Luckily the weather cooperated and I was able to a backwards brick, which consisted of a 5k run followed by a ten-mile bike ride. Neither of these distances is especially impressive, but I haven't combined workouts in forever and old men like me have to pace themselves. My goal for both the run and the ride was to put out a consistent 75-80% effort. In other words, I wanted to see what I could do, but be sure to save enough to get home. Looking at the numbers my HRM collected, I'm fairly happy with the turnout. I finished the run at around 23:00, took my time changing shoes and getting on the bike and then finished a fairly hilly ten-miler at around 35:00. Counting the "transition," I worked out for a total of 1:11: 33, with an average heart rate of 143 (which my monitor tells me is 78% of my theoretical max).
In related news, the diet creeps along. I've been stalled in the lower 180s for the last week or two (see below), but at 182--what the scale said after my workout today--I've lost exactly twenty pounds since I began eating more carefully in the beginning of January. I've added some muscle in the upper-body region, so I don't know what my fat loss might work out to be, but I can feel the difference--especially in my runs. That said, I'd probably be closer to 175 if it weren't for things like this:
Cake Balls
whimpering of reason in the back of your head.
Actually, these weren't as good as I hoped they'd be, but they're still cake-and-frosting balls so how much can I complain?
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