The Life and Times of the Watters Family

A New Regimen For A New Year

Beginning this week (starting Monday, January 2nd), I started a new training program and diet.1 You can check out the workout I’ve put together here.

The short-term goal is pretty simple. Lose fat. I’ll be running the Portland Marathon again this year (2006). I’d like to improve, dramatically if possible, on my time of 5:17:34. One way I can do that is by reducing the amount of fat that I have to haul down the road. In 2005, my race weight was 254 lbs. I’d like to be down to about 225 lbs (or lower!!) for the 2006 race. I weighed in at just a hair above 255 lbs this morning, so that’s about 30 lbs to go. I’d like to lose as much of the weight as possible (if not all of it) before May 29th. That’s when I’ll start training specifically for the marathon again and I’d like to be able to focus solely on my training and simply worry about maintaining my weight. That leaves me just about 20 weeks, so I’ll have to average about 1.5 lbs/wk over that stretch. Again, the goal is to lose fat, so I’ll be doing some strength training in order to maintain/improve muscle mass.

So far things have gone pretty well. I wasn’t able to run as long as I would’ve hoped on Monday, but I was able to go for a walk with the family, so at least I got some activity in.

Tuesday’s strength training went almost according to plan, except that I had to workout in my bedroom instead of the office, where I would normally workout, because there was (is) a bunch of stuff on the floor of the office. I watched the tail end of a great Orange Bowl between Penn State and Florida State.

This morning (Wednesday) I ran three miles. If I had been paying close attention, I would’ve noticed that my schedule actually called for me to run 4 miles today. I just changed it so that I’ll run the four miles tomorrow instead.

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