Woke up Monday feeling awful. Been battling a cold the last couple of days. Starting to feel better now, but no weigh in this week.

169.2 lbs, 33.5 waist, 16.5 neck. At just 3 ounces over my last weigh in, I consider this to be essentially "no gain" over the last 2 weeks. Considering I was sick and not being as careful with my eating as I otherwise would have been, I'm pleased (especially now that I'm feeling better). The experiment of moving and expanding the eating window didn't work especially well. I'm back to a 5 hour window starting at 5 p.m.

Nolan Shaheed, another advocate of intermittent fasting. Who knew? http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=15251

The trouble with a Sunday long run before a Monday weigh in. 165.8 lbs., 33.25 waist, 16 neck, 13.5% fat. FWIW I was 167.0 before I left on the long run yesterday (when I go long I weigh out and weigh in to monitor my hydration). That pre-run weight seems closer to reality, so I may still need more hydration. 2.2 pounds in a week would be a lot of weight, 3.4 pounds seems outlandish. Accordingly I don't put much stock in today's measurements.

Also, it sounds like you are running some very long long runs; lots of calories burned on those long runs could make you loose more weight - hopefully body fat lost, not just water. Did you eat or drink anything with nutrients on your 20 mile long run?

Call it 2500 calories burned on yesterday's run - a very rough guess. That's not even 1 pound of fat, if all my calories were coming from fat, which surely they weren't. I'm pretty confident that it's nearly all water weight. I had a carb beverage over the last 10 miles, but until now my long runs have all been carb free. Yesterday I was not feeling fresh, though, and the carb supplementation over the last 10 helped, but it's a sign I was not burning enough fat to run that distance economically.

Why are you not posting anything in the "Expose your slowtwitchers thread"? Do you not like to share information about your daily runs? Or is there just not enough time to bother with that? We would get to know you better as a runner if you "exposed" your runs to the community.

Truth be told, I don't care much for the RuningAHEAD online log. I don't want the "Expose" thread to turn into my personal online diary, either. I tried that for a while, but I don't think it added much. I post there occasionally when I have something insightful to share. I have an old fashioned paper running diary that I keep. FWIW - I am doing a really short marathon build up. I run long roughly every 10 days, followed by 4 or 5 days of sub MAF recovery. If I feel really recovered after 4 or 5 days then I will do a Yasso 800 workout and follow it with another 4 or 5 days of sub MAF recovery. If I don't feel strong enough for the Yasso's I skip them and just focus on recovery. I don't wear my HRM for the long runs - and don't wear a watch either - I run them completely by feel looking for a strong solid effort. So basically it's a hard long run, lots of rest, with a highly optional pace driven workout in the middle. Today was a 45 minute walk at an average HR of 114 (MAF - 28).

BTW, good job with your dedication to loosing weight. It sounds like you are at a nice point with your weight already - I don't know - what's your height? What is your goal in terms of weight?

Thanks! My original goal was 162 pounds - a net 10% drop from my starting weight of 180. I am 5'11". I am now thinking that further weight loss will be a second priority until I'm finished with my marathon. I need to be fully fueled for the long runs.

"A man's log never exposed grows in the imagination" -- Jog Tzu The Seven Levels Of Data Consciousness

Correction - Monday's walk was 39:28, but felt like 45. My log has been reactivated, but it's frustrated me already trying to keep the data. I am disappointed with the runningAHEAD mapping function - it couldn't digest my course from Sunday. There's also a lot of shoe changes to catch up and trying to figure out how to add "walking" to my workouts was a little more complicated than it needed to be. Jimmy, don't tag me with a WAW here, cause I'm only whining about RA not MAF.

Jimmy, don't tag me with a WAW here, cause I'm only whining about RA not MAF.

What's a WAW? Actually, I don't care if you post your log on the internet or not. I was just making a double entendre for entertainment purposes. --Jimmy