It is not hard to figure out at the weight you have reduced and the time you have spent achieving this. Suppose you weigh 180 pounds, and you generally run 5 miles a day at 1 mile per 8 minutes with the consumption of 124 calories after the initial stage of exercise passes through, that is to say, 620 calories are dissipated in the 5 miles every day. Your body-everybody’s is alike in fact-gains and lose the same 3500 calories per pound. Thus, according to your pace, if you absorb the same amount of calories every day, 1 pound will be reduced every five and two thirds days, say, about 5 pounds weight loss a month. You have to make some rectifications in your plan momentarily as the decrease of calorie consumption per mile along with your weight drops little by little.

Of course, your weight will be stable finally. At which pound your weight can remain hinges on the amount you eat and the distance you run. My weight dropped very quickly when I started running. And I had to alter all my clothes by the tailor before long. That is wonderful. I followed my own inclinations to eat and drink with weight loss as usual. Out of ignorance, I assumed that this situation would keep on until I reduced to a skeleton. But soon the weight loss rate fell and my final weight turned out to be 170 pounds which was less than my original weight but more than my ideal weight by over more than 20 pounds. So will you encounter such a situation. Your weight can be easily reduced in a period of time and, I’m afraid to say, end up with the standstill pitifully. Then you have to get wise and make up your mind. Even so, you can run ro race. Though your weight does not live up to your ideal one, you will never reach the limit where you can.

Not long ago, Runners’ World published an article on the effects of excess weight on running. A runner who weights 161 pounds completed a section of marathon race in 193 seconds. He got a 28-pound weight loss. He completed another section in 3 minutes and 4.26 seconds under the circumstances of no any other change in his exercise plan. In other words, one pound of extra weight pays for the price of two thirds of a minute. It sounds nothing serious but turns out differently if add it up.

Extra weight makes you run slowly, and there are several reasons. If the consumption of energy remains the same, your steps are inclined to be short. Supposing your pace is just one eighths shortened, and you run 800 steps per mile, add the pace shortened up, it amounts to 100 inches, that is equivalent to 8 feet. You will 80 feet or so fall behind the runner who has experienced the similar training and is of reasonable weight in a 10-mile race.

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