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So I just finished week 5 of training on Saturday.  This is the first week after our "deload" week.  It was easy.  The amount of work was a bit more than my week two training.  I'm trying to stair step up my time and not push it to hard. Each 4th week I kind of back off an do a CP test at the end of that week.  The first time around I took off the Monday from running but I'm not sure yet if I will do that this time around.  Time will tell. The biggest thing about this week is that I was able to input a couple of my runs that I did outside that were faster and a critical power test and my power jumped WAY up (my watch wasn't syncing with Stryd).  I went from 193 CP (LOL!) up to 261 CP I believe.  So I'm now running about where I think I should be. Saturday was my first day running at this power and it felt good.  Felt like I was doing something! Most of the running was in high zone 1 and low zone 2.  I'm really trying to take things easy....

 After a long break I'm back to running and I've got that itch.  I just want to run all the time!  I'm sure at some point every runner is like this. Things feel good and all of the races seem possible.  I'm not putting many miles in at this point.  I'm just building back up.  Currently maybe 6-8 miles per week...yeah not a lot.  Hopefully that becomes more over time but I also don't want to rush things.   I spent some time, after I started running again, reflecting on my hypothyroidism and I think part of that has to do with my running and not cycling things.  I wasn't getting any better or faster as I was training and I think I was just over trained all of the time.  So as I head into this next running season, if you will, I'm really paying attention to how I feel and making sure that I don't go overboard.  It also helps that I'm getting blood draws every 3-4 months to make sure things are staying good.  On top of that I ...

 Another week is in the books.  I'd love to say that I have lost a bunch of weight this last week but that is not the case.  While it didn't go up it didn't go down by as much as I had wanted.  The lowest weight that I saw on the scale was 214.6.  So it's still down from the 217.6 that I started at.  However today when I got on the scale I was at 216 which I've seen before.  Not sure why but that's what it is.  The lack of weight loss in the past would bother me, and it still does now, but I'm happy that I'm off of my blood pressure medication.  Numbers have been looking really good (this morning's was a bit higher than what I've seen however).  While the weight isn't going down I feel like I'm putting on some muscle, even if it's a small amount! I'm hopeful that at some point the weight will come off and I can begin to see onederland!  It's going to take time and some experimentation to get there.   A couple of things to ...

Week 2 starting weight: 212.8 (after running) Week 2 ending weight: 216.2 (WTF!) Starting waist measurement (8/29/2022): 40.5 Starting chest measurement (8/29/2022): 38.7 Waist measurement (9/12/2022): 39.9 Chest measurement (9/12/2022): 38.4 A big WTF stepping on the scale this morning.  It was lower than my starting weight on 8/29/2022 (217.6) but most of my weigh ins have been a lot less than what I saw this morning.  Not going to put to much thought into it and move on.  I will say that on Friday night I had my wedding anniversary and I did splurge a bit there, but it wasn't super bad.  Ate keto for the most part the rest of the weekend.  Just one of those mornings where things were up.   The measurements being down is nice.  I knew they would be down based on how my shirts were fitting.  My XL shirts are pretty lose and I should probably wear a large shirts but they are still just uncomfortable enough (ie: tight) that I'll stick with my ...

 Monday - Weighed in and took waist and chest measurements.  These are the two areas where I hope to lose some inches.  They have always been my problem areas.  Weight wasn't as high as I thought it would be but also kind of where I expected it to be. Also...MCT oil is the bomb...lots of energy! Tuesday - Weight higher than Monday but we aren't going to let that get us down.   Wednesday - Weight down 3 pounds from the weigh in on Tuesday.  Nice to see that.  However I was up twice in the night to go pee!  Also getting out of bed I got a major cramp in my leg.  I ended up taking a salt drink as I think that's the reason why I got it.  Hopefully there's not to much of this cause that cramp was painful. Worst I've had in my life! Thursday  - Weight down almost 2 pounds...but not quite.  This would be the lowest that I saw the scale.  While I kept keto during this time it was also when I didn't keep as good of records b...

 I hope that over the next few months I'll be good about documenting my journey as I try to transition to a low carb diet and continue to run and to top it off I've been diagnosed with hypothyroidism (I'm on medication).  Which might explain why it has been some damn hard to lose weight.  I probably won't be updating this blog every day but at least once a week I hope to.  As I've looked for information on hypothyroidism for men I've not found a lot so if at least one person happens upon this and it helps them it will be worth it.   So why low carb you might be asking?  There is a couple of reason's.  My wife is doing low carb to drop some weight and I'm going to be there to help support her.  It should be easier to make meals.  The other reason is that when you find information about losing weight with hypothyroidism a lot of it is low carb related or AIP (Auto Immune Protocol).  With AIP you are eliminating a bunch of stuff for a ...

 I've had a draft post about my running 2022 goals.  Obviously that time has passed and even in that time a lot has changed.  Originally, and I probably mentioned it here, I was going for a trail race 30K in a couple of weeks in Bryce Canyon Utah.  Well for various reason's that's not going to happen. What I'm 99.99% sure will happen is that I will run my first half marathon on the 29th of May.  So just about a little over a week out.  So that's what I've been training for after I decided to not to the Bryce Canyon run.  It's worth explaining why I'm not doing the Bryce Canyon run.  The main thing is that it was to much in my head.  I'd been training for it since December I think.  And it just kept getting bigger and bigger in my head.  Along the way I got sick, which is no biggie.  I took a few days off. What was a bigger deal was that I also had a bout of sudden onset of vertigo.  This took me out for a week.  Now i...