Pheidippides’s BodyBlog

I met my May diet goal, with the scale showing I weighed 168 when I got up this morning.  The BF measurement was a bit odd — it showed I was 18.4% rather than 17, which it showed yesterday, but I attribute that to a significant error factor in the machine.  I think I’m really somewhere between.

That’s one of only two times I’ve weighed 168 since I start keeping measurements on this site 1 1/2 years ago.  With more focus and diligence, this time, that number will become a ceiling, not a floor, and I’ll continue to shed unwanted flab and pounds.  Already I’ve lost some flab around the middle.  I wouldn’t say my abs have definition yet — I’d say I have about 3% more BF to lose before I get even a hint of real abs showing — but they are looking more presentable than a month earlier.  Enough, anyway, that I’ve run without a shirt a couple of times.  Yesterday I ran mid-day, completely sunny, temp in the low 90s (mild by Sacramento summer standards).  Too hot for a top.

The bigger advantage with the weight loss is faster running times.  If I can lose 5% of my weight (say, drop from 173 pounds, my approximate last race weight, to 164 pounds), then I should be able to improve running time by about 5% as well (according to some experts I’ve read).  That would mean lopping about another minute from my current 5K time of 19:30.  That is very strong motivation! 

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