Running again
The good news is my Achilles tendon seems mostly to have healed in the last week, allowing me to run on Saturday for the first time in 18 days. I ran pretty slowly, totaling 5 miles. I plan to run again today. We’ll see how that goes. I’m not yet sure how much the layoff has affected my fitness.
One thing it has affected is my weight. I’ve gone up to 174.8 as of today, although my BF hasn’t gone up much (it’s at 17.2%, according to scale, although the reading fluctuates every day). The good thing is that with all the pushups and hard running I’ve done over the last three months a good portion of the gain seems to be muscle rather than fat, but the bad news is it’s going to be hard to get anywhere near my weight goal by Labor Day. At this point my goal is to get solidly under 170 pounds by September. I don’t want to be focusing on weight loss during my fall training.
The other goods news is I did a single set of 52 pushups on Sunday, the most, I think, that I’ve EVER done at any point in my life. I may have done that many once a couple of years ago, but never more. I’m within sight of my 55-pushup goal to be achieved by Labor Day.
August 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
Your strength gains will help your running. 3 more pushups, you can nail that by the end of he week. Keep moving forwards and enjoy your journey.