Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

  Funny t-shirt for Father’s Day.   And the gym seems to paying off. I am all signed up for my next 5K (the Saturday after July 4th) and I am signed up and committed to a 10K for my birthday month (October).   I still plan to do a 5K in August and a 5K in Septembrr on the way to the 10K.  I have been using the None To Run for my prep so far but I am going to switch gears and do a 13 week Jeff Galloway 10K to finish program starting the week after my July 5K.  He is Th master of the planned run-walk technique.   I was thinking that if I keep running then that would make a smooth transition to possibly a half marathon ... Is that a bridge too far for me?  We will see.  So far my knees are doing okay although I don’t like seeing my reflection when I am “running” … the image I see looks like a speed walker versus the runner I imagine in my head... Lol.  I am fluctuating around 223-229 pounds but I am still thinning out as I redustribute the weight with all the weight working out (as eviden

 So here we are … I have been at a prolonged plateau at about 230 pounds but making progress on all other fronts. I did my 5th 5K this past Saturday with a later life personal best of 44:25.97 which is very slow for accomplished runners but I am thrilled that I broke 45 minutes.   That is about a 14:20 / mile average … I think if I can get myself to 14 minutes that I will be ready for doing a 10K during my 60th birthday month in October.  I did that 5K non-stop but my dilemma is whether to keep going with a non-stop pace or switch to the Jeff Galloway Run/Walk ratio pacing … most the people around me at the 5K were doing some variant of that “Jeffing” kind of pacing.   i have been hitting the gym 2-3 times per week consistently for the past 28 weeks and I am feeling good about that.  I have been concentrating on upper body and to a lesser extent abdominals as I am concerned with hurting my kneess while I am trying to progress in the running side of the things. So that is the summary of