Reactuate

This morning I weighted 203.8, which means I’ve lost 8.2 lbs in a little over a week. I was consistently going down each day until Sunday, when my wife had to make cookies for the church group meeting at our house. See got sugar free cookies, but even then that’s enough carbs to make you [...]

So it is time to sign up for this years Intergalactic Triathalon which is July 9th. I want to add exercise to my diet but I’m way out of shape. Of course I wasn’t in great shape last time when I started.

Pros:

It gets you in great shape.

It is cool to say you ran a triathlon.

You [...]

Haven’t post this yet, though I’m on day 3. After my analysis of my weight last week I decided it was time to go on a diet. One of the guys at work wanted to do a be on who could lose the most in a month. So we agreed to start on Monday. He [...]

Haven’t talked about this in awhile, but here is a current graph of my weight over the last 3 years.

Lots of interesting things here. One is I’ve keep my weight most days for the last three years. And while my current weight is high, it isn’t higher than it has been.

On Monday one of the [...]

Ran the Houston Rodeo Run 5K this weekend with the Mrs. My time was 43:57, which is a 13:37 miles. And this was in the rain and cold. It was very foggy as we lined up and about the time we started running it started to rain. And it was in the 40s.

But we [...]

Last year around this time I took the Presidential Fitness Challenge as with my kids.

This year I took it with my wife. I won’t post her results but here are my from last year and this year. I can run faster now. I think I did full sit ups this year and curl ups last [...]

“Slow Burn : Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower” (Stu Mittleman, Katherine Callan)

Ran 6 miles Sunday morning, the longest I’ve ever run. 1:37 was my time. That didn’t include warm up, 5 minutes, or cool down, another 5 minutes.

It was long, but I felt pretty good through the whole thing. I was using Mittleman’s intensity [...]

I got to the race bright and early and signed up for the 10K. The first mile was the worst. My calves hurt like crazy. I ended up having to walk part of the way. I was at the very back of the pack. Ya da ya da.

The only thing that kept me going was [...]