Out in the snow

So, Theres lots to share on the health and fitness front, which i will do here – i will also try to get back into the habit of blogging. Some random information on my Progress so far.

• My loss in the last 60 days has reached 12.4 kilos.
• I ran 66km in november – a total of 9 hours.
• I have a total of 28.5 kilo fat mass.
• Average Blood pressure is 121/74 average BPM 55

On a plus side is none of my clothes are too tight any more which is cool.  I am a little bit trepid going into december though. Yesterday was my birthday, and i suspended the diet for a day. December has been tough for a couple of reasons. Firstly with christmas coming sticking to a diet is going to be challenging. Second is the weather – in sweden there have been snow storms which have made going out running even with the proper equipment fairly impossible. The regular routes i take just don’t work because they are not all on regularly used paths, so are not all cleared. I can run over snow or over ice, because i have a set of ice studs but where you have varying densities and depths of snow the likelihood of hurting yourself increases exponentially. I will have to come up with new routes that are in more common places.

The cold by itself hasn’t caused much of a problem and i have a good set of winter clothes – i find my running kit growing though – i currently have

• Running shoes (Nike Air +)
• SOC running trousers
• Soc Running Jacket
• 2 x thermal shirts
• SOC running socks
• Stadium reflective armband
• iPhone
• Wool hat
• a neck scarf
• Polar H7 heart monitor
• Capacitive wooly type gloves (that work with iphone)
• arm band holder for the iPhone

… its a lot of stuff. Walking is a bit easier – i have a Peak Performace Goretex jacket which is just crazily warm for this weather – too hot in anything above -10 and comfortable if i wear it with a T-shirt in the negative 20-30 range.

Going out in anything up to -10 I can do with the clothes in the pic.  The jacket is a peak performance fleece that is ok with a little bit of wind – under it i had a thermal shirt. The trousers are an old pair of North Face trousers that i can now fit back into after a long time without them. They are good for extremely cold conditions too, and are probably overkill for the light cold that I see in southern sweden.

The next thing to do with my health and fitness checklist is to start to examine what i am actually eating – and making sure as well as meeting my calorie intake i am also meeting daily requirements for things like fat, sugar, carbs, protein – i am monitoring these values already, but need to get the balances right.