Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The perils of Thanksgiving

This past weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada, and we went to visit the inlaws in Saskatoon. Despite being out of town and having plenty of other people around the house, I managed to fit in a couple of runs while there, upping my distance to 6.48k and 6.72k respectively (links are to the Runkeeper activity pages for those runs.

I'm quite pleased to see some of the updates to Runkeeper - it now allows selective map sharing for activities, which is a feature that I requested a while ago. It allows me to share my runs via the web, but lets me limit which maps are viewable. I'd rather not share my exact address with the world, and sharing a GPS map of my runs would do just that - as with most runners, the start and end points of my runs are at my house.

Runkeeper now has a publicly-viewable dashboard for each user, which is a pretty useful feature.

The bad news is that the combination of turkey, wine, and desserts added four pounds to my waistline in three days. I know that only some of that weight gain is 'real' - a lot of it is just the normal day-to-day variation in weight - but I need to cut down for the next week to bring my weight back to target. Nothing dramatic, just a few calories cut here and there.

I have some commitments that prevent me from running today, but I'll definitely hit the pavement tomorrow.

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