I thoroughly enjoyed my birthday yesterday. I woke up at my lowest weight in 2 years (313), I only worked a couple hours, and Rach wound up having the day off. We ate a little more than normal, didn’t work out at all, and I even drank a beer. The day after an intentional “off [...]

Today is my 36th birthday. I got my frist present the minute I woke up. It was a present I gave myself yesterday by swimming 2400 yards in the morning and running 3 miles last night. The present I gave myself was being able to get on the scale and have it read 313 pounds. [...]

I’ve been eating pretty carefully for a while now, actively tracking my points, and working out like a demon. And yet my weight has stayed consistently around 314 over the past couple weeks. I know enough about losing weight to understand salt and water retention, that it’s not just the points, but what makes up [...]

It’s funny what you can get used to. 3 months ago I was fighting to do a hard hour on the bike without feeling like my legs would fall off. Yesterday, the only fighting I was doing was with the pedestrians who don’t seem to understand what the dotted lines in the middle of the [...]

I learned something big and important yesterday. No, it wasn’t how with no money down, I can buy houses, refurbish them, and turn a tidy profit (though that might be nice). I learned that there’s a place deep down in me that doesn’t care if I’m tired, if I’m hungry, if I’m hurt; it’s a [...]

Timberman is now a mere 3 months away, or at least it was as of Saturday. It’s a good thing too, because I am so not ready yet to take on those distances in succession. Independently, I’ve swam 2100 yards in under the time limit, and my longest walked 1/2 marathon time is 3:45. Even though I [...]

Good morning, gentle readers. Please excuse my absence yesterday, I took a mental health day. Not that I am any healthier (especially mentally) but I was feeling a bit tired and stressed (mostly by work), and it lead to a rather upset stomach, so I just took the day completely for myself. While the rest [...]

Before I started riding, I was like many motorists in that I never really paid that much attention to bicycles. Sure, I was careful around them, and never went out of my way to cause them trouble even if they were slowing me down. It wasn’t until I started cycling myself back a couple years [...]

Growing up I was too skinny, smart, and mild mannered for my own good and got picked on a lot for it without fighting back. After a couple months of therapy in 5th grade, I was better able to handle it. I learned Kung Fu humor as a defense mechanism for the insecure feeling I got [...]

Finally, a weekend in Boston where the weather cooperated. All weekend long, we had nice weather. So nice in fact that Rach managed to get a pretty good sunburn volunteering at BU’s graduation ceremony. Friday,  I wasn’t in a very good mood because I am neither going west for E3 or helping my in laws [...]