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Should I run a half-marathon?

Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by .

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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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