Wednesday, August 11, 2010

We Learn From Our Mistakes…

Or so the saying goes. If this was true, then I don’t know why I tried to eat all day yesterday without logging my food until the evening. Here’s the damage:

  • Daily calorie budget: 1762
  • Food consumed: 2944
  • Exercise calories: 760
  • Net calories: 2184 (422 calories over budget! Yikes!)

If you notice – there are some exercise calories there. My son and I finished seven hill repeats charging from the Back Bay to Jamboree Road on San Joaquin Hill Road:

Running Lower Back Bay 8-10-2010, Elevation - Distance

Add a mile warm up and a mile warm down for 5 and half really painful miles. My legs are really feeling it today.

I’ll be out for three miles easy this evening. And hopefully an answer to the question of what I use to track my calories….

14 comments:

  1. Wow Hills! Hope your legs feel better! Looks like a tough run!

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  2. everytime i read your posts, i am reminded that i should be tracking my diet again; i've gotten lazy about that. not so much for actual numbers, but more to see how my diet balances out between carbs, fat and protein. thanks for the motivation.

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  3. Killer hill repeats! I ran that hill twice during a run and was dying...major props for using that one for a big hill repeat session.

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  4. I should track my calories, but so much of what I eat is homemade and uses many ingredients. I think it might be tough to estimate.

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  5. I don't know why I don't get on top of my food log; I do soooo much better when I do. Something mentally not clicking there. Awesome hill repeats, though - woohooo!! Ok, today you (and me) are going to be better at tracking our intake, ok? Ok!!

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  6. Well, now! With your metabolism I am sure that you will poop those other 500 calories out in no time dude. I wouldn't sweat it, unless its a daily thing. At least you are out there running and living a healthy life now. But now, I am more conscience of my food intake thanks to you. lol. Protein, carbs, fats, etc... Take care.

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  7. my wife is keeping a log of what she eats these days. i have done a little in the past. logging just never worked for me, and it got a little tidious. in that i really eat pretty much the same thing each day - fish and chix. oh, i know i have things i should not eat - yet at the end of 35-40 mile week of running - i deserve my bottle of coca cola bottled in mexico with pure cane sugar.

    i have your sierra bishops ultra on my radar. not ready to make that commitment yet.

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  8. You went up throw-up hill, 7 times?!? Props!

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  9. i put hills on my sched for the week... haven't done them yet. :) can i just copy and paste this into my workout log? that gives the same benefit right?

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  10. Kovas, you could use a food tracker that allows you to enter recipes - SparkPeople's nutritional tracker has that feature. It's great because I can enter a recipe and then see what the nutritional facts look like and then I can easily add it to my daily nutritional tracker.

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  11. Nice work on the hills.

    Good job tracking the calories. One of these days you will get annoyed enough to start hitting your target. If you weren't tracking then your head would be in the sand. Just keep tracking.

    Never give up!

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  12. Remember the photo of that stone circle from my trip? Some stones were on a long uphill and I saw a couple guys doing hill repeats. The setting almost (but not really) made me want to run again. Very cool.

    Vegetables, vegetables and more vegetables, that's the key!

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  13. My legs are tired from looking at that elevation chart- very impressive!

    In the past, I have a hard time tracking my food throughout the day. I guess it really is important in keeping us in check!

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  14. HOLY CRAP.

    That is all I have to say about taht elevation chart.

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