At least mine anyway.

1:46:27, woot!

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This is about 5 minutes better than last year.  Here’s why.  I trained less than last year, 3 - 4 runs a week, I weigh less than I did last year by about 5 pounds, and followed my heart.

By follow my heart I mean I used my heart monitor to make sure I stayed below (or there abouts) 180 bpm. I think that made a *big* difference.

I did NOT bonk at the 10.5 mile mark like I did during the previous two Robie Creek Races that I did.

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I’m running the Robie Creek half marathon next week and want to know if I will be running in snow?

I haven’t been up to Aldapa Summit this year on a training run to check it out.  Only a few weeks ago, the TV news mentioned crews were going up to plow the summit - that was March 18th.

I know we have had snow in the hills since then and I am hoping that it will be clear by next weekend, but it has been cold around here, most days the temperature is below freezing in Boise.

The only positive is that the temperature is supposed to warm up significantly this weekend; today 58F, Saturday 70F and Sunday 75F.

Leave a comment if you know the status of the snow conditions at the summit.

Not doing so good on the weight loss efforts recently.

And I know why.

I’m eating more.  Not a lot more, just enough to tip the scales (pun intended) in the unfavorable direction for weight loss.

And how do I know this?

Went on vacation recently with the family to southern Utah for the kid’s spring break.  What I didn’t do was keep the same eating schedule that I do when I am working.  Guess, what?  I was 2 pounds lighter after vacation than before vacation.

That tells me, I have been eating too much on a regular basis.  My weight is actually up a couple of pounds year to date.  Not good.

What am I going to do?

Stop the “extra” eating I have been doing.  I’ll be honest with myself - I have been eating this “power bar” type snack around lunch time that packs 250+ calories.  Do you think I really need those calories to get through the day?  No, I don’t.

Also, the biggie for losing weight last year was to NOT eat after dinner.  I still do that, BUT I have stretched the definition to what after dinner means.

Technically, I don’t eat anything after dinner - what I do do is just keep eating once the main meal is served for awhile longer.  I’m going to call that cheating and man up to the fact that I have been breaking the spirit of not eating after dinner.  Time to buck up and actually stop doing those things that are causing me to gain weight.

.. that’s what I did a couple of days ago along the Greenbelt here in Boise on a beautiful early spring day.

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Above is my heart rate for the 2 hour run.
A few things to note … the first mile or so - not sure why it shows my heart rate so […]

Stepped up the training effort for Robie Creek.  I actually ran every day last week, not much mind you, but I did make the effort to run for 20-30 minutes each workday.
One day, I put in an interval around the Boise high school track, 1 x 1600 meters in 6:03 - probably the fastest mile […]