Eight month check-in. Still losing weight with little effect on body fat percentage.
Input Goal: Run 130x / 10 months = 13x/month.
Performance: Mar 5x, April 5x, May 9x, June 13x, July 12x, August 12x, September 11x, October 10.
Total runs 77.
Results Goal: Drop from 33% body fat to 30%.
Results: Body fat now maybe 31%.
Notes: Foot pain has not improved. Had been improving a little; raised workout effort slightly, got immediate skyrocketing in arch pain. Revisited doctor, was instructed to reduce running. Will do so grudgingly but seek some alternate exercise.
Have been doing prescribed physical therapy to work on short head tendonitis. Feels more painful than before, but PT claims we are on track to resolve probably this month. I hope they're right! However, they also sternly instructed me to not add any strength work until they're done.
Year end check in. Achieved results goal!
Input Goal: Run 130x / 10 months = 13x/month.
Performance: Mar 5x, April 5x, May 9x, June 13x, July 12x, Aug 12x, Sep 11x, Oct10x, Nov 7x, Dec 2x.
Total runs 86 = 8.6x/month.
Results Goal: Drop from 33% body fat to 30%.
Results: Body fat 29.25%.
Notes: Completed physical therapy for upper body at start of December. No medical progress medically on feet, but learned some tricks from a running shoe company owner and began applying them. Did not find much alternate aerobic exercise, but enjoyed a trip to the Andes and hiked to the top of a mountain there (maybe 14,000 feet altitude), and did one glorious 34 minute run at 9000 feet. Did a few pushups and squats in December, and pullup attempts... I can now do one pullup on a good day, up from zero. Somehow this slack December gained 3 lbs muscle and lost 2 pounds fat, nudging me under 30% body fat at last.