I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon. Before hopping on the scale for the requisite weight-in, I emptied my pockets of everything including every scrape of lint, took my wallet out of my pocket, removed the Crackberry, and got rid of my car keys. I did everything short of stripping down to my skivvies and then I took off my shoes and got on.....226 Lbs. Bloody hell - are you kidding me?!? As I've said previously, that is without a doubt the Devil's scale.
So, I'm back on Lipitor, but now I know that my high cholesterol is more a genetic thing than a weight thing. Or so the doctor says, and after loosing 60+ Lbs I am inclined to believe her.
More importantly for my little exercise in insanity, my doctor filled out the Medical Certificate that I am required to provide to the Paris Marathon organizers as their waiver should I keel over during the race. Since I did not have to provide one when I did the Denver half-marathon back in October, I will chalk this up to the legendary French Bureaucracy. I will now send this document by First Class mail to France and my registration will be complete! One more step on the long journey completed.
Training update: Hell is still frozen over here in Colorado Springs, so I hit the gym again. Did 60 minutes on the elliptical cross-trainer. 901 Calories burned. When I got home, the bathroom scale registered 222.2 Lbs. Now granted I was still slightly dehydrated from the workout, but this was just more proof that the scale in the doctor's office is an agent of evil. Playlist: Chickenfoot.
Tomorrow will be a rest day (I'm trying to do 3 days on, 1 day off) as I get ready for the first race of the Pike's Peak Road Runner's "Winter Series" on Saturday, which will be a 10K trail run in Cheyenne Mountain park. Hopefully the weather will warm up a tad. Check it out at www.pprrun.org.
Best of luck for tomorrow.
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