Day 96

Calories burned at the gym today: 485

This morning I stepped on the scale for my weekly weigh-in. I was up two pounds from last week. I was not in the mood for that this morning, so before eating breakfast I went to the gym and did my workout. Then I came home and weighed myself again. I was a pound less. Then I ate breakfast.

Some may call this manipulating the results, but those people have obviously never fought an epic battle with the scale. So deal with it. That number is about to start dropping like it's hot.

I found a half-marathon training schedule that I like off of this site. There are more legit looking sites out there without the kind of creepy old guy on them, but this man seems to really know what he's talking about, and I just like this plan the best.

Week	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue
1	Stretch Strengthen	3 m run	2 m run or cross	3 m run + strength	Rest	30 min cross	4 m run
2	Stretch Strengthen	3 m run	2 m run or cross	3 m run + strength	Rest	30 min cross	4 m run
3	Stretch Strengthen	3.5 m run	2 m run or cross	3.5 m run + strength	Rest	40 min cross	5 m run
4	Stretch Strengthen	3.5 m run	2 m run or cross	3.5 m run + strength	Rest	40 min cross	5 m run
5	Stretch Strengthen	4 m run	2 m run or cross	4 m run + strength	Rest	40 min cross	6 m run
6	Stretch Strengthen	4 m run	2 m run or cross	4 m run + strength	Rest or easy run	Rest	5-K Race
7	Stretch Strengthen	4.5 m run	3 m run or cross	4.5 m run + strength	Rest	50 min cross	7 m run
8	Stretch Strengthen	4.5 m run	3 m run or cross	4.5 m run + strength	Rest	50 min cross	8 m run
9	Stretch Strengthen	5 m run	3 m run or cross	5 m run + strength	Rest or easy run	Rest	10-K Race
10	Stretch Strengthen	5 m run	3 m run or cross	5 m run + strength	Rest	60 min cross	9 m run
11	Stretch Strengthen	5 m run	3 m run or cross	5 m run + strength	Rest	60 min cross	10 m run
12	Stretch & Strengthen	4 m run	3 m run or cross	2 m run	Rest	Rest	Half Marathon

 I already went in and tweaked the order of the days at the top so that it fits my schedule better, and I will have to make some more changes as I go, to adjust for race dates and such, but that is that basic outline for what I am about to begin. I'm going to have about two extra weeks of training, so I'll just go back and repeat a couple weeks somewhere in there. When it says "cross", it means "cross training". On those days I'll do biking or the elliptical.

I am pretty excited.

I saw this comic in the paper today. I dedicate it to all of my fellow bloggers.

This gives me an idea for a new advertising campaign...

"Congrats! You are currently losing approximately half a pound! Come celebrate weight lost at stephshundred.blogspot.com"

Naw.

Too wordy.