Weigh-In-Wednesday (delayed...)

Been a bit slack with the updates this week.

After I pulled a muscle last Tuesday I wanted to rest it until I was comfortable exercising again. It was sore on Wednesday and Thursday but felt fine on Friday. I went for a walk on Friday which was fine and I was thinking it might be sorted but on Saturday I ran for my train; only a few steps but it was painful enough to know that it wasn't fully healed, so I've been continuing to take it easy. I went for another walk on Monday and things still seemed fine.
I've mostly been walking into Rothwell, google maps reckons my route is about 4 miles I haven't really been timing it but I think it takes about an hour. It's actually further than I thought now I've looked it up. The quickest route is a lot shorter, but when I'm doing it for exercise then I go the long way around.

Anyway yesterday was weigh-in day. Bit of a disappointment, 18 stone 3. So apparently I've only lost 1 pound this week. Probably a result of doing less exercise and not watching what I eat quite so much, though I've still been way healthier than I would normally be, I have a feeling it might be because it was so low last week, 8 lb over 2 weeks sounds a lot more realistic than 7 lb in 1 week.  Anyway I'm still in front of my target.

Back to the exercise. I went for a run yesterday, day 3 of week 1, though I'm actually into week 2 now...anyway it was the 8 x 60 seconds again. My legs felt a bit stiff at first but I was surprisingly OK with it, I thought I would be back to where I started but I was about the same as my last run, I guess keeping up with some exercise when I'm not on the program has helped there.
The stats were 1.7 miles at 10.54 minutes/mile so a very slight improvement on last time. 441 calories including the warm up/cool down.

I think I will do another week 1 run next time, week 2 moves onto 6 x 90 second runs and I'm not convinced I'm up to that yet. Though I know I need to push myself if I want to build fitness, I'm very wary of pushing too hard after overdoing it and needing a week off.

In other news I'm also 2 weeks into Dry (most of) January.
I was drinking a bit much last year and it started to get a bit silly over Christmas/new year so I thought I would give it a go and see how I went. In large part to make sure I wasn't an alcoholic but also the money savings, calorie savings and potential health benefits are worthwhile too.  There still hasn't been a "real" study on whether taking a month off is worthwhile but a small scale study New Scientist did indicates that there is a worthwhile benefit, which goes counter to the previous advice that taking a month off has no real benefit, mostly because you use it as an excuse to go nuts when you get back on the booze.
I don't plan to quit booze permanently or anything, and in fact I'm not doing the whole of January, I have a warhammer weekend in Stockport on the 24th to 26th that I would like to drink at, but it isn't really bothering me and I think I will try and get into just drinking at the weekend or when I go out rather than every night when I'm sat on my arse watching TV. I reckon as 40 approaches taking a bit more of a grown-up approach to drinking shouldn't do any harm.