To help me keep motivated and moving forward, I am going to schedule a 5K in the near future. I am either going to do the September 17th 5K during the Bismarck marathon, or the 5K during the Sheyenne Valley Shuffle, on the same day. The Sheyenne Valley Shuffle was the half marathon that I [...]
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It was worse than I thought. I was actually a bit anxious to step on the scale this morning. I feel like I am starting over, rather than picking up where I left off those 10 months ago. Has it been 10 months already? So, what do we call this? How about Weigh-In 2.1? A [...]
Journey of a Fat Man: Part Do!
Posted: 6th July 2011 by John in commentaryTags: exercise, weight loss
Well, guess who is back? Thanks to a good friend of mine, Kevin, I am back and at it again. Where have I been and what have I been doing you may ask? Well, even if you did not ask, I will tell you anyway. The best thing I can say is that I got [...]
I want to start off by apologizing to everybody for my absence as of late. I have been through quite a few things these past few months, including two moves and two job changes. I am now working for a farmer/rancher in Wibaux, Montana and am loving it. It is really nice getting to use [...]
270 Wow! Has it almost been an entire month since I had last posted? I do apologize to those of you that have been with me during this entire Journey, as well as those of you that are discovering me for the first time. Well, in 18 short days…I still cannot believe that it is [...]
265 I seemed to stay consistent at least over this past couple weeks. Now it is time to get back to work. Only a month and a half until the half marathon, which feels like it is not enough time, seeing that I will only have 4 or 5 weeks to get my running [...]
Over the past couple weeks I felt that I have lost my focus, motivation, ambition, whatever you want to call it. I do not know the cause. It could be the fact that I have been working 10-12 hour days and when I get home I am too damn tired to hit the road, or the process of [...]
Prairie Rose
Posted: 14th July 2010 by John in commentaryTags: 10K, 5k, prairie rose state games, running
Sorry I am a bit late getting this out. It has been a hectic couple of weeks with the move, new job, new home, etc. etc. I have been working 11-13 hour days and just did not seem to have the energy when I got home to jump on the computer. I had a blast running in the [...]
266 It was a bad week, last week, to try to eat right and get out on the road for a few miles. Over the weekend I moved from Valley City to Carrington, so the week was spent packing and moving, finishing up over the holiday weekend. With the four "going away" meals and Independence [...]
Confused
Posted: 19th July 2011 by John in commentaryWas a bit disappointed this morning… I went to weigh in this morning and found that I had not lost a single pound. I do not know why. I have been keeping to a 1400-1500 calorie diet over the last week and I even ran a couple days. Perplexing. I use Livestrong’s site to [...]