215.2 - down most of a pound from yesterday morning.

215.2 - down most of a pound from yesterday morning.

Not bad. Goal is to hit the low 213's sometime this week. Given the sort of swings that occur for me, that seems reasonable.

I ran a 5k last night. On the treadmill, despite it being a gorgeous night. Right now, I can better control how fast I run on the treadmill -- though, soon, I want to start training outside.

There's a 5k race I've done twice. I'm shooting to do it again, and beat my previous times. I'm not a fast runner -- I'm fat and have a bad knee, so I never will be -- but I enjoy knowing it is something I can do.

This is harder than I remember it being, and I think there's three reasons for that:
1. It is early in the season, and I'm still waking up from Winter torpor.

2. My job has gotten more stressful and more time consuming, so it is harder to get home at 5:30 and run -- instead I get home at 6:30. This isn't really a complaint -- I got a big promotion back in October, and am mostly doing the job I want. And, if I do it right, this job gets eliminated in a year or two.

3. The incentives are less motivating. The bets that are on the line will, if I lose, make the world marginally worse for myself and my friends -- but a relatively large amount of money going to an evil organization with my name attached ... yeah. By this I mean the subjective feeling of pressure is much reduced -- it merely gnaws at me, rather than screaming in the constant forefront of my mind.

I prefer this way. I think it'll still work.