Speed Limit

While cruising mostly on grass and through a short asphalt section (at Manteo Middle School) I realized I can finally break the speed limit! And with that discovery came the thought that my weight loss has reached a plateau because I still perceive 100 miles as a long distance within one week. As a result I have been eating more with a fear mindset, the fear that I won't have enough calories to meet the year-long goal. Well, reading Meditations From the Breakdown Lane has significantly helped adjust that perspective. So I am now determined to run 100 miles between Sunday and Wednesday each of the last twelve weeks so I can use Thursday and Friday to hammer out other exercises to get under my fastest lifetime running weight. Week 41 was a successful 101.6 miles in 4 days with added swimming, biking, and the elliptical on Thursday and Friday. But what has been a more noticeable benefit is the mental rest; I have not been absorbed with "have to" and have been truly able to enjoy the "want to." See you in two weeks (another adjustment I have made...less blogging during the last quarter).