Post season weight gain UUGGHH!!

[watchman]

Guys I cannot believe it. I have backed off training the past 2 weeks and WOW.

I went from 167 to 176. I am glad I weigh myself often because I caught it.

I guess it is simply I am still eating as though I am training 2 + hours a day but only doing less than 1 3 times a week.

Time to back off on calories.

I do not like this. Anyone else have similar stories of weight gain that quickly?

Thankfully I have caught it and since the last 2 days I am back down to 172 and heading down.

mike

[christian]

Doesn't sound like real weight gain. 176 was probabaly a gut full of liquid and dinner. However it's easy to put 5-10 on real quick. It took me an entire lazy season and 3 months of heavy beer consumption compounded by late night pizza and chicken wing runs to add 17 lbs. Every year I usually put on about 10 lbs between the end of the season and Jan 1. I think that we are so focused for 10 months a year that sopme serious downtown is required or you'll just burn out and lose an entire season.

[philjolliff]

I put 15 on after IMKY in about 6 weeks.

Immediately following IMKY I left for 6 weeks of work travel and with limited time to work out, a beer or two with every dinner, and constant eating out, I gained the weight very quickly.

You want to "let go" a bit after focusing on a race that much for such a long period of time, but sometimes you "let go" a little too much, like I did. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that I can't eat whatever I want to like I did in high school and college and not gain a pound.

[Aussie Rob]

It's called "race weight" for a reason though. If there wasn't a natural fluctuation, it'd just be "weight".

That said, im gonna keep nuts in check this winter.

[MattCollister]

It's good to be disgusted with myself every winter. Balances out all the thinking about how awesome I am for the rest of the year.

[MarkD]

Yep... my chunky butt is up 10

[jamesi]

10 to the bad for me too.

[christian]

Yep I put on 10 too. Then another 6. d**n Pumpkin ales...then d**n xmas ales. However, I do find it interesting that my overall long run pace is down 22 seconds. This is not teaching me anything!

[MarkD]

Must be a momentum thing... an object in motion... F = MxA.... that kind of thing.

[harris]

I guess I've been post season since 1999.