I’m still about 10-15kg shy of where I need to be to race comfortably. And it seems, too, that my weight at the moment (91-odd kilos) precludes me from running without injury. That’s what you get for seven years of neglect…
My legs have always been a problem. I’m designed for lifting — squats and the like — not running, […]
A few months back, the Inspire Foundation ran a campaign they called Man Week. Designed to call attention to the terrible loss occurring amongst young men dealing with depression and suicide (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the current suicide rate for men in Australia is more than three times the rate of women) […]
As a self-confessed geek, I love being able to quantify things. Tracking data and detail helps me to make sense of what I’m doing. And so it is with my training. As I’ve become more diligent the past couple of weeks, I’ve again (I did it years ago) begun tracking a significant number of factors […]
It’s no secret I like my food. I’m a sucker for a good pastry or dessert. It’s how I got the way I am after being lean and healthy in 2001.
After reading a story in the New York Times a few days ago on The Calorie Restriction Experiment (hat-tip to my good friend, Mark Pesce, for […]
A few weeks back, I got a minor tear in my left calf. Of all causes, it was from tripping down a gutter to avoid a skater! You’d think I had better balance.
When these things come early in a process of re-whatever (I’m re-ing a lot of things), it’s easy to fall back into bad […]
So, I’ve kind of breezed through my first month of this transformation without expending an excessive amount of effort. There have been a couple of roadblocks (a cat getting sick and having to be euthanased), a couple of motivation humps, and a little bit of tentative experimentation to make sure that I don’t pick up […]
One of the biggest factors I have found in being motivated to lose fat and get fit is to have great mentors. The other is to, obviously, keep doing the right thing in terms of exercise and diet and the peripheral tasks around them. It helps to maintain the right mindset.
So, this week, I did […]
It’s always the way.
When I’ve tried dieting in the past and not been successful (which is most of the time), it’s about now that I fall flat. I imagine it’s pretty much the same story for many people who struggle with their weight. We have great intentions but we aren’t often motivated enough to stick at […]
The July issue of Wired (one of my favorite magazines) bears the tag line Living by Numbers. A significant proportion of the magazine is devoted to mental and physical hacks you can use to track your wellbeing bases on quantitative analysis.
There are a bunch of great articles in there on the measurable benefits, especially for […]
I promised Derek on the weekend when we embarked on talking about this that I would run 3km today. So I did. Almost.
I took it easy and shuffled, knowing that this would mean I got through. I had to walk about half of the last kilometer after my calves complained loudly (that’s what carrying a […]