The Weight Battle and Wild Turkey Run

Thanksgiving is going to start out fun with all 3 kids running with me in a 5 mile "Turkey Trot" in Salem. Marianne and our friend Jeff will be running it as well so it should be a good time. I'll be treating it as a training run as I'm still nervous about my calf injury (although it has felt perfectly fine for a few days now), and I will have run 8 miles about 12 hours earlier. Plus I'd like to run it with Aaron, Ellen or both. (I assume Ethan will be ahead of me in any event).

I'm pursuing my "white whale" weight loss goal, which is to weigh 175 lbs. Given that I was 163 lbs when I graduated Marine Corps OCS when I was 23, and was so lean that my mother was shocked on seeing me, 175 lbs is probably pretty close to the limit for me these days while still staying healthy. I'd love to be 175 when we head off to Disney World in January.

I started keeping track of my weight again back in July when it had started to creep back up. Here's the history since then:

I ran the Clarence DeMar marathon in September about 187 lbs. For some reason, I had a lot of nervous energy in the runup to the Harborside Half last week, which both burned calories in itself and suppressed my appetite, leading to a big drop in the space of a week. Since then I've managed to break through the 180 barrier to 179 but it's definitely hard going from here. Hopefully the return to faster training paces after the injury recovery will knock off those final few pounds.