Where There’s a Will There’s a … What?

pancakes
Hello, delicious food.

As I prepare to expand my writing horizons with a new blog, here’s another “blast from the past” post from my original marathon training blog!

Alas, this one shows just how weak-willed I can be. Sometimes, when the flapjack calls, I just have to answer.

These are the very habits I’m hoping to break, actually!

But, here’s another oldie but goodie from January 2006.


Pancakes

January 10th, 2006 at 8:41am

Well, getting to the gym sort of fell through.

I went for pancakes with my mother instead. The call of the flapjack was just a little stronger than the call of the leg press.

Or maybe it was just that my mom was driving, and she didn’t feel like dropping me off at the gym.

“You’re wasting away! Here, let’s go eat pancakes.”

I could have struggled. I could have fought. I could have hurled myself from the moving car and out onto the six-lane highway. I could have dodged and weaved through traffic and ran to the gym screaming “Blessed weights, I come for you!”

Instead, I sat in a booth and and shoveled a plate full of buttermilk pancakes into my mouth.

All hail the flapjack, covered in butter and maple syrup with a tall glass of ice cold milk on the side.


There you have it! My breakfast food addiction in black and white. Being gluten-free has helped me cut down the amount of IHOP runs to zero, but I still struggle with will-power.

See you next time! I hope to launch “The Writer’s Fitness Plan” within the next week.

In the meantime, you can follow my rambling here (this blog isn’t going anywhere) and find me writing “How To” articles at ComputerGeeks2Go!

Photo Credit: iStockphoto

A Fitness Blast from the Past

Me running the 2010 Law Enforcement Torch Run to benefit the Special Olympics
Me running the 2010 Law Enforcement Torch Run to benefit the Special Olympics.

I’m about to launch a new site/blog focusing on fitness and nutrition and it’s made me a bit nostalgic.

You see, when my sister and I first started running nearly a decade ago, we chronicled our training attempts in a blog called “Marathon Ho!”

Just for fun, every once in a while, I’m going to share some of those early posts here, starting with the one below from October 27, 2005. It’s funny to see how far we’ve come as runners.

And for the record, while we never ran the original marathon we started training for (the Chicago), I’ve run a few Disney’s and Tracy’s run races all over Florida and Georgia and recently completed her first 50k. She’s a running machine and I couldn’t be more proud to have her as my inspiration!

 


5K Day!
October 27th, 2005 at 8:20pm

I have no strength left in my arms.

Wow. With a statement like that following the title, you’d think I ran the 5K on my hands today! No, well, maybe I should start at the beginning!

Today was our FSECC kick-off thing-a-magiggy, which included a 5K. I’d tell you what FSECC stands for, but I sort of have to figure it out myself. I’ll get back to you on it. Basically, it’s the United Way charity thing.

Anyway, back to the 5K. We all, those of us crazy enough to run/walk one of these during work, gather out in the butta** cold at 8:30 to warm up to “YMCA”. Yeah… that was attractive. But fun!

Then police flash their sirens at 9:00 (they sort of frown on gun use in the office complex) and the runners are off! There I was, near the back of the pack of runners with a whole lot of dedicated walkers behind me…and that’s where I stayed! Watching my breath wheeze out of me in little clouds for 35 minutes!

But, I’m proud! I beat my normal 12:00 minute mile times and finished in 35 minutes!

Plus! I was sweaty and stinky! So people avoided me when I got back into the office! Actually, they didn’t. They’re brave, hardy souls and I love working with them!

I’m rambling…

On to why I have no strength in my arms.

Today was upper body workout day. Now, running doesn’t interfere with my workouts! Neither did bronchitis, really. Anyway…rambling again.

Uber-trainer Stephanie had me doing a bunch of new exercises, one of which was called “The Skull-Crusher”… how fitting for Halloween.

I had to lay on a bench and hold a barbell above me, then lower my forearms down until the bar touched my forhead. Then, keeping my elbows inward, I had to push the barbell back up.

It wasn’t easy. As a matter of fact, she kinda had to assist me on the last three or four of the final set. My entire arms were shaking. And when I got up off the bench, I couldn’t apply any strength at all in wiping down the bench! I had to lay the towel on it and use my foot to clean my stinky sweat off the bench.

The poor guy working out next to me nearly dropped the weights he was lifting on his foot when he started laughing at me. (Sorry dude…)

My kids thought it was funny when I had to bend over at the waist to drink out of my water bottle because I couldn’t lift it to my mouth.

Careful there kiddos… some day, this will be YOU!


There you go. One of my early attempts at fitness blogging!

And speaking of blogging, you’ll be able to find me (soon) at “The Writer’s Fitness Plan” and now at ComputerGeeks2Go. Not to mention here. I’ll always come back here!