146.5

But I almost forgot to weigh in! The phone rang just after I went to the bathroom this morning and from then on my day was in full swing. I had actually poured the milk on my cereal before I remembered to weigh myself. I had to run upstairs while my breakfast was getting soggy! If it hadn't been a Tuesday I wouldn't have bothered. But there it is. I've had this same weight two days in a row, so it's probably accurate. I'm relieved to see a number in this range, after my post-Poland high weights. I haven't had to do anything special to get back to this. It's still a couple of pounds up, but that's more reasonable than the 5 or so I thought I was seeing.

Yesterday at the gym I tried doing my run/walk on the track instead of the treadmill, thinking that the unnatural pacing on the treadmill when I walk is causing the problem with my calf. But by the end of 30 minutes on the track my calf still hurt. So I think it's just irritated and is going to keep on being so for a long time -- I didn't run for nearly two weeks, which is supposed to be plenty of recovery time for an ordinary pulled muscle, but it still acts up. Phooey.

I was pleased to find that I fell very comfortably into a 57 to 59-second loop when I was running; it's a 1/9 mile track, so that's faster than a 9-minute pace. Of course, the walk section canceled out the few seconds I gained on that 9 minutes, and then some, so I only finished about 3.2 miles in the half hour, but I'm definitely not complaining. Running on the track is boring as all get-out, though. It's too short a loop to be remotely interesting, but I can't completely zone out the way I would on the treadmill. I was listening to a podcast and only caught half of it, I fear. On the treadmill I get most of it and on the road I listen to music. The track sucks -- too boring for just music but too much work for a podcast.