Weighing Everyday

I know a lot of people are against it, but I've found myself checking my weight everyday. I always make sure I check it as soon as I get up in the morning.

I've heard many people say you shouldn't do it because it seems too obsessive, but I don't see why you can't do it.

Things are going well in terms of weight loss at the moment, so stepping on the scales in the morning is something I actually look forward to, knowing I've done a day of good eating and exercise.

It's really up to you whether you decide to go for weekly or daily weigh ins. If you're looking for huge losses and eating well and exercising right, then maybe holding off to once a week is the way to go. On the other hand, if you're like me and want to feel like you want to see daily results, albeit a smaller amount of loss per day compared to a week, then do it daily.

Do what suits you, but don't let people tell you it's obsessive if you weigh yourself daily!

5km Race Update

Disappointed with my 5km run this month. Managed 28.23, about 1.12 slower than last month. Here's how it stands...

July 5km - 34.02
August 5km - 30.22
September 5km - 27.11
October 5km - 28.23

I was really excited about this run, I genuinely thought I could achieve 25 mins. I've been working very hard on my interval running over this month, notching up about 8km in 45 mins.

I knew I had to run each km at 5 mins max, so I started off very strong, keeping up with the first half of the runners. At 1km, I clocked in at 5.07. So I was a little bit behind and i started to panic. I ended up doing too much in the second km which made things worse in the third and didn't leave me much to salvage in the last 2km.

I'll need to make some tweaks to my training now. I've already got a few things in mind. I'll start working on it from Tuesday.

I'm booked up to January for the 5km races. I'll definitely make an improvement in November.

Nike+ Sensor

So got that Nike+ Sensor over the weekend. Finally used it today and it's brilliant.

If you've not seen one before, here's what it looks like...



Basically, you've got two sensors, one that you connect to the bottom of your iPod and a second which goes inside your trainer. It only works with Nike+ trainers, because they have a little slot in the inside of the left shoe that you connect the sensor to.

Once you're up and running, you can set all sorts of runs, ie distance runs, timed runs, calorie burning runs. I used it for a 50 minute run, and every 10 minutes, it alerts you in your headphones how long you've run. I'm sure if I'd set it to 5km, it would alert me every km.

It's brilliant, I love it. You can get spoken feedback as you're running, so it keeps you going. It's got a power song feature too, which kicks in a chosen track for you when you need it for the last part of the run... I'm sure you might be thinking Eye Of The Tiger haha!!!

It's a good addition to your running, well recommended.