Progress Report

Warning: high geek content ahead.

As noted in a early post, my short term focus is getting to a good racing weight rather than training. Today I dropped below 150 pounds, so there is less than 15 pounds to go. (I'm using a weighted moving average instead of daily scale readings to track weight. It's a much more accurate approach.) Over the past month, that's a little less than 1.8 pounds per week, which is more than I was anticipating. As long as it's less than 2 pounds per week, though, I won't worry.

Looking at the numbers from my bio-impedance scale (in which I put very little stock), I'm carrying 24.2 pounds of fat. Assuming as a (doubtlessly unrealistic) best case that I reach my goal through fat loss only, my body fat would be 9.5%. While definitely lean, that's not a crazy insane number; it's not at the 6% to 8% level of professional triathletes. More realistically, I'll probably end up between 10% and 12%. So for now I conclude that it will still be very tough to get to 135 and stay there, but if I do make it, it won't require restructuring the fabric of Einsteinian space-time.