In returning from the longest break I’ve had since starting the blog, I expected to have much worse news to open with. Thursday morning I ran the Inaugural “I don’t have a Thanksgiving Race” 5k run on the Charles River Eslpanade. While I managed to take the overall win, and do so in a fairly [...]

I have always been close with my mom. This is not to say my dad and I aren’t close, because we are. But from a young age, my mom and I have always had a ton of shared interests; computers, reading, writing, etc. while my dad and I talked mostly about sports. Over the years, [...]

When I started this blog, I must have thought making major changes to my body and my life were going to be easy as a walk in the park 5k by the ocean. My first race report was for the America’s Hometown Thanksgiving 5k 2009, which is race put on in Plymouth to benefit the Plymouth [...]

Yesterday was fun. I spent the better part of the day giving myself a few well deserved over congratulatory pats on the back for being able to tell people about my life for a year. Then following a quick dinner with the Mrs. I attended a swap meet put on by the Back Bay Cycling [...]

Hi, my name is Ben. I’m STILL what you’d call… fat. I’m 6’2″ and as of this morning weigh in at 318.4 pounds. It’s a mere 8 I’m still built like an offensive lineman, but now with a bit more muscle under the fat. And I’m guessing I could outrun most of those big fellas [...]

If you like me are a child of the 70′s and 80′s you may remember a program called Picture Pages. Picture pages was a very short program that was part of Captain Kangaroo, and later other programs where you purchased an art book to follow along with the show. I remember fondly doing these puzzles [...]

This morning: 321#; 22 pounds & 46 days to go. I went a tiny bit backwards over the weekend, which is obviously not the ideal situation. But for once I feel completely justified in the reason behind it. This weekend was Wheelworks Multisport year-end party. We celebrated by getting together for food and drinks at [...]

Just notes on a busy day: – Comments should now be working. The new template was a little grumpy about them and is currently set to use a pop-up to enter them. I prefer inline comments. Remind me why i changed the template again? *sigh* – Im down to 318.0. 19 pounds, 50 days. I [...]

Can you believe I am still milking the fact that I am using my rollers for cheesy titles? Seriously, even I am amazed at the length of time I am able to beat this dead horse. While I am hysterically historically known for my ability to draw at least a smile from my wry and [...]

The past few days I’ve really made sure to take it easy and use the time to recover from being sick. I am finally feeling dramatically better today, and I am looking forward to getting back to working out tonight. I had planned to yesterday but still was really tired by the time I got [...]