One Day in a Row

Well, so here I am for the second time in a long, long time, as promised. Cutting to the chase, here's the info:

Meal	Item Name	Calories
breakfast	All Natural String Cheese	80
breakfast	Oats 'N Honey Granola Bar	190
morning snack	Beef Jerky - Original	70
morning snack	Diet Big Red	0
lunch	Baked Lays Ruffles Original	120
lunch	Diet Coke	0
lunch	Dried Pineapple	140
lunch	6" Subway Turkey/Ham On Flatbread	395
dinner	Apples	75
dinner	Chips And Salsa	150
dinner	Saidie's Chicken Enchiladas	453
dinner	Refried Beans	140
dinner	Sopapillas- 1 With Honey	630

As you can see, everything was going fine until after our track workout tonight...pinche Sadies. Like I said, however, up until that point, things were going fine:

Exercise	Min.	Cal.	Distance
Swim	40	879	1.00 miles
Run	45	989	4.80 miles

That's a total of 2651 calories consumed, and 1868 burned, w/a reserve of 1416 calories (though if you ask me, that number for the enchiladas is probably more than a little light). I keep that up for a couple of weeks and we might actually see something.

Throwin' down the gauntlet

So here's the deal: Garden of the Gods is less than 3 weeks away. Yesterday I did the fastest 7 mile run I've ever done, but it still averaged out to about 12:15 a mile on very flat terrain. That pace puts me at 2:04:30 and that's before adding in elevation, inclines and just general fatigue that comes with a longer distance. This has me more than a little worried.

So, what to do. Well, what can I do besides throw my back in to this from now until I leave for Colorado on June 10. My goal is to get in at least one workout every day (I'm on the fence about whether lifting is going to count) and to try and stay on the good-eats wagon until that Sunday morning after the race. While the workout goal is stiff enough, the eating thing is going to be the real challenge. Two+ weeks on the wagon will not be easy, but I really need to get this under control if I'm going to leave myself a relatively comfortable margin in the GotG...and be ready for the Ascent. So not only will I be keeping track of the usual weight and workout numbers, I'm gong to try and be serious and faithful about keeping the eating log. If I'd keeping one of late, I'd probably be even more scared about the upcoming event(s).