3 Weeks Until My 1st Marathon

3 Weeks until Santa Clarita. Current tonnage: 228.

I am a proud Giant. Short of being lost in the desert for a few weeks I'll never lose my Giant status but I'm hoping to get to 220 for Santa Clarita. And down to 210 by Tough Mudder in late February. The challenge is to not shed muscle mass in the process. I have no interest in being a waif-like marathon runner. That is why I do so much strength training.

I've been eating something like the Paleo Diet but with a cheat day on Friday's. For these last 3 weeks I'm skipping the cheat days. Post Marathon is pizza time.

This picture is the last time I weighed 228. I could only do 20 push ups then. Now I can do a few more.

From Bootcamp Challenge

Carb Loading

City to the Sea is two days away, but I figured a little carb loading today would be good so we headed over to Gordon Biersh for lunch. Given that it's October a little German Engineered Electrolyte Replacement Drink seemed appropriate.

German Engineered Electrolyte Replacement Drink

Apparently if you win the Berlin Marathon you get a GIANT beer...who knew.  Actually the alcohol free variety shown above is probably not too bad as a post run beverage.   Maybe Running Giants should go check that out next year, hopefully you don't need to win to get one.  Ich bevorzuge, dass mein Bier Alkohol haben, bitte.