. But I played the whole game. I wonder if it is the run or just rest and diet that gave me the extra energy. We will see how I play Wednesday. Currently the plan is: light run Monday, weights Tuesday

Food

I have to cut down on my food intake of course. Rice will be the biggest challenge. I did good yesterday and today. Yesterday even after soccer I only had 4 slices of bread, two fat free Bologna slices and some cucumber. Today so far cereal, and a dinner of 1/2 cup rice, boiled pea and beans and a bit cottage cheese and a glass of orange juice. If that really is dinner and if I can just have a snack or something at night, this will be very impressive. Not sure what the snack would be though. It would have great to have some fruits. We will see - its all mind over matter.

Start again and again (and again)

Today I ran one of my slowest! I have not been running since April and my last regular runs were in October last year!! At a 14:44 pace, it took me 44:08 minutes to walk and run the 3 mile course. The problem was a groin pain after 2 miles and overall lack of confidence. I did not run out of breath. Maybe I should stretch more. The pain went away, so I suppose I got spooked a bit. My weight is now 158 pounds (hovers between 158 to 160). Ideally by Fall IM time (August 30th) I want to get to 140 pounds. That is 20 pounds!! And I have about 40 days. Is it possible? Probably not. But let see how much I can actually loose. I do not want to go on a starvation diet, need energy for soccer and work. But apart from that I am willing to give it a try.

I think I used to be 143 pounds and then at some point 138 or so .... needs to be verified from old diaries.