Should I run a half-marathon?

Posted on 18. Aug, 2010 by in Weight Loss

Should I run a half marathon?

A couple friends of mine are running the half marathon in November and they asked me if I wanted to run it as well.

The only problem I have is I don’t want to lose anymore weight. So I’m going to have to eat a lot more, most likely over 2500 calories per day.

The problem with eating more is that I’ve come to enjoy proteins. Proteins that fill you up and have low calories.

I wake up in the morning and I have eggs with toast and orange juice. And then for a snack. I might have a boiled egg, and then later maybe a protein shake. Then for lunch I would have chicken or a turkey sandwich. And then maybe some sort of low-carb snack.

There are carbs in there, a good amount. But I think I need to eat more carbs if I want to increase my calories per day. The bad thing is I don’t know a lot of healthy carbs to eat. For example, today I ate a bagel, some chips with salsa, a couple pieces of chocolate, and I think that was it for breakfast.

It made sense that several hours later I felt very tired I still feel very tired and fatigued, I think it was my blood sugar that spiked and then went down. So I don’t like a lot of carbs.

I just finished off a protein shake, which is waking me up a little bit right now, I am slowly getting my energy back. I’m about to make some salmon for a mid afternoon snack.

Sorry for the randomness of this post, I’m actually writing it all by just my voice. I’m using this application on my iPad, which is called dictation. I believe that’s what it’s called, no it’s called Dragon dictation!

It’s pretty nice I like it very much. I wrote all this with just my voice in a couple minutes. :)

So what do you think, should I run a half marathon and risk losing more weight? That’s my biggest concern over the half marathon, I’m pretty sure I can do it. It’s just that the increased cardio workouts, the training, will increase my calorie burning per day which I really do not need right now.

So what do you think?

Jay,

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3 Responses to “Should I run a half-marathon?”

  1. Greg@Greg's Transformation

    19. Aug, 2010

    i don’t think you have to cut back on the protein just augment it with more carbs like an extra slice of bread or extra cup of rice for lunch. An extra slice of bread is a 100 calories a cup of brown rice is around 200. You can easily add the extra calories with some good carbs.
    As for running a half marathon concentrate on finishing and pick a good training plan like Hal Higdon’s. Good luck!
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  2. David

    19. Aug, 2010

    13 miles is a long ways. Do you do that sort of cardio? I’m pretty messed up after 5 miles so I wouldn’t do it. Definitely challenge yourself but make sure that’s your thing. I don’t think one race will have a bad effect on your muscle goals. Cool dictation app. I should try that.
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