Half Marathon is Done!

So I ran my Half Marathon yesterday and it was awesome!

My chip time was 1:52:38 and I'm pretty pleased with the result. My goal was to complete in under 2 hours and I did just that.

I wasn't sure if I was going to do another one of these since the training for this one was so intense but after doing the run, I think I'll be doing another. I feel like I was over prepared for this one and I could definitely roll back the training so it doesn't take up so much of my time. 5 days a week of running was just a bit too much and it didn't leave much time for the gym. Which I can't wait to get back to.

This week I'll be giving myself a bit of a break and next week I'll ease myself back in to weight training. 12 weeks is a long time off so I don't want to hurt myself my first day back. That would suck.

Mission Unsuccessful

So my first crack at recording was a failure.  I don’t think the pedal I was using was boosting the signal enough so I’m going to try using this Hafler pre-amp I have at my rehearsal space.

3 more days until the run.  Kaley is pretty nervous for me and I’m not nervous at all. Funny how those things work.

Pictures from New Years 05-06

So this was my starting point.

It begins...Again

So I'm going to be starting the Men's Health Belly Off program just after Thanksgiving and I will attempt to keep track of the progress I'm making...again.

My past forays into blogging have shown that I'm less than consistent but what's the harm in trying again. It's not like anyone, other than my friends and family, will be reading this. That might even be a stretch anyways but I digress.

So this whole thing started for me about 4 years ago. I was already about 215lbs and when I quit smoking I ballooned to over 230lbs in just over a month. After seeing some pictures of myself I realized, holy shit, I am a fat kid. (I have some pictures somewhere and I will put them up here)

A change of lifestyle was in order and now 4 years and 50lbs later, I'm almost at the end.

The intent for this challenge is to post my workouts, what I'm eating, weekly picture updates and general challenges that I'm running in to.

I'll be relying on you, friends, family and maybe even strangers, to help me keep myself accountable. I always need something to keep me pushing forward. A finish line if you will and once I reach this one, I'll just try to find another one down some other avenue of self improvement.

Things that I have recently done, want to do or have started;

-Trained for a half marathon - I'm running the Scotiabank Half-Marathon on September 27th with my cousin Patrick and I managed to lose almost 10lbs training.

-Run a half-marathon - This one is almost done. 4 days to go!

-Learn another language - I'm going to take a crack at Spanish or French using Rosetta Stone. I hated French in school, so we'll see how this one goes.

-Learn multi-track recording - Using the Macbook Pro provided by my work, I'm going to try to lay down some guitar tracks, maybe even try to program some drums. This is mainly so I can track some songs that one of my old bands, Divided We Stand, wrote but never recorded. I'll just be using Garageband but if something post worthy gets churned out, I'll put it up. Just don't hold your breath.

These are more or less time killers for me, so updates will probably be infrequent. The main thing I will working on is the Belly Off challenge but until I get started, maybe you'll see some other things.