I guess I have a blogging backlog

As far as yesterday went...

It was a recovery run. I felt good and had to constantly put on the brakes as I noticed I was going too fast. That is one thing that I always find hard to do, is not go out and give 100% every time. In every sport I played as a kid my coaches would always be talking about giving maximum effort. One quote that really stuck with me was

"You will play the way you practice, so practice the way you want to play"

I want to run fast, so how do I run fast? I run slow during practice. Such a strange philosophy in running. But it works.

Also yesterday at my university, the health and human performance department had their annual health fair, and a friend of mine have a yearly competition to see who has the lowest body fat %. The first year we did it, I came in at about 6% and he was about 7%. Then last year I blew his 8% out of the water with my 4%. This year he came in at 10% keeping his trend going, and I keeping mine got 2.9% body fat.

Now this is not a good thing. The minimum amount of body fat to be considered healthy is about 8%. I guess last year my switching from skim milk to 2% and margarine to butter did not quite work. I eat about 4000 calories a day and plenty of fatty foods, I just burn it all up. Perhaps I need to start eating 5000 calories a day, but that would make me sick. Hell last week I got a gallon of chocolate ice cream and ate that in 3 days! How do I gain some fat? I wish I could just have people sell me their fat and I then burn it off for them. That way I would make money by selling burn calories, and I would also save on my grocery bill! Now to find a way to sell burnt calories....