Daily Running

Now my knee has mostly recovered, I am able to run again. I think running is one of the best ways to lose weight since it is physically demanding, gets your heart rate up and is fairly enjoyable due to being able to vary the routes you take and observe the scenery around you.

To start with I run very slowly and head for a hill. Then I make my way up the hill at almost walking pace. At the top, if I am very exhausted I may walk for a few minutes to get my breath back.

Then the run is on level ground until the point of descent down a gentle gradient. Here I can enjoy the view of the city below and the distant hills, river and trees.

At the base of the descent, I head back alongside the river and finally back home. In all, this takes me about 30 minutes.

So it is a nice route that doesn’t take too long to complete and I can do this almost every day since it is not too demanding on the leg muscles.

I actually made a spreadsheet to get an idea of how much fat weight I may lose.

In a Kg of fat there are 1588 calories. And when running we burn around 0.95 Calories per Kg per km that we run. So using these figures I created a spreadsheet table to suggest how much weight I could lose by running every day.

I assumed that I would get faster and run longer each time as my weight dropped.

My goal is to lose 10Kgs from my starting weight of 98Kgs. It seems like it is possible to do this after 1 month but it may turn out to be too hard to keep running everyday and increasing distance and speed.

For example, after 30 days I should be running 10 kilometers in under 1 hour.

I will have to report back on how it goes in a month’s time.

Wish me luck!