I started personal training at the end of October last year. Since that time I am down 3.4% body fat. Go team!

Still no friends though.

While I was looking at a running magazine in Borders the other day I happened to glance over to the old guy on my left who was looking at the Men's Interest section. He was flipping through a copy of Maxim, put that down, and picked up what appeared to be some sort of Playboy calendar and started flipping pages, looking at the pictures of naked ( Read more... )

So, I've been attempting this online dating thing and, most recently, have been doing so through the site OkCupid. I chose this site because it had exactly what it was looking for in an online dating service: no cost. Up until now I haven't thought that the internet dating "scene" was a particularly fantastic place. The other day I ended up ( Read more... )

Today was kind of an odd day ( Read more... )

I have this shirt. It's a pretty nice shirt. It's white and button-down. It's a very light shirt and somewhat opaque. I really like it ( Read more... )

I had set for myself a goal of being at or below 200 lbs by August. I am happy to say that I achieved that goal a few days ago. This was pretty much the first measurable weight loss goal I've ever set for myself (all others have been along the lines of "get in shape"). I think I'm going to be aiming for 190 by October ( Read more... )

I got up early this morning and pushed through ten miles before work in 1:34'03". The last two miles were pretty killer and my legs currently feel like they don't want to support me but, you know, progress. I wish I had cut times for 5k, 10k, etc but my Nike+ doesn't seem to store that, just the pace I was running at each mile ( Read more... )

I had an in between day today. That's one of those days where I lifted arms the day before and I don't want to lift legs because I'm running the next day. Iver suggested that it would be a perfect day for swimming. So I went to the gym and proceeded to do laps in the pool. I'd thought to myself, "I'm in decent shape. I can run eight miles. Swimming ( Read more... )

I did some interval training on the treadmill yesterday. No great length but was running for 45 seconds to a minute at 10-11 mph and then walking for 1.5-2 minutes. Rinse and repeat. When I went for a run this morning my hamstrings wanted nothing to do with me and my calves quickly joined in that song. Additionally, I really need to be starting ( Read more... )

I ran my second 5k this morning. I shaved about 30 seconds off of my time from my first 5k. It's still not fast, by any means, but I'm happy that it's getting faster.