Fat Tuesday, Oh Yeah!

It's Fat Tuesday and boy do I feel fat. This winter I've endulged and become a bear, which means sleeping a lot, eating a lot and finally drinking a lot of beer. I ran three half marathons but not as well as I could have. I didn't train for them and was 30 pounds over my ideal marathon weight. Well, I wasn't actually 30 pounds over that weight until I finished off a burger, fries, onion rings, beer and later that night barbeque, more beer and a few chocolate-covered cherries. This was Sunday night after the AT&T Half Marathon.

Not that all of the added weight is fat. I'm still in the 11-12% body fat area. It's just some of the Body Atoms need to be pushed around. I'm not regretting the winter program. I came out of it with a new PR in the HM, stronger knees that needed a rest, stronger hamstrings and a rest for the head from training. I'm thinking I may repeat the same for next year and may even cut out the winter runs. It's just so hard for me to get motivated to go outside when it's in the thirties or below. Plus, since I enjoyed my time in the gym and my hamstrings need much more work, this sounds like the way to plan for now.

So with that, I'm cutting out the Capital 10,000 next month from my list of events. Running season is over while my triathlon season has now officially started. It's Fat Tuesday and 186 pounds is as fat as this bear got this winter. Heavy weight work is out and cardio is back in.

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