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I really think this marathon thing is going to happen. This weekend was a really busy one for me – the last two performances of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat took up Friday & Saturday nights. The Carlisle Theater is relatively small, maximum capacity of 940, but when every one of those 940 is… Continue reading Active Weekend

So, I’m pretty steadfast that I don’t care about my weight. I care about what I eat, certainly, and I care about how much I work out. The vain side of me does care about what I look like (both with clothes on and naked), but weight, well, I don’t give a shit, it’s just… Continue reading Weight is Just a Number, Right?

Ok, it’s really, really freaking hot right now. Like 100° hot. I’d rather not being outside, ever. That said, I do have this silly marathon that I’m hoping to run in November (and I need to get off my butt & actually register for it, though I don’t want to if something is going to… Continue reading Injury & Motivation

So I haven’t posted in awhile. My excuse is better than yours. For anybody who doesn’t know, I went from being the father of a beautiful baby boy to being the father of a beautiful baby boy & a beautiful baby girl. Leila joined us on Monday, June 14. My world has been a whirlwind… Continue reading Dealing with Changes

I knew when I started to get back into regular workouts & trying to eat right that I needed to set goals for myself, both long & short-term. The only other time I’ve tried this, there was really “don’t look like a fat bastard in your wedding photos”. It mostly worked (didn’t look fat, always… Continue reading Setting Goals

When I did my “serious weight loss” before & immediately after my wedding, I modeled everything after the Weight Watchers plan. My then-fiance did Weight-Watchers, I figured out the “point formula”, and ate according to that plan. I never went to meetings, though – I’m just not really a “share your feelings” kind-of guy (that’s… Continue reading Non-Scale Victories

My roommate my senior year of college had some weight issues. I don’t take such a statement likely, as, well, my “in my head” version of myself includes seven chins. But he had weight issues, and they trumped my own. Now, my senior year of college was probably my strangest one with regards to my… Continue reading How not to get healthy

I know I sound a bit like a broken record, but I do almost all of my running around a park in my neighborhood. This is the park where George W. Bush played softball when he made a campaign stop in Carlisle, making my life downright odd as I passed through multiple security checkpoints just… Continue reading Park Usage

This weekend has been a strange one. It’s hardly the last weekend that I’ll have with a Saturday night gig, but it was the first. And, because of the gig (and the great-unknown that was my opportunity to nap), I chose not to work out. Well, I walked the dogs with the kid attached to… Continue reading Just where does the energy come from?

I woke up & spent an hour incessantly & relentlessly pounding. I’m sweaty, out of breath, & have a silly smile on my face. -my incredibly clever & uproariously hilarious double-endentre tweet from this morning This morning was type the morning that a cyclist dreams of. Temperature just on the “warm” side of cool with… Continue reading Sometimes, you need to break your own rules